My grandfather taught me so much, but one of his key sayings that I remember being told from a very, very young age...
‘What goes up, must come down!’
Told, fairly light-heartedly, always with a smile, intrigued me. He was part of the British RAF during the Second World War, so I also felt a level of serious mystery may exist, behind the quote.
My following years of childhood, teenage years, and early adulthood allowed me to learn that this quote could be understood much more seriously than perhaps intended. In a sense whilst starting out as an obvious fact of Physics, it can also be recognised existentially. It states that an object cannot exist and only have one essence. Things equal, if something elevates, sinking is a potential.
As I travel on the bus, I am feeling so lucky.
Public transport is my key method of travel. I use it as an essential necessity almost everyday. If travelling by bus or by train, once used to a journey, one begins to appreciate the ‘small things’. You may not be taking the quickest, most direct route, but ecologically you help so much. The financial cost, plus the stress of polluting our atmosphere, yourself, alone, may become too large for most, soon.
As a disabled, wheelchair user currently, I am so incredibly grateful for the services provided and my ‘Freedom Pass’. I was taught how I should use the two modes of transport discussed, in my rehabilitation home. Whilst ‘trapped’ in rehabilitation, I embraced using public transport at any chance, regarding it similarly as a jump towards freedom!
I was learning to drive, in 2006, at the time a car almost took my life whilst cycling. I have never felt any particular desire to drive a car, before or after!
Public transport has always been the way forward!
Finally, I can hear such positive news, concerning a topic that I had previously given up all hope on!
Recyclable toothpaste tube
LDPE
Colgate toothpaste tubes are primarily just a Low-Density-Poly-Ethylene, which is essentially, a recyclable plastic (stated below triangle symbol). It is more difficult than HDPEs (High-Density-PE), but things are progressing!
My ‘Morning Macchiato’
Tuesday, my regular coffee shop haunt, is closed. I took the opportunity to make my ‘Morning Macchiato’, in my flat. A single-shot espresso, brewed in my Bialetti ‘Moka’. A regular, minimal level of milk was heated into a froth. Two teaspoons of such were laid on top of the Espresso base. All held and served in a tiny espresso cup. Wait. Three sips, and I’m finished. I have since researched, and milk froth will be reduced to one ‘and a bit’ teaspoons!
;)
The only reason that this is called a ‘Morning Macchiato’, is that I always restrict myself to having just this in the morning.
Back ‘in my day’, being a professional cycling fanatic, the French season would always kick-off with ‘GP Ouverture - le Marseillaise’, the Italians would act similarly at ‘Le Trofeo Laigueglia’. The Spanish use both the ‘Ruta del Sol’ and ‘Volta d’Andalusia’. Although there may be other races around the globe, these were small, classic season-openers for the Europeans.
A link to a report of this year’s Italian opener...
Winner Giulio Ciccone, whose ‘Giro d’Italia’ success was celebrated on this blog, last year...
Handy rider!
British cycling has developed immensely with the involvement of Team Sky, but it has always been a great joy to find a fellow Brit, riding alone, on a foreign team. We are shown key signs that these men have had to embrace the European life alone, without great commercial backing. Young Matthew Holmes was spotted strongly riding for Belgian ‘Lotto-Soudal’ squad, in Andalusia (courtesy of British Eurosport).
Agnes Obel - ‘Myopia’
At time of writing, I have not bought it yet (I am deliberating which service to download ‘ethically’ from, as not on Bandcamp.com, currently).
For now YouTube clips will have to suffice.
A link from Agnes Obel’s email…
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