By Our garden in Switzerland is mostly grass and trees, and is on about a 45 degree slope. We manage it quite naturally, and just like most of the Swiss farmers manage their mountain meadows. This means that we just let the grass and wild flowers grow until about mid-June and
The Golden Age of……..
How many times have you heard someone claim that a certain thing or subject was indeed, the Golden Age of…..etc etc? I heard it said the other day. Someone was referring to the golden age of music when the recording of music in studios was on magnetic tape. He went
The orphan part and other stuff…..
I’m definitely a ‘Glass half full’ type of person. I look for the positive energy, the inspirational people, the amazing situations and the good things all of the time. These things make me feel good, give me creative ideas and help take me to new phases, projects or crazes in
Ducati
In addition to usual cycling brands, a lot of car companies have dipped their toes into the bicycle world. I assume this is to connect the car brand with a lifestyle of health, leisure, fitness and sport. Some also get their engineers to apply car developed technology to cycles. It
Hindsight😬😎
When I was a kid, teeth cleaning technique meant putting toothpaste on your brush and then vigorously brushing in an ‘up and down’ direction. Doing this correctly meant ‘no fillings and other work’ to be done at the dentist, which was never somewhere I ever wanted to visit in case
Once a bedroom wall decorator, always a wall decorator😉
Apparently, kids don’t put posters on their walls anymore. In fact, postering up your bedroom wall has been on the decline since we hit this century and today, it is only the few (about 7% of girls and 12% of boys) that actually get their super heroes stuck or taped
Fingerpost
It’s obvious that when riding a bicycle, you experience the things around you a lot more intimately than you ever would in a car or motorcycle. You get chance to see, smell and hear stuff at a speed which creates many micro-experiences. For example, when I’m cycling in North Yorkshire,
Absolutely Trashed! and The Broken Windows Theory
Recently, I read an inspirational and interesting article in one of my favourite mountain bike (MTB) magazines, CRANKED (see link at bottom of page). It was about an organisation called Trash Free Trails (TFT), who have set about the task in the UK of collecting and reducing the amount of
86!
The reason this post is entitled 86 is not because it’s the country telephone code for China, nor is it because 86 is the atomic number of Radon, and neither is it because there are 86 metals on the modern Periodic Tables. No. To date, I have hammered out 86
Do you buy ‘quirky’ or ‘mainstream’ things?
When the offerings that the cycling world present to us have a high level of sameness, it forces designers to do something different, something out of the box, something perceived as a bit weird at first sight, or even a bit quirky. Quirky is a strange English word that means
