Monthly Archives: November 2011

You’re cycling along near Freeport in Talke, and you come to some traffic-calming measures. Great! They’ll slow down the traffic!  Then you realise that there is something not quite right about their design: Can you spot the mistake? Of course, … Continue reading →

A Bikeride a Day is all very well, and usually pure pleasure, with crisp air and grey dawns and dusks, but setting off in the dark and returning in the dark means that it’s getting hard to take pictures.  This … Continue reading →

This is a short but steep ride from Alsager,  that goes up to the Wedgewood Memorial near Red Street.  If you have better weather than Dave and I had, you will be rewarded with spectacular views across Cheshire and Staffordshire. … Continue reading →

Alsager, like all urban jungles, has an insatiable appetite for news, and members of my own family have the vital task of ensuring that no resident is left ignorant of which soap star is falling out with which Towie, a … Continue reading →

You may know from some previous posts that I go shopping at Tesco,  the badness of which is offset against my going there on a bike and even with a trailer.  And you will also know if you are a … Continue reading →

Heading South from Sandbach one passes through the small settlements of Wheelock, Winterley, and Haslington, before arriving at Crewe. The road carries only local traffic, because two very expensive bypasses carry through traffic past the villages. Perfect territory then for … Continue reading →

Everybody knows the Salt Line, but what about our other disused railway?  Going over the level crossing at Alsager Station, then along Talke Road, you will find the entrance to Merelake Way. On a sunny autumn afternoon this made a … Continue reading →

I can’t be absolutely sure about this one, but I have my suspicions.  I came across this sign at a school in Scholar Green: This looks to me like the work of an alien from planet Sdikesebo, who specialise in … Continue reading →

This morning was cold:  The first day this autumn that required a scarf.  Colleagues arrived at work saying it was two degrees below freezing.  I took their word for it as I don’t have an iphone with a thermometer app.  … Continue reading →