Archive for May, 2007
Sunday, May 27th, 2007
Ouch!
I’ve been very lucky with this small crash – I’ve escaped with relatively minor bruises and grazes compared to Patrick’s broken leg! But it still blasted well hurts! I’m sure it will heal very quickly but I can’t wait for the shoulder bruising to sort itself out – It doesn’t look much but the whole [...]
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Saturday, May 26th, 2007
Fun at the ace
The ace is one of the few places left on earth where you can pull up a chair day or night, in a gang or on you’re own and still have a great time with people you don’t know. I wrote a review about the Ace over at TrustedPlaces
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Interesting evening
Just when I thought things were getting boring all hell brakes loose. Riding home this evening from Alexandra Palace I was stopped at traffic lights when a corsa behind me felt that stopping was optional. I’m pretty much okay, nasty bruse on my chest where I went through my windscreen and my ankle is pretty [...]
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
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Just been knocked clean off the bike sitting here now waiting for catherine to come and get me. Nothing seriously hurt which is the main thing.
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
2nd Class Citizens
Yesterday I had to work in Central London, Shaftsbury Avenue to be exact. That meant riding into the heart of the beast, spending 30 minutes finding somewhere to part that doesn’t cost £10 per hour (thank you NCP) and then trudging in my kit to the office. Nothing too bad there at all, appart from [...]
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Saturday, May 19th, 2007
Hack Day Badges – The invites are out
Exciting news if you’re applying for or have applied for tickets for Hack Day – first of all we’ve just sent out the first 300 invites to people who have applied – we have about 150 left to do – that essentially means there are few places left, so if you’ve not got your name [...]
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Wet wet wet
Photo from Andyrob’s photostream No not the band, the weather in London at the moment. Don’t get me wrong we need a lot of rain right now, the garden is parched after a particularly dry April, and my wife is pleased as punch that she’s not having to water all of her plants… but why [...]
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
The velvet highways of the Land of My Fathers.
Fully loaded the CBF600 is starting to feel like she’s wallowing, and frankly unless I get more training, that’s exactly what I’ll be doing all the way to Moscow. The problem I think is a simple one of too much weight combined with too little experience sledging around pristine Welsh tarmac right into the heart [...]
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Pilot for the new series of the office
Also blogged by Ian Forrester
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Getting over 500 miles
It doesn’t sound much, but 500 miles doesn’t half have a strange effect on your butt. Many solutions are offered – sheepskins, air-hawks covers, inflatable pillows, taking the car – but all result in the same uncomfortable sweatiness late on in the day; I’ll leave that thread of thought there.