National Downshifting Week isn’t until April, but they have some great suggestions, Treehugger lists some. If everyone did some of these, the world would be a much better place.
[Update: From the NDW site, I found the CityHippy blog.]
I like this cartoon. It’s not a million miles away from all the people who drive their car to the gym.
Next Friday I’m going to a course on the use of blogs in education. It’s going to cover what blogs are, so I think it’ll be very basic, though I hope to come away with some useful information. I’ll report back.
On Sunday afternoon, I went out and rode my usual local loop. It’s just a loop around some local bridleways, but it has the odd nice trail and gets out into the countryside (despite crossing the A1(M) and running alongside the East Coast Mainline).
Along the way, I startled a couple of bunnies and surprised […]
I want a green roof!
*Might never happen.
As usual, I’m going through a crap at updating phase. I occasionally remember to add in interesting link to the sidebar though, if you want to look at those.
I’ll probably post more in the winter months. Maybe.
It was a mix of on- and off-road, about 47km. Darlington to Burtree Gate on the road; off-road along a field-edge bridleway to the Walworth road; along that road to the A68, briefly on the A68 and the back on a monor road to Bolam; BOAT from Bloam to another road; bridleway (part of the […]
I ride a really nice ride on my bike last Saturday. At some point I’ll get around to writing it up properly. It covered part of the new W2W route, was about 45km and made me want a cyclocross bike even more than I already did.
I had an idea for a mass long-distance […]