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This ad was filmed in Broadstairs, where I grew up.

It’s for a company called E.ON, who are into wind power. I like the ad because it shows off my home town to its best advantage. (NB it doesn’t always look so quaintly idyllic.) And the music’s great, too - apparently, it’s a song by Woody Guthrie called Lost John, with Sonny Terry on harmonica.

The planned wind farm that it’s advertising - called the London Array - will be somewhere in the Thames estuary, and will be visible off the coast of Broadstairs. There’s a wind farm off the coast of Herne Bay already, but much smaller than the one that’s being planned. Unfortunately, not everyone is happy with the plans. The substation (the onshore part of the wind farm) was planned to be sited near the village of Graveney, but the locals seem to have put a stop to that. “Great news”? I think not. There are going to be NIMBY idiots complaining wherever they propose to put the substation, but clearly the London Array will be a good thing for all of us so the substation is going to have to go somewhere… maybe the good people of Graveney would rather have a coal power station on their doorstep instead.

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Is it really six months since my last post?

So far in 2007, I have ridden my bicycle a total of 438km. I know this because I am recording my rides using Cyclogs. I am some way short of my target of an average 20 miles (32km) a day (which roughly equates to 1,000km a month) but this is largely down to the weather - particularly some dangerously strong winds of late.

My longest ride so far in 2007 was the Poor Student, a 200km Audax ride. The route for this ride starts in Oxford and goes in a big loop via Malmesbury, Cirencester, over the Cotswolds to Chipping Campden and back to Oxford. It’s a challenging route, hilly in places, but not the toughest ride ever. The weather is the biggest challenge to overcome when riding a 200km in January, but fortunately it mostly stayed pleasant and only got really nasty towards the end. It took me 12 hours to finish, including generous rest stops (about 9.5 hours riding time).

I’m hoping to fit in at least two rides of 200km+ per month. This means I need to go out this weekend for a 200km ride if I am to achieve this target for January, but snow is forecast, which could put paid to that idea. Still, I have a route worked out in case the weather holds off. Fingers crossed.

The ultimate target for this year is to ride Paris-Brest-Paris, “the oldest bicycle race in the world”, which is held every four years. It is a ride of 1,200km - from Paris to Brest and back, funnily enough - with a 90-hour time limit. In other words, riding pretty much non-stop for the best part of four days (though the “elite” riders will aim to finish in not much over two days). The ride is organised by Audax Club Parisien. More about PBP on Wikipedia.

…is either you’ve got nothing to write about, or you are too busy to write about it.

There’s a discussion on an internet forum I subscribe to with the heading “Religion or alcohol?” - as in: Which is worse…?

One contributor, a self-styled practising Christian, commented:
“I enjoy my alcohol - in moderation. If taken to excess, we lose our perspective, our dignity, the respect of others and, not least, fail to appreciate the pleasure which the drink can give.”

Wise words. But don’t they apply equally to religion? After all, what is evangelism but a surfeit of religiosity?

Self-righteous piety is to faith what binge-drinking is to fine wine.

For more information, visit www.godaware.co.uk

(Insert pithy satirical comment about George W Bush and/or Tony Blair here…)

Seen on TV last night, on The Big Idea on Sky One: the Sideways Bicycle. Gizmag has already written about this invention.

Conventional bicycles require us to use left-right balance - it is not always apparent in everyday cycling, but even when you are riding in a straight line you maintain your balance by wobbling from side to side. (The best method for learning to ride a bike is to take the pedals off, lower the saddle and use it as a scooter. Find a gentle slope to roll down and when you find the bike starting to fall over, as it inevitably will, steer in the direction of the fall to regain your balance. This is the method I used to teach my son - it took about half an hour before he was riding with confidence, so I can vouch for how effective it is.)
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Alala - CSS
Man, I Hate Your Band - Little Man Tate
Nag Nag Nag - Art Brut

There is a particularly wonderful something about riding a bike down a dark country lane that is entirely unique. At 3am, miles from anywhere, with nothing but bats and owls for company, you experience the world in a way that cannot be replicated under any other circumstances. It is magical - perhaps because it is also a little scary.

On the way home from the pub tonight I took the unlit detour rather than the direct route home. Although it lacked that special something, these experiences can be artificially heightened - in this case by having a bit of music on my headphones. Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd came on just as I was leaving town, and by the time I reached the darkest, remotest part of the route, the instrumental section was reaching its peak…

Exhilarating is the only word for it. You can’t plan moments like that.