A WESTERN WEEKEND AT THE ROCCO RANCH

Just joking, but Mog’s home is beginning to remind Janet of her days as a jilleroo in Australia, and Rocco loves a good western (classic and spaghetti, of course). We shall be returning to the western theme, but thank goodness for old fashioned English weather today.

A N Wilson on his English-made bike

Great piece by A N Wilson in last weekend’s Financial Times on the bicycle theme. A N has an English-made Pashley:  not the one shown above, but we are keeping this in mind for the Cafe Rocco (www.caferocco.com)

A flavour of the article is provided in the following quotation:

“Throughout the period when the bicycle was being pioneered so, too, was the internal combustion engine, with its greed for oil. Ninety per cent of the world’s sorrows, including modern wars, came from this fatal hunger…”

WHY IT PAYS TO BE POSH

Derived from the seafaring expression “port outward, starboard home”, and originally used to describe preferentially located ship’s cabins, Janet’s bicycle – purchased as a kit* from Woolworth for £69 in 2008 before the store closed down - was yesterday implicated as POSH by a nerdy-looking male cyclist (or was he referring to her !)

* Janet’s  ”Universal Mystique” was subsquently assembled at Lewis’s Worcester cycle shop.