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I just got back from John o’Groats after a little unicycle ride:858 miles of unicycling in 6 days, 8 hours and 43 minutes. (see daily reports and pictures of the ride at the blog)I rode with Roger from Unicycle.com, and we were supported by Paul Royle. Charity donations are gratefully received for Wake Up! Ministries in […]
I love this story about Leola and Freddie in Chicago. These two friends tell the story of how they visited Chicago for the day of the elections on Tuesday 4 November 2008, and went back to their hotel room rather than wait outside in the crowds for the result celebrations. But at their […]
Another picture in my New York series. Not thematically related to news today using the words “meltdown” and “Wall Street” in the same sentences (or at least headlines) repeatedly (OK, so the FT only says turmoil, but still). Erm. Well, maybe a bit.
I can’t pretend to understand really what it means or […]
Quite possibly the most worthwhile 37 minutes of YouTube I’ve seen.
Watch: Barak Obama’s speech ‘A More Perfect Union’.
If someone this intelligent and balanced, and - it seems to me - downright good, can become the President of America then something amazing will have happened.
I don’t have a vote there, but I can still hope…
Disclaimer: Yes, […]
Mark Beaumont has completed an 18000 mile route around the world to return to Paris, where he started 195 days ago. See the BBC’s Pedaling Around website about his trip.
Congratulations Mark!
Now there’s an idea…
The BBC’s forecast for tomorrow looks interesting:
Come on, snow, you can do it. Tell you what, I’ll go and take photos of you if you come?
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Luckily we do have plenty of drops to drink though. This photo was from 7.30 this morning, on the A44 at Lovesgrove near Aberystwyth. Usually that […]
I just saw on the BBC News an article about a road cyclist who has been killed on the A82 in Scotland, near Fort William.
This makes me rather sad. Different things affect people in different ways. Hearing about cyclists being killed in accidents on the road is something which makes me most sad […]
The joy of english is that ‘read’ and ‘read’ mean both the present-continuous and past tense, and you can’t tell without either context or pronunciation. I meant the past-tense version, like the colour, not the riverside plant. I don’t often get a paper at the weekend, and don’t make a habit of reading […]
This Sunday we had a visit to our church from Barnabas Fund’s Patrick Sookhdeo, who spoke graphically about violence and discrimination of christians in Iraq, and about the threatening ideology of Islam against christianity.
And I felt rather unneasy, but not for the reasons he wanted. I am told that he is apparently an academic authority on […]