15°C, rain then 
Cycling: 61 miles. rain on & off but light. Finches, a buzzard and maybe a kestrel today. Spring is very very late this year.
Otherwise a web-designing day for school.
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Hamstrung tight
13°C, 
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Ouch: my hamstrings hurt. They have toghtened up and gone all achey. It’ll be Ok if I do lots of toe touching (mine that is). It’s Sunday, so as any past visitors will know, it’s cycling-day. Only did 56 miles today but that’s on top of quite a cumilative distance last week. Holidays are good aren’t they? Good times are upon us: I have a new camera- which I’m still excited about. It’s now got enough internal memory to store 6,375 pictures if they are really tiny ones.
thanks to PicStop.
Walrus: Opened up an old model to add a few finisheing ddetails to the 3D. It’s about ready for mapping and texturing. As I’ve said before, this plane was designed by Mitchell – the same bloke who did the Spitfire for Supermarine. It’s a more recent design that the Spit’. but has a canopy that looks like it’s from a holiday caravan.
click clack
10°C, strong wind & heavy showers
Cycling: those cables did the job. Nice clean gearshifts at last.
66 miles.
Linseed: Wasn’t going to post a picture today, but having put in another hour, it’s clearer where this picture is going. The blue veins will be pulled right back, the colour needs to be quite strong for now so it’s ready for the next frotte. Also, I plan to change the profile around the chin.
I’ve noticed that pictures at this stage don’t show changes as obviously in photos posted online. Perhaps tomorrow a close-up then?
cabling
15°C +heavy showers
+heavy showers
Bike: A day of fixing and tuning bicycles. Bad gearchanges have been irritating for months, even after adding new cables, rear-derraileur mechanism, new cassette & chain- still no luck. Today I added cable sheaths, they can make a huge difference. The amout of cable-pull for one gear change is very small, as well as return springs being light these days. They are therefore very sensitive, much more than they used to be.
Tomorrow will reveal the effect..
Fingers crossed.
Square one
3°C;FOG.
The Car is all shiney and clean. Is the rumour that washing your car on a Sunday is a cause of baldness untrue? I’ve always assumed it must be right, walking the dogs in the Boley-Park estate on Sundays confirms it (anecdotally).
Don’t like the way cars consume loads of money and time to get back to square one though. It’s nice spending money to make life better- but to make life the same??
The Bike: 44 miles, got c-cold hands and feet. Otherwise ’twas all well. The sun showed up later.
Turpentine: I took that picture off this blog – it was too grim, it can come back when its changed enough to be bearable.
Mad in van
5°C, still, frosty start.
Drivers of white vans lived down to their reputation today. At Muckley Corner roundabout, there was a white transit behind who was threatening to push me out into the ceasless traffic. I know th wait was long, the longest I can recall, but there were just no gaps in the traffic to allow us to cross. There are no traffic lights on that roundabout. He revved and lunged the van at me, then swore & gestitulated. I decided to play it safe and pulled aside & let the psycho pass. There is a lamp-post out there with his name on it.
The msn server problem seems to have cleared up. It runs at a reasonable speed.
Lychees!
3°C, murky.
36½ miles or cycling. It’s just about dry now. The chain nearly broke- or so it appeared when I arrived home. .
It’s also a day of recovering from a late night: Bed at 2am. We went to a party for a couple celebrating their civil ceremony ( if that’s the right name). On of whom works importing Italian shoes. She got this amazing drink that’s the Italian equivalent of Champaigne. The difference is- this stuff is nice. I just can’t seem to remember it’s name.
Maybe I should categorise this under "mundane". We did eat lychees!
Cold, dry and dusty
56 miles on the bike, it was dry and the roads white with salt. Gutters are even whiter with ice from overnight temperatures of -4°C. It seems more tiring when the temperatures are low, swo I decided to keep the distance cycled quite low.
-1 to +4°C, clear dry and icy , later- rain.
How winter should be
8°C,
70 miles, no ice, but there’s mud everywhere. Really dark mud, full of leaves even though the trees stil have most of theirs, dried & brown.
It’s been a dayfull, 5 hours of cycling ( if you include cafe stops) and about that much again working up this animation for the charity video. the frame below shows a near-done preview. Some of this involves finding where various settings are. Now I know how to deinterlace. That stripey jagged look in the background is now gone. the firey bits look much better as of this evening.
remember the Sparrow killing story? Here’s some followup.
The organisers argued the killing was justified, as more than 100 people had worked for a month setting up the dominoes
Cycle lanes
7°C, clear, woth cycling to work
It looks like some folks are collecting photos of dangerous cycle lanes/paths/tracks. It seem that there is a difference between each type. Many are too dangerous to use.
and
I was going to post more, but there are loads & I’ve got better things to do.
