I got back from Towcester in time to see my stepdaughter Maisie who is back up in Hebden Bridge for a few days. We wanted to get at least one decent walk in while she was here but the weather wasn’t particularly good today – there was 100% cloud cover so the light wasn’t great, [...]
My sister had been kind enough to bring my singlespeed road bike down from Coventry for my stay in Towcester and I managed to wangle an afternoon off teen-minding to get a little bike ride in. I was joined by AndyB, a non-cyclist intent on proving that his impulse buy of a full-suspension Kona MTB [...]
I’m down in Towcester this week carrying out an in-depth analysis of Roman Road development in ancient Britain. Oh shucks, no I’m not – I’m actually giving my sister and hubby a few days break from my niece and nephew while they go off and rekindle whatever it is that married couples kindle in the [...]
A nice sunny day, and time to see if I was really over the ‘lurgy’… Today’s road ride was 42.7 miles with 4,500 feet of hills, some very steep. Companionship was provided by buddies Bill and Martin (‘goodspeed‘). Details of the route: Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Scout Road, Boulder Clough, Hubberton Green, Cotton Stones, Ripponden, Ripponden [...]
It was a sunny day, and time for another walk with Lisa ‘over the tops’. We caught the bus to Cragg Vale, then walked down to the Hinchliffe Arms and up the lane to Withens Clough Reservoir where we stopped for a picnic.
My old cycling pal Bill is back for the summer so I called upon his workshop skills to sort out my Basso which I had stripped down some time ago, but not got round to reassembling. Bill got stuck in, and after a quick trip down to the LBS (Local Bike Shop) for some replacement [...]
The sun was shining and Lisa was free, didn’t fancy a ride on the MTBs, but did fancy walking to the visitor centre at Gibson Mill. Time for another walk to Hardcastle Crags! We strolled along the Hebden Water riverside walk to Salem and said hello to some nice pigs in the field next to [...]
(Just in case any of you haven’t noticed this feature of the blog…!) A long time back, I started doing ‘widescreen’ versions of most of the pictures on this blog. Most of the images are cropped to 450 pixels wide and 318 pixels high to fit the layout of the simple WordPress ‘theme’ that I [...]