March 3rd – A bad day when it barely stopped raining all day.
I had to be in Birmingham early, and took short rides in the morning and early evening. The weather was foul, and my mood little better.
Thankfully, good news, a mind at rest and the company of a very good friend helped no end.
Some days make you glad they’re over.
Hi folks…
It seems the Wednesbury rugby posts are the tallest in the world, and thanks for all the help – they are indeed in the Guinness Book of Records. As to how they came to be so, Wednesbury and Moxley are, of course, historically renowned for the production of metal tube, with Newman, Phoenix and other companies formerly being based here.
So what better example of technical prowess than the world’s tallest rugby posts?
The things I learn here with your help… thanks to you all for the help.
March 2nd – Been passing this sign for ages now. Only today did I stop to read the small print.
Really? That’s a very bold claim. How did that even come about?
They do look extraordinarily tall. An odd curiosity.
March 2nd – As I said yesterday, the season of transition is upon me; and that includes the period of travelling – on good days, at least – in the golden hour.
I often talk about this magical time, when just approaching sunset the light becomes soft, suffused with pink and gold and changes everything it touches to a precious, rare jewel.
There are few better places to catch such a time than Kings Hill Park and the view of the Twin Sisters. Bathed in the evening sun, they looked even more majestic than usual, but so did the park, and the sunset on the way home along the canal wasn’t too shabby, either.
This’ll do.
March 1st – For me now is the time of the half-light. My morning commutes are well into light now, and most welcome that is; but evening commutes are mostly on the cusp of day and night, light and dark, optimism and pessimism.
This commute started in a grey, overcast light with a strong tailwind and and the threat of rain that arrived as I rode the canal back to Brownhills. The sky though, transformed from a grey murk into a remarkable, beautiful, luminous blue which captivated me.
Even though it was raining, I couldn’t miss capturing this.
Within 10 minutes, the light had died and night had fully fallen – but I was so glad I caught the moment.
February 28th – in the swamp at the end of Victoria Park in Darlaston, just past the old railway bridge on the way to Kings Hill, a surprise today in the rain: The blackthorn is flowering.
Always the earliest tree blossom, it’s a lovely sight and on this wet, miserable day I was so pleased to see it.
Interesting too to see the blackthorn bush with an alder growing intertwined around it.
February 28th – After some grim weather over the last few days, I thought I’d seek out a weather app for the Edge, the Garmin GPS based bike computer I use. I’ve tried Accuweather, and it’s really rather good.
Accuweather loads via the Garmin IQ App Store, and uses a paired iPhone or similar to access internet weather data; it then gives what I’ve found to be fairly accurate predictions of wind and precipitin for the next two hours. It’s in an easy to read format, and if free of charge.
Being a widget, it’s accessed by swiping sideways from the pull down status screen, which had me fooled for a bit. It only loads data when accessed, so it’s power and phone plan friendly to boot.
It accurately predicted the rain that dappled the screen…
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