Life as it happens
After the joy of getting the hybrid dew deluxe back on the road after it’s spell without a rear wheel; disaster struck. Somehow on the way home from the remembrance service yesterday the rear derailleur committed suicide and fed itself round the cassette and sheared the hanger. Unfortunately the derailleur also tore itself in half […]
After a short break from work due to quite a nasty chest cold, and having some repairs made to the bike. I cycled to work this morning, quite comfortably and easily the new rear wheel giving me no problems whatsoever. I worked out that the previous rear wheel must have travelled somewhere in the region […]
A while ago when I switched from my Nokia N70 to the SPV E650 I’m using now I realised that the Lifeblog software that I used during the Jamboree wouldn’t work any more. The options for smartphone users seem to be decidedly stark on this front, although the useful PhoneSharp fills a hole it lacks […]
Well as I can kinda communicate and the coughing fits seem to have ceased, I’m going back to work tomorrow. Not on the bike however, I shall take the bus and wrap up warm. Hopefully then I can survive the first day back at the office without dying. As I’m no longer officially infectious, form […]
I normally ignore the emails going around about petitions on the Prime Ministers website but this one appealed to me. “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to In this Centenary year, acknowledge the legacy of Sir Robert Baden Powell’s Scouting Movement.” Link