I've allowed myself to get depressingly unfit; I cycled 16½ miles yesterday - about half way to Hornsea and back - and while I wasn't about to collapse in a panting, muscle twitching mess on return, I could definitely feel it. This was on the flat, too (not a lot of choice hereabouts), and checking up past routes on Bikely, I find that this was ( Read more... )

My MP has a history of ignoring her constituents and their issues almost as consistent as her voting record in Parliament, but still…Dear Diana Johnson ( Read more... )

ramtops and I skived off to the cinema on Friday to see Alice.

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Of possible interest, one way or another, to hirez and feorag, City of Sound gifted me a pointer to Australian Design Review and a vision of a Melbourne observation wheel repurposed as a tram depot in the sky for "flying steam-powered punk trams ( Read more... )

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I changed the bed today (hey! that sounds like it should be the first line of a song), and used the opportunity to finally measure the tilt on the bedroom floor, chocking up Mac's side until the spirit she say "level". Turns out the floor tilts just a tooth short of 3cm over the width of the bed, so that's two leg extensions I'm going to have to ( Read more... )

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Bringing myself up-to-date, here are ( my first two books of 2010 )

[ lifts head (still not) gingerly above parapet ]

Yes, I am still alive. Pointless status posts and linkspam are going to Twitter, and thence to Facebook, these days, and what with moving (back for me, forward for ramtops) to Hull and werk I've not had time or brain capacity to write anything substantive ( Read more... )