July Cycling

So the month ended at 15714.2, 245.0, battery exhaustion on the folding bike odo between using it and coming to record the mileage here = 13.3 + 147.1 + 47 estimated for a total of 207 (1157 YTD); the second best month for the year, despite excessive heat for much of the month, and a sudden failure of the back wheel of my summer bike.

A new kind of fail

Holidaying in Southport and some runs down the coast from there, in slightly cooler (and slightly wetter) weather than down south, helped pull the total up. Of course, slightly didn't prevent the countryside being tinder dry, and in places burned or even burning

Wildfire on Rimrose Park

This on a park alongside the Leeds and Liverpool canal, surrounded by built-up areas, not some remote moorland.