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Grumpy grouchers

Posted on 3:46pm Tuesday 21st April 2009

Some people, it seems, just can’t resist being grumpy and miserable.

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In the balance

Posted on 4:01pm Monday 2nd March 2009

It was time for what we tend to call "a light spend" in biking circles, after the chain kept slipping wildly, and a tyre was left decidedly flat after a hole appeared in its wall and punctured the inner tube.

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Just a thought, in passing

Posted on 11:46am Tuesday 10th February 2009

Cycling in to work the other day, a thought occurred to me.

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Bruised and shattered

Posted on 3:27pm Monday 9th February 2009

What a glorious day yesterday, with the sun shining and glistening off the crisp snow covering the countryside.

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Snow business is all very fine

Posted on 3:31pm Wednesday 4th February 2009

I did well, all things considered, to get through unscathed to work and back on the bike during the snow falls.

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Can't do right for doing wrong

Posted on 10:06am Monday 2nd February 2009

You sometimes don’t know what to do for best.

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Snow flurry

Posted on 9:47am Monday 2nd February 2009

So where was all the traffic today?

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A new concept

Posted on 4:18pm Tuesday 13th January 2009

You don’t normally find me in the supermarket of a Saturday afternoon, but I’d decided to turn my hand to a bit of cook-ing after watching Hugh Very-longname rustle up a simple-looking lamb roast on TV.

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Logged off

Posted on 4:07pm Tuesday 13th January 2009

No doubt some joker found it hilarious… to bury a great big log of wood under a great big pile of fallen leaves on the bridleway path.

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An uphill struggle to laugh

Posted on 3:04pm Tuesday 6th January 2009

Another "hilarious" youth, trying to make my ribs ache with mirth by shouting something at me from close quarters as I pedal up a hill en route for home.

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Well, blow me

Posted on 2:54pm Tuesday 6th January 2009

If I hadn’t been stopped already, it would have stopped me in my tracks.

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Can't get my head round it

Posted on 10:10am Monday 5th January 2009

A quick salutary tale for all those cyclists you see now and again pootling along without a helmet.

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