When I started watching cycling in 1989 (I was a really young cycling fan, OK?), there were a couple of British riders out there. Our best result ever at that point was a fourth in the Tour and British stages were rare and far between ( Read more... )

I'm still on a bit of a high from yesterday's Tour stage. OMG, Brad's in yellow! And he's got nearly two minutes on Evans! I'm trying very hard not to do the counting chickens thing, but there are only two ways for Wiggins not to win now ( Read more... )

Watching the Tour de France requires nerves of steel. Yesterday's crash near the finish was bad. Looking at Cav's helmet as he peddled to the finish was worse. I keep imagining how badly it could have gone if he hadn't been wearing a helmet ( Read more... )

I have got to get myself back into the habit of posting about things that aren't Unix scripting issues. Although the good news is that I now know much more about scripting than I used to and have a good idea of what I'm doing and what I need to learn. Yay ( Read more... )

The sun is shining and the sky is blue for the first time in over three weeks. And suddenly my funk is gone - I'm feeling cheerful and hopeful even though my back is still quite painful ( Read more... )

My father hasn't watched yesterday's stage yet, so I have nobody to express my glee to. Woe.

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It's that time of year again, so most of this weekend has been spent with the Tour de France. Woot! After the disappointment of trying to find decent tennis coverage, it's a relief to find that I get rather excellent Tour coverage complete with my favourite commentators ( Read more... )

Today I've had to be up and around early to take Da down to a rugby match. Not that I am in any way jealous that he's getting to sit in a corporate box watching an excellent match for my favourite team or anything ( Read more... )

Watching cycling in London is a lot of fun, but very hot, sticky and ickily dirty. Bleh. Hopefully we'll get the promised thunderstorms tonight ( Read more... )