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Getting better, can’t you tell?

My cough is on the wane and things are looking up. I’m on track to commute 5 days this week and I have 1 lunchtime under my belt already. I have no speed whatsoever, but an easy ride this morning followed by an impromptu quick ride home with Mr Buick showed me [...]

Struggling onward

( General )

Two days off sick last week meant that the mileage has really suffered, I’m still hacking like a 40-a-day Woodbine addict and the knock on effect is that everything hurts, my ribs, back and head especially.  The sooner that this clears up, the better.  Miles for the week: 42.  Rubbish.

Week two, man flu?

( General )

Mileage: 55
I worked from home on Friday which ate into my commute miles, but I was starting to feel a little under the weather anyway and had to attend a funeral in the PM.  Besides which the weather was appalling so i wasn’t too bothered.  This weekend I’ve been struck down with the full spectrum [...]

Fireballs, DIY.

I picked this up over on Rui’s Lighting Mods blog.  I met Rui at the Strobist lighting seminar in Paris last year – he’s a great guy who’s full of energy and ideas – there are some great ideas on his blog and his writing style is well, interesting.  Do bear in mind that he’s Portuguese, living in Luxemburg and [...]

Resolve

( General )

I don’t do new years resolutions really. But still, now that all the fuss has died down I feel like getting on with the year in the right frame of mind. I had 9 days without riding over Christmas and coming back to the bike was really nice and refreshing. I’ve started [...]