It's been a bit rushed this weekend. Helena has four cousins arriving from Finland to visit for a fortnight at (God help me) 0600 on Monday morning, so it's been all hands to the grinders getting the … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2012
Pushing ahead
Now that I've been riding the VFR for a couple of months the main concern that I have had (after getting over the nervousness of riding at all) has been my inability to ride long distances without … [Read more...]
Gotta love long weekends
Since my wife shifted to a 4-day week with every Friday off it has always been our intention to take advantage of it and have a long weekend break. Well, this weekend it finally happened. We stuffed … [Read more...]
Hi-vis? No, thanks.
Now most of you know that I try to stay clear of the three taboo subjects in any pub conversation, sex, religion and politics. But this one has a distinctly political tinge to it and it's got me a bit … [Read more...]
Another day….
......but not another dollar. One of the major obstacles that I have found in my recovery is that my favoured form of employment, casual relief teaching, has been very hard to find. As an "on … [Read more...]
The price of fame
There probably exists within all of us the desire to be famous to varying degrees. When the population of the world was considerably smaller than it is now you would think it probably would have been … [Read more...]