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Here are my Fav Five for the week!
Favourite Craft:
How cool is this?! It looks really easy too!
Favourite Clothing:
The Midi-Skirt. ASOS is my favourite place to get them from, and this blue one is so cute! It also comes in Black, Green, Cream, and Coral. It's $55, but ASOS usually has great prices when things go on sale! Keep your eye out!
I'm also loving this one from ASOS.
Look at these women rocking it!
Favourite Trailer:
Heaven is For Real - comes out in 2014! So excited!!
Favourite Adventure:
A Hawaiian hike? Sign me up!
Favourite Funny:
Homegirl is hilarious!
Have a great rest of the week ya'll!


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I crafted Avila and her clothes and lining by hand, carefully, with love and attention to every detail, in a single copy by my own author's pattern.
I sewed Avila of German and Italian viscose (3 colors) and of German mohair. I stuffed her with sawdust, added glass beads, used handmade glass eyes by the 'Wool bulb' art studio (LATVIA). I used fastening with five split pins for the movability of the legs and the head. I sewed clothes with lining and decorated it with ribbons.
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SAN ANTONIO — The Spurs have long been the NBA's gold standard when it comes to drafting and development, preferring to roll up their sleeves and scour the globe to find the right players to slot into well-defined roles in San Antonio.
They have more international players on their roster than any other team in the NBA, and even their American players don't come straight from America to the league.
It's the hard way to build a roster, requiring patience, discipline and investment that few teams are able to muster these days. And it's paying off in a big way for them in the NBA Finals.
There is Danny Green, who was cut three times and spent a summer in Slovenia, drilling every 3-pointer in sight and running away with the finals MVP award.
There is Gary Neal, who was undrafted out of Towson University and spent three years kicking around Turkey, Spain and Italy before being discovered by the Spurs, scoring 24 points in a Game 3 victory that put them back in control.
There is Boris Diaw, the once-promising Frenchman who was on his way out of the league before the Spurs brought him in, playing surprisingly stingy defense on LeBron James and finding Manu Ginobili cutting to the basket for easy buckets in a Game 5 win that moved the Spurs one victory away from the franchise's fifth title.
How do they find these guys?
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"Our management staff, RC does a great job with his scouts showing us who is out there, who is available," Popovich said earlier this season. "And we all sit down and decide who we want to bring in. Once we bring them in, we do take a lot of time trying to develop them."
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Graham Henry's reign as Wales coach is over following crisis talks last night between the New Zealander and senior Welsh Rugby Union officials, writes ANDREW BALDOCK.
Henry will leave his £250,000-a-year post this week, departing by mutual consent, according to the WRU.
The bombshell was announced just three days after Wales suffered a 54-10 Lloyds TSB Six Nations Championship mauling against Ireland in Dublin.
Henry, 54, still has some 20 months remaining of a five-year contract which should have taken him through to the 2003 World Cup.
But Wales will now have a new coach - albeit probably a caretaker one - at the helm for their Six Nations appointment with France a week on Saturday.
"The Welsh Rugby Union general committee regrets to have to announce that after a meeting between the Welsh national coach, Graham Henry, and senior officers of the union it has been agreed by both parties that Graham will leave his position this week," the WRU said in a statement released last night.
"Both sides have thought deeply about this decision and believe it has been taken with the best interests of Welsh rugby in mind."
WRU chairman Glanmor Griffiths added: "The WRU general committee would like to thank Graham Henry for his contribution to Welsh rugby since his appointment as our national coach in August 1998 and would like to wish him and his family all the best in the future." * NEWCASTLE duo Stuart Grimes and George Graham have retained their places in the Scotland squad to face Italy in Rome later this month, as Wasps' winger Kenny Logan wins a recall for the Lloyds TSB Six Nations clash. Logan has been absent from the international set-up since withdrawing from the squad to play Ireland last year and has not played since last year's meeting with the Italians.
Squad - Backs: G Beveridge (Glasgow), A Henderson (Glasgow), D Hodge (Edinburgh), B Laney (Edinburgh), K Logan (London Wasps), J McLaren (Glasgow), G Metcalfe (Glasgow), C Paterson (Edinburgh), B Redpath (Sale), G Townsend (Castres).
Forwards: G Bulloch (Glasgow), G Graham (Newcastle), S Grimes (Newcastle), N Hines (Edinburgh), M Leslie (Edinburgh), S Murray (Saracens), J Petrie (Glasgow), B Pountney (Northampton, capt), R Russell (Saracens), C Smith (Edinburgh), T Smith (Northampton), M Stewart (Northampton), S Taylor (Edinburgh), J White (Glasgow). * ANDY Blyth, on the road to recovery from a spinal injury that threatened his ability to walk again, was a spectator at the weekend's Tynedale versus Bedford match.
The former Newcastle, West Hartlepool, Northampton and Sale player, is winning the battle and is now able to walk with the aid of a stick. Also spotted at the game was Falcons flanker Epi Taione, who played for the Tynedale club before signing for Newcastle.
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Two posts today?! WHATTTTT? :O
Yes, yes, I know, don't like it? Don't read it. Wait, I'm sorry that was mean, please read it because I need to explain myself.
now you just sound like a beg you idiot! SHUT UP!
Yeah so sorry and blah de blah bla. But I have pushed all that stupid emotion stuff that was in my head out and come to a conclusion.
I am a confused little shit.
And I am always going to be. There is no point spending forever writing something emotional when you could spend that hour having fun or fixing your problem. I am just messed up because…well, read this…
Sometimes I'm like…
And other times I'm really emotional and angry/upset. And other times I'm just really deep. I don't know why, it confuses me. But generally, I'm a really happy person so that's good. I just have, urm… 'Katie moments' Don't think it helps that I try and take on everyone else's problems for them and fix them or help that person. I mean for example one of my friends cuts herself and is very depressed but I can't seem to help her and she won't, well can't talk to me properly about it. But I'm so used to being able to sort out problems quite quickly and then that emotion is gone that I think, this is going to sound weird but I think this is effecting me. I'm getting frustrated that I can't fix it.
So yeah, I think I take on other people's emotions, whether I'm helping them or trying to or just they're around me. It's weird. I'm weird.
So hopefully that explains why an intentionally deepish and perfectly logical post (The Future) when kinda emotional…
So I'm sorry. Maybe I shall do a post on myself next…then you can understand me a bit more and learn to just completely ignore me sometimes or just deal with me.
Yeah, sorry for the second post but I felt like you needed an explination…yeah. So that's it, you can do something else now. 😀


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These pancakes came about for Marc.
I love pancakes and marc loves mochas so i thought why not combine them into a delicious breakfast.
Marc never drank coffee until about a year ago and a mocha is his coffee of choice. He just loves the mix of coffee and chocolate.
While my coffee obsession is fed mostly with flat whites, when it comes to desserts i share his love of coffee and chocolate and that combination works do well here.
The pancakes are light and fluffy with 2 shots of espresso have a real coffee kick, the vanilla ice cream adds a creaminess and the sauce, oh the sauce. It packs a punch of rich dark chocolate and coffee and ties everything together.
Make these and share them with your loved ones.
Mocha Pancakes
Serves: 6
4 cups Self Raising flour
1 cup Caster sugar
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1/2 cup of Cocoa
4 shots of espresso
4 eggs
2 and 1/2 cups Milk
Vanilla Ice Cream
Mocha Sauce
4 tablespoons Brown Sugar
200g Lindt Arabic Intense Chocolate, chopped
200ml Cream
Mocha Sauce
Quarter fill a small saucepan with water, bring the water to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and place a heatproof bowl on top, ensure the bowl doesn't touch the water. Place the brown sugar, chocolate and cream into the bowl and stir often for 3-4 minutes or until the chocolate has melted. Remove the bowl from the saucepan and set aside while you make the pancakes.
Place the flour, sugars and cocoa in a bowl and whisk to combine. In another bowl, mix the espresso, eggs and milk together.
Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients, mix the wet and dry ingredients together until combined and smooth.
Heat a frypan over medium heat and sprat lightly with oil. Ladle in the pancake batter to create pancakes of your desired size. Cook for 2-3 minutes on each side. Continue until you have cooked all of the pancakes.
Divide pancakes between plates, top with vanilla ice cream and pour over the sauce.Enjoy!
5 comments on "Mocha Pancakes"
Wow these sound too good to be true; they are so incredibly beautiful, dark, chocolatey, and yummy looking.
These are like dessert for breakfast and I'm 100% okay with that! I love everything that includes chocolate and coffee, too, so I need to give these a try.
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I have been so very busy the last few weeks...Christmas is only 7 Days away.. Can you believe it? Tim and I are going to finish our shopping on Saturday. Kierstynne is spending the night with Grandma and Tim and I are going out with 4 other couples from our church to dinner and a night of husbands against the wives bowling. This ought to be pretty interesting. I have started a new "job". I am going to be teaching art class at Kierstynne's school for the next 3 months. I am pretty phsyched. I love art and what a great way to learn new things as well as see the look on the children's faces when they learn something new too. Today and tomorrow ACA is having their Christmas Shoppe. I worked it today and will again tomorrow. The kids get bags to decorate and then they buy little gifts for their parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and who every else. All the gifts are $2. They are mostly from AVON. Thank you Stephanie Bradshaw. I will continue to post about the Daniel lifestyle later in the week next week. Maybe over Christmas break I can get the rest of it done. Thanks for reading.... Emily
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Busy Busy Busy
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Clearing out the clutter....a healthier kitchen
If your kitchen is anything like mine, it is full of process foods, junk food, canned and frozen food....in general...unhealthy stuff. I am going to clear out my kitchen between now and January 1st. Below I am going to give you guidelines for what to throw out and what to keep. I am going full force into this new chapter in my life. If you are wary of throwing out everything on the list, take it a step at a time. Start small. Don't try to make all the changes right away.
