Hobbies and interests

Hobbies and interests

What are days for?

Days are where we live.

They come, they wake us

Time and time over.

They are to be happy in:

Where can we live but days?

Philip Larkin

Days (Faber, 1964)

There are too many hobbies and interests (indiciative of varying degrees of eccentricity) to list here, but below are a few things I enjoy doing, thinking about or working on:

When I'm not struggling with Classical Greek verbs or studying The Odyssey and Iliad with the Open University or reading Greek tragedies, I like to get out and about, cycling (on Selene's "horse" or Claud as he's affectionately known), swimming and walking (occasionally near windmills - well apart from the swimming, unless they're near rivers...)

  • Looking at maps and working out strange new routes from A to B (linking as many windmills and interesting buildings as possible)

    A native East Anglian, one of my favourite web sites is called mad about mountains(!) It has some excellent pictures of the Lake District including a view of Skiddaw which is updated daily.

    I am a member of the Rambler's Association.


    Line of bikes

    Cambridge is great for cycling and I'm on the committee of the Cambridge Cycling Campaign

    Their page includes the full text of the newsletter and details of the campaign's varied and enjoyable activities. If you're not in Cambridge, it's certainly worth looking at for the many links to cycling-related sites such as:

    Sustrans

    National Cycling Network - Maps of the routes, many of which include traffic-free sections, are available direct from Sustrans or from bookshops. I'm looking forward to attempting the Kings Lynn to Hunstanton part of the Hull to Harwich route. I'm just waiting for a bright dry day. I cycled it as far as Sandringham one very hot sunny day this year.

    Five of us on the committee visited York in October 1998 on a fact-finding trip and to meet members of the York Cycling Campaign. As you will see from these pictures, it rained rather a lot on one of the days we were there and we invented a new sport of water cycling! Now there's something that the British could be good at...!

    If this is more your sort of thing than all that Classics stuff, then have a look at another Geocities neighbour's page: TJ Web

    There's a collection of sites relating to the Lake District.

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