Mr GP has reached terra firma once more after an exciting week riding the London-Edinburgh-London cycle event, promo video here. I don't think he'll ever forget the experience, and as for me, I stand in amazement at his timing; 94 hours and 50 mins, spread over four days.You're allowed longer, but he didn't realise that, so the event took on epic proportions, with some riding through the night which, thankfully, I wasn't fully aware of. Just as well! More details over on my other blog As said there, he must have been riding like the folk in Browning's 'How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix!' All of this in atrocious weather conditions. Well done to everybody involved! Photos here.
To a tenuous link For the duration of the trip Mr GP became a reluctant Twitterer, and Yours Truly signed up, too. Well, I had to keep track somehow, hadn't I? Now I know I've probably said this about every new development in modern communications, and would no doubt be happier back in the days when calling cards were de rigeur. And, hypocrite that I am, I've then usually gone on to embrace said despised new-fangled rubbish with all the zeal of the newly converted. But, when it comes to Tweeting, cheeping, or whatevering, I just don't get it. Maybe it's my Franciscan streak showing, but the thought of yet another techy 'thing' to tend makes my head go all fuzzy.This is the person who neglects her mobile phone for weeks on end, don't forget. I'm not a total technophobe; I've embrace internet fora e-mailing, blogs etc with enthusiasm. I've even sucuumbed to the dreaded Facebook. However, I refuse to regale the world and his wife with details of my every waking minute. Or fill every waking minute thinking about what to regale the world with. (It doesn't do wonders for my grammar, either!). So I read Mark Howe's new feature on Ship of Fools - Hubris 2.0 'I get Twitter but it won't get me' with a sense of relief. Isn't there a slow food movement. Maybe somebody could start the same re cyberspace? Cybersimplicity, maybe?
Cheep!
Came across your blog via Mercy blog. Glad to find others following in the way of St. Francis.
Peace,
Jamie
Posted by: Jamie Arpin-Ricci | August 02, 2009 at 08:06 PM