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The namecheck in the current C+ (The Hospitality Tour) is my thanks for your kind offer of shelter
for me and my bicycle last year.

That's sweet of you Scott.

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Warning: When I do the side-to-side, you're up

Excellent :-) Put me down for a day when you require a *slow* cycle ride - I am not Mrs Speedy On
Two Wheels. The offer of shelter/refreshments if you are cycling in this bit of the UK stands.

Cheers, helen s

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The namecheck in the current C+ (The Hospitality Tour) is my thanks for your kind offer of shelter
for me and my bicycle last year. Warning: When I do the side-to-side, you're up.

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(By all means buy the magazine if you've £3.40 to spare, but this is probably best read online.
The copyediting in the printed version nearly gave me an aneurysm.)

Liked the site Sam, particularly the Quiz "Are you a real cyclist". I didn't get to the end as the
cycling to church on Christmas Day point sidetracked us ! I have not done it myself but nor have I
been to church on Christmas Day !

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Liked the site Sam, particularly the Quiz "Are you a real cyclist". I didn't get to the end as the
cycling to church on Christmas Day point sidetracked us ! I have not done it myself but nor have I
been to church on Christmas Day !

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Thanks, M. 'Are You a Real Cyclist' is Rob Ainsley's piece. It's always been a crowd-pleaser.

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Liked the site Sam, particularly the Quiz "Are you a real cyclist". I didn't get to the end as
the cycling to church on Christmas Day point sidetracked us ! I have not done it myself but nor
have I been to church on Christmas Day !

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Thanks, M. 'Are You a Real Cyclist' is Rob Ainsley's piece. It's always been a crowd-pleaser.

When I first read it (published in C+ several years back) I thought wot a load of dingo's kidneys,
one bike is all I'll ever need.

There's 11 bikes and one trike in the garage now, only some of which aren't mine.

Tim

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An excellent read. Some of the photos are great. By the way, Durham wasn't "hot on the heels of
London" on congestion charging, it's the other way round. Yet agin, the northern half of the UK
leads the way :-)

Graeme

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the northern half of the UK leads the way

Half? What about the Midlands? 😉

Simon

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What about the Midlands? 😉

Ah, the Midlands. I've always wondered, middle of what? It's kind of southerly even to be considered
the middle of Englandshire :-)

Graeme

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bikereader.comhospitality0.htmlOpen ↗

An excellent read. Some of the photos are great. By the way, Durham wasn't "hot on the heels of
London" on congestion charging, it's the other way round. Yet agin, the northern half of the UK
leads the way :-)

Graeme

Cheers, Graeme, and thanks for bringing that to my attention.

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An excellent read. Some of the photos are great. By the way, Durham wasn't "hot on the heels of
London" on congestion charging, it's the other way round. Yet agin, the northern half of the UK
leads the way :-)

is it in the northern half? Seems pretty close to the middle to me. I suppose it depends on what you
are measuring half of (population, land area, norther/southern extremes) or di you mean England when
you wrote UK?

best wishes james

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is it in the northern half? Seems pretty close to the middle to me. I suppose it depends on what
you are measuring half of (population, land area, norther/southern extremes) or di you mean
England when you wrote UK?

Good question, let me go and check....

Most northerly point on mainland Dunnet Head Grid reference ND 203 767 Longitude 3° 22.5' W Latitude
58° 40.3' N

Most southerly point on mainland Lizard Point Grid reference SW 694 115 Longitude 5° 12.9' W
Latitude 49° 57.5' N

Split the difference > the "middle" of the UK is along the line 54.315°N. Taking Durham Cathedral
(somewhere nice and central in Durham) at
54.771° N 1.578° W. So yep, it is "up north", but only just (31 miles if I've got my calculations
right) :-)

Then again, from where I'm writing this, the whole of the UK is "up north" :-)

Graeme

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is it in the northern half? Seems pretty close to the middle to me. I suppose it depends on what
you are measuring half of (population, land area, norther/southern extremes) or di you mean
England when you wrote UK?

Good question, let me go and check....

Most northerly point on mainland Dunnet Head Grid reference ND 203 767 Longitude 3° 22.5' W
Latitude 58° 40.3' N

Most southerly point on mainland Lizard Point Grid reference SW 694 115 Longitude 5° 12.9' W
Latitude 49° 57.5' N

Split the difference > the "middle" of the UK is along the line 54.315°N.

Yup, but the most northerly point of the UK is actually Muckle Flugga, 61 degrees 4 minutes north.

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Yup, but the most northerly point of the UK is actually Muckle Flugga, 61 degrees 4 minutes north.

I was waiting for someone to say something like that! Naturally I was referring to the part of the
UK you can cycle without having to put floats on your bike :-)

The source of info I used (after a quick Google) says that the most northerly point is Out Stack,
just north of Muckle Flugga at 60° 51.6'N - see tinyurl.com2yremOpen ↗ I suppose it all depends on
how small you want to go to define "land mass" or your level of pedantry (high levels of which are
always floating around URC) :-)

Graeme

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Yup, but the most northerly point of the UK is actually Muckle Flugga, 61 degrees 4
minutes north.

I was waiting for someone to say something like that! Naturally I was referring to the part of the
UK you can cycle without having to put floats on your bike :-)

The source of info I used (after a quick Google) says that the most northerly point is Out Stack,
just north of Muckle Flugga at 60° 51.6'N - see tinyurl.com2yremOpen ↗ I suppose it all depends
on how small you want to go to define "land mass" or your level of pedantry (high levels of which
are always floating around URC) :-)

I used to have a friend (her forenames being 'Wilhelmina Clementina', although that's not what she
normally answered to) who was born in the most northerly inhabited house in Britain. Absolutely
gorgeous accent, and used her 'thees' and 'thous' completely naturally.

Rather gorgeous girl, actually.

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Rather gorgeous girl, actually.

There's a good few of them on Shetland ;-) When I was at university one of my friends was from
Shetland and shared a flat with other Shetlanders (one of them a totally stunning medical student).
Listening to them chatting amongst themselves was like listening to singing. If you wanted to
understand what they were saying to each other, well that was a totally different matter :-)

Graeme