Author Archives: Ponder

About Ponder

I'm a train driver from Cardiff, have been married a long time and have 4 wonderful kids... all grown up now! Warning: I tend to lose The Game a lot.

Cycle “Adventures” Volume 170

Well this turned out to be longer than I expected and this was mostly due to something supposedly designed to keep cyclists safe: cycle lanes! More on this shortly. The “new” Highway Code rules, which seem to have cycle haters … Continue reading

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Cycle “Adventures” Volume 169

A fairly quiet period that took a while to collate enough for this video. There’s still a lot of impatience going on though, including an emergency stop for someone who didn’t even see me at a roundabout and of all … Continue reading

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Cycle “Adventures” Volume 168

This was surprisingly quiet for a December! This doesn’t mean I didn’t have to put up with the normal impatience but not much in the way of Christmas madness. The danger I mention in one of the clips was nothing … Continue reading

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Cycle “Adventures” Volume 167

So many close passes and so much impatience in this video. There were some deliberate dangerous passes too, but they’re unlisted on YouTube only and are after the main video on this post. The Psychic School of Motoring makes a … Continue reading

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Cycle “Adventures” Volume 166

Due to my crazy shifts lately I’ve been cycling when there’s little else around, so it took a bit longer than usual to get enough together to make publishing worthwhile. I left it the extra 7 days and got more … Continue reading

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Cycle “Adventures” Volume 165

There’s more than a bit of twattery in this edition, once again people show that patience is an alien concept to some. Lots of the usual and one particular car, the driver of which had better hope he doesn’t see … Continue reading

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Cycle “Adventures” Volume 164

Quite a bit of impatience in this video, even more than usual! A lot of total lack of consideration, dive bombed by a herring gull and someone being really naughty by either modifying their car illegally or just using fake … Continue reading

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Cycle “Adventures” Volume 163

Some things I want to draw attention to in this video. In the very first clip (I’m on my foldable bike) the cars just barged through using their weight to force me to stop even though (as I didn’t have … Continue reading

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Updating My 9 Year Old Code

Warning, lots of geeky words in this article! New links for the next few months at work have been published. I tidy up the spreadsheets and make them available to all drivers at the depot. I then port the sheet … Continue reading

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Goodbye LBRY Hello Odysee

What started as LBRY is now Odysee. It’s still the decentralised system it started out as and all accounts have been transparently transferred but (and this is the reason for this post) all my past lbry embeds are now invalid. … Continue reading

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