Crossing Glenfinnan Viaduct
Crossing the Glenfinnan Viaduct on the West Highland Line. Most famous as a Harry Potter location, It carries one of
Racking my Brain? I Mead Too!
“Its time to rack the mead” I said to the wife last week, and after a grumbled comment she agreed to help. I think she mentioned I could do it myself until I pointed out that I could do the same when I went to drink the mead! The point of course to racking is […]
The Oldest Drink in the World? Possibly
I have started to get into brewing, and specifically. starting to make one of the oldest brewed drinks, Mead. Having managed to source a decent supply of Honey from a local bee keeper and bought myself some brewing kit consisting of 3 demijohns, some airlocks and bungs, a couple of funnels and some other brewing […]
Birthdays, Pandemics and Anniversaries
Today is my 49th birthday, but more importantly, its also my 25th Wedding Anniversary! This means that I have been married for over half my life. It also means that next year, some 365 days hence forth, or 1 complete orbit around the sun I will be half a century old!
Favourite Rides
I am lucky enough to live in an area with some great roads to ride the bike on. One of my favourites is Weymouth to West Bay, which has some great views across Chesil Beach and some of the best Dorset countryside.
I Gone and Got A Present for Me!
Yesterday I have bought myself a present for passing my motorbike license (thats a full unrestricted license) which was 30 years to the month that I had passed my car license! So what did I get?
Hes almost done it!
In my post about learning to ride I mentioned that I am doing my direct access, which if you didn’t realise consists of several parts. The first part is the straight forward CBT (Compulsory Bike Training), followed by the Theory test, then the Mod 1 off road test and then the final Mod 2 Road […]
Brrum brrum, the hair dryer arrives
Im going to start this post with an apology. I’m sorry The reason? Because you are going to see a lot of posts about motorbikes and learning to ride. Specifically my bike and my own journey learning to ride.
Copyright Claims
I have just received another copyright claim to a video I have published, that contains a song from a playlist that was put together to allow small streamers to play music without the BS of copyright claims. These claims on YouTube are starting to get out of hand, with several smaller content creators possibly losing […]
