It’s dark now when I get back to Didcot station, and it’s a mile and a half from the station to home. I rather foolishly lost my very expensive (but pretty old) Exposure Joystick front light on the train on Friday. I think it came off the folded Brompton when I threw it on the luggage […]
Category: Commute
I changed jobs in the new year, and that includes a whole new commute. I’m now working in Oxford, so I have to get the train (driving would be madness). That gives me two options for the journeys to and from the stations: bike or run. Each section of the run is around 1.5 miles […]
My preferred method of commuting is by bike. It’s been my preferred method of commuting for a long time now, and I suspect it will be for a long time to come. I enjoy the exercise, I get lots of beautiful sunsets and sunrises, and it’s just so much better than driving I can’t even […]
I had a busy running week last week. Both Clarkie and I ran the Pheonix 10k on Wednesday night. I did this race last year, on a distinctly different evening. This year it was hot and almost perfectly still. Sadly, with Clarkie running as well there were no photos (or there were, but they are […]
I was feeling a little lazy this morning, so I told myself it was a perfect day for a dawdling run taking photos. What follows is a picture-heavy post! I ignored the first mile, that’s just houses and pavement and stuff. Yawn. This is the part it starts to get interesting. Yup, the oil seed […]
I know it’s not strictly speaking Winter yet, but it’s the time of year I start to prepare for the weather ahead. The wind picks up down here on the coast (well, 2 miles back up a hill), which makes the route I’m using for work rather unpleasant. It’s a pretty typical road, single carriageway, […]
Last Friday was a good day for riding. Hot, hardly any wind, but that wasn’t why! On the way into work, I pulled up at the lights in Rottingdean as normal and someone else pulled up along side. I mostly ignore other people, but the guy commented on my bike. I’m riding my Long Haul […]
Rottingdean pond has frozen over completely, which looks quite nice. This shot was taken yesterday morning, as I cycled in. Note the ridge of snow on the road along the sides where the cars haven’t been. It wasn’t a problem in Rottingdean, but when I hit busier roads it started to be. Today I thought […]
It is unusually cold for December. Which sounds odd, but it doesn’t normally get really cold until around February. But we have snow! Normally if we get snow in December it’s about a centimetre, and it’s melted by 8am. Not so much today. Those are our steps this morning. We’re staying put I think. There […]
A couple of Saturday’s ago, we were heading off to a friend’s wedding up in Derbyshire. The morning was a bit of a rush, we’d slept in a bit, you know. And the toilet stopped flushing. Not ideal. Not by a long chalk. It made us slightly late. Not as late as the traffic on […]