It’s hawthorn trimming season. Farmers drive up local lanes with hedge-mowers cutting back rapidly growing hedgerows. It scatters shredded plant debris over the road-surface, some of which poke tiny little holes in bicycle tyres. Us cyclists can only carry so many spare innertubes and patches, so that after a point we have to put back in a tube that is known to be deflating the slowest, then ride the shortest route home blowing up the tyre each time it gets too soft.

fortunatley, it’s a nice day, warm, no wind and so on…

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Results
Thursday is A-level results day. Time for an annual arguement that they are getting easier, or is it the teaching is getting better. I will keep an eye open for anyone saying that it’s both- easier+ better teaching. Here is a pre-amble BBC.