Miserable git Lance Armstrong may have been, but if you read through the USADA documents it's clear that he didn't invent EPO and he wasn't the first cyclist to use it. His was an extreme case of "may as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb" but he didn't start the rustling!
When doping in cycling is discussed people talk about Paul Kimmage's book ( Read more... )

MarathonTalk have got an interview with Haile Gebrselassie. There has not been so much SQUEEEE in the running community since they scored a chat with Steve "Saturday: ten pints; Sunday: world record" Jones.
Haile is pretty much the Usain Bolt of distance running. I'm not sure whether he still holds any world records but in his time he's held most of ( Read more... )

So Agatha Christie could surf standing up and Gil Scott-Heron's Dad played for Celtic.

What other tidbits do we have for someone emerging from a decadelong coma before the nurse comes along and tells us off?

The John Prescott bulimia was not expected...

Iceland blah blah jetsetting blah blah dinner and sightseeing with vicarage blah Icelandic vegetarian cooking big on beetroot and barley blah blah geysers blah whales blah Thing blah rain blah blah

but the really exiting thing about the holiday was....

we flew back in this


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The horrified look on Harvey's face as he gazed out into the garden only to see Nellie having a crap.
Particularly rich coming from him, as at least (don't ask) she was OUTSIDE.

Anyone here do much with it?

Oxon isthe land of milk and honey right now. Apples and blackberries down by the river, tiny plums in the hedgerows. We were eating some out by Shippon when a couple from the base asked us what fruit they were, and said they'd seen the Gurkhas picking them. Plums, we said. The ripeness had no correlation with the colour that I could see ( Read more... )

On the verge of the Abingdon ringroad. V. short, Muntjac?

I can now officially confirm that Nellie is not so much less freaked by fireworks as just too deaf to hear them :D

... replacing the laptop's cpu only half an hour before PMS kicked in, in particular, the bit where I drop things, bump into stuff and accidentally gouge bits of myself.