Occasional links - 12.06.2021
Hello,
Me again. Last time I made an awful copy and paste mistake for the subject line that almost killed me with embarrassment. I won't let it happen again. I've learnt from this. Thanks for sticking with us.
I also felt a little lacking in creativity so gave it a miss last week. Today I am off to ride my bicycle, drink beer with my friend Chrissy and tilt my head back to laugh in a raucous manner at his jokes.
Here are some links for you to enjoy at your leisure.
Important information
Do Blackburn panniers fit Spaniels? Your dog link for this week.
Snake bridge over the Macclesfield canal
An incredibly beautiful structure designed to allow horses to continue pulling the narrowboat whilst navigating bridges.
The Avalanches’ ‘Since I Left You’ at 20
Me again. Last time I made an awful copy and paste mistake for the subject line that almost killed me with embarrassment. I won't let it happen again. I've learnt from this. Thanks for sticking with us.
I also felt a little lacking in creativity so gave it a miss last week. Today I am off to ride my bicycle, drink beer with my friend Chrissy and tilt my head back to laugh in a raucous manner at his jokes.
Here are some links for you to enjoy at your leisure.
Important information
Do Blackburn panniers fit Spaniels? Your dog link for this week.
Snake bridge over the Macclesfield canal
An incredibly beautiful structure designed to allow horses to continue pulling the narrowboat whilst navigating bridges.
The Avalanches’ ‘Since I Left You’ at 20
There’s a phenomenon which takes place when you ride the Shinkansen between Tokyo and Kyōto. Bulleting past Mount Fuji at 199 miles per hour opens up to a rare sensation: The bamboo outside your window appears to dance. It’s an optical illusion generated by speed, of course, but once you become au fait with the motion blur, the view is intensely beautiful, implicitly exotic, a little uncanny and oddly becalming. There’s no way to control it, so you slip inside this bizarro logic and get cosy.
This alleyway near my house is paved with upturned Edwardian Belfast sinks
Reminds me of fences made from WW2 stretchers and lots of these in Camberwell and Peckham.
A video review of the Thomas Heatherwick Hudson River Park
More architectural critique should be done in this format IMHO. Very amusing.
The anus is an evolutionary marvel
You heard. Let's see if this gets through any work spam filters. Maybe not.
Numberless Soviet era phones
Strangely beautiful and surreal.
In praise of small menus
One of my favourite places to eat is Artusi in Peckham. You get two to three choices for starters, main course, desert. It's always amazing!
60° North
Riding around the islands in Shetland with pack rafts and camping kit and then rowing between them to complete the journey. This one is good and 10 years old, well ahead of the very well established bike packing genre. I was reminded of this thanks to Mark's newsletter and the link to this Pannier.cc adventure. Here's an example of Mark's latest post.
The architecture of Finland's carpet hangers
Really enjoy these. Thanks to Marianna for the link.
Hope you have a really super weekend.
Love as always,
Andy x
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