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Blossoms in May
What a delight a May evening can be ! Especially after staying late at the office for a meeting of the Audit Committee, surely one of life’s non-pleasures, but heigh-ho, we still need the bacon. So off into the north-westering sun … Continue reading
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First of the season
The Portland Street Pedallers set out in search of the original pickled egg once again ! A modest start, taking in the Deramore at Heslington, which I missed, but then I found the intrepid foursome sitting outside the Blacksmiths at … Continue reading
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Unpublished Answer
Some while ago someone wrote to the Guardian’s “Notes and Queries” to ask why roadies never acknowledged other cyclists. My (unpublished) reply is below: Dear Notes and Queries, The poseurs with their fancy gear do not acknowledge fellow cyclists for one … Continue reading
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A favourite short tour.
A beautiful sunny but not too hot June afternoon — Millenium Bridge, Walmgate Stray, University, Heslington Long Lane, Gypsey Corner, Bridle Paths to Scoreby, tea and lemon meringue pie at the Ballon Tree(and asparagus to take home), Gate Helmsley, Warthill, … Continue reading
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Goodness, Time Flies
A whole month of inactivity here ! During which I’ve done what seems like a lot of work, but also had a holiday in Delft, a poetry recording in York, a good circular tour to the south and west of the … Continue reading
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Summer Evening Excursions
Do try the Thompson’s Arms at Flaxton, right by the level crossing. As rural a pub as you could imagine, set amongst the rolling arable landscape at the edge of the Vale of York as it runs up to the … Continue reading
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Cross Keys and Cowslips
Bus to Malton, then up and away on the folding bike to Settrington — lost my nerve at the ford with small wheels and a gravel bottom — then up onto the Wold to Settrington Beacon — almost 300 degrees … Continue reading
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On the Flat
Leaving Selby on the Trans-Pennine trail does not inspire the lyric muse. Only the knowledge that up and down this narrow tidal ditch came Vikings, Hugenots, voyagers of every ilk, right up to the last century, in their hundreds of … Continue reading
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Two Blacksmiths and a Tiger
The first pedallers’ outing of the year took us from the Blacksmith’s Arms in Huntington — where one of our number was served with the world’s longest chip (possibly an extrusion) via the slippy banks of the Foss to the … Continue reading
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By Brompton down the Rhine
Back in October I took a 300-mile trip from Heilbronn, Germany, down the Neckar valley to the Rhine, and thence downstream to Cologne. Almost all of this was on excellent, usually well sign-posted cycle paths. The 38 German schoolchildren (13 years … Continue reading
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