Archives for February, 2006
nairngorm
Saturday, February 25th, 2006
2 weeks overdue, there are now some pictures of a recent trip to cairngorm, aviemore and nairn with sarah. a preview:
impaled plank
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
This morning I heard a large bang outside my window. What was it? A plank fell out of the sky, of course. As illustrated in the picture – the plank is suspended in mid air after becoming impaled on the fence outside my bedroom window. It turns out a neighbour 2 doors down has scaffolding [...]
how clean is Tesco?
Sunday, February 19th, 2006
I particularly like this remark on the back of some Tesco antibacterial washing up liquid: The use of this product is only an aid to good hydiene practices
a side note
Friday, February 17th, 2006
Further to my last post.. I phoned First to confirm the details of my journey as the information on their web site is ambiguous. I wanted to determine: the fare if it is possible to board the bus on the busiest street for buses in Edinburgh It should come as no surprise that the customer [...]
can you guess how much it is yet?
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
later this week, I have to take a bus trip courtesy of First Bus – which naturally fills me with dread. when trying to find out the cost of my journey, it was no surprise to find a page like this on their web site: For infrequent travellers, you may just wish to purchase a [...]
valentine
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
i didn’t receive any valentines cards yesterday. all i got was a link to this rather funny news story.
beating the ban
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
Thanks to bikebiz, I saw the best news article I’ve seen for a long time. Following the Southern recently banning cyclists from their trains, a gentleman asked permission to take a cardboard bicycle on the train, which he was indeed allowed to. It seems that you can take as much luggage as you like, and [...]
spin
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
It’s amazing how much bias can be included in a newspaper article, especially one you expect to report factually. Today, The Times reports on the decision to axe the Gatwick Express rail service. The emphasis in the article is that cutting back this service is a bad thing. However, they conveniently fail to mention a [...]
tall bike tour of britain
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
Tour of Britain not interesting enough for you? How about the Tall Bike Tour (of) Britain ?