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Starting at the Beginning

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“So what are you going to call this blog”, asks a friend. He’s been bugging me about it for months but I just haven’t...

Wheels for Wellbeing

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It’s something else, this cycling lark. The feeling of breeze running through your hair and around your moving body sometimes borderlines on the erotic,...

Onto the Subject of Hedgehogs & Frogs

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“I thought this was a blog about cycling”, I hear myself commenting. “Had this been a play written for radio about experiences on a bike,...

In praise of Waterproofs and Wet Days

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Don’t get me wrong. I love the sunshine and cacophony of smells, sounds and visual brilliance that hits your senses with the arrival of...

Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness

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“How come you don’t get bored doing the same route every day”, I get asked. Though I think the question was rhetorical, it resurfaces as...

Learning from a tiny garden

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A friend texts me as I sit down to drink my Americano with hot milk (… ironic isn’t it that it would be simply...

About me

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Welcome to my Blog! Writing this has only been possible because of an upright folding bicycle gifted by a precious friend. Since then, cycling has transformed a miserable version of me, with a spine and balance system that scream out when I walk, into a fitter and happier drug-free version, in love with my bike, the friendship it brings and the green spaces it takes us to.
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Favourite Quotes

“When a door closes, another door should open, but if it doesn’t, then go in through the window” – Anonymous

“When it rains look for rainbows, when it's dark look for stars” – Oscar Wilde

“A woman is like a tea bag. You can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” – Helen Keller

“There is always someone who wants to confiscate our humanity and there are always stories to restore us” – Andrew Solomon

"Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies" - Unknown

"If at first you don't succeed .... so much for skydiving" - Henny Youngman