The Telegraph & Argus: News from across the Bradford district

Doug Akroyd is Head of Design at the T&A, which keeps him anchored to a computer for much of the day. But in play time, he likes to be out and about in the great open air.

Grumpy grouchers

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

In the balance

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.

Just a thought, in passing

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

Bruised and shattered

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

Snow business is all very fine

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

Can't do right for doing wrong

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

Snow flurry

So where was all the traffic today?

A new concept

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.

Logged off

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.

An uphill struggle to laugh

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.

Well, blow me

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

Can't get my head round it

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