På helgen åkte vi till norra Wales så att vi kunde hänga med min syster och hennes man. Vi tog vår ny Tiger och körde många annorlunda vägar: motorväg med bra flyt, igenkorkad motorväg (när det var nästan tretio grader), svepande landsvägar, och branta bruksvägar. Vi hade ens lite offroad, men tigern är inte så bra för det jämfört med vår tidigare motorcykel. Våra besökare hade velat springer ett…
I've continued to have fun with having a small midi keyboard on my desk and playing bits of synth-pop riffs to myself in moments between work. Fun does not mean I'm good of course, but I do currently enjoy it more than playing guitar, which I've neglected somewhat. I think it's because with a simple drum pattern and some reverb with a synth you can create quite a full sounding sound, whereas…
Efter nio år sade jag "hej då" till min stora KTM äventyrsmotorcykel och "hej hej" till den här mellanstor Triumph äventyrsmotorcykel. Den KTM motorcykeln var härlig, men mer motorcykel an jag behövde. Ska jag vara helt ärlig blev jag med tiden skrämd av KTMen efter jag hade en olycka sju eller åtta år seden. Min olycka var inte på KTMen, men man kan inte bli lite nervous på en stor ock stark…
Whilst I've not had to 3D-print anything on my bike directly yet, I have used my 3D-printing skills just to try keep my bike things tidier. I've always felt that despite all the fancy things one can make, the real power of 3D-printing is just solving small tedious things for which there isn't a market to make it for everyone and thus sellable.
We had a good time at the Liverpool Coffee Festival this morning. A lot of local roasters were there, and all had something interesting and/or unusual they were brewing for the masses that had come to sample their wares. We had some excellent coffees from Crosby coffee (their peach co-ferment was amazing), Press Bros Coffee (excellent well balanced cortardo), Saints of Mokha (who made a Mont Blanc…
På helgen gick jag och Laura till Llandudno i Wales på motorcykeln. Vi åkte via Chester så att jag kunde prova en annan motorcykel , och via Colwyn Bay för kaffe , innan vi kom äntligen fram till Llandudno och den stora Ormen.
We were passing Colwyn Bay yesterday, so stopped at the excellent Akin Coffee . In Cambridge we were happy to have two coffee shops that have a proper wide range of different beans ( Flux and Dom's), and after our move to the Wirral, Akin is the nearest one we have found that has a similar breadth of beans. We opted to keep it local and took two different options from Apricity coffee roasters…