Cargo bikes especially welcome...
I have apparently sent an invite, to the email address I have used for you before. Shout if it doesn't seem to have worked.
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Overlander - Launch Event
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Strangely, despite @IWRATS not knowing about this he has a,ready recommended a van. Having washed all the chairs himself
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Time is a man made concept. Therefore, 'when' is not a relevant thing to think about. Just know that it will happen, yesterday or tomorrow.
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I fear you are stuck in a time loop. You seem to be repeating yourself...
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Time loop is a man made concept. Therefore, 'when' is not a relevant thing to think about. Just know that it will happen, yesterday or tomorrow and then again the day before yesterday.
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Related. (Elsewhere)
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That felt like a successful EdFoC event at Blackwells last night. Some well known cycling faces I recognised like Councillor Claire Miller and @DaisyDaisy introduced themselves as well.
Many good and insightful questions too.
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“Too eccentric for CCE?”
That makes the value judgment that riding off-road with fewer than 18 gears is eccentric.
And/or that CCEers are above averagely eccentric.
“
An individual who does not conform to the thoughts, or beliefs of others. They tend to be considered very strange, but in reality, are more accomplished than many that follow the normal.
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3fterm=Eccentric&=true
Suspect most CCEers are eccentric then.
(And clearly that is a good thing.)
I had assumed that the RSF was a product of the 1930s when this sort of thing was happening (in the same general area).
https://www.rsf.org.uk/scotland-popup
https://www.rsf.org.uk/uk-routes-archive/scotland-back-to-the-lammermuirs.html
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"Too eccentric for CCE?"
Never.
At least not outside the world of politics.
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I have now finished Overlander and enjoyed it.
I have one small question: I've always thought that the biting flies were called "clegs" but IWRATS calls them "glegs". Is this my error, or a regional thing? (The origins of my ideolect are slightly complicated, but most of the Scots words I use or know come via my mother who grew up in Lanark.)
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@fimm
Cheers!
The gleg/cleg thing was the cause of a minor spat with my editor.
He wanted horsefly and I was like no way dude I never call them that. Settled on cleg as compromise (with the little explainer text for sooth-moothers) but then I listened to myself and I actually say 'gleg'. Checked the Scots dictionary and right enough the north-east variation is 'gleg' so that is the honest word - the one I automatically use when speaking an English language be that English English or Scots.
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Nae a word I'd encoontered afore readin Overlander, so nae idea aboot regional variation. Baith spellins (as weel as ithers) are listed here, though: https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/cleg_n1
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Also I still despise Nick Clegg and didn't want his name in my book.
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I was bitten by a cleg today above Romano Bridge.
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clegs are horseflies specifically, that is definitive
in case there was any doubt
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Someone has written an article for The Guardian.
(How did that come about, IWRATS? Just curious.)
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I'm actually curious about how they got a couple of those photos....I never supplied them. And the top photo is ©IWARTS, not the person credited who was miles away at the time.
And thanks for the spot @fimm - I thought it was only in the paper edition!
EDIT: That's actually a longer version than the printed one which was edited down a bit. Despite me hitting the word count on the nose....
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It was funny, I saw the headline and thought "Aha, another article on bikepacking, excellent", clicked on the link, and for some reason my eye fell on the byline and I thought "I know that name...".
I'm assuming your publisher had something to do with it - it is after all at least in part an advert for your book (nothing wrong with that) - perhaps they were the source for the photos?
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Risks and perils on the chin indeed
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@fimm
Oh yes, it takes work to get into the Grauniad. Publisher, publicist and I all stormed the gates. It happened in the end because a mate of mine used to work there. As ever.
I have a set of photos online but the Graun kept asking for them to be e-mailed and then losing them. I guess they found some of them again.
@gembo
I am making a joke there for madame's amusement and yours too I hope.
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@IWRATS - I admire your Panache
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@gembo
An excellent meta-joke. Where but CCE could it be possible?
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Amusingly the article has led an invitation to address the Padova branch of the Amici della Bicicletta by Skype with simultaneous translation.
How could I refuse?
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@IWRATS, the power of the Guardian - watch out for any Virtual ladri di biccicleta
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@gembo
I have travelled across the Alps and kissed the reliquary containing St Anthony's tongue and chin in the Basilica Pontificia di Sant'Antonio di Padova. This is a place with meaning for me.
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Well young Padovan you should go for it again but this time Virtually
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Who would have thought we would see IWRATS on Facebook?
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