Goodbye to Cheques

The Cycle Touring Club - CTC now can take renewals online! At last.

But .....

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....never mind, this is another case of e-incompetence. Now where is that cheque book?

First page of a detective novel

An homage to Raymond Chandler by Andrew Hussie. It is the first page of a detective novel but ironically placed at the end of the story. Totally brilliant in my own humble opinion. Read it here

Last chance to see

This corner of Wallbridge, Stroud will disappear underneath a road in a few months so I wanted to take a really close look before it goes forever.
This is what it used to look like:

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Then for some reason it was demolished but some of the wall was retained with the windows bricked in and the wall top capped in cement. The dark vertical line on the wall betrays where the rain downpipe used to be and at the top you can still see a bit of the painted arrow showing the way to Bath.

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