View from the Potting Shed

Fife on wheels
I can’t remember … much actually! No, I can’t remember any other new year where I’ve been clobbered with quite so many bugs as this one.
I seem to have had at least one new stomach bug or virus each month. Some months I was greedy and had at least two.
So I […]

This afternoon I went for my shortest but probably most expensive cycle trip ever. I took my bike to St Andrews, but unfortunately I wasn’t riding it at the time.
Around 15:00 I set off on my bike, cycled about 100 yards to the main road and stopped for a car to pass. Stood […]

After a couple of weeks away from cycling — having been recovering from a bad cold — it’s been great to get back on my saddle and pedal around the beautiful Fife countryside of an evening. At least, I think it’s beautiful countryside: I can’t actually see much of it since the clocks have […]

Vladimir Karpets - he’s not a cheat and he has a cool name
So … shortly after Le Tour de France passed the final stage over the Pyrenees it now finds itself with an even steeper climb: rebuilding people’s confidence (should that be Cofidis?) in cycling and the complete expulsion of drugs and doping from the […]

Artist’s impression of a bicycle chainy geary thing.
I went out with Jane today. We’re married, I know, but we wanted to somehow re-live the excitement of those heady days of dating. Oh hang on! No. I hadn’t finished that first sentence. I’ll start again.
I went out with Jane today on our bikes. […]

My bike propped against a bridge, with Kilrenny in the background.
I was out on my bike again today, and what a glorious day to be cycling around the small backroads of the East Neuk of Fife. It was the debut for my new Altura Nevis fluorescent yellow cycling jacket, which was soon relegated to […]

This getting healthy lark is coming along nicely. That’s two days in a row now that I’ve cycled into town to meet up with Jane after work and cycle home with her.
I’m finding that I’m now beginning to get into the way of eating healthily and regularly. I’m still following the guidelines in […]