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Let us not be beastly to the Germans!

Noel Coward

The six o'clock alarm would never ring
But it rings and I rise
Wipe the sleep out of my eyes
The shaving water's cold and it stings

The Monkeys (much bigger than the Beetles)

I am not strange.

It is just my reality is different to yours.

To truly live this life one must choose bankruptcy of pocket over bankruptcy of soul .

or another fave of mine Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated .

The past is dead, the future is nothing but an illusion
The present is all we have
..
The mayor of a small community said, 'we may apply for grants from the €U and elsewhere, but that is so complicated, we do not have enough staff. We are too busy dealing with the past and the present to concern ourselves with the future too'

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

Experience is a dear teacher but fools will learn by no other.

"Swift, precise and wrong" - a favourite of an old development boss of mine.

"Step by step goes a long way". My Audax philosophy, lifted from a novel about the Cathars - pas à pas, ça va leung.

What you say is what you are

"Please not to feed the trolls"
[what do they eat?]

If everybody goes mad who would notice ?

"If I rest, I rust." - legendary Ayrshire cyclist Davie Bell. (It's why I'm all rusty.)

My wife works hard at home in Berlin, looking after our six children
Riding the TdF is like a holiday in comparison

Jens Voigt

Heard on the telly the other day ....... You don't stop doing things because your getting old , you get old because you stop doing things .......

Better a wise opponent than a foolish ally

Thinking often makes me sad, doing rarely makes me feel sad