Motorbikes, trips & travels. Words & pictures from the road.

baby name news

our beautiful granddaughter has a name and that totally suits her: Emma Marie

… about a trip to Wembley, just hope I’m not arriving home dissapointed. A win and the drive back is a breeze, with phone calls, conversation about the highlights and the winning goal and as much radio discussion as we can get a defeat and it’s a quiet subdued journey and just a chore. We’ve […]

training, tactics and take aways

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| Football

We’re off to Wembley in the morning to watch City play Sunderland in the Carling (League Cup) Final – and as every football fan knows (and probably fans of most other sports as well) it’s not enough to have the best players, fine managers, superb training facilities, sports scientists, nutritionists, physios and the like – […]

picture of the day

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| Family

sometimes words just aren’t needed …

a trip to the park

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| General

Yesterday Pat, Daniel and I met with former colleagues and friends Richard, Nicole and their daughter Caitlin – had a wander around Manor Park (Glossop), fed the ducks, hung off a bridge, jumped over a stream, threw sticks and stones played on the swings and things and then went for a bite to eat in […]

made the most of the good weather

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| General

With the continuation of the extraordinary mild winter coupled with my free time spent some time in the garden yesterday and more or less finished off the small extension to the patio – all for a total cost of about £16 (sand and cement) as I already has the patio flags from about eight years […]

visit to The Swamp

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| Football

Just secured our tickets for the game at Man Utd on 25 March – it has potential to be memorable …

bit of fresh air

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| On the road

After spending a few hours in the garden I made the most of the reasonable weather and got out for a short ride – still a bit chilly to be our for too long but its always good to get out for the first ride of the year – took the Honda today mainly because […]

the weather was decent so …

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| General

Reasonable weather today so I did a couple of hours in the garden – fence life on four of the panels, I would have done the rest but ran out of fence life stuff – so made a start on a small extension to the patio. On the basis that we expect to spend a […]