Hello there. Oh, I headed down to London last Friday 25th June. I partook in June 2015’s Critical Mass. If you have stumbled upon this blog, or have somehow missed the plethora of posts from me about it before, Critical Mass is an assemblage of predominantly cyclists which occurs on the last Friday of every […]
We planned to cycle from Wellingborough to the south coast but we ended up taking our bicycles on the trains. We had a ‘Cycling’ holiday. On Wednesday 17th June, Seb and I got the train down to Southampton with a stop off at London St. Pancras and short cycle to Waterloo. In retrospect, I am […]
I took part in the World Naked Bike Ride in central London. Yesterday Tom and I met on Blackfriars Bridge, hired our bicycles and headed to Clapham Junction. Assembling at 2pm, numbers were scarce, so we headed to a lovely little cafe for about 40 minutes. Back in plenty of time for applying some body […]
Paris, Rome, Venice, Munich, Berlin and Amsterdam. I went travelling from Tuesday 19th May until Thursday 4th June. Here is the main photo album. Over the next few days this will be corrected and padded out with more information. Photo credits to Seb. Here’s what I got up to in just over two weeks when […]
On Saturday 9th May 2015 I attended some anti-Tory protests. First of all I met with Akram. I have known him since 2008 ish time online and this was the first time we met. We got on really well and I showed him a few sights. After meeting Seb, saying goodbye to Akram and meeting […]
I heard the other day that this is “the most important elections in a generation” but I’m sure I only heard this only five years ago. Perhaps it is the most important in one election cycle or generation. Nevertheless, I think all elections are important and it is imperative that you cast your vote today. […]
On Friday 24th April, Seb and I cycled from Wellingborough to London. It was a long and hard journey totalling 90 miles. We were shattered. After much deliberation, umming and ahhhhing we finally left Wellingborough just after 10.30am. Last year I bought a Garmin device for my bicycle. It records all kinds of information. We […]
Yesterday (Thursday) my Mum and I went down to London for a tour of Big Ben. Amazing! Stunning. There’s some work happening near to Westminster Bridge and there’s this sign: After passing through airport-style security in the entrance to Portcullis House, we sat and waited for it to begin. I hadn’t looked into it any […]
Back at the beginning of last June I went with my friend, Sophie to visit our friend, Amy, in Grenoble, France, who had just finished a diploma year out there. I vlogged the trip and meant to upload when I got home. One thing lead to another (including a naked bike ride) and I just […]
On Saturday 7th March, Tom and I took part in the #TimeToAct2015 protest. What wonderful day! I felt so relaxed and at such ease with myself. The lovely warm and sunny day may have helped – perhaps ironically I was enjoying a bit of a sign of climate change?! It felt as if we were on […]
Yesterday Tom and I attended a protest and die-in for Claire Hitier-Abadie on Victoria Street, Westminster. The event, organised by Stop Killing Cyclists, was a tribute and remembrance of a woman killed on a bicycle – the fourth this year in London and nationally the 19th. Starting off as a protest outside Westminster City Hall […]
Yesterday I watched BBC Three’s An Idiot’s Guide to Politics and I liked it. It showed how disengaged especially young people are. Watch it! Jolyon Rubinstein has popped up a couple of times on my BBC programme radar and gets a thumbs-up from me. In his interactions with the political elite, he lacks expected embarrassment, […]
Whilst singing the wonders of good old-fashioned toys and the harm technology may do to the creative minds, as stated in my last blog post I was dichotomising the argument and it is wholly more complex. The thoughts popped into my mind again recently. With the birth of my cousin’s daughter (not up on the […]
On Sunday I was in London with my friend, Giles Gear. We had a superb day. After arriving at St. Pancras, I hopped on a Boris Bike and navigated my way to Trafalgar Square. Without consulting a map, I cycled straight there – there was a confirmation from a passer-by that I was heading in […]
First post of 2015. Brief, but more will come. Yesterday I went to the cinema to see The Theory of Everything. It was a great film. Oh, I do enjoy the cinema. The experience of sitting in front of an enormous screen with enormous sound next with wonderful company is delightful. But not all of […]
2014 has been a wonderful year for me. I have done so much. Check out my previous posts to see some of my happenings this year. To name a few: I went to some amazing house parties, I’ve cycled naked on the streets of London, I’ve cycled from Wellingborough to Cambridge. I’ve cycled from Wellingborough […]
Hello, Little late with this observation but I have only just seen the advertisement. Just before the strike of 2.00am, in my room, I sat and watched some YouTube videos and an advertisement that played before one of them made me pause the video and question what it was reinforcing. What? As a matter […]
UPDATE: Monday 19th January 2015 – see bottom of article for changes. Hello, It has been a long time since my last post. In between then and now, I have fully recovered after my bicycle incident on the A45 (see last post), I have been going to the gym a lot and I have been […]
Hello, Yesterday evening, at around 5.40pm I was hit whilst cycling along the A45. I was knocked off my bicycle by a van travelling at about 65mph. The wing mirror clipped me and flung me into the grass verge. My glasses were knocked off but luckily I wasn’t knocked out. My head was painful […]
Hello, Yesterday I took part in London’s Critical Mass. As always, it was superb. The atmosphere was amazing. This is the third consecutive month, before that I was working the day in June, and back in May I took part in Nottingham’s Critical Mass. After a couple of hours we stopped outside Buckingham Palace and […]
I talk about joining a running group - Nottingham Frontrunners. A little of my history of getting into running and how Parkrun and Frontrunners have become a set part of my week.
RSS
