If I were asked for a list of my key strengths, at no point ever, would the words “good with children” appear.
Interacting with adults, no problem, in fact the more dysfunctional the better. After a career spent in health and social care covering addictions and mental health, people in crises do not phase me whatsoever. Give me an adult in drug withdrawal or psychosis I can cope, hand me a small child to look after however and I literally go to pieces. Continue reading
I often wonder if we every truly appreciate the impact that our smallest gestures can have, touching people’s lives in ways we can never imagine.
It can be so easy to underestimate the power of small things, holding open a door for example, waving someone into the queue ahead of you, even a smile from a stranger on a bad day, all of these can lift my mood like the sun emerging from behind clouds.
However, there’s one stranger I met in Canada, fleetingly, over a decade ago, who has had a significant impact now on the lives of 4 people (and counting).
It’s been 3 months now since we stopped cycling and nearly 2 months since landing back in the UK on a damp, grey June day.
The strangest thing though, how not strange it is being back home.
12 months of travelling, cycling around the world and, if it weren’t for the 2000+ photographs and fading cycle tans, I might be tempted to wonder if it was real at all? Continue reading
Now we’ve finished cycle touring, one of the questions I get asked the most about the trip is “How was it?”
After nearly 12 months, 10 countries and 5000+ miles, how do you even begin to answer that without boring the pants off someone for hours?! Continue reading
In just under a year, from 10 June 2022 to 20 May 2023, two old bikes and 2 not quite so old humans managed to cover the following:
10 countries.
234 rides
512.3 hours of saddle time!
5114 miles
229,022 feet
10 mph average with 44.8 fpm (feet per mile) of climbing Continue reading
Cycling in a skirt 