I did the Callis Wood – Weasal Hall walk with Lisa today. It was pretty overcast and I’ve taken plenty of pictures of that walk this year so I didn’t bother taking my camera. It was a nice walk, though conditions were very humid. Nothing much else to report really except… My legs were feeling [...]
I had been planning to do an imperial century ride (100 miles or 161 km) out to Malham in the Yorkshire Dales this summer but I had a bit of a reality check and decided that I wasn’t really fit enough to enjoy a ride of that severity. It had about 10,000 feet of climbing [...]
I’d intended to do a road ride, but I left it a bit late and the traffic was building up so I decided to go out on the MTB instead. To be honest, I keep forgetting that it is available again after a long period of time when it was out of action awaiting new [...]
I was just about to nip out on my bike to check out the little loops that I posted about a couple of days ago when buddy Bill rang. He was feeling a bit poorly but wanted to get out in the sunshine for a while so he came over to join me and we [...]
Lisa needed to go up to her mother’s house in Dodd Naze*** so she rang me to see if I fancied a walk. I did, actually, especially because I don’t walk up that way very often. The only trouble was, the weather wasn’t good; it had been raining all morning. Still, a walk is a [...]
You may recall me writing recently about a little road circuit I’d found round Towcester and how I was going to look for something similar round here…? Well, I’ve actually spotted 4 road loops which look promising, all close to or on my favourite 20 mile local loop.
Bill called in on the way back from his ride this afternoon and I was standing chatting to him when something fluttered past my head and landed on his arm. It was a large butterfly whose wings were jet black when folded. The butterfly walked about on his forearm for a while with wings closed [...]
My niece Rebecca and her mate Anna were up in Yorkshire for a short break so they came over to Hebden Bridge to see me today. They didn’t have a lot of free time and hadn’t had breakfast so I just took them for a short stroll up through Crow Nest Wood to Old Chamber [...]