Author: Derek

Posted in Cycling Travel

The best things in life are free (Pt 1)

Most of you will not argue when I say that lightweight camping gear is expensive. Hell, lightweight anything is expensive. This is especially true if…

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Posted in Bikes

Apollo 12

So this year got off to a good start. New Years at Three Gullies Farm, a week at Narooma and some new customers for my…

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Posted in Cycling

Tuesday Ride

So due to really crap weather and my ulcer, this weeks Tuesday ride was on a Thursday. I mean, it’s december and we started the…

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Posted in Cycling

Gong and now forgotten

So this post is a month late, but to be honest, taking part in the MS Gong ride was a little underwhelming. I don’t mean to…

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Posted in Bikes Cycling

Come rest ye weary Traveller

If you are around my age and you had a ten speed bike as a kid, chances are it was a Repco. Repco bikes were,…

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Posted in Entertainment

Need more intensity in your viewing experience?

Are you pining for a bit of intensity in your viewing experience now that the Handmaids Tale has come to an end? Do you find…

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Blessed be the fruit

Blessed be the fruit. May the lord open. Some of you may recognise those words from the television series “The Handmaid’s Tale”. TW and I…

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Posted in Stuff

Another move

2017 will go down as the year I bought a cardigan and moved to Canberra. So, as most of you already know, we made the…

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Posted in Darwin

Back home

So we’re home. Yes, a lot has happened before getting here and I’ll cover that in another post so get over it. For now, we’re…

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Posted in France Travel

(Still) Dreaming of a white christmas Pt 2

Annecy is a very picturesque town situated on the edge of a pristine lake and bisected by canals that seem to be one of the…

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