Category Archives: Turf

Turfing and visiting relatives sometimes just do not go together well, at least not for myself today on a visit down to Kelso in the Scottish Borders. It’s frustrating in the extreme, to put it mildly, particularly when you know … Continue reading →

Zone EskIsland, Musselburgh, located by the weir on the River Esk. I’d stopped to take the zone but had overshot and was forced to reverse the bike to get back into the zone area, tricky here as the path narrows … Continue reading →

I watched an amazing video the other day. It was titled Safety to Nome (trailer), a feature-length film that documents the 2017 Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI), a 1,000-mile fat bike, cross-country ski or foot race across Alaska, from Anchorage to … Continue reading →

Still somewhat restricted in my ability to turf using either bicycle or kick scooter, or even walk very far for that matter, since my encounter with the Very Despicable Pulled Muscle in the Back Goblin while undertaking the highly dangerous … Continue reading →

Some time ago I created a turf page called Turf Irritations, a light-hearted look at some of the little and not so little irritations that we turfers encounter from time to time. However, to balance the equitation and keep the … Continue reading →

Back in March 202o, when the Covid-19 lockdown started and travel was greatly restricted, both my car and Cathryn’s car largely sat idle in the driveway, gathering dust and depreciating rapidly in value. We both had new cars, both on … Continue reading →

  Like many people I have a regular morning routine. You know the usual kind of stuff. Visiting the bathroom to sprinkle the ivory, breaking the fast, cleaning the champers, taking an ice cold shower and eventually getting dressed. But … Continue reading →

Continuing on from Turf Blog 15-10-21 Part 1, we are now in North Berwick, parked along the seafront, opposite a strange and rather sinister structure that appears to be the entrance to an underground bunker, strangely similar to the those … Continue reading →

In the HBO TV series Westworld, a main character Dolores, ably acted by Evan Rachel Wood, plays the role of a “host”, an artificially created being, like the Nexus-6 android Replicants in Blade Runner. On various occasions she speaks a … Continue reading →