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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
The slow and the furious
Extending the range
The jaunts from North Berwick to Edinburgh last weekend and the weekend before that were fairly flat. We both wanted to see if we could go further, on more undulating terrain. So Elly suggested cycling via Kirkliston to Linlithgow and back. We’re just back, and despite a few grumbles, my legs kept going. The Rose SPD sandals worked well too. Here’s the inevitable cyclemeter map:
click he graphic to see ride details
Digital evidence that Bruce might have a life 