The festival of fiftieth anniversaries for cycle campaigning in London has pedalled off in style with a ten minute video from ICAG – Islington Cycle Action Group (now Cycle Islington). This has plenty of footage from the time of cycling in the metropolis, plus progress in the borough to the present day. If you want… Continue reading Pedalling past the fiftieth anniversaries
Forty years in the saddle
Classic bike, classic holiday Four decades of use from a trusty Brooks saddle, and 40 years since the first of many cycling holidays with Bicycle Beano. Everything but the Dales * The mid-Wales valleys {1}, rather than the Yorkshire Dales, are the more natural home of my Claud Butler ‘Dalesman’ bicycle, acquired June 1984. Just… Continue reading Forty years in the saddle
A photogenic side to bookkeeping
A large chunk of my working life, and some voluntary time too, has been around charity finance, with a focus on Lambeth and Southwark community and housing groups followed by senior roles at a couple of national charities. This seemed like quite a natural evolution from my first ‘regular’ bookkeeping work in 1984 {1} with… Continue reading A photogenic side to bookkeeping
Switching off
It’s finally time to move the first website I created into full retirement after almost 25 years {1}. VolResource was designed to provide an easy source of useful, practical information for the voluntary sector – charities, community and campaigning groups etc – without having to wade through loads of unnecessary verbiage or promotional material. At… Continue reading Switching off
A Bicycle Beano bonanza
You wouldn’t guess it from this website, but I like to think that I’m not that into nostalgia. However, recently various conversations {2} have led to trying to remember when I first/last went to a particular place on cycling holidays with Bicycle Beano {3}. Many of these were as a helper/crew member, so some might… Continue reading A Bicycle Beano bonanza