BBC report headed "What is the UK's strategic oil reserve and where is it kept?"
Unfortunately, it was kept in the back of a vape shop next to Glasgow Central Station
Glad you enjoyed it. An unforgiving time of year for a big day on the bike, neither the legs nor the landscape feels quite ready.
Good call - and Mary, Queen of Scots House also on Fleet St
Maybe just a pang of English guilt then, no bad thing.
Was thinking of The Clachan pub in the West End. Sadly the Scottish Stores in KingsX doesnβt quite live up to its history. Obvs Great Scotland Yard. William Wallace memorial in Smithfield - a bit bad taste? Site of the Royal Caledonian Asylum?
London cycling friends - am thinking of hosting a Scottish themed social ride to mark the publication of my new Lost Lanes book. All will be welcome. Help me compile a few π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ landmarks in Londontown.
Thatβs an underrated achievement. Well done. I remember my December 200 as very cold, dark and lonely.
Bike World magazine cover photo taken from behind two touring cyclists with fully loaded bicycles. The rider on the left has her hand on the shoulder of the rider on the right.
June and Greg Siple on Hemistour
Bike World magazine
May 1974
Construction of the Forth Bridge (1882-1890). TheΒ longest single cantilever bridge spanΒ in the world, until 1919.
Wow thatβs pretty bad - over 70% here in Monmouthshire
Wikipedia seems to think he was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_D...
I'd really love to have a ride one of those high end Sunbeams. Have you ever? oldbike.wordpress.com/1936-sunbeam...
Ooops I meant 1938. Kuklos rode a Sunbeam too I believe? Here's his last column. Poor fellow died while under anaesthetic during an operation.
Bike is a classic - as advocated by Kuklos in his last ever newspaper column (1935) as the βEveryman Bicycleβ. Whatever happened to the English roadster w/ oil bath chain case?
Nigel Dunnett (Sheff uni prof) is one of the big names in urban planting. 2012 Olympic Park & much more. Assume he was involved in this in some way too.
Still no Pontrilas Parkway. One dayβ¦
I never saw her there, just heard tell that she liked the place. And I studiously avoided making eye contact with the Rev. He deserved to enjoy his egg, bacon & beans in peace. So itβs a bit thin as anecdotes go.
It requires familiarity with Marieβs Cafe, Iβm afraid. A Waterloo institution, frequented by Tracey Emin also. Now can you imagine her and the Rev Jackson enjoying a fry up together?
I once had lunch at the next table from Jesse Jackson in Marieβs Cafe on Lower Marsh in Waterloo. Bit random but 100% true.
Wow.
This is peak Avon valley content
if youβre prime minister, it is kind of astonishing to say your legacy will be winning the election. thatβs the job interview mate
Are you working as a goalie now?
"The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.β
Latecomers to the volcano party! I stand corrected - again. From a landscape perspective theyβre of a piece in my mind - great, craggy sentinels, landmarks for wayfarers.
Josh is quite right - some of the curling stones come from the Trefor Quarry in North Wales. Maen ddrwg da fi.
I stand corrected! Old fact, clearly.
Youβre the king of the sitting down sports! Were you ever a rower?
Ailsa Craig, a small vertiginous island in the Firth of Clyde
Curling at the Winter Olympics
Traprain Law
North Berwick Law
All the granite curling stones in the Winter Olympics are quarried on Ailsa Craig, a small volcanic island off Scotland's west coast. A chain of these geological relics stretches across the Central Belt as far as the North Sea. And they're the theme of a ride in m'new book Lost Lanes Scotland.