- NO white flour. White flour is the worst type of flour. First, they take the beautiful brown whole grain designed my God to nourish and flourish our bodies and the remove the wheat germ and bran. Then they bleach it white with chemicals similar to Clorox bleach. Think about that the next time you go to bite into a nice sandwich made with white flour. Think about the bleach going into your system. White flour is a diabetics worst nightmare. One slice of white Wonder bread is equal to a cup of pure table sugar to a diabetic. To top it off, the manufacturers turn around and try to sell us the wheat germ and bran as health foods with a high dollar price. Kinda of stupid isn't it.
- NO white sugar. Think about what happens to a car when you put sugar in the gas tank. It kills the engine. It is doing the same thing to our bodies. Our bodies will actually go into a state of detoxification when we give up the sugar. God created natural forms of sugar found in raw fruits, vegetables, honey and molasses. These natural sweetners provide fuel for the cells of our body. To get white sugar, the sugar canes and beets are put through 14 processes. White sugar causes the immune system's capability to decrease by as much as 50%. When it enters the bloodstream, it takes on the forms of carbonic acid, acetic acid and alcohol. Acetic acid literally burns up our cells. Sugar has been known to contribute to depression, fatigue, irritability, hypoglycemia, diabetes, hyperactivity, and violent outrages. The average American consumes 120 pounds a year of white sugar.
- NO artifical sweetners..These fake sweetners actually do more damage than good. They are artifical...there is not one grain of anything God made, natural in these. They can lead to severe headaches, stomach aches, joint pain, and other health issues.
- NO fake foods...Somehow the marketing magic we see today has convinced us that we are safe eating foods that are "fat free, sugar free, and artifically flavored." You would do better to eat the packaging than the food actually in them.
- NO white potatoes, rice or corn....these are three foods that are carbohydrates but turn in to sugar very fast in our bodies and tend to make us tired, overweight and unhealthy. Red potatoes, brown rice, and whole grain pastas are best.
- NO sodas...diet or otherwise. These drinks are empty calories with no nutritional value whatsoever. They diet varieties are infused with "fake" sweetener. The carbonated water in these drinks cause our stomachs to swell, which in turn leads to eating more to fill the hollow spot.
It only takes 5 to 30 days to reverse the curse, depending on how severe the internal damage is. Within 30 days, you can start to turn your body around. You can speed up your metabolism, get your cells healthy, renew your tastebuds, and even change your outlook.
So, now to clean out the kitchen:
- Remove all white flour..switch to unbleached flour, whole wheat flour, brown rice flour or spelt flour. These are all good alternatives. Whole wheat bread flour is also a good substitute. It helps make your baked goods fluffier and isn't bleached. Wheat bran, oat bran, are also great ways to get your fiber in. Just add a tablespoon or so to your food, and whalla you have fiber. It is tasteless and you won't even know. If you aren't sure how to substitute these flours in a recipe, I will post some exchanges later on.
- Remove all white sugar...replace it with honey, molasses, Stevia, Blue Agave, pure maple syrup, and birch sugar, also know as xylitol are all fine. You can also use pure fruit juices, applesauce, or other pureed fruits to sweeten baked goods.
- Remove anything with MSGs, saturated fats, fake fats, hydrogenated oils. Switch to using olive oil or canola oil. Your body needs fats in order to function properly. You need to eat foods containing monounsaturated fats that are found in plant based oils. These fats raise the heart healthy HDL cholesterol while lowering the bad LDL. You can also use polyunsaturated fats too, but limit them.
- Remove any sodas, sweetened drinks, sugary drinks....Water is your best friend. If you don't have a filter on your faucet, get one. Even those of us with well water need a filter. You need to drink at least two quarts of filtered water daily. Water helps flush out toxins, cleans our colon, removes fat, and hydrates out body.
- Remove all junk food. This includes cookies, candy, cakes, pies, chips, dips, and anything that is not "natural". These are harmful to your body. When you load up on these things, there isn't any room for good food. These foods also have no nutritional value.
- Switch from high fat, whole milks, cheeses and yogurts to natural products. I use 2 % milk, I try to buy 2 % cheese and fat free yogurt. I am going to be using alot of vegetarian and vegan products also. This can get a little expensive, but the price is worth my health.
Now let's move on to what you should have in your pantry and refridgerator/freezer
- Canned/shelf stable goods
Beans--cannellini, kidney, great northern, chickpeas, black beans, pintos, and lentils. These are good to have on hand, but the dried ones you cook yourself are better. They haven't been proccessed.
Chunk light tuna and salmon
Diced tomatoes--if you have a farm or produce market in the summer around you, buy in bulk and can or freeze fresh tomatoes for the rest of the year. Again, no processing.
Tomatoe paste
Low sodium chicken broth, beef broth, and /or vegetable broth. Sam's club carries a great soup base that comes concentrated and lasts forever. I use it for soups, stews, and recipes calling for broth.
Silken tofu---I know...you are saying..yuck...tofu...actually it is very tasty and full of protein. I will be posting some recipes using tofu. Don't knock them until you try them.
Spices of any kind are healthy and flavor foods without adding alot of stuff you don't need. They also help to eliminate alot of salt from the foods you will be cooking.
Oils: extra virgin olive oil, canola, and sesame oils are the best.
Vinegars: balsamic, red wine, cider, rice.
Tamari--which is an alternative to the high sodium soy sauce
Chile garlic sauce
Hot sauce
Reduced Fat mayonnaise. I use a vegan type of mayo which has no eggs or anything. It's very good.
Dijon mustard and dry mustard
Salsa: check the lables though for MSG, sugar, and sugar alternatives
Ketchup...use sparingly. I have tried the reduced sugar, reduced sodium kinds and they are not good.
Worchestershire sauce..this is great on meat.
Dried herbs. These will do but the fresh variety has so much more taste. For soups and stews, buy the fresh herbs, trim them and snip them to fit in to an ice cube tray. Fill them with water, freeze and bag. When you need an herb for a stew or soup, just pop in an ice cube.
Fresh ginger. This spice is amazing. It can be used for oriental cooking, as well as other recipes you may have that needs a little pop.
Garlic...My everyday herb. We love garlic and it is good for you. You can buy it fresh, already chopped or minced in olive oil, powder form or garlic salt.
Sea salt...There are many varieties out there but I prefer Real Salt. I get it in one pound bags and I love it. It actually has a sweet taste to it and is much better than regular table salt.
Black pepper...try using the peppercorns that you must grind. The flavor is much richer.
Whole wheat pastas..you can find these in any grocery store now. But make sure to read the labels. It must be 100% whole wheat or whole grain. They will try to trick you.
Brown Rice, basmati rice, jasmine rice...these are all excellent forms of rice to use. No more processed white rice. Uncle Ben's makes a great boil in the bag brown rice.
Barley..a great substitute for rice
Old fashioned rolled oats..these make great baked goods, meatloaf, stuffed peppers, and just a great breakfast cereal.
Whole wheat couscous....I had never tried this before last year. It is a very small grain and it delicious. It cooks fast too
Bulgur wheat...a great substitute for a binder in foods
Cornmeal..you can use this to make polenta. Polenta makes great lasagna, a foundation for casseroles and even "pie" crusts.
Plain dry whole wheat bread crumbs...or make your own. Save the heels of your bread in the freezer until you have about 10-12. Place them in the foodprocessor and grind until the consistancy of crumbs.
NUTS AND SEEDS these are great protein alternatives
Walnuts, pecans, almonds, pine nuts, dry roasted unsalted peanuts, sesame seeds, flax seeds, sunflower seeds.
Natural peanut butter...you most likely will have to get this at a natural grocery. It is plain ground peanuts or almonds or cashews. You can also make it at home by placing your nuts in a processor, adding a little sea salt and sweetner like honey or molasses and grinding until you get the peanut butter.
Corn starch...used as a thickener in place of flour
Turbinado sugar, raw sugar, sucnant...these are all natural sugars
Maple syrup
Blue Aguave
Baking powder and soda--aluminum free
Vanilla extract, or other flavors
Unsweetened cocoa powder
Dried fruits
Cooking spray
Low fat milks or soy milk
Low fat or fat free plain or vanilla yogurt...watch the ingredients for the fake sugars
Non dairy sour cream
Cheeses...parmesan, romano, sharp cheddar, colby, but watch the fat levels
Eggs or egg substitues
Lemons, limes, fresh fruits and vegetables
Salad dressings...watch the labels for sugars and fake ingredients
Frozen vegetables
Frozen berries
Frozen all natural fruit concentrates
On this journey, I will not be eating alot of meat. But if you are a meat eater, that's fine. My meat will consist of chunk light tuna, salmon, tilapia, orange roughy, chicken breasts, and very very lean pork loin. If I eat any red meat, it will be 96% lean ground sirloin, or very thinly marbled steak. No bacon, sausage, ham, smoked pork chops....nothing with alot of fat.
In my next post, I will post some exchanges, tips and a couple of recipes. I will also list the first 5 days of the plan and what you will be eating.
Thanks for joining me on my journey.
