Anime 2024

Not much to report. One Piece got paywalled in the summer, but I did take advantage of the opening of Overlord IV and Natsume Yuujincho 5 & 6 in the autumn, which were really more of the same, both feeling like they were getting a little tired and losing focus, but still worth watching.

At the 11th hour, also Dai Mahou Touge, and incredibly silly magical girl parody, which was amusing enough, but no more.

I actually spent much more time reading manga this year from /a/ storytimes than watching anything.

24H2 Cycling

Q3 was windy again, cool and at times quite wet, so marked a collapse

The quarter started with 2594.1 on the winter bike, 292.8 on the folder, and 4825 on the summer bike, (2478.85 YTD)

Great Ringstead sign

July had the usual coach trip to Hunstanton, this time arriving early enough that I could ride out to the gin Trap Inn at Great Rinstead for lunch, then loop back through Heacham, and along the bridleway back on one of the good days. It was wet and windy on a day where I'd planned an early start long ride to an event, and momentum never built for any sort of expedition.

End of July went to 2725.82, 321.53 and 4974.2 with nothing off-meter, total 309.65 miles (2788.5 YTD).

Sudden puddle

August was cool, and dry, even though puddles still lurked on many off-road routes, but by late in the month, the railway underbridge on the Hauxton-Shelford permissive route was finally passable, as was the Thriplow-Great Chesterford bridleway. In some places, though, even when they had dried off, bridlepaths were difficult going, having become overgrown through lack of use.

End of August went to 2773.03, 343.6 and 5217 with ~2.3 miles off-meter, total 314.38 miles (3102.88 YTD).

Linton again

September had a last gasp of good weather, with chance to do a run up the Ickneild Way to Linton, and explore the new greenway on the return, near the start of the month, and one glorious day mid-month where I went on a river cruise rather than a long ride, but from then it was down to business rides.

End of September went to 2831.32, 343.6 and 5422.1 with ~2.9 miles off-meter, total 266.28 miles (3369.16 YTD).

Autumn colours

October, such a contrast to '23; where that had been T-shirt and shorts rides to mid months, this was getting out the winter gear at times.

End of October went to 3090.79, 346.95 and 5422.1 with ~1 mile during the folding bike's service, total 261.83 miles (3630.99 YTD).

Leaves on the bridleway

November was nondescript, until the stormy Saturday 23rd, where I was busy all the daylight hours, and for the first time in 693 days did not do a ride.

End of November went to 3357.74, 346.95 and 5422.1 with nothing off-meter, total 266.95 miles (3897.94 YTD).

Cyclepath works

December was comparatively mild, and freed from the daily chore, I still did longish rides to deliver postcards, and do shopping - though I didn't do the anniversary ride of the Abbey Bridge this year. New Year's Eve was even mild enough, ahead of a stormy New Year's Day, that I took a rather extended ride to mop up a couple of unrelated bits of business

End of December went to 3544.91, 346.95 and 5422.1 with nothing off-meter, total 187.17 miles (4085.11 YTD) - so not as much as the last couple of years, but better than others during retirement.

Note to self - Image embed process, while Blogger internal seems borked

1. Make a Google Photos shared album and add a photo to it.
2. Create a shared link of it.
3. Where not logged in as me, open the shared link
4. Copy image URL, and trim after the w###-h###-no