Tag Archives: cycling
Beating the Bounds, by bike
Shamefully not something I’ll be doing. But the Wandsworth Cycling Campaign will be beating the bounds of Wandsworth this Saturday. Beating the bounds is an old tradition of, literally, walking around the border of a parish. A few years ago Jim Maddan, while serving as Mayor of Wandsworth, revived the tradition by walking the 25 [...]
Weekly wrap-up, 6 November
It seems to have been an oddly quiet week. Regeneration and Community Safety OSC (well, cycling) I posted about the meeting the following day, so will not repeat the points. Except, rather smugly, to point out that I cycled to the meeting. I’m rather pleased that I’ve been managing to keep the cycling up – [...]
Weekly wrap-up, 23 October
So, for this week’s collection of odds and ends. This week’s photo doesn’t really have any artistic merit – composition and exposure could be better – but it is from Battersea Park where autumn is making itself known. The park really is beautiful at this time of year, and almost magical if you see the [...]
James Cousins: cyclist
I’m now a cyclist. The Wandsworth one-way my time trial. Lavender Hill my mountain stage. What surprised me was the transition and how easy it was. I have referred to why I have found myself making it before. I spent a couple of hours last Saturday being trained by Cycle Training UK courtesy of the [...]
Re-taking my cycling proficiency
My education had its highs and lows. Since I take credit for the highs (and there were a few) I should also take credit for many of the lows. But that’s not to say I didn’t see my share of bad teaching practice on my journey through the state eduction sector, from the teacher who [...]
Walking in someone else’s shoes (or pushing a pram, or riding a bike)
When I first became a councillor it seemed the big issue – everywhere – was controlled parking. I found myself put onto the Regeneration and Transport Committee, where every meeting was dominated by parking issues. As a non-driver I won’t pretend I found it anything but dull. Of course, there was a degree of being [...]
