Up until a few weeks ago it has been rather mild here in London. The weather decided to turn last weekend in time for the annual Blackheath fireworks event. We all trundled down there trying to find a shortcut through the new road layout at Loampit Vale. The event as expected was rather good if …
Category Archives: Cycling
That time of the year
It’s time for my almost yearly blog entry. Spring is upon us once more. This morning I was out in the garden planting some seedlings. To date I have tomatoes, beetroot, carrots, runner beans, corn and lettuce on the go. I have a dreadful case of lawn moss so that is next on my list …
Autumn is around the corner
It’s mid-October and the mercury has been kind to us. It’s been almost summer-like. Last week Ben, James and myself took the ferry from Dover to cycle in the countryside around Calais. The weather was perfect and stayed at around 17 degrees all day. Even while waiting for the ferry in the evening, it still …
Is it Spring? maybe
It is the middle of May and yesterday the temperature was only a chilly 9 degrees. We have had a couple or warm days but mostly it has been cold and wet. Again, I have put off planting anything in the garden so again I don’t have much going on there. I’ve planted some pea …
Bike video
Mia, who doesn’t watch any TV or DVD’s or anything like that has taken a bizarre liking to a video featuring Danny Macaskill and Chris Hoy. Every evening after stories she will ask for ‘bike video’ or ‘derny bike?’. Here it is in all its glory.
School, bikes and lego
So Jake is back at school and has moved his classroom upstairs into year 2. New uniform, new year, and very smart he looks in it too! Mia has been a little poppet and continues to delight us. I tried to make a start of the potty training at the weekend. The result? Number of …
Wet and wild June
This is the entry for June. We’ve had one week of nice weather and the rest of the time it has been wet and cold, but now that I am in my shorts and sandals I refuse to give them up! Of course the major events this month were the Queens Diamond Jubilee, Father’s Day …
Jake cycles!
I took Jake to Halfords to buy a new helmet. I wanted him to get excited about riding his bike and also to give him an incentive for getting rid of the stabilisers. To this end I left the shop £50 worse off. We bought not only a new helmet, but some cycling mitts and …
Rain on me
My wife has been ill recently so I have been working from home. Consequently I haven’t been on the bike as much as I would have liked. We are coming to the end of April and thank god the rain is coming to an end. It has been raining pretty much every day for the …
Dodgy burgers and prolonged illness
It’s the tail end of February and I’ve just realised that this years photo February project has passed me by. Photo March has a nice ring and the days will be longer and hopefully a little warmer. It’s been an odd sort of month. I was off sick for a week. Amy was ill at …