Tonight I went along to toastmasters a non for profit public speaking organisation. I used to belong when I lived in New Zealand and Australia but somehow managed to get out of having to make any speeches as frankly it terrifies me. But being able to speak to a group is a really [...]

I turned up on Sunday for my observed ride to see if I was up to test standard in order to sit the IAM test ride. Unfortunately they didn’t think I was coming as I hadn’t replied to the email saying who was in which group as I hadn’t realised I was suppose to [...]

I am planning to ride my bike up to the Faroe Islands via Aberdeen and the Shetland Islands and back via the Orkney Islands and the Highlands. I have wanted to visit these islands for ages. I would like to continue the trip up to Iceland but it would either mean spending only [...]

My company has said that they would like to get rid of all contractors (me) by the end of the coming financial year (end of March 2008) and as I now want to do Alaska to Argentina starting in August of 2008 I have been dreaming of (for some time now) extending my trip to [...]

Last week I stripped the screws holding my front fork on so this week I had to take the windscreen and front fairing off in order to get at the screws and use an impact hammer to drive a larger screw into the head and get the screws out. I am also worried as [...]

This post is nothing about my motorbike vibrating at high speeds or the comment someone made on my blog linking it to lovebiker.com with it’s suggestive biker talk. Rather I went to see the BBC Concert Orchestra play with various UK music artists performing all those classic songs you love to sing along with [...]

A friend of mine pointed out that a couple who just learnt to ride are riding around New Zealand in order to raise money for cancer so I thought seeing as how I will be in a similar position in a bit over a years time I should show my support. You can check [...]

I have signed up for the Round Britain Rally. An organised photography treasure hunt around Britain which in their words is ‘The Round Britain Rally (R.B.R.) is a touring and photographic event for motorcyclists and drivers of sidecar outfits and three wheeled vehicles (Lomax, Bond, Reliant and other Tri-cars).
The objective is to encourage you [...]

A while ago I saw the movie The Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry, the same writer and director that did Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The movie is described as ‘A playful romantic fantasy set inside the topsy-turvy brain of Stephane Miroux (Gael Garcia Bernal) an eccentric young man whose dreams constantly [...]

I left for the Ace Café at five in the morning for a six o’clock start. Someone decided that even though the city would be empty that it would be a good idea to ride almost due west on the A40 to then go around the M25 which meant I did about 150 miles [...]

On Friday evening I thought I should stop in a the work bar as the IT team were all planning to be there and seeing as how they had cancelled yet another meeting with me I thought it would be a good opportunity to chat to them. In the end I drank more than [...]

I have been meaning to put the gators that I bought to take to Argentina on my bike for a while at my motorcycle maintenance class and in fact had taken them along to the first lesson but it always seemed like too much work. As I didn’t have anything better to do my [...]

Tonight I went to an internet entrepreneurial evening (www.webwednesdays.com) in order to get ideas for the customer portal at work and marketing the male makeup company. I was truly impressed as they were really an eclectic group of people. I also got an email from yesterday’s date saying that he had an wonderful [...]

Posted a dream date to go and see Vertigo a play based on a Hitchcock movie but no one replied so I emailed the one bloke that had emailed me from the site and he came in from Rochester (btw this is a great town for a day out from London with a cathedral, castle [...]

The thing that annoys me most about dating via the internet is you can end up exchanging all these emails which then peter out and come to nothing which I reckon is a total waste of time. The gorgeous networks site has a service where you can list an activity you want to do [...]