What to make of the story about the man who has been put on probation for attempting to have sex with his bicycle? Its easy enough to make jokes about it, and the headline seems to say it all, but I think the man in question has had a bit of a rough deal. Not [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Cycling'
A small correction (or two)
March 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Life
Firstly, and most importantly, I am not saddle-sore! Secondly, I did not blast, and I am not an angry cyclist. This will mean nothing to anyone who has not read this week’s Crawley Observer, where they put my photo of a short stretch of cycle path on page two with various ‘quotes’ from me – [...]
Tags: Cycling·Doh!·Local Papers·Photos
Take a short ride…
March 20th, 2007 · 11 Comments · Life
Is this the shortest cycle path in Crawley? I rarely ride my pushbike now, a combination of age, rust (the bike and me), and living on a sodding great hill, but when I do cycle it is facilities like this which keep me on the road instead where I don’t have to get off or [...]
First day
February 5th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Work
It was the first day at school the new job today. At last. Over the weekend I was looking forward to it with a mixture of anxiety and eager anticipation. It is a bit scary going into a place where you know nobody and know nothing about how everything works, where you don't even know [...]
Not-so-green councillors
December 27th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Politics
I am quite impressed with the Crawley News this week. At that time of the year, between Christmas and New Year, when everyone has been off work, you might expect the local papers to be full of nothing more than fluff but they have attempted a bit of proper journalism. Actually two bits, but I [...]
Moving on
September 7th, 2006 · 9 Comments · Work
I got the phone call today where I was verbally offered the job I was interviewed for on Monday, and which I verbally accepted. As it is a transfer between two companies in the same group it counts as an internal move and so verbal is OK apparently, with the contract to follow up in [...]
Fatwick City?
September 7th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Life
Its official! Crawley’s inhabitants are the fattest in Sussex. I think I can vouch for that… Must be something in the water because I have put on 5 or 6 stone since moving here from London, although that could be down to marital contentment and middle-age spread. In the Crawley Observer this story takes up [...]
Tags: Crawley·Cycling·Food·Local Papers·Medicine/Health·Sure Start
Goodies
June 23rd, 2006 · No Comments · Life
I was really kicking myself yesterday. I was out the front of the office, and a bloke cycled past on a 3-seater bike, just like the Goodies used to have, on one of the rare occasions I didn’t have my camera with me. It would have been better if he had two mates on with [...]
Unicycle security
June 14th, 2006 · No Comments · Life
We are so used to seeing bicycles chained to lamp posts and railings everywhere that we almost do not notice them any more. But when you see a 3-metre unicycle chained to a lamp post you have to stop and look. I can’t see it catching on as a form of commuter transport though. There [...]
Turn left
June 12th, 2006 · 5 Comments · Life, Politics
That last post about Cheals roundabout reminded me about the recent mad scheme from John Redwood about ‘improving’ traffic – the one about allowing left turns at red traffic lights. It might work back on his planet, but I can’t see it working here. Ok so they do it in America, but America has very [...]
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