The Daniel Lifestyle to a Healthier Me
I am going to begin with the basis for this lifestyle. It is found in the book of Daniel. Just a little history here.. Daniel and 3 of his friends had been kidnapped and forced to live in King Nebuchadnezzar's palace. They worshipped God and wouldn't be defiled by the king's food. Here are the verses that are the foundation for my journey: 1:8 But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the royal delicacies or the royal wine. He therefore asked the overseer of the court officials for permission not to defile himself. 1:9 Then God made the overseer of the court officials sympathetic to Daniel. 1:10 But he responded to Daniel, "I fear my master the king. He is the one who has decided your food and drink. What would happen if he saw that you looked malnourished in comparison to the other young men your age? If that happened, you would endanger my life with the king!" 1:11 Daniel then spoke to the warden whom the overseer of the court officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: 1:12 "Please test your servants for ten days by providing us with some vegetables to eat and water to drink. 1:13 Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who are eating the royal delicacies; deal with us in light of what you see." 1:14 So the warden agreed to their proposal and tested them for ten days. 1:15 At the end of the ten days their appearance was better and their bodies were healthier than all the young men who had been eating the royal delicacies. 1:16 So the warden removed the delicacies and the wine from their diet and gave them a diet of vegetables instead. 1:17 Now as for these four young men, God endowed them with knowledge and skill in all sorts of literature and wisdom – and Daniel had insight into all kinds of visions and dreams. Daniel refrained from eating delicacies that he knew would hurt his body. He trusted in God to keep his body healthy and pure. Daniel wanted to keep the temple holy and clean and refused to give in. God rewarded him in his labor by giving him insight to all kinds of visions and dreams. Now I am not suggesting that if you follow the Daniel Lifestyle Plan that you will have visions and dream dreams. Not at all. Your reward may be something entirely different. I am praying my reward will be another child. It taked 30 days to create a new habit, and 15 days to break an old one. Habits are hard to break and some can only be broken by prayer and fasting. Some of us cannot fully fast. I cannot because of the diabetes, but I can give up some things...ok alot of things. The first few days of this new plan will include fasting and praying. Fasting, in it's definition, is to abstain from food or to eat sparingly. I know some people who do a 40 day fast at the beginning of each year. I, unfortunately, cannot do this. I can fast alot of other things besides food. I can fast tv, scrapbooking, reading things other than my Bible, etc. Jesus told his disciples in Mark 9:29 that these things can only come out by prayer and fasting. Although Jesus was referring to demons that the disciples tried to cast out, it can be applied to many other things. Stronghold, bondages, habits..these all can be broken through prayer and fasting. So, beginning in January, I will be fasting and praying alot. I have habits and strongholds that I need broken. I am a compulsive overeater and an emotional eater. I have learned these behaviors since childhood. But the awesome thing is...I do not have to use my past as an excuse for the poor choices I have been making. I can do nothing about the past, but I can choose to make right choices to change my future... (Sheri Rose Shepherd..Fit for my King) She is so very right. I have allowed my past to hold me in bondage and using my past as a crutch for the bad decisions that I make. I am no longer going to do that. God has set me free from my past and I don't have to live there. I can now move forward, onto a healthier me.. In my next post, I will set the guidelines for cleaning out your cabinets, what to throw away, what you can use, and what you will be eating on this lifestyle change. Won't you join me... Emily
My New Journey
Beginning on January 1, 2010 I am embarking on a new journey. I am beginning the Daniel Lifestyle to a Healthier Me. This is NOT a diet. Diets don't work. I have tried them all. They are just gimmicks to trick you into thinking you are going to lose weight. Don't buy into it. The Daniel Lifestyle is a new way of eating and living. Your body is the temple of God and it should be treated that way. I have failed in treating my body like a temple. I have abused it, drugged it, filled it with junk and just plain hurt it. I suffer from diabetes and thyroid disease. I have polycycstic ovaries and am overweight. My husband and I want to have another child, but I know that I have some work to do to ensure that I can carry a healthy baby to term. Although this lifesyle is Biblically based, you do not have to be a believer to join me on my journey. I would love to have everyone join me. Each day I will be posting tips, hints, recipes, changes in the types of food you eat, and lots more. I will begin with cleaning out our cabinets. There are some things you must eliminate from your eating that are not good for your body. I will be using a couple different reference books to help me along. I will post things that I find important or enlightening. I hope you begin following my blog and keep me posted on your progress. I need all the support I can get and prayers too... Emily
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving
I am so very forgetful. I forgot to post a wish for all my friends....Happy Thanksgiving...I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. We did. I didn't have to cook so that made it even better... Well, today is my 37th birthday. I don't feel any older. I am not exactly sure how 37 is supposed to feel. I am thankful that I made it another year. That God allowed me to live on His precious earth for another year. I pray that He allows me to stay another one too. I also pray that this next year will be the year that I am able to give Kierstynne her biggest wish.....a little brother or sister. She wants to be a big sister so bad. Who knows....we will see...so I am off with a happy birthday to me.... Emily
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Happy Thanksgiving
I am so very forgetful. I posted my challenge last night and forgot to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. Well....Happy Thanksgiving....lol
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Digi-Kitty Weekly Challenge
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Happy Birthday to me...Early
Well, Friday is my birthday. I have not been able to decide what I want because the only thing I really want is scrapbook supplies which my husband thinks I have enough of. Little does he know...LOL...Well, today I gave myself an early birthday present. I went to the movies. All by myself. Just me, myself and I. And what did I see you ask........only the sexiest movie around.......the only movie where you can drool and cry in the same scene......the only movie that has women 12 to 99 crushing on the main character.....what movie is that you ask???? Why Twilight Saga..New Moon of course. OMG.....it was fantastic. I cried and cried and cried, but that made it even better. The theater was full and I went at 11:15 in the morning. Imagine that. But now I have a dilema. I have been crushing on Edward Cullen since I read the first book. Well, now after seeing New Moon, I am wondering if it is possible to be crushing on two people in the movie. Jacob Black is nothing less than HOT in this movie. Yes this is coming from a married woman with children. But I must not tell a lie. He definitely changed from the sweet little Jacob in Twilight to just a straight up hottie in New Moon. I don't know if that has to anything to with the fact that he put on 30 pounds of muscle between the two filmings or the fact that he runs around shirtless with those abs showing for most of the movie. Well, Happy Birthday to me...Happy Birthday to me....It was a great birthday. The only thing that would make it better would be to be Bella Swann...LOL....Ok...now back to reality....Have a great day.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Blessed Scraps Challenges
These are two of the monthly challenges I completed for Blessed Scraps over on yahoo groups. The first is a make your own background challenge. I used a Hampton Arts Twas the Night Before Christmas stamp to make the background. The Santa stamp is from Hampton Arts and the sentiment is also from Hampton Arts. These stamps make great impressions no matter what color ink you use. I used Distressed Ink in Vintage Photo to stamp. Both images are matted on evergreen cardstock from DCWV.
Hybrid Stamping
This cute card is for a challenge over on Digi Kitty. The challenge was to use a digistamp and a traditional stamp. The bear is a digistamp and the greeting and butterfly are traditional. The background paper is from My Minds Eye. I used chalk, Marvy markers and ink to color in the images.
Cold Joe
Here is a challenge I did for Digi Kitty. This is Joe the Snowman and his wife Joenelle. There is definitely love in the air here with them. The stamp is a digi stamp from Digi Kitty printed on white cardstock. The printed snowflake paper is from DCWV and the brown card base is from DCWV also. I used Marvy markers to color in the images.
Friday, November 20, 2009
My BFF
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Friday, November 6, 2009
This is a card I made for my husband for his 32nd birthday. I had never used white ink before, but I think it turned out pretty neat. You can't see it very well, but the solid black paper is corregated.
This layout is of Kierstynne and her two of her great grandmothers and her two grandmothers. She was only 4 days old in these pictures which were taken on May 15, 2004. This is Kierstynne's first trip to the Dentist. Dr. Wezmar is amazing with the kids. She was scared at first, but got over that really fast. Kierstynne and Grandma Joan. Boy, talk about two peas in a pod. They even sleep alike. They didn't know I had snapped these pictures during nap time. This layout is of my dream home. This house is on Route 92 here in Pennsylvania. I don't know what it is that facinates me so. I am totally in love with this house. From what I could see standing in the doorway, it reminds me of Tara from Gone with the Wind with the double curved staircase and gorgeous breezeway. I want this house... Kierstynne's first day of Kindergarden was a bittersweet moment. I thought I would be used to her being away all day because she had been in all day preschool. Well, let me tell you, it was totally different. There is just something final about the first day of kindergarden. No longer is she the toddler or baby. She has taken the first step toward the teenage years. Where did the last 5 years go...Way to fast. If I could put time in a bottle, thought, I would want her to stay just like she is now. Old enough to be a little independant, but young enough to still need mom.
Santa Card
I actually paid attention to the company that made this paper. It's DCWV. It came in the holiday pack. The santa and the frame were cut from the Joy of the Season Cricut Cartridge.
Christmas Card
Here is a cute little Christmas card I made using House of Mouse stamps. I used variations of red and green patterned paper. I used watercolor pencils to color in the mouse stamp.
Pink and Black Card
This card was made for the Card of The Month swap over at Scrappersbunkhouse on yahoo. This kit came from www.scrapyourtrip.com.
Most Talented Eagle 2009
On September 18, 2009 Kierstynne entered the Abington Christian Academy talent show. She decided to sing "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas". The audience was responsible for voting for the winner. Kierstynne won first place with a total point value of 501. I was so proud of her. This was the first time she had wanted to get up in front of alot of people to sing. She has a beautiful voice, but is just a little shy. The trophy she won is almost as tall as her. I used a sketch from www.scrapbooksetc.com to make the layout. I never write down the companies my paper and embellies come from because I use all kinds. I do need to start though. Maybe I should organize my paper by companies..What do you think?
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
My Little Monsters...Digi-Kitty gave us a challenge to use this cute little monster. I turned them into Valentine's Monsters instead of Halloween Monsters. This little monster was a digi stamp from Digi-Kitty. For cute stamps and great challenges, check us out at www.digi-kitty.blogspot.com. This weeks challenge over at Digi-Kitty is "framed". Use a frame any way you can think of. This cute little owl frame came from "Wild Card" cricut cartridge. The phrases are also from the same cartridge.
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
Here are some pics from our Light the Night celebration at church tonight. This is my MIL Mary a fisher or men, and my DD Kierstynne, as Little Red Riding Hood... This is my Father in Law dressed as Moses and my husband Tim, dressed as Jesus.
