Month: January 2016

  • Trainspotters meaning

    I am reading a book – Platform Souls ‘Trainspotter as 20th Century Hero” by Nicholas Whittaker Whittaker was a train-spotter when growing up in the 1960s. He tells of his fascination in watching steam trains and also how the decline of the railways and steam, completely changed the view of train-spotters, from a young hip […]

  • View from Sheldonian Coppola photos

    View from Sheldonian Coppola The Bodleian. Shooting into the sun.

  • All Souls Spires Oxford photos

    All Souls in late winter Sun. Gargoyle looks approvingly at the Radcliffe Camera. The last few minutes of sun, is often the best. It almost looks like autumn.

  • Magdalen college photos

    It is a cold and wet January, but sometimes when the sun comes out, you can get some good photos. I was cycling back home at around 4.00pm and a few rays of a late winter sun, hit the light stonework of Magdalen College and Magdalen Tower.

  • Photos of Burnsall, Wharfedale

    Burnsall  Burnsall in winter. 

  • A belated New Year resolution

    I didn’t make any New Year resolutions. Very bad. So I will make a belated resolution. To spend less time reading rubbish on the internet. I wrote an article here: managing life with internet. As an economist, I often read articles on economics at papers like the Guardian and Independent. In one sense they are […]

  • Clip from British Time Trial Championship 2015

    In 2015, I entered the British Time Trial Championship. It was really expensive and awkward to enter. Usually I do time trials governed by Cycling Time Trials, a UK body. But, this race came under UCI rules – the International cycling body have strict rules about size and shape of bike parts. I had to […]