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Cycling the Dales
I’m afraid it’s not the Yorkshire Dales this time. It’s two Staffordshire valleys, Apedale and Silverdale, once busy coalmining centres and now transformed into country parks. We once lived in the nearby village of Miles Green, when Apedale was a large … Continue reading
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Tagged apedale, chesterton, cycling, dales, knutton, mining, museum, Newcastle, silverdale
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Change and Decay
Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day; Earth’s joys grow dim; its glories pass away; Change and decay in all around I see; O Thou who changest not, abide with me. From the viewpoint of evolutionary biology, this … Continue reading
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Tagged abide with me, cycling, do not go gentle, dylan thomas, henry francis lyte, ruston bucyrus, wybunbury
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College Blues
Cycling home recently I took a small diversion through the grounds of MMU’s Alsager College, which used to be a busy campus specialising in teacher training and sports science. Now all the college’s activities have shifted to Crewe and the site … Continue reading
A Ride With a View
Setting off at 7pm yesterday, with no particular destination in mind, I found myself in Congleton and headed up towards Swettenham. There was no traffic, the late evening sun was shining, and it just seemed a good idea to take … Continue reading
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Tagged cycling, holmes chapel, river dane, swettenham, viaduct
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Take That Copenhagen
Bringing you the first instalment of Alsager Cycling Chic Chick Cheek Sheik - I can’t call this what I want to call it because that’s genuinely the most cringeworthy thing i’ve heard in my life. Now that one daughter has … Continue reading
Off the Beaten Track
Cycling around in this part of the world, it is easy to think you’ve seen everything. And yet just off the main roads there is so much more hidden away. Today was another hot day and I set off to … Continue reading
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Tagged arclid, cycling, microlight, quarry, sand, sandbach, swimming
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Spot the Mistake
At last some genuinely hot summer weather, which reminded me of my days in South Africa. So my thoughts turned to wild life safaris. Anybody who knows thwe Congleton area may have passed the farm that has lots of exotic … Continue reading
To Festival Park
This was definitely one of those occasions where the journey is more important than the destination. For those readers not local to this part of the world, Festival Park is a large Retail Park with Entertainment Venues where you could, … Continue reading
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Tagged alsager, canal, cycling, festival park, hopkins, Stoke-on-Trent, towpath, wilderness
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Free at Last
Free at Last, Free at Last Praise God Almighty We’re free at last. Well the end of term has finally come, and it made me think of these famous words. You can see them spoken with great passion here. Now … Continue reading
Falser, Richer, Wronger
This post is quite obviously going to be about the Olympics, so feel free to leave at once, especially if you love them and think it’s just great that they are coming to England, sorry I mean London, and that … Continue reading
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Tagged Coke, corrupt, cycling, heritage, MacDonalds, olympic flame, olympics, russian criminals, trains
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