And that means

Loved The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-time. In addition to all its other virtues, it has probably the best final sentence since Birdsong -- something I'd have expected, in retrospect, to see more made of in the reviews. And in addition to that virtue, it has the virtue of knowing how good the last sentence is and deliberately including a somewhat unnecessary appendix simply so you won't read the last sentence by accident. That's smart squared (which is greater than 0.5 smart for all integer values of smart).

Polish born but French bred -- FRENCH BREAD!!!

w *do* you push your Amazon rating up, anyway? I've managed to acquire 15 helpful votes and have gone down to 134624 (a position I share with 190,000 others, I'd like to add). The person before me in the listings has, I think, a single review with 22 out of 29 helpful votes, and the person after me (or someone else with the same ranking) has a single review with 3 out of 4 helpful votes. I'm supposed to be good at maths, but I can't work this one out.

Eoghan points out that Amazon are evil, but I have to say I'm not convinced they're any more evil than anything else in this stinking world (like CANCER).

I'm indebted to a gentleman from Swanseaurgh

Made it! 74.5 miles, 4 and a half hours; averaged 16.1 for the first three and a quarter hours, then 18.3 for the last hour and a quarter for an overall average of 16.7, which isn't too shabby at this stage of the season. Ahhh, the power of going out into the wind... feeling very good now. Maybe time for a nap.

This isn't really mostly music, but hey.

Route was: Out the Minuteman to Concord, Sudbury, Marlborough Junction, Cordaville, Ashland, Sherborn, Dover, Wellesley, and back in along 16. Particularly recommended: Ashland-Dover and Concord-Sudbury. What a great day.