Monthly Archives: December 2009

Guest Blog: Raised From The Alive

By Tom | Published: December 27, 2009
For this, the first in an occa­sional series of guest blogs (they’re all the rage these days), I’d like to re-introduce an old friend, a man with whom I braved the hor­rors of West­ern and Cent­ral Europe for 10 weeks of this bicycle jour­ney… ladies and gen­tle­men, Mr. Mark Maultby! Take it away… Hello there. This [...]
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Don’t Make New Year’s Resolutions

By Tom | Published: December 21, 2009
I think New Year’s Res­ol­u­tions are a really crap way to make pos­it­ive changes to the way you live. Why? Well, I reckon it’s much more effect­ive to start doing some­thing than to stop doing something. Most New Year’s Res­ol­u­tions seem to revolve around giv­ing some­thing up. So, on the first of Janu­ary this year, I’d [...]
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Company For Christmas In The Caucasus

By Tom | Published: December 15, 2009
It’s Decem­ber and the mer­cury is drop­ping fast. This week I exper­i­enced my first morn­ing run in the fall­ing snow, crunch­ing quietly in the pre-dawn blue around the faded grandeur of Vic­tory Park and its empty dilap­id­ated walk­ways, crum­bling statues and rusty fair­ground rides. The onset of winter took me back a couple of years [...]
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This Is About Us

By Tom | Published: December 15, 2009
This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic cor­ridors and crowded stalls, among impen­et­rable texts and with­er­ing pro­ced­ures, human­kind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to con­tinue liv­ing as it has done, until it must make a waste­land of its home, or [...]
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A Little Video About Cycling In Yerevan

By Tom | Published: December 9, 2009
My last post was an invit­a­tion to come along to one of the many global bicycle gath­er­ings that happened last Sunday on the eve of the COP15 cli­mate change sum­mit in Copen­ha­gen. I helped to organ­ise a ride here in Yerevan, and I took my trusty video cam­era with me. I’ve been slav­ing over a hot [...]
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