Moments

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Can't see the trees for the wood

3 weeks ago
Rescuing my 25-year-old Marin from a garden shed and riding Bedgebury on a wet March day reminded me why I bought the thing in the first place, and got me thinking about the organisation that built the trails. Forestry England are easy to love as a cyclist and harder to defend as an environmentalist: their legal mandate is timber but forests are more than just wood.

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All the small things

2 months ago
This blog seems to have drifted unconsciously into ‘big things’ territory rather a lot. Politics, macroeconomics, climate breakdown. Important stuff of course but as someone in no position to affect any of those things also irrelevant in a way. So here's some small but still important things.

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So long and thanks for all the fish

4 months ago
Pausing to reflect on my time scuba diving among coral reefs and the personal sense of loss as they disappear from the world

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Opening the window

5 months ago
The story of a moment, Pico Gilbo in Picos de Europa national park, Spain.

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When your belayer says no

5 months ago
Why try harder, work harder, climb harder? Is it not enough to enjoy where we are? Do we always have to be pushing ourselves to something more?

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