Cycling is a sport most people are aware of but have little interest in. To them a bicycle, not to be confused with that other bike the motorcycle, is merely something that they use to get around town when it's not raining. Most of the time I lean to this scheme of things, apart from not owning a bike I don't do the not raining part. However over ( Read more... )

As some of you may be aware I spent 9 years of my childhood growing up on the family farm in Northumberland. Farming at the time was and I'm sure still is an all year round business, so trips away were limited to the annual family holliday, with one notable exception. The exception was the regular visit to the Royal Agricultural Show, in Stoneleigh ( Read more... )

I'm aware that some of you are interested in cars. Cars that go quickly. Cars on tracks. Well every year Renault run a series of events, The World Series by Renault. It's making a call at Silverstone on July 4/5 where they bill it as the biggest motorsport event in the UK after the British Grand Prix. And what's more its free. So if any of you are ( Read more... )

As happened last year I have a birthday. It's next week, friday infact, and as is the tradition with these things I was thinking about doing something. That something would in fact be visiting a purveyor balti for a meal. Mainly because I haven't been to one in a while. So for nostalgias sake I'm suggesting Balti Bazzar at 8 next friday.

Seems Ferrari doesn't always win in court. Full Story

I think some of you may be interested in this. It is on 4/5/6 of september in Moesley Park. The final lineup has been announced with the headline acts being Jethro Tull, Saint Etienne and Beth Orton. In any case the full listing is here:

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I've come to the conclusion that I like celery. In the past I've tended to avoid it having memories of picking stringy bits out of my teeth. However recently I've been adding it to the salads I take to work for lunch. Initialy it was put in as something to add bulk out the usual lettuce, but I find the taste growing on me. I am still undecided ( Read more... )

As some of you may be aware in 9 days time there's a race in Melbourne, Australia. That little thing called Formula 1. For the last 10 years the coverage has been on ITV, but this year it's back on the BBC. As seems to be the case these days the BBC like to cross advertise on their various channels. So since my alarm clock is tuned to radio 4 I ( Read more... )

I've been listening to a number of versions of All Along The Watchtower recently. For those of you who haven't heard it, which I assume is few, it's a Bob Dylan number from 1967. It's been covered by a multitude of artists. Notably Hendrix and U2. I've realy got to say that even though he wrote it Dylan's version is nowhere near as good as Hendrix' ( Read more... )

In my random ramblings I came across this. As buildings go you have to say it's interesting. Certainly the talk of minimum maintenance construction, energy efficiency and environmental sensitivity are good and worthy things. But you realy have to ask yourself how possible they are given that the building is intended to rotate. A fact I would have ( Read more... )