+1 for the Guillemots and Shack.

Also Malcolm Middleton and Arab Strap.

I sold my Cotic Soul after I injured my back and now have a Croix De Fer and Cannondale CAAD 10. I miss the weekends away in the Lakes and Wales and would have it back tomorrow if it wasn’t for my back.

Chinese take away, salt and pepper chicken and chow mein.
Phesantry Pale Ale then Aldi Shiraz.
Craig Charles on 6 Music.

Another vote for Kayal.

I went to Oottupura on Burleys Way last November and it was very nice, cheap and cheerful!

Smoked Haddock Risotto

ASDA Extra Special Viognier

Saturday night tele

Nerja or Torre Del Mar East of Malaga, cheap resorts with loads of riding in the mountains behind them. A stage of the Vuelta passes round there too,

I’ll second St Martin Canal area.

Always loved this clip, not a full gig though sorry!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoWfg1AKCBM

Couple from me, Vietnam ones but brilliant reads, Chickenhawk and Matterhorn which have been mentioned. Also Dispatches by Michael Herr.

I couldn’t praise my Physio enough, it’s never been right since though. Trimalleolar fracture in 2007.

Lanzoprazole work wonders for me!

Charlatans, Nelson Mandela Building, Sheffield. 9th March 1990.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/kinesis-crosslight-disc-v3-roadcx-wheelset/?lang=en&curr=GBP&dest=1&sku=5360632014&ci_src=18615224&ci_sku=5360632014uk&utm_source=google&utm_term&utm_campaign=UK_PLA_Components&utm_medium=base&utm_content=mkwid%7csLiUE0eKt_dc%7cpcrid%7c67090789142%7cpkw%7c%7cpmt%7c%7cprd%7c5360632014uk

I’ve got a pair of these on my 2013 Genesis Croix De Fer and they’re really good, strong and also light.

If you pick up Route 654 up at the back of the Bike Park and ride through Bilsthorpe you can pick it up again and ride all the way to Southwell off road. With a nice pub at the end too!

Watership Down!

i drifted off to sleep with an oldie (but one of the most sublime compilation albums of all time) Nick Warren – Back To Mine

Agreed, I love this and still listen to it!

Potato Alley, Cut Gate, Lockerbrook, Hagg Farm and Roman Road for me!

Stones!

If you’ve got a cyclocross you could ride to Ladybower and ride round the reservoirs up to Slippery Stones and back down the other side.

I had discs fused in 1991 and another op. In 1995, everything was fine i was riding the Peak without any bother until last September. Over Christmas i was in agony, never had pain like it, turns out i had some fragments from my previous op’s pushing on a nerve.

Had an injection to block the nerve late January and i’m just getting back to normal now, riding again etc. With just a slight numbness in my right foot.

It does get better just takes time and patience. Good luck with it, the boredom is worse than the pain sometimes!

Plenty of butterflies, a hare and a nuthatch last week.