Frankenlight

Commercial Cateye Light (£80, 1 watt) and homemade Frankenlight (£5, 20 watts) on my rusty but beloved single speed conversion. Note sophisticated switching mechanism - unplug one of the power leads.

One small step.

This doesn't have the gravitas of the official version - yet, somehow, I find it more believable ...

Obama

Don't misread me - I wish him well.

Not that my wishes amount to much.

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It seems to me that a great many people with the scantest of links to the US are delighted with his ascendancy. It's tempting to think of our breathless wittering as ephemeral and of no consequence. Advertising wonks (who, you will remember, are the minions of the first horseman of the apocalypse) are always listening carefully though - look at this -



Flat pack furniture for freedom.

Gustard Wood

Another one ...



A bit pixelated - if you can convince YouTube to allow you to copy the original file it's a bit better. KeepVid.com will steal a better quality MP4 format file from YouTube for you.

Crikey!

No need to explain what happened here - but it was quite near what was my home. Fortunately the surfer survived.

My Christmas present.

A wee video camera - not the world's greatest resolution, but rugged enough for mountain bike handlebars. Or helmet if you can bear the ridicule.

I took it on a very cold Saturday morning ride. Drinking water froze quite quickly, camera batteries froze too after the first hour.

Here's a ham-fisted bit of Windows MovieMaker-ism.

Internet Bird Collection

My bet is that Jill comes back to this blog occasionally. If so - the IBC may be of interest.

Personally, the last bird that was of interest to me was the much sought after Duck Confit. I tried to post a picture on the IBC but the administrator got a bit cross.