Well, thats twice in about 2 months I have been stopped for alleged driving offences by the constabulary. The first time I will forgive them as how are they to know that accelerating up to and then dropping back from the vehicle in front is caused by driving an old, heavy diesel car up hills when their vehicles are designed to chase stuff somewhat ( Read more... )

The computer program I wrote for the tri club to record the aquathlon results on ran perfectly with the aim of getting the results out within 10 mins of the last finisher's time being known being met. It doesn't really do anything much that a spreadsheet wouldn't, except deliver the results as a nice looking html doc, and I don't honestly think it ( Read more... )

Oh for crying out loud. I really ought to be able to fit a new computer to my bike in under an hour, thus leaving me an hour to ride on the turbo. But no, it took an hour and three quarters due to the fact that my bike is obviously a weird and strange shape. And not that I'm a klutz with these things. And even after all that, I need to redo the ( Read more... )

There I am about halfway through what I reckon is about a 9 mile or so run this lunchtime and I can hear a bike behind me, so I move to the side to let him ride past. He says 'I thought I'd never catch you up. You are running as fast as I ride a bike ( Read more... )

Can you imagine what £75Bn is going to do to the inflation rate once the big hole in the money supply officially announces it is closed? And can you imagine how long the UK will be paying off the debts from the money it has printed for? If I was cynical I might be tempted to believe that the government is intending to rely on a slab of inflation to ( Read more... )

Well, I didn't win the aquathlon relay with Jack, although he certainly swam quicker than I would have. But I do now have a time noted for a '10K' run of 39:16, and the run was hilly and everything! We know that the measurement must be a little suspect on that but hey, its on the internet now, and everything on there is true. Right?

Grrr...

I hate hyprocisy. Now, look at this. It tells us all how politicians of all sides have recognised that allowing banks to lend 100+% of a home's value on a mortgage was silly and not really to be recommended. We all KNOW that now. Even the people running the banks know that now. The job of politicians is not to correctly predict the past. ( Read more... )

Normally, when I drive to work, the worst ice is on the Mendips just above Wells. Get past that and the rest of the run is fine. This time, the worst ice was driving down the hill into Hartcliffe, where it was so bad that you had to roll down at no more than walking pace. When the car skidded (and it did a lot) you just waited until it hit a bit of ( Read more... )

Depth - 20cm ( Read more... )

Well, thats the first day I have been unable to get to work. I was erring on the side of not trying it anyway when the radio mentioned the A39 was blocked about 5 miles Bristol-wards of Wells, and as is the only major road, that was it. So I end up working from home which sucks. The laptop has one of those silly finger-mouse efforts and my compter ( Read more... )