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Dracula Bear
Hi ya'll. Here is a pic of my Dracula Tear Bear that I did for a challenge over on Paper Piecing Yahoo Group. Isn't he cute....although I am still not real good with tear bears, they are fun to do.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The Scrappin Place
Scrappinplace is my yahoo group. My coowner is Dawn Bradfor. Come check us out. We have a monthly bingo game, tons of swaps, and we will be starting challenges January 1, 2010. We have lots of fun things in store for you in 2010. This title is one I did for scrappingplace...Giving Thanks...a paper pieced turkey sets off the title for this swap. Check us out at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrappinplace/. We would love to have you join.
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BlessedScraps Challenge
Blessed Scraps is a yahoo group run my Tina Ray and Kristal Andrew. Faith based and full of fun, we do monthly challenges, games and swaps. Check us out at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BlessedScraps/
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
The Digi-Kitty Challenge: Week 10-26
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New Projects
This Santa Card was made using my Cricut and the new Joy of the Season Cartridge. Dark Green Cardstock makes the base for this fun card. The sled blades are cut out of DCWV Metallic Gold Paper.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
New Creative Projects
Good Morning Friends. Yes I know, I am not a good blogger. I am going to try and do much better. I have been working on alot of projects the past few months. I have also, for the first time, used digi-stamps. Pretty neat. It is nice not to have clean my stamps after using and can still have nice colored images to use. I like the ability they give you to color them in a "productive" site like inkscape or photoshop. I will be posting some new items soon. Have a great day, Emily
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Catching Up
Well, I haven't posted in a while. I have been rather busy. My daughter has had Vacation Bible School this week, my car had to go in the shop, and I have been a busy little bee making cards and scrappin. I am making about 25 cards to take down to my father's shop in Virginia next week. He is going to try and sell them for me. Keep your fingers crossed. I am praying that my business takes off and flies high. We not only need the extra income, but handmade cards are much more meaningful, I think. I will add the pictures of the new cards I have made over the weekend. I hope everyone is having a great week. Until next time, keep on scrappin' ya'll.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
My Scrap Space
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Card Business
I am trying to get my card business off the ground. I am putting up flyers, handing out business cards and making cards to put in my Dad's shop in Virginia. With God's help this will take off and the money will keep me from having to go out and get a job outside my home. This is something that Tim and I are hoping for. Neither of us wants me to have to work. I so love staying home with Kierstynne. We have so much fun together and I don't want to have to give that up. Your children do not stay small long and I feel it is important to savor every moment. Please pray for me and my new business adventure. Thanks.
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WARNOCK Robert married Agnes HUTCHINSON 1865
Information Journal.
Groom: Robert WARNOCK.
Bride: Agnes HUTCHINSON.
Year married: 1865.
Place: Victoria, Australia.
Robert died 1918 in Williamstown, Victoria.
Age: 77 years.
Parents named as Robert WARNOCK and Mary FERGUSON.
Agnes died 1915 in Williamstown, Victoria.
Age: 72 years.
Parents named as William HUTCHIESON and Jane MCFARLANE.
Eight children located Victorian records for Robert and Agnes.
Henry Hutchison WARNOCK.
Born: 1867 Emerald Hill, Victoria.
Died: 1926 Williamstown, Victoria.
Age: 58 years.
Married: Beatrice May BALMER.
Year: 1896.
Place: Victoria.
See Post: WARNOCK Henry married Beatrice BALMER 1896.
William WARNOCK.
Born: 1869 Emerald Hill, Victoria.
Died: 1870 Emerald Hill, Victoria.
Age: 01 year.
Agnes WARNOCK.
Born: 1871 Emerald Hill, Victoria.
Died: 1894 Williamstown, Victoria.
Age: 22 years.
Jane WARNOCK.
Born: 1874 Williamstown, Victoria.
Died: 1891 Williamstown, Victoria.
Age: 17 years.
Mary WARNOCK.
Born: 1876 Williamstown, Victoria.
Died: -
Robert William WARNOCK.
Born: 1878 Williamstown, Victoria.
Died: 1943 Elsternwick, Victoria.
Age: 65 years.
Esther Jessie WARNOCK.
Born: 1880 Williamstown, Victoria.
Died: 1932 Caulfield, Victoria.
Age: 52 years.
Alice May WARNOCK.
Born: 1884 Williamstown, Victoria.
Died: 1928 Newport, Victoria.
Age: 43 years.
Married: Samuel THORNTON.
Year: 1903.
Place: Victoria.
Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria.
on 2010-09-22 20:58:04
TONKIN lives in Victoria, Australia.
Please note.
Journals are intended to assist new researchers locate family lines in Australia and should only be used as a guide for follow up research and record searches as intended. Due to spelling and informant errors appearing in the records, typo errors and my misreading of the records mistakes must be expected. Errors will be corrected when detected.


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Basic information about the Stephens County
The Stephens County is located in the state of Oklahoma. This county occupies 892 square miles, with 22 square miles being water areas. There are 45.048 inhabitants living in the county according to the 2010 Census. As for the racial makeup of Stephens County citizens, the 3 largest groups are White (85.08%), followed by American Indian and Alaska Native (5.07%) and Two or More races (4.79%). There are 18.127 households in the county, while 69,95% of them are family households and 30,05% represent non family households. There are 9 cities and towns in Stephens County. The most populated city is Duncan city and the smallest town or village is Loco town.


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idiot says stupid thing about cycling
Stop dicking about the site and let's get all hyper-sensitive about cycling and that.
She's Labour by the way. Score 1 Team GG!
I like the idea of having proper segregated cycle paths
more people would cycle.
- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-, Icarus-Smicarus, and JaguarPirate this'd this
British cycle paths for British bicycles
(That is a joke, person in the future googling my username)
If cyclists are using the road then I don't think it's too much of a stretch
To suggest that they contribute to its regular upkeep and maintenance, really.
a strong point, well made
they should ony tax injured cyclists.
- JimmyHuntspill this'd this
so you clearly have no idea about how road maintenance is funded, do youzxcvbnm-, DaisyFlower, oojimaflop, Pentago, 2468motorway, TheWza, McGarnagle, and boxtoboxelder this'd this
I do think we should be registered
it never seems fair to me that a driver can get points on his license for bad cycling, but if you don't have a license you can't. You're more likely to know the laws of the road if you drive, so you're more likely to be a safer, better cyclist. I suppose that suggests that you should know you're breaking the law when doing so, but just because you don't know you're doing it, doesn't mean you're not doing it.
The damage that would do to cycling uptake would FAR exceed any negligible benefits that would come of it.Royter-Hatfood this'd this
You weren't being serious. Okay.
for example
the other week there were a number of cyclists, myself included catching up with someone who was weaving all over the place on a busy road, not checking or signalling before they moved and ended up cutting someone up before loudly calling the person (who was doing everything right from what i could see) a rather rude name.
Great anecdote.
This is a good read:
it's not really. It's defeatist and slightly apologetic
I see their points but it the same points would have been true about motorists before licenses. Smaller scale perhaps but we already have cycling proficiency, just extend that
- licky_kicky and rich-t this'd this
Has there ever been a Minister for Sport
who wasn't a complete and utter tool?
Burnham knew his brief well.
Many other reasons you might call him a tool, as with any other politician, but he was a cut above the average DCMS minister.
Has anyone pointed out that there is no road tax yet?
It's a vehicle taxGorkys_Forever and Wooly31 this'd this
- meowington this'd this
- deadonthestairs, wilykit, Royter-Hatfood, svenrokk, and TheWza this'd this
I agree with this.
A poor cyclist is a much a danger to other road users as they are to themselves. The fact that anyone can buy a bike and be let loose in Kings Cross/Euston Road in rush hour, for example, is of benefit to no one.
If not a full equivalent of the drivers' licence, at least some sort of certificate to say you have passed a cycling proficiency test.
I appreciate that this may be an issue for things like Boris Bikes...
disgusting Big Government nonsense
from the DiS lefty bedwetter brigade, supporting unnecessary intervention in the lives of decent hardworking famili-
hang on
wonderful news, comrade
join us, join us.
only if pedestrians have to be licenced too
keep those stupid fuckers off the streets
There are far too many bikes out there
and far too many occasional cyclists, not to mention kids who are larking about popping round their mates. It will never happen in a million years, even if it did it would be massively ignored. They can't even stop people cycling on pavements, how are they going to enforce registration and tax?
why? why?
This is a test.
- gonad, Gringo, and Royter-Hatfood this'd this
Is this minister seriously saying that people should pay a tax that doesn't exist?
I mean I'll happily pay the c02 tax that drivers pay because I don't generate any.
- umlaut_ampersand and Gringo this'd this
I agree that this is stupid
all it will do is to drive them underground, onto the pavement, down the alleyways etc....its just pushing the problem somewhere else etc etc
but to legislate would also involve those under the age at which action can be taken against them
for failure to comply with legislation. Its not as simple as it might at first appear
ctrl + f zero emission rate
nobody haws made the point that cyclists pay the same rate of VHL as other zero emission vehciles?
does that mean everyone knows this already?
people sort of have tho?
Rod Liddle wades in with his size 12 mouth
is he still a thing?
He lives in the village I'm from, he had an argument about football and got punched in the face outside the pub once.CHAIRMAN_LMAO this'd this
Dirty Millwall scummer.
what's with all these cyclists dying in accidents just recently?
Is there some kind of vigilante campaign going on? Or just really bad cycle lanes?
The number of deaths this year is actually not massively increased in London
according to the BBC
2010: 10 deaths, four involving HGVs
2011: 16 deaths, 12 involving HGVs
2012: 14 deaths, five involving HGVs
2013 so far: 13 deaths, eight involving HGVs
it hasn't
tis just that chance has thrown a few of them very close together timewise, hence it has been more prominentcolinzealuk this'd this
Boris' cycle superhighways are deathtraps.
