Not in the mood and short of time, but a 18 mile and 2000ft up to reservoir, round on gravel and back.
Strangely had a couple of PRs on Strava, think it is the new tyres.
Not in the mood and short of time, but a 18 mile and 2000ft up to reservoir, round on gravel and back.
Strangely had a couple of PRs on Strava, think it is the new tyres.
A brief snapshot of Saturday’s descent from the Cam High Road to Semerwater, with me following Hester
Amstel Gold Women
Never let it be said...that whilst weeding the garden is usually more exciting than watching women's road racing it was pretty damn good to see Marianne Vos (admittedly the greatest female rider of all time) overhaul two top riders - including the winner of the last Amstel Gold - neither of whom would lead out and so lost out.
"...as dry as the Atacama desert".
Luke Appleyard (Wharfedale)- quick on the dissent
Could it be that they derived from "ton". Farm or hamlet (apparently): https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/...h-place-names/
There are a few examples where subsequent civilisations have added their word for settlement on the end of the existing name. So you can get places like [something]tonville.
Quite possibly: between Nailstone and Barlestone, I cycled through Osbaston, which doesn't quite manage to be a "-stone" village.
My favourite example of names being formed like this is Breedon-on-the-Hill: if you analyse the origins of this name, it means "Hill-Hill-on-the-Hill", with "Bree" coming from the same root as the Scottish "Brae", and "don" as in the "downs" of Southern England.
In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
Jorge Luis Borges
Worst of all I still haven't reached the top of the half hill, something I must remedy before it gets mentioned again![/QUOTE]
Do it soon Marco before it too disappears and becomes No-Hill No-Hill on the No-Hill.
Visibility good except in Hill Fog
During today's pleasant 38 miles perambulation around the environs of the second city I parked near Halfords in Guiseley and secured my bike next to one of those massive German e-bikes powered by the best of Bosch and looking as though it was forged on a Panzer II assembly line. It wasn't so much the huge steel U-Bolt security device, that would have kept a brace of Harleys safe from theft, that next drew my attention but the huge dog (German Shepherd?) that was intimately tethered to aforementioned bike. So a real two-for-one offer for any potential thief.
As I tried to stare down the dog whilst wielding my oxy-acetylene torch the owner arrived and I asked him where he e-biked with his trusty hound winding up to 15 mph to gambol alongside and he assured me that this was not at all difficult and "there is always a back way" to where owner and dog wish to go.
The owner, who might have been German, was very chatty and, not surprisingly since I was only a few feet from it, I thought the vigilant and protective dog was even more delightful.
Last edited by Graham Breeze; 20-04-2021 at 08:58 PM.
"...as dry as the Atacama desert".