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I'm now even running a backlog on cycling-to-Killumney updates. So: cycled to Killumney on Monday. Weather continues to be spectacularly miserable, but I did get a bit of a brief "weather window". Rather longer than my current-fitness window, actually, had I started a bit earlier. I need to make the effort to throw in more short little runs at ( Read more... )

Interesting article by Germaine Greer ( ... on feminism. )

I don't recall ever being so pleased to see "heavy rain" on the forecast, or indeed being so anticipatory of it actually arriving (as it's not at least started to).  I do hope it doesn't actually turn to flooding -- again!  Having the country part-frozen, part-flooded, and part-waterless (like poor Brian, who seems to be cut off currently) would be ( Read more... )

Not been as wet as feared over the weekend, as far as I can tell -- and so far. Seems as if the possible yet-heavier rain for Monday may be "missing" us after all. (Have I tempted fate enough yet?) Made it to Tesco "without incident" last night -- missed what rain there was, and the roundabout had nary a puddle. Going to risk my first bike ( Read more... )

Watched a report on the BBC News channel last night about "bride kidnapping" and the like in Chechnya, which was pretty unrelentingly grim and horrific (branching out as it apparently often does into rape and murder).  Perhaps the lowlight, however, was a brief interview with Ramzan Kadyrov, the Putin-backed ex-rebel president, which was startling ( Read more... )