Guiding cyclists into pinchpoints where a HGV has to cross into the painted area because the road isn't wide enough for a large vehicle and a bike to be side-by-side. It would be so much better if they weren't there.
5 of this year's 13 deaths have been on cycle superhighway 2.
Which is 2.8 miles long.
seems like a blackspot to avoid
From what I've read
it seems like there's a couple of particular junctions (roundabouts at Aldgate and Bow) which are particularly poorly designed from the perspective of cyclists and being a "superhighway" it encourages cyclists to go a little off the direct route onto a well promoted one that should be safer.
The whole superhighway scheme's a bit of a mess as until recently it's largely been done on the cheap by simply painting part of the left hand lane rather than actually looking into segregation measures and how to avoid conflicting movements. It does seem like TFL are taking the next generation of cycle routes more seriously in terms of routing away from busy traffic and making sure potential blackspots are made safe, but it's going to be a while before they get there :(
i've seen a few times PCSOs are posted at some of the junctions
i assume to check that cyclists at jumping. I think manning a couple of junctions is a decent idea though. Obviously not brilliant or ideal, but at least making sure there's some kind of order at the lights.
My route to and from work is mainly off main roads
because it's quicker and less congested. But I'll occasionally cycle home a different route (you know, for fun) and end up on 'recommended routes' and it's INSANE how busy they are.
I assumed it would only be the real lycra twats and mental couriers using main roads but it seems like it's mainly the no helmet/pashley/Boris bike brigade. It's mad. So congested and with so many slow or unsure cyclists, plus on main roads there's always a million traffic lights so bikes always get bunched up with cars and buses and lorries regardless.
I'm not sure what my point is.
Anecdotal evidence
but as a non-cyclist in London, I've found that the lycra twats in general seem to obey traffic rules (lights, crossings etc) far better than the rest. Those on those cycle hire things seem to be the worst - just ploughing all over roads and pavements with little regard for any other traffic or pedestrians. Special props for the one I came across last year who was wobbling along the (not particularly wide) pavement along Lower Thames Street while cradling their iPhone to their ear.
As much as the roads need sorting there's a massive amount of education needed too.
It's a real mix
Cycle couriers are the worst for rule breaking but they're generally good enough to not fuck anyone over. It's weird that in cycle-friendly European cities there's a general code of speed and behaviour. It's such a bunfight in London, everyone treats the road/traffic/fellow cyclists completely differently.
People who cycle with headphones in or whilst using their phone need to die though.
lycra twats actually pretty decent
suit + token stip of hi-vis seems to be the absolute marker for dickasseryMcGarnagle this'd this
it's actually 4.3 miles long
but either way that doesn't take away from the fact it is quite scary to ride. I cycle along part of it for my commute to work, and the amount of traffic both ways is craaazy. Especially where leman street joins the main route here
when i can be arsed to look i want to see what times the accidents happen/tend to happen, to see if there is a pattern.
Isn't that the proposed length?
I don't cycle in London so I don't know if these proposals have gone through. https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/cycling/cs2extension
This article is a bit old, so might be out of date, but it's where I got 2.8 miles from and also highlights the problem areas, if you want to check. http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/540986/london-cycle-paths-cycle-superhighway-2.html
yup, sorry should have said
as czuk did
glad I don't live in Whitechapel anymore
for this and many, many other reasons
So were Boris bikes
Both badly implemented by Boris!
Yeah, they've got bipartisan support.
The concept of "cycle superhighways" has a lot of merit. The implementation in many places is woeful. There's nothing to say that another mayor would have given TFL the budget and direction to invest in something more in keeping with the title of a "superhighway", but Boris really should be stepping up to the plate now given that even TFL publicly recognise that the implementation in many places isn't up to scratch.
yeah, bike lanes aren't a stupid idea.
Slapping a bit of blue paint on the side of the road and hoping people don't get crushed to death is fucking idiotic.
but whats the alternative?
you can't put a wall up.
You can't
but you can certainly go much further than the first few attempts did. Segregation should be the norm rather than the exception without sections shared with other vehicles unless absolutely necessary and parking shouldn't be allowed on them at any time. Those areas where the blue line disappears in favour of occasional boxes need sorting too.
From what I've heard the new extension makes some good progress to something worthy of the title "superhighway" - no doubt it's not perfect, but at least they're making improvements to the original plans.
i think they're great.
and actually much safer. much more obvious to drivers where the cycle lane is i.e. its bright blue and massive.
there's so many problems with cycling safety, but i really, really think that improving road surfaces would make a massive difference. a lot of people cycle more or less in the middle of the road cos its so gnarly on the side (i.e. massive pot holes and drains).
Published a few days ago, but his first line is especially repulsive considering the number of deaths over the last couple of weeks
- umlaut_ampersand and zxcvbnm- this'd this
He used to lose his kids in the village occasionally too
They'd just wander off and he'd have to spend half a day wandering around asking people if they'd seen them.
From my local paper this week
For some reason there's a bit in the middle about lorries, and the image of a load of posh new forest horsey types sabotaging a bike race is hilarious. The comments are also good.
the arguments 'against' cyclists
should also be tried against pedestrians, to measure how sane or ridiculous the proposals are (Obviously there are some differences, but -)
I don't mean to disparage her as woman but I do find her politics very odd.
An inner London Labour MP against cycling and the fox hunting ban and wants to take us out of Europe.
I suppose its a change from the 600 other MPs who are constantly checking the political winds in their own back yards or just parroting the party line.
But I just don't think her politics reflects her area very well and this is, to some extent, disenfranchising.
probably not stupid to point out that you have to pass a test to drive a car
and at least 40% of car drivers can't really drive their car, to the point of endangering people. 2 incidents in the past week involving pulling out of parking spaces without checking mirrors and opening car doors without checking anything that would have probs killed me if it weren't for my cat like reflexes and cool composure under pressure which is down to my MI6 training.
Also I think pedestrians should have to pass a crossing traffic lights test cos I've nearly flattened two of them in the past week who decided to stroll out and make me play chicken with them. Not gonna happen pal, just gonna do a 90 degree skid stopping half an inch from you, put on my sunglasses and blow cigarette smoke in your face before peeling off at 100mph, leaving you looking tell't and down in the middle of the road.
Good piece here about the events of the past week
lets face it this is just a london thing
The rest of the country is fine, just riding bikes, not riding bikes, whatever, no biggie. But London has to make a massive fuss and be IN CRISIS just because nobody has paid it any attention for like ten minutes.
Go home london.andyvine, Songs_about_ducking, and Parsefone this'd this
Don't agree with this, but...
these cyclists with cameras on their helmets, ffs, imagine being that fucking uptight. Cretins.
here's a thought.
how many people have died in car crashes in london this year? I'm guessing it's more than 10. I might be wrong though.
what I mean is even if you improve safety, you can't make bad drivers/cyclists stop having accidents really, can you?
Don't know about this year
but last year the figures were:
69 pedestrians
14 cyclists
27 motocyclists
19 travelling by car
2 in taxis
2 in buses or coaches
To compare,
Pedestrians account for 51% of deaths, but only 21% of journeys on London's roads are made on foot.
Cyclists account for 10% of deaths, but only 2% of journeys are made by bike
Motocyclists account for 20% of deaths, but only 1% of journeys are made on one.
Those in cars account for 14% of deaths, even though 34% of journeys by road are by car.
The pattern's similar when you include serious injuries too.
Who are the other 5%?
Roller-skate commuters?
Duck tour passengers?
That'll be the 5 taxi/bus/coach/HGV people;
deduction says (42% of journeys)
obviously you can never stop all accidents, but you can reduce them, or
at least the severity of them. Segregation is key really. At the moment the infrastructure allows conflict between vulnerable and less vulnerable road users.
Both cyclists and drivers make mistakes, and always will do, be it due to stupidity, inattention, tiredness or whatever, so the focus needs to be on designing the infrastructure so that if someone makes a minor error, its less likely for someone to end up dead. Segregating cyclists from motor traffic would help with that.
The current system of a free for all means that even small balls ups can lead to death.
That is where the focus is.
But it's easier said than done.
there are a lot of vested interests in London who try to block such things, such as Westminster, where you can park in cycle lanes after about 6.30 in the evening. If there's enough political will, then it can happen though.
I fear the debate is already being derailed down the lines of "who's the naughtiest, cars or cyclists" though, rather than focusing on infrastructure.
Won't somebody think of the infrastructure etc...
The main through roads are TfL's.
And TfL wants to make cycling safer in London. But to segregate traffic you have to find space from somewhere and generally speaking it doesn't exist.
The main problems aren't the cycle lanes. The main problems are the junctions. And there are lots of innovative suggestions about how they might be remodelled.
However personally as an occasional London cycle-commuter I despair of people who regularly cycle around the largest and busiest junctions. The quickest route for my journey would involve going around Vauxhall Cross, but I would never dream of doing that, not because I think I'm a poor cyclist and not because I think people drive dangerously, but simply because I estimate that if I did that journey often enough the risk of having an accident would be too great, and the risk of serious injury if I did would be even greater. So I use the free cycle maps and use the back roads.
i would actually disagree,
and maintain that it's safe to cycle around those junctions, as long as you do it properly.rich-t this'd this
I didn't say it wasn't safe.
I said that over the course of a cycling "career" the chances of having an accident were too high for my liking, and the chance of that accident being serious also high.
That's not at all inconsistent with being safe. Like I said I know how to ride around busy junctions.
if you're going a reasonable distance though
you want to go the most direct route, not via back streets.
