Merry Christmas

to turn off the sound, I've had to hide the card behind a 'jump break'.
To find out what that is, and hear a bit of Durham Cathedral choir back in 1990, click on the next link for more!

Our tree all dressed and ready to go, thanks Alice.

Road pristine with fresh snow

November snow on our island!

London - increasingly cycle friendly

Boris Bikes alongside storage for 30 personal bikes at Queen Mother Sports centre

The end of the line for Cycle Superhighway CS7 near Bank. I took this really to make the first time I'd ridden along a CS rather than just crossed it. Albeit the Southwark Bridge cycle lane was still under construction yesterday.

Shard under construction and Borough Market eating

The Shard going up fast - this is the first time I've noticed it - from Boris bike woodrush.com/bb in Southwark Street. more information on the finished product is here. 

St Paul's Cathedral viewed from the Floral Hall in Stoney Street, Borough Market. This is the first time I've noticed this view over the railway viaduct. The Borough Market viaduct itself (just behind me in the other direction down Stoney Street) is in the process of being upgraded for Network Rail by Skanska to increase Thameslink capacity.
I took the hint from the friendly red bull here, and remembering recent events and went for fish - which I prefer anyway!

Lunch at 'roast' was enjoyable; I had 'pan fried Cornish halibut' with artichokes, hazelnuts and garlic (£21) plus rainbow carrots (£4) - I wasn't paying for lunch, I still prefer its close neighbour just below my window seat - Wright Brothers.

Hucking

What a lovely place Hucking is!

Poppy

Alice on her pink Pashley Poppy in Jericho (seat needs to go up a bit!)

home at last

Jacob's new Olive Bread

Dawes Super Galaxy 21 years on - still smooth as it was new

Summer 2010 apples

Jane Porter - name in Kanji

Precious = Jane
Great Learner + Achievement = Por - ter

Hugh Porter - name in Kanji

The first light of day and understanding = Hugh
Great Learner + Achievement = Por - ter

Rainbow Art Collection
'Seal Stone Carving has 3,000 years of cultural history in Asia. It is a combination of calligraphy, fine arts & sculpting techniques.

Road maintenance newest recruit

New Barn Dressage 2010 - Jane with Frankie

Ram's Head - Jacob's art II

First twinned toilet experience!

Maybe I live a sheltered experience but I hadn't come across one of these before.

I couldn't resist whipping out my camera for this one seen in the RSA restroom earlier today,

....'flushing away poverty'

Route visualisation with cycle routes

The 08:02 29 June 'track' was actually a run rather than a cycle. 

The full route length was 8.0km (6.9km in magenta plus 1.1km before I started recording!)

NB 
- www.gpsvisualizer.com used to upload gpx file from W995.
- also I've found http://runkeeper.com/user/shughie currently to be a smart way to store activity and performance data.

a selection of Jacob's Art in 2010

First time in Brighton.. we had a great time as cycling base and about town

yes, that is a wafer thin biscuit spoon 
...stuck into a slab of ice cold rhubarb and ginger 

Those pies must have gone somewhere - Cycling from Ditchling Beacon to Lewes perhaps..

..they most probably disappeared on these tortuous hills (in the heat) or when I took a deep breath in to pose for the picture

Discovering Stane Street (nr Arundel)

Wikipedia notes ...

Stane Street is the modern name given to an important 90 kilometres (56 mi) long Roman road in England that linked London to the Roman town of Noviomagus Reginorum, orRegnentium, later renamed Chichester by the Saxons.^[1][2]

Stane Street shows clearly the principles of planning that the Romans used. The overall alignment is based on an accurate line "sighted" from London Bridge to Chichester, with subtle local variations to allow for not only the nature of the intervening terrain (gentle slopes are used to climb the South Downs at Bignor) but also the underlying geology (the preferred line stays on chalk ground and avoids London clay as far as possible).

Another exhausting bank holiday weekend!

Is that right? Ed.

Alice at Cobham, Surrey SE Biathlon Championship

Big Surprise

Ide and Toys Hills

First view of extensive bluebells

new suit

Sleepy boy!

Boughton Malherbe - sprung spring

Frankie's day out

Jacob's tart mk II

Easter poetry brought along by Alice

if you can't read the above easily, original text follows (found on the interweb)......

First day out

Audi . A5 . Day 1

Valentine message

I always knew there was something really special about the 14th February

Ely Minster early morn

given that it is early February and I took the photo - the rather dull picture is the scene I saw this morning from the free car park..

Wright Brothers

Fab place in Southwark

http://www.wrightbros.eu.com/oysterhouse/

this picture from http://theurbanfoodie.blogspot.com/(http://goo.gl/0A7GB) 

View Inner London eating and pubs in a larger map

Foggy farmyard freeze awaits