• Listening to Van the Man

    It always gets me, the lyrics to Coney Island, by Van Morrison. This is mainly because of a youth spent riding along this same coast on various motorbikes, generally alone, always enjoying the view and the peace. As the man says: “And all the time going to coney island I’m thinking, Wouldn’t it be great… Continue reading

  • Boston, Cape Cod and back to England

    What a trip! A whirlwind tour of Boston and Cape Cod, including a day trip to Martha’s Vineyard. And, of course, when we got there, there were Harley’s to hire. I couldn’t resist. So I took a Fat Boy out for a spin round the island. So cool – beautiful blue sea, scorching hot weather… Continue reading

  • Atlanta at last!

    Well, having spent our first day in Atlanta, I’m tired, but glad to have got here at last. We had a mammoth trip. Flew to Chicago from Manchester and were actually on the runway to fly to Atlanta when the flight was cancelled. Six hours later we arrived at our final destination. Atlanta seems to… Continue reading

  • What a day

    Server woes again with firewall problems, seems like it was dying, possibly it was being helped with this. 🙁 Continue reading

  • Whoops!

    There were a few blog entries here from last week that have gone somewhat astray. Let’s just say that it was an expermiment in replication that didn’t quite go as planned. It’s not the end of the world, and I’m not particularly concerned to put them back, so for now I’ll just let it be… Continue reading