Lucy has been wanting to go to Dovedale for bloomin ages so we went. Here's my tip for you - don't go until hmmmm, May - it floods. Second tip don't go in your bestest trainers like a donut. It's fine in summer but in winter it's wet and muddy. Doh! Third and proper tip is, go in summer after 3pm and car park is free!
Ever so slightly flooded is the river Dove
Me and Lucy near the underwater stepping stones!
Still very pretty countryside even in Winter.
Tinkering with Bikes!
Have made some minor adjustments to the folder for me dad. Have put the brakelevers more like where they should be and tinkered with reflector so that it'll fold properly. It's quite a heavy little beast but as pic shows it can be used for basic weight training!
Paul with Ammaco Comfort Folder - weight training for beginners - good for biceps curl!
Note: left hand still only in metal splint not plaster, high hopes that it's sprained and not broken!
Done some tinkering with the Giant FCR1, still the finest thing on two wheels in my view even if a little scratched. Have put some clipless pedals on to replace the knackered ones (see earlier post) and Phil remembered seeing a spare bar end plug when he put the bike together so have put that in and adjusted the bar end after digging all the bits of road out of the allen screw head!!!
New clipless pedal.
Bar end and plug - looking a bit better eh!!!
Kids in Ashbourne are off school for Shrovetide which essentially is messing about in the river then going and getting pi**ed in the pubs for Ashbourne folks under the pretence of being a traditional football game. Interesting and quaint if you're not from Ashbourne. Anyway am looking after Lucy while P.J. and Janette go Shrovetiding, bless em.
In Defence of Food
Heard a fascinating program on the author Michael Pollan's latest book "In defence of food". It was on radio 4's "Food Programme" yesterday (4th Feb 08). What was interesting was that he talked about the western disease which is basically the western diet. He said that there are scores of native diets - eskimos, inuits, native americans that don't eat the kind of junk we do and don't suffer the disease and health issues we do. There was then a segment from a doctor who said "I did twenty years in Afriva before coming back to America and the U.K. In the West the most common fatal illnesses is coronary heart disease, most common form of cancer; bowel cancer, the most common operation; gall stones, the most common emergency procedure appendectomy. He then said you don't ever see that in Africa - I removed one appendix in an African in all the time I was there." Something along those lines.
Michael Pollan went on to say - you should only buy in a supermarket something your great-grandmother would recognise as food. i.e. if there's more than five ingredients in it, don't buy it i.e. no ready meals, no biscuits etc.etc. Made a lot of sense.
Very interesting in my view, might even get the book if I can.
WikiPedia entry on Michael Pollan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pollan
Listen Again on BBC (probably good for about a week!!):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4.shtml?fm
Review of In Defence:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/03/arts/03masl.php
B.P. 127/92/52 rubbish
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