You can also make the space exist by removing traffic lanes. Why does there need to be so much traffic in zone 1?
ah HERE was my point.
what i mean is, it 10 cycling deaths a lot? is cycling that dangerous? now, i see a lot crazy driving when i'm on my bike, but then i see a lot of crazy driving when i'm driving. obviously, 10 deaths is too many, but even if you have the best safety in the world, someone is going to do something silly.
shouldnt the focus be on improving road safety for all, rather than just cyclists?
ok, i've lost my point again...but i'm an advocate of making people doing a driving test every year and cyclist to have some sort of licence.
or just adopt my aunties idea safer roads:
put a massive metal spike coming out of every steering wheel towards peoples faces.
ok so one thing I feel about the licensing of bikes aside from the effort / cost / practicality
is you're taking the cheapest form of transport and whacking a substantial money and time cost onto it. this is going to really really suck if you're poor.
idk bleeding heart liberal fairy etc etc
also yearly driving test would be almost literally impossible logistically, surely?
cycling licence: i didn't say you'd have to pay for it.
yearly driving licence: logistically, i can see how it'd be a nightmare. but then before the NHS there wasn't one. before mobile phones existed, no one worked in mobile phones. etc etc.
also, re. 'effort'.
if people can't be fucked to learn how to use a road safely, they shouldn't be allowed on it.
'hello, this is your pilot speaking...i am actually unqualified as i couldnt be arsed with the test. make sure your seat belts are fastened.'
It's just impracticable to try to license bikes
As has already been said here, the cost would be monstrous, the enforcement a massive headache and finally it would at a stroke send a large proportion of cycle users off their bikes for good.
And that cost cannot be justified when set against the *actual* damage that bad cycling causes.
That said I would firmly support increased cycling proficiency lessons for school-age kids. The more people who at least start off their bike-riding knowing what's a good idea the better. After all, learning the right thing once is all that's legally required to drive a car around for the rest of your life.
if you wanted to pour a staggering amount of money into the problem
free (shit) bikes for kids and lessons as part of the national curric. might be a good one.
Just to counter maevans' rather despairing view of "the authorities"
The free bikes for kids idea has actually been considered in the past in London.
problem with bike licences
for improving safety/competency is that everyone knows how to ride a bike, it's a piece of piss. Whereas with cars, you have to be taught how to drive them and you get taught all the safety aspects/highway code/etc etc alongside learning to actually do it. It's an integrated learning system (what?) whereas if you had to do a bike test once a year you'd just turn up, nail it, then fuck off and forget about it again.
can someone do the numbers on the man-hours needed for yearly driving tests for all drivers?
ie someone less lazy/stupid than me? IDK, like if you charged as much as for the existing test every year you'd have riots in the streets. And if not that's a huuuuuuuge government bill; you'd have to be fucking sure that retesting yearly would have an astronomical result.
Same with cycling really; if it's a meaningful test there'd still be cost of lessons etc which'd either fall on the taxpayer or the testee. And it'd hit the poorest people hardest.
again, i'm not saying it's going to cost everyone 4 million pounds a year.
thats up to the tories.
there is also the problem
of people knowing what to do, but not doing it. I'm sure there a lot of people who genuinely don't have a clue, but equally probably a lot of people who know what they're supposed to, could demonstrate that in a test and pass easily, and then go back to being a slack/lazy/dangerous driver/rider.
not if they had to pass a test all the time.
learned behaviours.
FYI i'm also an advocate of the so far un-invented process whererby:
if you park illegally one of your tyres bursts automatically.
if you cut someone up a dent appears in your rear side panel.
if you tailgate someone your petrol immediately runs out.
- jeanpierre_papin, colinzealuk, and urbanfox this'd this
it's got to cost someone a ton of money though right?
you couldn't do a meaningful test and not have it cost a) a bunch to run the test centres, bureaucracy etc and b) classes to take the test as per driving atm.
You could shove a) onto the taxpayer, but even ignoring the cost of b), you've just put massive obstacles in the way of what was formerly a very cheap / easy way to get around. Like I can pass the test no sweat, but somone working two jobs to get by is going to have much more trouble dealing with it.
It doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, but you'd need to be pretty confident that the test would solve the problems that were causing at least a significant number of the casualties. Otherwise much much better to put same money in direction of better designed roads, cycle paths etc.
probably would costs loads of money, yeah.
get the really fucking rich people to pay for it then. or barclays.
Say it's 1 hr of examiner time for a test
and around 35m drivers, that's 35 million man hours of testing people a year. assume a 35 hour week for 44 weeks a year (allowing for 30 days holiday, bank holidays and that), you'd need a little under 23,000 examiners to cover existing drivers.
An examiner earns between £21.4k and £24.7k. which means you're talking in the region of £0.5bn a year on wages for them alone, plus extra admin staff and the capital budget needed to pay for more/larger test centres.
proportionately I think it is a lot of deaths
it's particularly impactful (hmm) I think because of the obvious difference in vulnerability between the road users - nudging the back end of a car at 20mph and everyone will probably be largely ok, nudge the back of a bike and they'll be under your wheels.
I would argue that getting cyclists on separate segregated bike paths would improve safety for all - there's built in protection for cyclists, and less cyclists on the roads themselves, meaning an easier time for drivers as well - I don't doubt that it's mentally exhausting driving in London with cyclists nipping all over the place.
Your point is generally correct though - you can't stop idiots causing accidents, but that sort of rhetoric worries me - too easy for people to say "no point in trying then".Royter-Hatfood and colinzealuk this'd this
new site, same old shit.
yeah literally the most stressed I am in a car
is when I'm just behind a cyclist.
that or driving down the crazyperson obstacle course that is Cally road I guess.
Nobody would argue with you that getting cyclists on segregated paths would improve safety
but a) is it possible and b) is it the best solution to the problem?
If the answer to a is no, then it's not a solution, and if the answer to b is no then there are better solutions.
I would say
yes and yes, if there is the will to do it.
The sticking point is that in a lot of places it would mean reducing capacity for cars. So its up to people to decide what they want.
Well that is *a* sticking point.
And it is a massive one. You're talking after all about a city that already has a congestion charge to limit the number of vehicles on the roads. If you reduce capacity on one road that traffic will go somewhere else and will cause congestion there.
It's not just cars though. Buses use the roads too, and 7 million journeys are made on those every day. If you're going to start messing with that you need to be more than a little sure you're doing the best thing possible.
You still seem to be hung up on the cycle lanes though. The big cycling fatality issue is people getting squished by large vehicles at junctions.
In case you've not seen this (apologies if you have) here's where things are going at the moment:
Segregation isn't really about cycle lanes only though
much as they're a good solution to many of the problems, it's about getting rid of conflicting movements too. Lots of ways of achieving it; routing the Superhighways around busy junctions rather than over them (like at Elephant & Castle), and rephasing traffic lights are two good ones. As said above, education is important too, of all road users.
Stopping the superhighways at busy junctions as was the case with the original SH2 was madness - it encouraged people to travel between Aldgate and Bow roundabout, but then failed to provide a safe way around those junctions without dismounting and walking. Obviously common sense says do the safe thing in that situation, but we all know that human nature means the majority of people wouldn't.
hmm, dis crashed when responding
I said:
it is a big sticking point, and as much a cultural one as anything to get people to ask themselves, "why do we need private cars driving through zone 1" (I exempt busses from that, as they serve a very useful purpose).
Also, segregated lanes improve the perception of safety (i.e. subjective safety), and I would say would increase drastically the amount of people willing to make their short journeys by bike rather than car, lessening the amount of vehicular traffic.
Finally, re: jucntions - haven't been clear, but when I say 'segregated lanes' I mean the whole 'go dutch' philosophy which includes redesign of junctions as part of it.
Your first two are a bit utopian. I would argue people have already decided what they think on that. Bear in mind that at least one of this year's fatalities involved a (huge) construction lorry pulling out of a new development on Victoria St. You can't build buildings in zone 1 if you ban trucks.
To be honest, no it isn't as much a cultural sticking point as anything else. It really is a practical issue, and a very complicated one.
Again I wouldn't disagree with you that segregation increases the perception of safety (as well as the actual safety). I don't think you're right that it would massively effect a shift from cars to bikes though. There are plenty of car journeys made in at least the suburbs of the capital that could be just as easily be made by walking, which would be very safe. But people just don't.
You were clear about the going dutch thing. All I was suggesting was that the junctions should be the main focus, rather than the lanes. After all even in Zone 1 there is quite an array of relatively traffic free routes for cyclists to travel in decent safety at close to their top speed, away from the main sources of dangerous traffic. They are the back roads.
I'd encourage you to look over the road safety strategy I linked earlier. It does give some detail on what's possible and what's already being done (see colin's post above for instance).
I'll check your link out.
Final thing I'll add as I'm off - disagree that its utopian, only have to look at lots of europe to see what's possible. Netherlands has had a huge switch in culture and politics on this in c.40 years.
Each bike should have a big red sticker warning them
Not to go anywhere near the inside of large vehicles and to stay out of their blind spots. And should come with a large poster of a mangled bicycle and rider beneath the nearside wheels of an artic.
Cars are another story, given how most car drivers don't seem to know what those two bits of reflective glass on their doors are for.
I agree
but it doesn't save you when bits of the cycle network (advance stop boxes) often direct you into those blind spots, or on roundabouts where you're often directed around the outside of them, frequently in the blind spot of large left turning vehicles.
Improved behaviour by all would improve the problem, but wouldn't solve it. Change in infrastructure is the only thing that can hope to.urbanfox this'd this
makes it easier to massage them
pro cyclists have tons of massage
serious. nothing to do with aerodynamics.Matt_was_taken this'd this
why do cyclists shave their legs?
Do you do that?
they do it to go faster/the tradition
However, being the pragmatist I am, I believe the 20 sets of traffic lights on my route are costing me more time than the minor aerodynamic gains I could make.
no they dont, thats swimming
Its so if they crash and need patching up it doesn't pull the hairs off when removing plasters, same with massages. Tradition fair enoughfidel_catstro this'd this
ah, oh really?
forgot the excellent road rash reason, but was convinced there must be an aero angle to it as well. Marginal gains and all that.
