His Story / Her Story
There is nothing wrong with dreaming. Without dreaming, there is no ambition. Without ambition nothing happens. If nothing happens, there is no history. His story and her story becomes history. Our history. By studying history, we hope to avoid situations that have happened before, as in, we learn from our mistakes. We all know that […]
The Weird And The Wonderful
Back in the summer, I toured the UK following Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s tour. I managed to catch up with old friends and really have a great time. In London, my buddy Geraint and I had a couple of days catching up on old adventures before the Wembley show. We also saw […]
The Return of The Magnificent Seven: Adventures on the NC500
Buzzing up the Applecross mountains out of Inverness on the back of my trusty Triumph makes this the first leg of the NC 500 around Scotland. I had ridden to Chester to stay a couple of days previously to break up the long journey, with the sun shining gold in my mirrors, and my eyes […]
Palm Sunday bimble on the Black Mountains
Palm Sunday is known as The Flowers Sunday in Wales – Sul y Blodau (Phonetically – Seal urh blodye) – and it is a big thing. Tradionally it is the day we tend to loved ones graves and put flowers in rememberence and to honour them. Yesterday I did just that, honoured my grandparents, my […]
Set Lusting Bruce: A Bruce Springsteen Podcast
Winter comes and winter goes. Spring is trying to kick the dampness of the Welsh winter into touch and I am just dying to get out on a bike to have some fun again. I am giving myself a big fat ‘F’ for blogging this winter but I am back on the keyboard and writing […]
Dad and Mad
There aren’t many people who immediately impress with their politeness, friendliness, personality, talent and ambition which is a mile wide at its thinnest point; but when that spark of inspiration is still a youngster, you realise that you are waaaayyy later to the party than you first thought! Meet Mad from ‘Dad & Mad’ on […]
The Code of the Irish Road : The Return of The Magnificent Seven
Rolling off the ferry onto the concrete standing of Rosslare harbour with the sun squinting through the afternoon haze can only mean another Irish biking adventure. After an uneventful ferry trip from Fishguard, being chased by seagulls, gannets, dolphins, and porpoises, it was great to have the tyres crunch the tarmac and set out […]
Rocking all over the world
I am going to definitely make it through this year. Now the lockdowns are behind us, it is great that bands have come out of tour hibernation and brought live music to the global audience. So Bruce Springsteen decided to do one of those epic tours that he is famous for. Wendy and I spent […]
The Unseen Disability
Each day I wake up in a different state of pain. I pull myself upright, assess how bad my waking pain is, take whatever meds I need to take, to take the edge off, then breakfast, shower, dress – with my wifes’ help occassionally, before I set out for the day. The pain you get […]
Hothouse Flowers – Don’t Go
When I had the accident, I thought I was going to die. No ifs or buts, I thought I was shuffling off this mortal coil. However, being I was in so much pain, I thought that this was probably the best way out of a terrible situation. Two friends would come and see me, independantly […]