The ridicule is not the exercise but the obsession with kit. I get just as much exercise on my £700 touring bike and my shorts and t-shirts as my mate on his £10000 bike and £1000+ of kit and accesso… (View Post)

Did you really? I'm reassured. I rarely feel so moved by confectionery that I feel the need to record the issue on a politics blog, but this really did strike me as an unnaturally good Eccles Ca… (View Post)

Wait - there's a train from Aberystwyth to Holyhead? (View Post)

Have you ever read A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor, who walked from Rotterdam to, I think, Istanbul in, I think, 1933? It's mainly a travel book. But it's also quite a fascinating c… (View Post)

Off thread, but I've just had the most delicious Eccles Cake I have ever eaten. Only M&S, warmed in the microwave for 25 seconds. Perfection. (View Post)