You wouldn’t think it would be hard to spend upwards of £500 on a light, nippy, flat-barred road bike, would you?
I’m talking the kind of bike that you stick a rack on plus a pannier or two and maybe some mudguards and pedal reliably to work and back in the week. There must be loads of them. Well, there are on cycle shop websites anyway. Continue reading “A Tale of Two Bikes”
Last night, I was down to play for my Club in the Embra-wide knock-out tournament. Really did not want to because I would much rather have been somewhere else. I felt, however, that I owed it to my fellow members to be there for them. Then, the opposition scratched with an hour to go and I was free to be where I wanted in the first place. Made it to a vantage point at the last moment.
To explain, today is, as you should all know, Armed Forces Day in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. A very new introduction. Don’t care what anybody else thinks about the idea.It means a lot to me as an Army brat. Continue reading “What I Did Last Night”
Some here may recall that when our bloke voted at the United Nations I suggested that I was convinced that he thought it was an order for lunch and had no idea what the whole brouhaha was about, guess what…
I was secret £5,000-a-time prostitute, claims clerk who stole from office.
The USA is about to screw us again. Continue reading “It Looks Like…..”
Obviously, after I’ve spent a whole three weeks Down Under, I will be able to give you a fully informed and exhaustive commentary on every aspect of Australian customs. But, I haven’t been yet and can’t do the in-depth and incisive stuff until I have. Watch this space.
In the meantime and for the avoidance of doubt, this post is actually about the Australian Customs Services. I’ve been googling them and digesting information from my fellow cherished authors (FCA). As a result, I’m worried about getting into the place at all. Continue reading “Australian Customs”
They were graceful beasts weren’t they? Especially the Vulcan.
Came across this chappie on my kitchen floor – he was about as big as my hand. Unfortunately for him, the flash attracted my Owner, and his rate of climb on take-off wasn’t fast enough. She calculated the rate of climb and trajectory and picked him out of the air like a black, furry Bloodhound. Very pleased with heself she was, too.
Unbeknownst to me, Mrs FEEG had applied for some Olympic tickets. Recently we had the spectacle of Boris Johnson on TV moaning about the fact that he did not get any that he applied for personally (of course I think there is the odd freebie in the pipeline for London Councillors, but, to be fair, I think he did return a lot of these). We feel very lucky.
However, Mrs FEEG has just announced she has got two tickets for a morning session of the athletics at the Olympic Stadium. I think the events are round 1 of the Womens 100M Hurdles (goody, goody, some of the lady sprinters and hurdlers are really fit 🙂 ), the Mens 800M and Discus qualifying, which is good because I used to be school champion at the discus, so I know a bit about it and the Womens 1500M round 1 and Shot Put qualifying as well.
These should be all very entertaining and none of the long drawn out long distance races which, quite frankly bore me to tears (and yes I know it is all tactical, but it is still boring). Roll on next summer!
There is a little almanac in its 82nd year of publication in Portugal called the “Borda D’Agua”. It contains all sorts of useful information such as Saints’ Days, full moons and what to plant in any particular month. It also includes the tmes of the rising and the setting of the sun.
My question is this: On 1st June, the sun rose at 05:14 hrs and set at 19:55hrs. On 30th June the sun will rise at 05:15 hrs, but will set later at 20:06hrs.
If the days are supposed to be shortening after the summer solstice, can any erudite or highbrow Charioteer explain this apparent anomoly to a thick wolf?
OZ
Boadicea's Chariot 
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