Leisure Archive

  • Last summer I managed to bike most of the way across England, starting from Bedwyn (near the watershed – the highest point of my route) and finishing in Whitstable in...

    x-England Part 7

    Last summer I managed to bike most of the way across England, starting from Bedwyn (near the watershed – the highest point of my route) and finishing in Whitstable in...

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  • I’m on a bit of a gadget spending spree at the moment. After my Trek 3900 bike, I went out an bought a Nokia N73 smartphone and a bluetooth GPS...

    GPS

    I’m on a bit of a gadget spending spree at the moment. After my Trek 3900 bike, I went out an bought a Nokia N73 smartphone and a bluetooth GPS...

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  • Finally got myself a new bike – a Trek 3900 (2006 model.) It’s streets ahead of my old thing, which fell apart and then got nicked anyway. It just hasn’t...

    New Bike

    Finally got myself a new bike – a Trek 3900 (2006 model.) It’s streets ahead of my old thing, which fell apart and then got nicked anyway. It just hasn’t...

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  • This map shows the long-distance bike rides I’ve done in the last year or so (purple) and those I’m hoping to do in the next few months (turquoise.) The sections...

    Biking This Summer

    This map shows the long-distance bike rides I’ve done in the last year or so (purple) and those I’m hoping to do in the next few months (turquoise.) The sections...

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  • I do like the look of the new “Ski Weather” dashboard widget that came with the Mac OS X 10.4.4 upgrade released last week. And yes, it does cover the...

    Missing Ingredient

    I do like the look of the new “Ski Weather” dashboard widget that came with the Mac OS X 10.4.4 upgrade released last week. And yes, it does cover the...

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  • It’s incredibly cold at the moment – sub-zero in London. This might have been a contributory factor to my bike was playing up on the way home from work yesterday...

    Snap

    It’s incredibly cold at the moment – sub-zero in London. This might have been a contributory factor to my bike was playing up on the way home from work yesterday...

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  • SLOW is going to have a Micro-O section at the OK Nuts Trophy regional event at the end of November, on the middle part of the open courses. Interesting –...

    Micro-O at SLOW’s OK Nuts Trophy

    SLOW is going to have a Micro-O section at the OK Nuts Trophy regional event at the end of November, on the middle part of the open courses. Interesting –...

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  • The point in Great Britain furthest from the coast is “just east of Church Flatts Farm, about a mile south-east of Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire” according to the Ordnance...

    Furthest from the coast

    The point in Great Britain furthest from the coast is “just east of Church Flatts Farm, about a mile south-east of Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire” according to the Ordnance...

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  • I completed the east-most section of my cross-England bike ride on Sunday, going from Rochester to Whitstable, a major seaside resort in North Kent, on a beautifully sunny day for...

    x-England Part 6

    I completed the east-most section of my cross-England bike ride on Sunday, going from Rochester to Whitstable, a major seaside resort in North Kent, on a beautifully sunny day for...

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  • Another short-ish section (30 miles) of my Cross-England bike ride completed on Sunday afternoon. It’s really starting to get dark early these days – the light is fading after 7pm....

    x-England Part 5

    Another short-ish section (30 miles) of my Cross-England bike ride completed on Sunday afternoon. It’s really starting to get dark early these days – the light is fading after 7pm....

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  • [Updated] I biked another section of my cross-England journey yesterday – going from Islington to Erith. (The Putney to Islington section I did a few months earlier – I might...

    X-England Part 4

    [Updated] I biked another section of my cross-England journey yesterday – going from Islington to Erith. (The Putney to Islington section I did a few months earlier – I might...

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  • I did another leg in my cross-England cycle today, going from Staines to Putney in London, along the River Thames towpath for pretty much the whole way, except for a...

    x-England Part 3

    I did another leg in my cross-England cycle today, going from Staines to Putney in London, along the River Thames towpath for pretty much the whole way, except for a...

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  • Well, that was fun. I must do more of that. Sunday – Bedwyn (just east of the east/west England watershead) to Reading, via Savernake Forest, Hungerford and Newbury. On the...

    x-England Parts 1 & 2

    Well, that was fun. I must do more of that. Sunday – Bedwyn (just east of the east/west England watershead) to Reading, via Savernake Forest, Hungerford and Newbury. On the...

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  • It is decided. It’s the cross-England trip – National Cycle Route 4. Sunday: Crofton to Reading (via Savernake and Newbury) Monday: Reading to Windsor (and possibly onwards into London) Crofton...

    Two Wheels

    It is decided. It’s the cross-England trip – National Cycle Route 4. Sunday: Crofton to Reading (via Savernake and Newbury) Monday: Reading to Windsor (and possibly onwards into London) Crofton...

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  • Monday’s bank holiday is the last before Christmas, a good four months away. So I better actually do something on this three-day weekend – seeing as the orienteering season, which...

    Two Wheels or Two Legs

    Monday’s bank holiday is the last before Christmas, a good four months away. So I better actually do something on this three-day weekend – seeing as the orienteering season, which...

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