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I know I'm not the only one who gets frustrated seeing people chuck huge amounts of cardboard or other recyclable stuff into ...

Is there an award for most pointless council expenditure of the year? If so, I'd like to nominate the pot-hole patching on North Meadow...

Readers of the Guardian's science blog have been told that " Hiding your research behind a paywall is immoral" .  The writer,...

. With anti-road campaigns back on the media agenda this week, it seems a good time for this post.... When I was in my final years o...

You'd be forgiven for thinking that Edinburgh doesn't grit or clear cyclepaths, Even the best used ones have been covered in thick l...

Spot the bodge job.  All four of 'em.  Are you wondering what on earth I'm on about? OR, what planet  childseat manufacturers ar...

With the 6 cyclist deaths on our roads this week, and Wiggin's and Sutton's crashes, a lot of unlikely allies seem to have joined ...

Every busy mom needs a tandem. I'd say that it was the SUV of bikes but that wouldn't convey the freedom that a tandem gives. An SU...

Small Mr B acquired a toddlebike late this summer.  As you can see opposite, a toddlebike is a small plastic ride-on toy.  He is very fond...

Some very patient admin people at uni are chasing me for 'course monitoring forms'. These are reports where we sum up our teaching f...

I've got to write about the school run again. All easy-peasy today. Nice tandem run, not too late. Dropped girl off, toodled down to t...

Friend/neighbour got hit and run by a Tesco's van today. By some amazing luck he is okay (and so was his bike). He found the van and ca...

I was given the CFA note above by Nathaneal and his comrades, who I met on my flight to Nairobi. They  had left Cote d'Ivoire the ...

I've been meaning to write about ASLs for a while. Now, there's a wee debate about them on-line and it seems a a good time to weigh...

School restarted last week, and my 5 year old decided she wanted to ride her own bike, and not the tandem.  This was fine with me, as it gav...

Sometime this afternoon a painted 'nobike' sign appeared on the pavement outside the Chrystal Macmillan bldg on George Square.  (ac...

Asleep...but not for long What a great ride on Sunday.  No, not Wiggo and Cav but us - and half the rest of the population of Edinbur...

I've been reflecting on why I didn't blog for many years.  One of the big reasons is that others put things so much better than I ca...

I need somewhere to post links to OA stuff, and until I get better organised, that's going to be here: Recent articles: (24 July 2012)...

We all love to hate the big publishers that are bankrupting our libraries (is it true that UK universities only spent 2.7% of their budget...