Any other answer is bullshit.
Apparently it was a female pedestrian, not a cyclist
Sad news all round this week.
Met police reporting another fatality, 14th in London this year
In camberwell this morning. Collision with an HGV.
The HGV collision stats are insane. I know correlation doesn't equal causation but it just feels glaringly obvious in this instance.
Find it slightly worrying that the police were stopping people yesterday
To give advice about wearing hi-vis and helmets. Treating cyclists as though they are the problem. Yes they help, but are not legal requirements.
they've been doing every so often for a bit now
I think it's a decent initiative that obviously doesn't solve anything but does help. The 'unconfirmed' reports of people being pulled up for not wearing helmets/hi vis reeks of hyperbollocks though.
They also gave an earful to some bellsniff who breezed through a red light at aldgate east. which was good.
Jenny Jones tweet this earlier
@GreenJennyJones: Urgent: If any #cyclists have been fined for not wearing a helmet or not 'accepting advice', please email me asap...
I am all for initiatives, but this doesn't seem the best way to go about it. If bad road users are getting a bollocking for breaking the Highway Code,brilliant, but singling law abiding riders out for 'advice' ain't.Royter-Hatfood this'd this
Had one of those Met Police non-siren cars
parked in the cycle box at the lights the other day. Love it if they actually started cracking down on that sort of thing (ie dangerous behaviour) rather than poxy fines for cyclists.
they were stopping both cyclists and HGV drivers
within sight of each other, to avoid exactly that "blame the other party" reaction
safety required ALL parties to take appropriate safety precautions, be it being visible, wearing a helmet, and riding responsibly, or not driving for 12 hours stretches and weaving across cycle lanes
how accurate do people find the google maps cycling directions?
planning a ride that says is 4 hours.. obviously.. how does it know how fast I cycle? is it going to be nearer to 7?
I don't know exactly what speed Google Maps estimates you to cycle at,
but it's always been a bit on the slow side for me.
- Royter-Hatfood and meths this'd this
Can't understand why anyone would go cycling or running
along streets with headphones. It's absolute insanity.
Or driving?
Surely Boris doesn't have the power to bring in such a ban anyway...
He could instruct the Met to issue fixed penalties
for careless or dangerous cycling.
I wouldn't do it,
but if you advocate a ban on headphones, or think that it in some way excuses lorry drivers, then you're effectively saying that deaf people shouldn't be allowed to cycle or even be pedestrians.
Strawman alert.
1) No-one in this thread's suggested it excuses lorry drivers. BITT already went down that line.
2) No-one in this thread's mentioned pedestrians as a group - I'm the only one that mentioned them at all and specifically mentioned runners, as frankly many of those who run with headphones are a menace.
3) It's not equivalent - deaf cyclists as a group are likely to take far more care and pay more attention to those around them using the senses they do have than people who are not only used to using sound as well, but also being partly distracted by whatever they've decided to listen to (citation needed). All I'm suggesting is that someone who chooses to take on public areas at speed should be expected to have all their senses alert to both dangers that may be posed to them and to other even more vulnerable users. Not sure where the controversy is in that.
As I say, I'd never wear headphones when cycling or running
(I don't like to do it when walking either), but if you're going to ban headphones, rather than just enforce already existing laws against careless or reckless cycling, then from a legal point of view you will have to establish that not being able to hear what's around you is an impediment to cycling safely. And that would then have to imply that wearing hats over the ears, or being deaf is also an impediment to cycling safetly.
It's not a strawman, it's identifying the legal basis for bringing in such legislation and then the implications of the arguments behind it.
Then we'll have to agree to disagree.
I can't see how interpreting wearing headphones as being careless in the context of cycling necessarily means wearing a hat or being deaf while cycling would also necessarily constitute being careless.
Ah, that's not the same thing though.
From a legal point of view it is as possible to listen to headphones safely as it is possible to wear a hat unsafely.
In the same way as there was that report that came out the other day, establishing that hands-free phones are also distracting to drivers, to a dangerous degree. There was a subsequent discussion on the legal implications of banning hands-free phones, and it was suggested that banning them would also imply that conversations in cars would have to be banned as well.
That's kind of completely ignoring
the situational awareness that someone in the same vehicle as the driver has that someone on the end of a phone doesn't.
The same reason why people walk into lamp-posts when talking on their phone much less often than when they're talking to someone walking with them.
The discussion was on the radio and I can't find it,
but the report was here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24982173
Well looking at the links Brake provide...
...there's a lot of "believe" and "suggest" in there for starters.
It also seems that only "a few" of what studies have been done indicate that using a hands-free phone is no more risky than other in-car distractions.
Personally I think I know that if I'm eating or drinking, or arguing, or worrying about my job when I'm driving (I hardly ever drive) then I'm at a higher risk of a crash. That's not exactly news. But the Brake referenced studies would seem to indicate that talking on the phone is more risky than most other behaviours.
good victim blaming there
why not ... y'know, separate the cycling lanes ?
trying to imagine the Major's reaction if there had been 6 ecstacy deaths in the last fortnight - or six fatal construction accidents or whatever
the Major
yes Fawlty
with all due respect
shut up.
what?deadonthestairs this'd this
you're just trolling
and it's getting very tiresome.
I have no idea what you're on about
how am I trolling?Matt_was_taken, deadonthestairs, and Royter-Hatfood this'd this
Both need to happen, along with other measures.
Cyclists (and runners) wearing headphones are as much a menace to other road users as they are a danger to themselves.
oh sure
my point is not that cyclists should have the right to wear headphones but rather that I haven't read much in the way of Boris addressing cars drivers and asking them to curb their rage/bad habits/look properly in their mirrors nearly as him barking on about it all being the cyclists' fault
To be fair
if you read the full article, he does talk about a range of measures - that's just the one the BBC have picked out for their headline.
No, I don't.
I'm one of the biggest critics of the way Boris handled his "cycling revolution" and I think his comments last week were pretty fucking crass. I also think he needs to do a lot more in the short term to sort out some of the problems he's created until his longer term measures (i.e. redoing his cycling routes properly) get going (which he has mentioned).
For all that, I'm not going to criticise him when he makes a really valid point (for the first time since this spate of deaths started). The focus should be on *everything* that can reasonably be done to make things safer for *all* our road users and this would be part of that package.
fair enough
but he doesn't really seem to be focusing on 'everything'
a temporary HGV ban would be a start
I've been mulling that one over a bit
Ban them between 7-9am and 4:30-7pm could be worth consideration?
I don't know the stats on how many of the accidents are during rush hour and so how worthwhile it'd actually be. Nor do I know what the cost to the London economy would be (personally don't think it *should* be relevant, but we all know that in reality it's one of the prime considerations in any risk analysis). Would be interested to see if TFL have done a study on it.ohgood this'd this
isn't there someone on here who works for TfL?
pretty sure there used to be at least
Think that was Balonz.
He was sacked for giving out false information to strangers on internet message boards.
Marckee's done some architecture/surveyor type work for them
but I don't think he's been anywhere near surface transport.
Where do they usually go when they're not being driven?
Just plan trips to avoid those hours - if you're running late then park up the same way you would (should) if you're running over time on your tachometer. There's a lot of potential problems with such a plan, least of all the risk of a dangerous influx of traffic either side of those hours, but I'd have thought that was one of the smallest.
Lots of town cetnres have restrictions on deliveries during certain times,
especially those with pedestrianised town centres. It's not as radical a policy as some think.
depends on what restrictions are currenly in place
they may deliver 7am-7pm because people complain about noise and stuff late at night, so limiting this further would mean that companies need more vehicles and more drivers, which increases costs and CO2 emissions etc.
also depends on their distributions networks because it may take them agaes to get to london then theyd need to wait until after these restricted hours.. all the while the time the drivers been on the road is increasing.
The HGV issue really does have to get addressed.
There are more of them, and crucially they are getting bigger and higher. I work in a fairly busy part of Central London, near some busy junctions and it's noticeable quite how many large vehicles now have to mount the pavement to turn left. London's roads just weren't built for vehicles that size. You only have to stand next to one at some traffic lights to realise quite what a massive threat they could be to a cyclist who isn't clued up what they're sitting next to.
At a minimum Boris ought to be aggressively pursuing hauliers to introduce technology to give their drivers adequate all round views of their vehicles. And in my view he should at least initiate a proper investigation into the practicalities of time-limiting the largest vehicles from the centre (as he promised Boardman he would). This is a pretty standard example of Boris being found out to be all mouth and no trousers though, sadly.colinzealuk and Royter-Hatfood this'd this
The filth were stopping people at traffic lights on my way home
They told me I was wearing a 'good' top, because it was very visible.
Thanks, pointless waste-of-time twats, keep up the good work!
how did they tell you?
give you the thumbs up and mouth, 'good top' as you cycled past?ohgood this'd this
- noise_ramones this'd this
It was at traffic lights so I was
waiting for the light. He did pat me on the back though.
There's a woman who cycles down cs2 every morning
who, at first, looks like a police officer wearing a bright hi viz top with POLICE on the back.
only, when you get closer, you notice it is actually this
without opening it, i know what thats gonna be.
they're so annoying.Verbal, Parsefone, colinzealuk, rich-t, and Royter-Hatfood this'd this
Surely that's perilously close to impersonating a police officer?
If people get nicked for wearing joke shop helmets occasionally then surely this would get you (deservedly) into trouble too.
i would think so
could only find this about it
So her 'biggest regret' was tweeting about it, breaking the law.
honest, I guess
clearly she didn't give a shit about breaking the law
"she had signed an exclusive television deal."
- urbanfox this'd this
LTDA video of cyclists jumping red lights
I doubt it would be more
than the 192 cyclists they say jumped the lights in 2 hours
To be honest
I'm surprised it was only 53% of cyclists. At one of those junctions it looks pretty clear that a cyclist merging from the left with nobody crossing is in little danger, and is causing little danger to others.
