Sunday, 20 July 2014

Richie Porte is 16 mins 19 seconds down. Well that's that for Team Sky, I guess. Can't help wondering what would have happened if they'd selected Wiggo this year.

Nibali looks unstoppable.

Sunday, 6 July 2014

Ooh Cav. Oh dear.

Tour de France 2014

Stage one of the tour, as it passed through Chapel Allerton

A peloton of road cyclists racing along a suburban street in Leeds

The sun is shining, the sky is clear with few clouds.

Crowds of spectators line the streets, behind temporary fencing

The riders are in brightly-coloured lycra

Team Sky are wearing black

In one of the photos you can see Chris Froome (in Team Sky jersey, wearing no. 1), Richie Porte (wearing no. 7), and Niki Terpstra (in Omega Pharma Quickstep jersey, wearing no. 78.

Saturday, 28 June 2014

Staying in, watching Frozen with daughter №2

Speaking as a musician, I think the quarter finals should be called demisemifinals. And the round of sixteen would then clearly be the hemidemisemifinals.

Wednesday, 25 June 2014

how is it possible that this mouse has eaten all the peanut butter off the mouse trap and yet not triggered the trap? I think we're dealing with a higher form of intelligence here.

Just to show that the BBC does occasionally cover issues of social importance </irony>

A craze for 'loom bands'