impossible to countenance a life bereft of cycling daily
regardless of the idiot savant dominating the road
necessity is the drive
... as jacques derrida said
tout ça finira très mal, de toute façon
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When is 'enough' enough?
(44 posts)- Started 10 years ago by Arellcat
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Posted 10 years ago #
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'I'm reading poetry now instead of working'
Then neither my day nor yours was entirely wasted.
Posted 10 years ago # -
@bax nice quote from Derrida
I have just finished my flacons d'avoine
And am now off to
Faire les quatre cents coups
At Peter's yard
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"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity." WB YeatsArellcat, you always seem to me on this forum, to be the centre.
Posted 10 years ago # -
@gembo
A flask of oats, a book of verse and thou....
Posted 10 years ago # -
After due consideration of the full scope of Arellcat's malaise, the perils of urban riding and the phase of the moon, I would like to suggest to the young lady that she pack her panniers, fly to Canada, and spend a week or so on the Route Verte.
Though I know next to nothing about this province-wide cycle path, and not even being Canadian, I would be more than happy to serve as a somewhat bumbling guide for her journey.
Posted 10 years ago # -
That is a very wide cycle path. Ho ho
Arellcat has a good bag to pack a bike in.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Ah yes, arellcat has sent me back here.
Speeding up towards roundabouts a d indeed giveaway junctions seems to be the norm. Are these manoeuvres part of driving instruction now or is that just to get you through the test?
Posted 5 years ago # -
Give away was a typo but I am leaving it rather than giveway
Posted 5 years ago # -
Up thread I notice I am banging on about the Slug Road out of Stonehaven having lots of slugs on it.
However, when I was at the Cauldstane Slap at new year. Some signage ir maybe googling suggested slap was the anglicising of Slocht meaning pass in Gaelic? Is it? If so, I assume slug could also come from Slocht as slug road out of Stonehaven is a kind of pass, in that you go up and over and down into next valley etc
Posted 5 years ago # -
On the Roy map of 1755 (my favourite) it's marked as 'Caldstane Slapp'.
The Slug Road is one of the Mounth Roads, well sketchy on that map.
Posted 5 years ago # -
I started this thread six years ago, and we are still having to hold vigils for people killed while riding their bikes.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Today was the largest I have ever seen.
@algo got the news out and people from all over city headed up to the crossroads.
Well done to him and his small team.
Posted 4 years ago # -
James was associated with both triathlon and running clubs; the vigil was certainly posted on the Edinburgh Triathletes Facebook page and I saw at least one person in Pentland Tri kit - I know he had connections with that club too. Scottish Athletics also posted about his death. So I think there would be a lot of people there who would (like me) have known him slightly as someone they met at races or in their club.
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