But as I've said before, I'm firmly in the "I always stop at red lights" camp, so I would be the one sitting at the junction shouting "cunt" at the people barging past.
In my experience in London just about every red traffic light is jumped by a car. They always seem to just not quite see the light in time. It won't be 192 in two hours, but it will be a lot, and I am curious as to why the LTDA didn't complete their analysis by including those counts for comparison.
I also really don't get why they care so much. Taxi drivers love to have something to bitch about, but cyclists jumping red lights just can't be anywhere near the top of their list of genuine inconveniences in their day to day job. And what exactly are they hoping to achieve with that campaign? I'm genuinely stumped.
Seems to be correct
Can't see why anyone could flee the scene of an accident
aye, tis
bit of a wrong'un that lad.
Yep. Let's hope he gets banged up.
I wonder how many hit and run drivers were in court on the same day. More than one I would hazard.
No matter what you wear, some drivers drive dangerously shocker
Was going to post this
Not a surprise to be honest.
i agree.
but surely you/I wear high-vis to make ourselves more visible to the people accidentally driving into us. not dick heads who actually WANT to drive into us.ColinFilth this'd this
Never worn a hi-vis
I take an aggressive position on the road. Granted I live on the south coast, in a small city, not London, but I have never felt the need to wear a hi-vis. I have expensive lights for the night riding, no need for a luminous vest or jacket.
Pottering along at 12mph in the gutter is different from cycling at 25mph in the middle of the road. That's my view anyway.
if you were cycling at 25mph and i was driving behind you,
i'd be pissed off, cos i can legally go faster.
when i'm on my bike, i get out of cars way. no point winding them up.
thats a different debate though.
- meths this'd this
When was the last time you overtook a car
driving at 25mph when you were in a 30mph zone?
Chances are that when you did you waited quite a while for the safe opportunity to do so, just like you would with rich on his bike. And even if he was "in the middle of the road" you'd find it easier to do than when overtaking a car.
"When was the last time you overtook a car, driving at 25mph when you were in a 30mph zone?"
i dont have a car, but when i did, i've probably done this.
i'm quite an angry driver.
Yeah again I didn't put it well.
I was suggesting a) it's quite rare to do that, and b) you'd be really careful about doing it.
Sorry it's a bit garbled.
My point was that the way rich cycles forces you to think of him like you would a slightly slow driver, which is a good thing. When you're overtaking a vehicle that's only going a bit slower than you then you need to give yourself a lot of time to do it. If he rode at 25mph in the gutter people would always be cutting him up when they overtook, due to underestimating how long they'd need to complete the manoeuvre.
That's my thinking about it. A driver has to actively think about how to overtake me instead of taking it for granted that they can squeeze through a small gap. As I said, I cycle on much quieter roads than meths does, and it allows me to cycle like this.
Meths, your attitude is why there is an us vs them mentality (although you meant it tongue in cheek). I am entitled to use the road how I see fit and a driver has to respect my right to use the road. I shouldn't have to get out of a cars way, I am legally allowed to use the road, and will continue to do so in this way.
i'm not us v them.
but you have to give them a little bit of credit. no point needlessly winding them up just because you have a right to be on the road.
i can cycle quite safely/well over to one side, but then i am an AMAZING cyclist obviously. this is why there should be:
a) better road surfaces so we can cycle on one side of them safely (i,e, gutters/drains)
b) a cycling test so people know how to cycle properly.
But they shouldn't be wound up by me cycling in the road, where I am entitled to be
I say the middle of the road, but it's more like a third of the way out from the gutter (the area where a cars left tyres would be).
I never said you were us vs them, I meant that the attitude of getting angry about where a cyclist is in the road, which is something you wrote in an earlier post, creates a hostile environment for all road users. This is all with the proviso that I use quieter roads than you and when I cycle on London, I'm never as blasé and a lot more considerate, ride slower ect... I also tend to ride at quieter times of the day, never at rush hour, always dead early in the morning or quite late in the evening.
i know what you're saying.
and you ARE entitled to be there. but, you know, we can't have it all our own way. i can accept that cars are faster and it winds them up a bit if i'm in their way.
- umlaut_ampersand this'd this
'small minority of people are knobheads' shocker
it doesn't really seem to provide anything surprising?
- ma0sm this'd this
Well, this is just a barrell of laughs, isn't it?
And Bernard Hogan-Howe sounds like a right dickhead.
at least it gives police officers an incentive to know the laws of cycling.
Rather than pulling over cyclists for passing stationary traffic in a cycle lane and questioning whether cargo bikes are legal.
Barclays are pulling out of Boris Bikes, so TfL are proposing diverting money away from improving dangerous junctions to fill the gap in funding.
Gap in funding?
The Barclays deal never delivered what Boris claimed anyway.
The question arises;
what on earth's changed since the end of July 2011 when the extra £25m was agreed?
Either nothing was signed and sealed, in which case TFL and City Hall should never have announced it (more free advertising for Barclays) nor budgeted for it, a pretty major exit clause has been triggered, or the contract was incredibly badly drafted allowing their sponsor to simply walk away.
There was talk about this last night.
It seems that the announcement from 2011 was just complete guff. The agreement was always only up to 2015: http://www.mayorwatch.co.uk/tfl-city-hall-barclays-a-much-trumpeted-contract-extension-that-suddenly-became-just-negotiations/201328960
Interesting to read too, that Boris apparently also pushed for secret negotiations to find the next sponsor before yesterday's announcement came out, to minimise PR damage, but TfL overruled him in the interests of an open bidding process that would lead to a more beneficial financial deal.
The irony being
that it's Boris that's forced TFL to become more transparent after various fiascos in the past (including previous sponsorship deals)
I'm guessing Barclays got pissed off that everyone
keeps calling them Boris Bikes, rather than what they probably hoped would be referred to by the public as Barclays Bikes.DaisyFlower this'd this
Yeah, understandable in a way as a reason to not extend
although I'm surprised as £25m for three years of Barclays branding all over the place is still good value.
I don't see that it's something that's particularly different to when the extension was trumpeted by TFL and City Hall though.
was going to say almost pointless
but then just read that routes will be closed to traffic.
Not so...
"These are low-intervention routes.
"Because traffic is lighter and travelling more slowly, and there are fewer or no heavy goods vehicles, segregation will not usually be necessary on Quietway routes."
The first one that springs to mind, just from the map
is what happens to a cyclist when they reach the end of a quietway - i.e. is a cyclist who ends up on Kentish Town Road at the north end then left to fend for themselves around the junctions at Kentish Town and Archway if they're heading that way?
I'm not convinced that some of the proposed roads are actually that quiet around Southwark, but I guess that's what a consultation's all about. Will try and find some time to read through the document.
thinking about buying a Fuji Feather, just because of the looks, and price.
Never had a single speed before though, any thoughts? helpful hints? not that there's much to "know" about it really, just have to pedal harder right?
They look nice.
You're right though, nowt to "know".
I just bought this:
Would like it to look like this in a bit:
looks cool, bit 70's though for my taste
really wonder if those brooks seats are worth the £10,000,000 cost though
Aye, would never spend owt on a Brooks.
Picked up a brown leather Brooks copy at a market in Poland for £4 in the summer, it needs a slight weld repair but might do.
Otherwise I'll try and pick up a 2nd-hand Selle San Marco Concor on the cheap.
Honestly one of the most comfy saddle I've ever ridden
But until the seat breaks in, it can be hell to even sit on, let alone ride on. Not quite as good as my Fizik Arione but that seat wouldn't look good one a retro bike.
That's a lot of work
Good luck mate
Obviously it won't be anywhere near as nice as that and I'm not going to go all out with Campy gear or get a custom quill stem made, but a cheap imitation will do me.
SO bloody beautiful though.


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Friday, February 25, 2011
Ramparts at Old Castle Fort Tripoli
Libyans grow "afraid" as protesters near Tripoli
CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20036507-503543.html
Residents of Libya's capital city of Tripoli are growing "increasingly afraid" Friday from deadly clashes in the streets and from reports that the protest movement that has already taken over parts of the country is approaching, CBS News' Ben Plesser reports from Tripoli.
"People are increasingly afraid," Plesser, one of the first western journalists to arrive in the capital since the unrest began, told CBS Radio News. "People are staying off the streets completely. The streets are kind of eerily empty."
Complete Coverage: Anger in the Arab World
After government agents showed Plesser a rally in Green Square in support of Libyan leader Muammar al Qaddafi, Plesser heard gunfire from his hotel in the center of Tripoli, where anti-government protesters clashed with the Qaddafi supporters.
"Eyewitnesses quietly told us that when people came out of the mosque just near that Green Square where Qaddafi was speaking, when people came out of the mosque after prayers they started chanting anti-Qaddafi slogans," said Plesser. "This group of pro-Qaddafi protesters came down. There was a clash, there was some gunfire and there are reports of injuries and even deaths, and this is right in the middle of Tripoli."
Libyans largely get their news from state television, which broadcasts events such as the small but "very fervent, very loud" crowd of Qaddafi supporters demonstrating, Plesser reports.
(Watch Qaddafi speak at the demonstration at left)
But some Libyans are also able to receive broadcasts from pan-Arab satellite channels, which carry reports from the anti-Qaddafi opposition in the east, Plesser reports.
"They're watching these Arab TV channels, and they feel like the war is coming closer to their homes," Plesser said.
Plesser's access to the capital city is limited to the discretion of the government agents escorting him.
"Our movements here are controlled by the government to a large extent," said Plesser. "We're constantly in the company of government agents."
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Originally Posted by BBC news Ireland
Even though this does not seem paranormal it does come under the strange events that Charles Fort used to collect for his books.
A loud bang over Ireland heard over 3 counties. Very strange.
Date a Brit, they need the attention.
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