New winter cycling shoes ordered. Let's hope these Shimano ones last longer than the Planet X ones have.

Me last week: "I need to eat less crap and exercise more." Girlfriend goes away for the weekend. Me this weekend: "A packet of Bourbon Creams is a perfectly acceptable meal while I sit on the sofa and binge YouTube."

Contacted Planet X about this issue and they've looked into it and issued a full refund, as they don't have any shoes in stock right now. 1st class customer service 👌 Just need to decide what winter boots to get next time now 🤔

That Benfica game is mad! Can't help but think that Madrid caused their own downfall there 😂

Well that wasn't very nice, and on zig zag lines too. Not that the police will do anything about it. It's almost like bus drivers know that.

Imagine driving a really nice Merc and having 6 points on your licence. Luckily for this man he doesn't have to imagine for much longer.

Bought these Planet X winter boots last March and this has happened. Their quality has gone downhill faster than some of their bikes!

I like the standard Renault 5 electric, but I can't help but think my version is better 😂

He looks really pleased with his gift from Venezuela.

Impressive work! 👏🙄 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

I was bored earlier, so turned the (t)rusty old van into a Transformer, because why not. I'm really going to miss this van 😢 I was thinking last night I should just throw some money at it and get the body panels sorted, or learn to weld better! 😂

I need a new car / vehicle, as the (t)rusty old van won't hang on much longer. Question is do I go sensible and boring and get a VW ID3 or Peugeot e208, or do I go old tech and quirky with a BMW i3? Other option is to just get a cheap petrol or diesel and run it until it dies / costs too much 🤔

I occasionally nip back to my old Twatter account, mainly to laugh at the gammon foaming at the mouth on Chaponabikes posts, but I think it might be time to close the account completely. I've not used it since I locked my privacy settings, deleted the app, etc, but I left it there just in case.

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Chapeau to those braving the ice this week on their bikes, especially this morning. Not a chance of me doing it, so I'm having to sit in traffic in the van, counting the number of drivers I see on their phones..

Switching my alarm on, after switching it off over 2 weeks ago, has almost made me cry!

Occasionally I like to log into my Twatter account and read the replies to Chaponabikes posts. 1st class gammon baiting there 👍😂

Guilty! Still tomorrow is a new year, so I can start again from zero!

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Cycling snack of champions (possibly). I doubt these will last until I'm next on the bike though!

If you're here for the yodelling lessons please form an orderly, orderly, orderly queue.

Let's hope they do a good job of this, because the cycle lanes to the north, and much of the city centre, are a bit of a state. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think we have found our winner for our Tour de Churros! Back at the van now, hiding from the rain and listening to Blondshell.

We went on the hunt for monkeys today, and got a result. Wasn't much else to see or do in Gibraltar so we hot-footed it back to Spain.

A steam powered bike in Tarifa, Spain.

Great bit of parking here in Spain. Visited a historic old town, for a stroll round in the rain, and ended up in an argument with 2 council workers after their wing mirror hit my elbow and got pushed in. Luckily I know the basics of how to tell people to fuck off in Spanish! 😂

I think I might need a new power bank 🤔

As it's almost Christmas, and I have nothing better to do this evening, I thought I'd do my top 10 records of the year, plus my favourite album and favourite gig. They're not necessarily in 10 to 1 order, but they're probably close.

Today is an Ethel Cain kinda day. youtu.be/baeonbc4rF4?...

No real surprises there 😂 #spotifyunwrapped

Hope the cyclist recovers from this, and they throw the book at the driver. www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2567042...

I blame the nearby bike lane.

Least they stopped at the red light.

In other news, after owning the van for nearly 12 years, and having had some amazing adventures in it, I'm thinking of getting an EV! 😮 Question is, which one? BMW i3 is the favourite at the moment, but it's a BMW, so.......🤷 Who wants to buy a green van?!

Just had the police on the phone asking me if I was willing to go to court, as a driver I have reported is contesting it. Let's see if this one happens, as every other time they've changed their plea before the court date.

Is it wrong that I have no interest in watching The Beatles anthology on Disney+?

"It seems [that, for Reform] free speech only exists for people who agree with them." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 65,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 70,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

It's absolutely freezing today, but on the plus side, in a month's time it will all be over!

Xitter has disabled its new profile-location feature hours after launch, after it showed several prominent accounts - previously believed to be US-based right-wing or pro-Israel voices - were operated from "other countries".

If you get a chance to see Fiona-Lee I suggest you do so now, because I have a feeling she's going places. Saw her in an intimate venue last night in Leeds and she was brilliant.

97.5% of the people Trump arrested in Chicago had no criminal record 100% of the people Trump pardoned for Jan 6 had criminal records The difference is the former are mostly Latino & the latter are mostly white. This is systemic white supremacy in 2025. If you still don’t see it, you’re complicit

All set for my ride back home.

Don't mind me. You just check your emails.

That stem 👌 😂😂😂😂

I raided our emergency cycling snacks (bag of fruit pastels) last week, then finished them off one night. I replaced them before she noticed what I'd done, or so I thought. Went to "borrow" some today, because I was home alone and bored, and she's hidden / eaten the replacement bag!

You couldn't write this sort of comedy, unless you're Alison here! 😂😂😂

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