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biggs682

Itching to get back on my bike's
Location
Northamptonshire
Thinking about going for a walk but only thinking 🤔
 
Maybe you should look up mountain stages in the Vuelta.

The name didn't mean a thing to me. I asked my friend who is Italian by birth but lived here for 70 years, a keen cyclist with a son riding for a cycling team if he knew what the name meant but he didn't know. I just googled it.
I have watched some of the Vuelta but it not as well put together as the ITV TdF. I have found some of the commentators irritating. The TdF was a bit of a travel programme as well as a cycle race, lovely scenery and historical facts given about places on the route. I might have to watch it in future but will have to see. I have watched a couple of Giro stages but the filming is poor and fuzzy in comparison.
 

Jenkins

Legendary Member
Location
Felixstowe
Good morning from a fourth floor hotel room in Nottingham. Only a very short rest as I was having a leisurely breakfast, looked at my watch and had an "Oh Bugger" moment.
 

Jenkins

Legendary Member
Location
Felixstowe
You know you're running late when a 20 minute stroll from the hotel to the train station only takes 15 minutes. At least it warmed me up on a very chilly morning and I'm now on the train about to set off.

In other good news, the refund from last Friday's delay has been paid and I have a code for a free hot drink which will be redeemed when I get to Ipswich.
 

deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
Location
Armonmy Way
Lady Slowmotion suggested that moles left hills because they pushed soil out from below ground whereas rabbits excavated from above ground. I say tosh to this theory. After only a body length deep, a rabbit is in exactly the same excavation mode as Moley.
I think the rabbits have read The Great Escape.

During a bout of insomnia last night, I got up, made myself a pot of tea and began thinking of the roles of moles and the habits of rabbits. It occurred to me that nearly all the molehills we see are while they're hunting for worms and bugs and, as such, they're pretty much one use only. They're pretty much freshly dug. (Though they, like rabbits build more permanent tunnels for nesting. These tunnels are sometimes covered with a mound of earth, apparently called a fortress, which is there for insulation.) Rabbit burrows and warrens are likely to have been there for a good while and the excavated soil will have dissipated and been reabsorbed into the surface.

Mole trivia: a mole used to be called a wand in Old English, and a molehill used to be called a wantitump. It's a great name, I reckon. Though not to be confused with a wanty Trump, which is a different thing entirely.
 
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