Yakkety Yakk: Archive

Yakkety Yakk

January 2012

1 post

“How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth...”

– Kurt Vonnegut: A Man Without a Country

December 2011

1 post

My Mum, driving me to the train station this morning, “all the lights have been in our favour” as she accelerates through a red.

November 2011

4 posts

“When I stopped working on the races I was glad but it left an emptiness. By then...”

– A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Thanks to tarckstar’s recommendation I’ve been watching Behind the Barriers on Vimeo. It’s a behind the scenes look at cyclocross, following Jeremy Powers and team for the season. The first few episodes (of season one) are a bit slow, but give it time, it’s a great glimpse into the world of cyclocross. It’s also really funny and good to see what these guys get up to...

October 2011

7 posts

A wonderfully inspiring film for women cyclists from Rapha.

Gatwick airport, 3.30am. It’s a lonely place.

September 2011

11 posts

3rd day on the island, waking with hazlenut coffee, being educated in politics and economics, eating incredible homemade food, reading Dorothy Parker and now the sun has come out. Perfect days.

I’m off to the tedx London event at the roundhouse. Inspiration here I come!

August 2011

7 posts

where I live, part one

I live in an NHS speech therapy centre in West London. No I’m not a squatter. I’m a Camelot guardian. Okay, so that doesn’t mean I dress up in Arthurian garb and reenact my weekends away. Camelot offer businesses, charities, councils and individuals an alternative to selling unwanted properties (yeah, apparently the market isn’t so great), boarding up or hiring security...

Green Patriot Posters →

london comes together →

I really can’t believe what is happening, these idiots are now setting alight to buildings and not just shops, but residential homes. Completely thoughtless violence.

July 2011

2 posts

June 2011

5 posts

May 2011

19 posts

“Cells that fire together wire together”