Not going to sugar coat this, Gary. We know we've got some work to do, but it's still early doors. These days, even, er... 207th can be a platform for progress. I think we'll have the lads in for training this morning...
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60% water. The rest mostly cake.
Just weird. Watching league football the day before a World Cup is due to start. Not only that, but watching on iFollow, on a Saturday!
(Is this the first time the Saturday 3pm blackout has been breached outside of the Covid lockdown?)
The River Mole at Leatherhead yesterday, compared with how it normally looks.
I'll be interested to see the levels of some of the old hammer ponds after this week's rain. Even after the storms in October, the ones I saw were still just muddy shallows.
Bah, just after midnight, and I've only just realised that it was the 100th anniversary of Proust's death yesterday. Must get back to my Temps Perduing: I'd re-read the first two volumes at the start of this year, but then got sidetracked by the Ulysses centenary and decided to do Joyce chronologically (Finnegan's Wake is on the bedside table, mocking my lax reading habits).
Inordinately proud of my accidental piece of Strava Art. I seem to be at the naive/outsider end of the genre, though.
Might spend the next couple of rides tweaking the details (not sure I can do much about the back legs... Box Hill doesn't offer many alternatives).
Very shoddy of me. I'm on mastodon.coffee, but haven't even made reference to the magic brain juice yet.
Here's my morning espresso, resplendent in its Albania cup.
(bonus shout-out to a really fine maker of the other type of magic juice)
Ah yes, that's why I had a slight dull headache this morning. Just HAD to have another quick pre-train 3rd of the Pöhjala Öö ("night"; drinking beer is a great way to learn Estonian). Can't miss an opportunity like that in south London.
... and that's it.
Fourth time I've read Ulysses, and the longest I've spent... partly because I've been reading various other things in parallel, but mostly because I was also reading ABOUT it. Anthony Burgess's "Here Comes Everybody" is a good overview of all JJ's work, and ulyssesguide.com mines the details. As usual, I've a strong urge to go back to the start, with new insights.
With my usual slightly approximate sense of timing, I've just remembered we had this. Always a pleasure.
Weirdly, given its cultural weight in British history, I had never been to Liverpool until last week. Only had a couple of days (will definitely be returning) but made a beeline for this wonderful, legendary pub. Impeccably kept beer.