Missscribbler’s A – Z of Cycling August 6, 2008

I just read a short article on The Times website entitled “Boris Johnson’s A – Z of cycling”. The article made me chuckle and so I have compiled my own A – Z of cycling. A – Ankles. Getting nipped by nettles when a big car pushes you into the verge on a narrow road. [...]

Encounters of the Two-Wheeled Kind July 31, 2008

Cycling is a wonderful activity, bringing you closer to nature, extending your lifespan (horrific cattlegrid mishaps aside) and generating interesting talking-points about your hilarious escapades in the countryside or else gloatable achievments like clambering up a 15 degree incline and not even having to slip into first gear because of your steely, muscular glutials. This [...]

On Yer Bike July 30, 2008

I have decided that I have become thoroughly bored with jogging. Jogging is a tedious activity even if you are listening to some powerful techno beats en route concurrent with keeping your iPod plugs from dropping out your ears. Rather than get fat, I have taken up cycling. “Taken-up” is a misnomer as in fact [...]

Our Booze Cruise July 26, 2008

Last week, A and I partook in what a work colleague likes to call a Booze Cruise. The object being that you and your floating hotel enjoy cheapy Grolsch on the high seas for an evening and a night then dock in Amsterdam for a half day of haphazardous tourism before loading yourself back on [...]

Thoughts on Learning to Drive May 5, 2008

It is considered a rite of passage to exchange that miserable, green card bearing your name and an equally miserable photo of your world-weary adolescent face for a fresh, pink, shiny new one. I am of course talking about driving licences. My provisional has been cramping my style for four years! Four years on I [...]

Desert Island Discs April 21, 2008

It is strange and unprecedented what inspires a blog entry and tonight was no exception – a mortality on Hollyoaks. As the credits rolled, a rather innocuous indie balad droned before Jon Snow announced what we would expect on the Channel 4 News after the break and at that point I switched to my computer [...]

Escape the bank on your bank holiday April 13, 2008

In times of recession one is encouraged to put frugality before vanity and when it comes to how we spend our bank holidays there is no exception. My boss, a terrifyingly frivolous soul with dollar-signs for pupils, chuffs at a single night stay at an Ibis. Why stay in an Ibis for 10 hours (eight [...]

Beside not inside the seaside. April 8, 2008

It is a wonderous thing, the sea. Wonderous and yet terrifying. I live in central England and so my experiences of the sea are reserved for holidays alone and I put it down to my neglecting the sea that I have an uncertain relationship with it. This weekend, A took me to one of those [...]

A Danish Day-Dream March 30, 2008

As one holiday recedes into photo-albums and folders of tickets and novel sweetie wrappers and beermats another winks on the horizon. The thing I love about working and earning money is that you get 20 days of paid annual leave which you cannot take off willy-nilly, you must plan, prepare and allocate them wisely forcing [...]