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Weather and loads of it…

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Managed to get out on Monday (20th) to enjoy the sunny weather (for a change!) on a ride out through Belbroughton, Bromsgrove, Blackwell, Barnt Green, Hopwood, Earlswood and back into town via Shirley and Moseley.

Malvern Hills on the horizon, seen from Burcot Lane near Bromsgrove.

Malvern Hills on the horizon, seen from Burcot Lane near Bromsgrove.

The next opportunity came on Thursday which started warm and sunny but soon deteriorated into a sort of chase-the-storm sort of day.

It absolutely tipped down for the first time as I went through town so I sheltered by a very forlorn and very empty Brumbeach. It soon cleared up and I was on my way west. Rain clouds hovered in the distance but my route seemed to slide round them and I stayed dry all the way through to Tanworth-in-Arden. (more…)

Copse and Llamas…

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Sun’s out so time to get some real miles under the belt. Fifty miles on Saturday was a good workout and an eye-opener at times!

Climbing out of Kitwell up toward Frankley Beeches my thoughts turned to David Hockney.

Frankley Beeches

Frankley Beeches

Hockney is engaged on a series of seasonal paintings of one particular copse in his native Yorkshire. Well, I read that he arrived to paint the Spring version only to find that the owner had cut the timber to the ground. End of series. So how about coming down to Birmingham David and putting the Beeches on the artistic map? (more…)