This is a short route of 7.5 miles but with a few steepish hills. There is a little spur into Ovington to The Bush Inn. You can go up the hill and look around the church. Travel back and across the Itchen up top the B3047 and turn left riding for 2-300 metres along this […]
Month: September 2013
Alresford Cycle Route 1 – Ropley, Four Marks & Medstead
A cycle ride around the hills to the North West of Alresford. There a few short steep stretches going anti-clockwise. If you go the other way its an almost single rise to Medstead. Very little traffic except Whitehill leaving Alresford from the South and crossing the A31 at Four Marks. There is a village shop […]
Why I enjoyed cycling in The Netherlands with my family
In the early/mid 90s I lived in Rotterdam in a suburb on the edge of the city called Hillegersberg for five years. If you went North East from our house it was 1 km to a large park called the Lage Bergse Bos and 6 km South West was the centre of Rotterdam. Our children […]
“Cycling” face down to win a record
Graeme Obree is hoping to achieve a new human-powered land speed record in what looks to me like the equivalent of human donor kebab. Check out the story on the BBC “Graeme Obree challenges speed record with radical bike“
Things you used to be able to buy in New Alresford
When I first arrived in Alresford in 2000, the year of The Eclipse and Y2K, you could buy a thing to keep your record player going called a stylus. The clock shop on West Street sold them in packs of100: loud, medium and soft. These were the steel stylii for wind up gramophones. I still […]
Cycle Route Junction 9 M3/A34 Winchester and Easton Update September 2013
My take on this matter: Underneath and intertwined at the M3/A34 Winall “Tesco’s” roundabout is a footpath and nominal bike path linking Easton with Winchester. In this Google map its labelled as Easton Lane. It’s sort of part of National Route 23 and sort of isn’t. Zoom in to see the warning triangle. Why? Because […]
The Alresford Show
The first Saturday in September is always the Alresford Show. A truly local agricultural show attended by more than 10,000 people. If you like cows, sheep, goats, pigs, poultry, etc the live versions will be there. You will be able to see both the latest and oldest farm machinery. There are displays in the main […]
The Alresford Jelly
The Alresford Jelly meets monthly on the first Tuesday at the Globe on the Lake. If you have inadvertently bumped in to this post, you may be wondering what a Jelly is? It’s a small business event where people gather for a few hours to work. Ideally in a venue that gives you the space […]
Cheriton Sixes – the 19th Flower Pots Cup
Last August bank holiday Monday was the Cheriton Sixes. It ran for 18 years without a break. Then the founder and organiser Phil Housden quite reasonably called it day. The event laid fallow last year but was revised in a simplified format by the club committee this year. We had a great day and you […]
Auctions in a Day – 10th Anniversary
I have been involved with Auctions in a Day since auction one. Originally known as Alresford Auctions after a few year we tried out towns and villages in mid-Hampshire. We are now well established at Itchen Abbas and Badger Farm in Winchester. This Saturday 7th September 2013 is our 10th anniversary. Please visit the 10th […]