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
Author: John Howes
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
Glastonbury 40th
It’s 40 years since my one and only visit to Glastonbury Festival in 1982, travelling from Lambeth Walk in Rob’s yellow VW Transporter. I remember enjoying performances from Jackson Browne, Judy Tzuke, The Chieftains all from close to the stage, while only taking Van Morrison in from a distance as I’d been put off by… Continue reading Glastonbury 40th