Because several times I had to get off and push Lev, and without the various analgesic creams I’d have considered amputating my foot…
- Distance cycled: 48.55 miles (cyclemeter map)
- cumulative distance: 100.69 miles
No-va caned!
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Ni with digital evidence
 View from our train to Oberalppass |
 View from our train to Oberalppass |
 View from our train to Oberalppass |
 View from our train to Oberalppass – look at that road! |
 View from our train to Oberalppass |
 View from our train to Oberalppass |
 Coming into Oberalppass station |
 Oberalppass station |
 We cycled down that … |
 … but we couldn’t cycle up that! |
 Looking around from where I waited for Elly |
 Wierd thing en route |
 The Rhine emerges from Tomasee down the gorge on the right |
 The Rhine |
 Place-may in the pub: churches around Trun |
 Tide marks where I had kinesiology tape on my leg |
 We’re in a Romansch-speaking area. Our landlady speaks it, German and Italian. Also she seems to know at least one word of Russian: ‘spasiba’ (‘thanks’). |
 Advert in Romansch |
Ni!
Because we’re in Trun, and the Knights who say ‘Ni!’ was filmed in Troon castle Continue reading
Getting higher!
Grüss-di aus Andermatt! Wir sind in Gasthaus Skiklub, auf Gotthardstrasse. That’s enough German: predictive text is being unhelpful.
So there were quite a lot of trains yesterday and today:
| Amsterdam Centraal | 18:55 | Arnhem Centraal | 19:59 |
| Arnhem Centraal | 20:44 | Duisburg Hbf | 22:14 |
| Duisburg Hbf | 23:13 | Basel SBB | 06:22 |
| Basel SBB | 08:28 | Brig | 10:40 |
| Brig | 10:40 | Brig Bahnhofplatz | 10:40 |
| Brig Bahnhofplatz | 11:23 | Andermatt | 13:20 |
 View of Rhône from train to Brig |
 Brig Bahnhof is watching you! |
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Squelch!
- Home to Waverley: 1.01 miles
- Newcastle to North Shields: 10.57 miles
- cumulative distance: 11.58 miles
All Levved up and Fidel’s to go!
The ever-wonderful Elly has described our trip from home to North Shields so what can I add? Well, I’m amazed I can even think about blogging after 4 hours’ sleep last night, but I’m just so happy to be travelling again with my lovely lady. And of course huge thanks to her and our employers and our various yoga-teachers, spinning instructors, and therapists for all their parts in enabling this trip! Continue reading
Votez mes maillots!
I’ve just received this (bought from Organic Athlete):
I do – but slowly!
But I only intend to take 3 jerseys on the honeymoon. So which of these treasures do I leave at home?
 IRN·BRU |
Tweet to @bruceryan_rants to let me know what you think!
On mature(?) reflection, I have to pay tribute to LifesCycle for keeping me fit and sane, and I have to take something slightly rude, and I won’t be able to feed my addiction while we’re away. So, with sadness, the Irn Bru stays in the wardrobe.
Answering some questions about e-voting (part 1)
My most recent post on this subject was constructively challenged by someone I respect highly. This person asked:
- What are ‘high logistical and environmental costs’, in £££ and time?
- How many people are affected by mobility issues, visual impairments or other things preventing them from going to polling places.
- Concerning proxy voting, postal voting and statutory aids for people with visual impairments:
- How many people are involved?
- How many would benefit from the change?
- How often does it happen that polling places become unavailable?
- What would success in increasing turnout (due to e-voting) look like?
- Concerning ‘facilitating reliable and rapid results (including fewer spoilt ballots)’:
- What speed up could be expected?
- How many spoiled ballots happen?
- And under e-voting, how many errors?
- What are the risks & consequences of hacking?
- Concerning ‘reducing the costs of paper ballots’:
- What does it cost?
- How much would it cost to run e-voting instead?
- Interesting question is how/whether e-voting helps or hinders a sense of community…
This post attempts some back-of-a-fag-packet answers to questions 1, 2 and 3. The other questions will have to wait for another post.
Protected: How not to pack for a honeymoon
What’s been going on recently?
In a welcome change from moaning about my bodily particles, Brexit and other nasties:
- Here’s my academic side’s review of this year so far.
- Here’s Hazel Hall’s review of the event we ran together a fortnight ago.
TTFN!
Legsit encore
As Brexit becomes ever more horrorshow, and gets on everyone’s groodies (look it up!), the legsit situation is improving. Continue reading
Digital evidence that Bruce might have a life 