Richard Smith

Allows me to ride further and enjoy uphills as much as downhills.

A ceremonial mug with photos of Andrew Windsor and Jeffery Epstein and text saying TO COMMEMORATE A SWEAT FREE AND HONOURABLE FRIENDSHIP

Could sit alongside my mug

Needs more wheelie bins with house numbers painted badly on them

And yet somehow I’m the flash git for having an ebike costing a couple of thousand with annual servicing costs in the very low hundreds

Earlier this Premier League season (maybe even as late as December) Own Goal was Fulham’s top scorer with 3 goals!

A Telegraph headline saying “It is time to make selfish cyclists display a licence plate” with the byline CLIVE ASLET

Here’s Clive outing himself as an idiot. Every study, and even the few times it’s been implemented, have shown this to be a stupid idea. Concentrate on where the real danger comes from Clive. Hint: it’s not cyclists, even selfish ones

One of the streets described by The Telegraph as the UK’s prettiest - this one in car free Clovelly

One of the streets described by The Telegraph as the UK’s prettiest - this one a narrow lane with tables outside what maybe a cafe in Tenby

One of the streets described by The Telegraph as the UK’s prettiest- this one is Grey Steer in Newcastle with the colonnaded theatre in the foreground and a pair of no entry signs alongside the road

One of the streets described by The Telegraph as the UK’s prettiest - this one cobbled Victoria Street in Edinburgh busy with pedestrians

One thing in common for the streets chosen by the Telegraph as Britain’s prettiest - almost no cars. there are a few parked up in the two seaside choices, but streets look better without them and they’re way more user friendly for people to live their lives and spend money

A middle aged couple stand in front of a thatched cottage. The bald, bearded, overweight man has a red v neck jumper that used to fit him and a grumpy look perfected for Angry People in Local Newspapers

How Telegraph headlines lie…in fact having grossly underestimated the rebuild costs (as they guessed them during the purchase), they finally shopped around and managed to get insurance for under £1,500 per year. Absolute non-story

Have you ever slowed, or been in a car with someone who has slowed, when passing a sign like that? The signs exist but I’m not sure they make any difference to driver behaviour.

Where councils try to slow drivers where pedestrians are numerous with 20mph schemes the objections are massive.

If we get our proper Brexit I can see the headlines now…

Spam To Take Over On Sharing Platters

Herbal Tea Outlawed As Britain Returns To “Milk And Three Please Luv”

Flat Cap Fridays To Replace Ghastly Baseball Caps

English Flowers Only - Roses Are Fine, Tulips Sent Packing

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While we are at it let’s have decent temperatures back - a hot day should be scorching and in the 80’s. Petrol will have the lead added again and be sold in gallons. We will be getting our own from under the North Sea so it’ll be a few crowns for each of those lovely brain destroying gallons too. 4/

No more asking still or sparkling as all water will come from the tap again, and wine will be reclassified as foreign grape juice - proper alcohol will be brown, warm, unapologetic and served in pint glasses. 3/

No more using olive oil as beef dripping makes a comeback especially in our caffs which get rid of that stupid French way of spelling them. Caff owners get rid of paninis in favour of pressed sandwiches. We will revert to having three cheeses - cheddar, red leicester and that white one 2/

They want to return to 1978, but with smartphones & no bolshy striking unions. Also foreign players in our Premier League are to be given proper English names - City will have Eric Hayland up front and Pete Groundsman as manager, Arsenal have Gary Jesus because the surname is foreign but proper 1/

And presumably one of the nightmares of tinted windows for cyclists. I’m sure, like me, you often look to see if it appears a driver at a junction has seen you (I know it’s not always a guarantee that they’re not looking through you due to inattentional blindness)

Charles Windsor (not my king but maybe yours) walking across a field with others on a bird shooting day

While I’m in favour of celebrities pushing forward environmental protection, it’s difficult to see bird shooting and fox hunting Charles Windsor as anything other than a bit of a hypocrite

And I run lists for different subjects that interest me. Each of these just shows the accounts I add. As I only scroll down these, I don’t see what I don’t choose to see.

And for me in Cornwall where we have to book a visit and B1KE wasn’t accepted as a VRN!

I didn’t have a newspaper article (more’s the pity) but I have the email to show to the staff member on the gate (in case they haven’t got or remembered the memo)

An #FACup weekend without VAR really shows how much better football is without it - especially for fans in the grounds.

Most decisions are correct and the game flows. Goal celebrations don’t need to be paused; emotions can be allowed to be free.

Time to scrap #VAR

Both things can be true:
1. Rental bikes left on pavements can be a pain and a better solution is needed
2. Parking on pavements is a pain and a full ban is needed (with better public transport so fewer people need their own car)

I’m still buzzing and it’s two days later! We are all Gentleman Jim “pick that out”

Photo of a snowy road in a village with two tarmac tracks where grit has been spread and brushed

I had to go up to the grit bin this morning and create myself some tyre tracks to make it to the #FULLIV game. Let’s hope the @fulhamfc.com players show the same commitment #COYW

Note: I missed a key word out of the first skeet. It should of course say “more likely”

And while women may leave to have kids, men were heading off to work for companies’ competition. Weirdly the owners and managers I spoke to at the time were happy that men were ‘staying in the profession’. 2/2

There’s not only a moral reason for maternity pay, but also a business reason. In research I do for a dissertation many years ago, I discovered in my profession (surveying) that men in their late 20’s and early 30’s were likely to leave an employer than women of a similar age 1/2

Typically the perpetrator’s insurer would pay losses/damages

Infographic from Daily Telegraph’s Money section titled “Homeowners’ receipt” listing taxes paid on a £2 million UK home over 30 years. It shows stamp duty of £154,000 described as tax paid to buy a £2m house; council tax of £318,000 for a Band H home; a mansion tax of £138,000 described as Labour’s new surcharge; VAT of £29,000 added to building and maintenance work; and inheritance tax of £1.44 million described as estimated death duties. The graphic states a total tax cost over 30 years of £2.08 million.

Good old Daily Telegraph spreading (financial) fear with a scenario that actually only affects <1% of households

Thanks for sharing over this side. Wish we could get FFC to stop posting on Twitter and come here too

The goalkeeping was poor, but he was hounded by Raul and Josh then chose the right option with Harry actively requesting the ball and having the confidence to try something audacious.

I think you’re being naïve Philippe