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  • Stella, that's exactly how I feel - I think euphoria is definitely the right word. It's just so much fun and I feel so energised at the end of a ride. It's why I've never regretted cycling to work, no matter what the weather, I still feel great when…
  • It was indeed the Odeon on Holloway Road. I should have stopped and taken a photo, but I was enjoying my ride too much
  • I didn't go via the Parkland Walk simply because Google didn't tell me to. All I do for my cycling adventures is think of somewhere I'd like to visit, put it into Google Maps and get Google's cycling directions from my house. Keep in mind, too, that…
  • So, I bought a new bike: http://ahappycommuter.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/a-new-bike-and-some-delivery-woes.html And today I cycled to Kenwood House. This involved cycling on the A10 and A1. I reckon if you can cycle on the A1 in London you can pretty m…
  • Might be worth putting a shout out on Freecycle too - if you haven't already
  • Rain stopped play today. I was planning on doing my favourite short ride to Stokey for brunch and then back along the River Lea towpath. Hopefully it'll be nicer tomorrow.
  • "It leaves the really cool kids [...] in Zone 3, or worse." Good God! Zone 3? People have to live in zone 3? Oh the HORROR. Cool London isn't dead. It's just moved on and left Alex Proud behind, because he's too old, too wealthy and too privileged t…
  • Great ride today. Went to Pitfield Gallery, just off Old Street, to see an exhibition of bugs made from litter. Litterbugs. Then lunch in the cafe. Then home. 14 miles in all.
  • I would give Virgin customer services a call. They probably won't givea refund but it's always worth asking.
  • I'm quite disappointed it doesn't address cycling at all. Surely that would be one way to reduce the pressure on the transport system, reduce pollution and save money.
  • Cats Whiskers are a cat-sitting service: http://www.cats-whiskers.info/index.php Not sure about costs, but it's less disruptive for the cat.
  • I once lived in a flat that was practically falling apart. The only heating was three gas fires - one each in the kitchen, living room and one bedroom; the one in the kitchen didn't work. The floorboards had shrunk away from the walls, leaving big g…
  • Lewisham always used to be cheap (again in London context) and I prefer it to Catford. The problem I have with the plans - and this isn't just London, or even the UK, but the entire world - is how to balance the needs of a growing population with th…
  • There should be a 'like' option for that post.
    in Foxes Comment by Idoru April 2014
  • Yup. I'll definitely be there!
  • [eats all the food] Nothing to see here, people. Move along...
  • I just wanted to say to Sutent that I enjoy reading your posts and have never thought of them as especially inarticulate. 
  • Very pleased about this
  • "Brunch is not after breakfast and before lunch. It is instead of both." So I can't have breakfast, brunch, lunch, tea, dinner and supper all in one day? This is most disappointing.
  • Most healthy adult cats will easily see off a fox - there are some brilliant videos on YouTube. Don't leave food out for them; it'll only encourage rats. But, yeah, as everyone has already said, nothing to worry about. 
    in Foxes Comment by Idoru April 2014
  • Ah, brunch is started later than breakfast, with a wider variety of food available and eaten over a much longer time period, often in company. Now that sounds like something I could get into.
  • Yes, but what makes it brunch rather than a late breakfast or early lunch? It is just timing? Because then there's surely no such thing as a brunch menu, just a menu. And you surely can't have an all-day breakfast - it's breakfast then brunch then l…
  • I like the way posts  ramble too. Conversations in real life don't stick to one point. They meander and go off at tangents and completely change and sometimes circle back to the original point. I like it when conversations online do the same. 
  • Fancy dress?
  • Difficult to say with any authority, but your description of it as smallish suggests Kestrel. Sparrowhawks and Peregrines are bigger. There are definitely Kestrels in the area.
  • What makes something brunch rather than lunch? 
  • "What would you prefer to call them if not vermin?" Probably nuisance species would be better. That's not a legally defined term either, but it doesn't carry the sam negative connotations as vermin.  But really in the context of this forum and most …
  • "Lord Whitty: There is no definition of the term "vermin" in UK law." http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200203/ldhansrd/vo031008/text/31008w02.htm No one said that a cockroach nest is subjective. It's the application of emotive and non-lega…
  • *Everything* I post is erudite, amusing, entertaining and informative.
  • @conformable_kate You're completely right. Neither vermin nor pest are legally defined terms, though people try to use them as such, generally to justify killing something. It pretty much amounts to 'I don't like [insert species here]' and the terms…