i blame Duncan! Best friends since High School... we'll see after Sunday... Which, if you didn't know by now is the Argus Cycle Tour. i know, i know, it's not officially sponsored by the Argus newspaper or called The Argus any more but for anyone who has done more than three of them, it's The Argus. Until we die. Which may be Sunday... although hopefully not. And i've done 16 of them i think. It [...]
Many of you will know of No_bob, the world’s most famous stuffed dolphin. But you may not know the story. In 2000 i flew to the UK to earn some money teaching [due to an unfortunate police clearance incident i only ended up doing five days of actual teaching which was a high-or-low-light of itself and mostly looked after old people or University professors, who were about equally competent] so that i could join Youth [...]
i have cycled the Argus Cycle tour 19 times. The Argus Cycle tour [now allegedly called something else due to new sponsorship, but it will always be the Argus] is a 109km cycling race [mostly, except when it isn’t!] that is the largest timed cycling race in the world with over 35000 people crazily taking it on every year. i have finished it 16 and a half times. […]
i took a moment at lunchtime yesterday to step out of my body and just really take in what was happening in front of my eyes: a guy busy in mid phone conversation running in to bowl to a batsman trying to play shots with just his left hand on the bat [as he had broken his right hand recently in a sister-encouraged skateboarding incident gone horribly wrong] while South African Sevens rugby player Paul [...]
when i saw the topic for this week's photo challenge was geometry i quickly ended up at this photo which was the unfortunate consequence of an inspirationally creative idea colliding with a unfortunate forgetting of a necessary tool to pull off said idea... every year i have cycled the 109km [67.7295 mile] Argus Cycle tour in Cape Town, South Africa, both the largest individual times race in the world and one of the most beautiful [...]
so tomorrow i join with andrew of vaughan once more (as i did two years ago) and a bunch of youngsters from Christchurch, Kenilworth, to head up to and then down the river of orange (yes, it's my new thing, deal with it!) and i am very much looking forward to it... originally we were hoping that the beautiful val would be able to be there but sadly thesising and her old housemate's wedding will [...]
