Bradford Telegraph and Argus | Doug Akroyd

Grumpy grouchers

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:46:19 +0100

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

In the balance

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:01:57 +0000

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

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:46:07 +0000

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

Bruised and shattered

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:27:51 +0000

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

Snow business is all very fine

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:31:22 +0000

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

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:06:58 +0000

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

Snow flurry

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:47:00 +0000

So where was all the traffic today?

A new concept

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:18:34 +0000

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

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:07:43 +0000

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

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:04:08 +0000

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

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:54:03 +0000

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

Can't get my head round it

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:10:32 +0000

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