I was recently alerted to some new bicycle parking having been installed at the new Waitrose/John Lewis at Home in Ipswich after my recent blog post, so went to take a look. They have almost doubled the cycle parking since the previous time I visited after I emailed as pointed out that it was well… Continue reading More cycle parking installed at Ipswich Waitrose/John Lewis
Category: England
Barnet Great Divide Ride Review
Last Sunday I went on the Barnet Great Divide Ride in North London. The roads up there do seem to be scarier than what I’m used to for London. As an experienced cyclist, I was glad that I was in the middle of a big group of 80 people on bicycles and not cycling through… Continue reading Barnet Great Divide Ride Review
2012 New Year Fireworks in London
Last night I went to the centre of London near the South Bank to watch the fireworks for the New Year celebrations. In the past I have taken lots of photos of the fireworks, so this year I decided to try some video instead. When started using my camcorder, a Canon LEGRIA HF M32, I… Continue reading 2012 New Year Fireworks in London
Cycling along Stratford High Street
Recently an article appeared on the LCC website about people being fined for cycling on the pavement of Stratford High Street where the Greenway is now diverted due to Olympic and Crossrail works. I decided to take a closer look on the ground on Tuesday evening to see if it was valid for people to cycle there.… Continue reading Cycling along Stratford High Street
London WordPress Meetup – 28th July 2011
On Thursday there was the July 2011 London WordPress meetup in the Headshift | Dachis Group offices. I recorded the presentations and have uploaded them to YouTube: Ice-breakers & Introductions Introduction to WordPress by Emily Webber Beginner Theme Development by Keith Devon Looking Under the Hood of WordPress by Chris Adams If you’d like to come… Continue reading London WordPress Meetup – 28th July 2011
Bulk loading data into OpenStreetMap
Some of you who were at WhereCampUK, Nottingham in November 2010, may recognise the discussion in this blog post as it is based on my talk there. Since the early days of OpenStreetMap, people have been bulk importing data into the database. There have been various issues with many of the previous import methods, which… Continue reading Bulk loading data into OpenStreetMap
Cycling: London to Dover overnight
With the English bank holiday weekend (Scotland has the August bank holiday on the first Monday instead of the last), I thought that I would go for one of my longer cycle rides and see if I could beat my previous record of 150 miles. On the Saturday morning I packed the 4.5 litre of… Continue reading Cycling: London to Dover overnight
Cycling: Car bonnet: Half a year on
You may remember some of my tweets from the end of last year from an accident on my way home from work. I was cycling past Peckham Rye Park along the London Cycle Route 22 as I was usually doing, a motorist decided to come out of a side road even so he didn’t have… Continue reading Cycling: Car bonnet: Half a year on
Cycling: Milton Keynes – Watford
Last Saturday I took a train from Selhurst to Milton Keynes and started cycling back home. (At the moment you can get 15% off off-peak Southern tickets when you buy them at least 2 hours before travel, online.) I’d been thinking about doing that cycle since the Milton Keynes Mapping Party back in May last… Continue reading Cycling: Milton Keynes – Watford
OpenStreetMap Job Search Alert
As part of my recent job search I setup a few job alerts. One of which was with the keyword OpenStreetMap on CWJobs. I wasn’t expecting there to be anything coming up. Out of the blue a job alert did appear, and it sounds rather interesting, though I have just started a new job at… Continue reading OpenStreetMap Job Search Alert