What have I learned? – That the Oregon BDR has sand… I hate riding in sand… Listening to – This Years Model – Elvis Costello Reading – In the Cold dark Ground – Stuart MacBride…
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Filling the Lost Days – Stonehenge
When doing my turn on the night shift, sitting up and reading Douglas Adams to a comatose Dad through the night, I got to have some of the day to myself until it was time…
Why I ride
There is something that happens when you throw a leg over a motorbike, it’s difficult to explain, but you know it when it happens. It’s a deep familiarity with the idea of adventure, and quite…
Vancouver Fringe
This was the final full weekend of the Vancouver Fringe Performing arts festival. The weather was about perfect, the performances we saw ranged from “inventive and interesting” to one the Edmonton Sun called “Half William…
Two people, three days and 18 shows.
Yesterday the largest performing arts festival finished it three-week run and drew to a close. While I’d loved to have been there for the entire run catching the brilliant, the passionate, the totally absurd and…
Preparing for the long flight home…
Up to now I’ve found the best way to deal with jetlag to be a couple of gin and tonics (“Easy on the tonic there”) and an Ambien sleeping pill in the British Airways lounge…
Entering the land of the relaxed…
There was a moment of total relaxation, it came on a Thursday, just before lunchtime to be precise. We were wandering through a vineyard near St Helena and it just struck me how incredible this…
Budweiser, it’s so unnecessary…
My Twitter (@davekean) proudly proclaims I am a beer snob, I like good beer and the allegations that Anheuser-Busch (owned by Europe’s InBev) is watering down their beer made me nod knowingly (and feel a…
When the weather cooperated…
London is a wonderful place to be, when it’s not so good I am happy for the invention of goretex. A stunning couple of nights in London, now it’s time to prepare for the main…
Z means it’s the end…
The last month has been a fun diversion, I’ve rather enjoyed the A-to-Z Challenge. I read a lot of new blogs, added a couple to my bookmarks and exchanged tweets and email with some new…