Down the road from the house, opposite what used to be the Parnall's factory where they made aircraft bits, and the stone fish which made cyclists wobble a bit, there's a row of terraced houses that follow the rise in the land toward what was a railway bridge and is now a bike-path bridge. The road gets oddly narrow there, and if the people in the ( Read more... )

The other day, I accidentally a fairly well-preserved 70/80s Falcon bike frame. There's surface rust and a 'Reynolds' sticker, but it looks straight and far too narrow of tube because I'm used to oversize ally and carbon frames ( Read more... )

I have been meaning for bloody years (Well, obviously only four bloody years, given it came out in 2010, but still) to beetle off and buy a copy of the Laundry RPG. This would be 'Laundry' as in 'CStross/ H.P. Deighton' rather than anything to do with either Paragon or George Formby. That said, the notion of yer man Formby taking time off from ( Read more... )

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