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Arwel Powell
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Autobiographical One of my favourite characters is a deep, loving man of fierce protectiveness and uncommon good sense. His name is Arwel Powell, and one of the best descriptions of him is as an iceberg, s ...
Steph C - 2016/10/30 - 7:58pm - 4 comments
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Arwel's original
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Autobiographical Many of you will be aware that one of my favourite characters, Arwel Powell, was based on my cousin Tom. He finally succumbed to his cancer and passed away last night. Words really do fail ...
Steph C - 2017/02/27 - 5:43pm - 5 comments
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Becoming Julie
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Autobiographical Becoming Julie: My incredible journey by Julie Clarke. I have left out a link so that readers can use this site's own one. I was bored, and so I went to Amazon and put in the search t ...
Steph C - 2014/12/17 - 10:07am - 1 comment
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Better things
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Autobiographical I am coming to the end of another book, and it is triggering all sorts of thoughts about my life. I went through transition some years ago, from a hairy rugby-playing 'bloke' wit ...
Steph C - 2017/07/06 - 10:46am - 3 comments
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Black dog
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Autobiographical The black dog, for those who are unaware, was Churchill's term for depression. Well, it's standing next to me at the moment. Work problems are somewhat awful right now, and getti ...
Steph C - 2015/03/09 - 8:09am - 10 comments
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Delays
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Autobiographical There will be some delay in my writing, as my mother passed away three days ago. ...
Steph C - 2020/12/10 - 5:57pm - 16 comments
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Festival time
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Autobiographical Well, that is the Shrewsbury festival over for another year; source of so much of my inspiration. Some wonderful music, old friends popping out of the woodwork, and very sore fingertips on ...
Steph C - 2018/09/10 - 7:11pm - 4 comments
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From the depths of time
Steph C's blog Author: Cyclist Blog About: Autobiographical Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) Well, a surprise yesterday, with an e-mail at work sent to my male name from someone I used to work with many, many years ago (80s). In summ ...
Steph C - 2014/03/09 - 1:09pm - 1 comment
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Grow your own?
Steph C's blog Author: Cyclist Blog About: Autobiographical Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) Medicine http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26885335 ...
Steph C - 2014/04/14 - 12:07pm - 12 comments
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Happy bounce
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Autobiographical Happy bounce indeed! Mandolin packed, cycle panniers packed, tent reproofed: tomorrow morning I am off to Shrewsbury yet again for four nights and three days of music! Yay me! ...
Steph C - 2015/08/28 - 2:18pm - 3 comments
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Hiatus
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Autobiographical Just got home from hospital. Ten days ago I stepped out to the end of my street to catch a bus, and then my lungs decided not to cooperate. I collapsed, pulled out my phone and made a hash ...
Steph C - 2024/02/19 - 1:47pm - 16 comments
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Home and beauty
Steph C's blog Author: Cyclist Blog About: Autobiographical Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01l9z10/A_Year_in_the_... This is a truly beautiful programme, though I know many people outside the U ...
Steph C - 2012/08/24 - 7:00pm - 4 comments
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I do like to be beside the seaside
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Autobiographical Just getting dressed to head on down to Brighton to meet up with Bev Taff. It is, of course, raining... ...
Steph C - 2015/04/05 - 6:49pm - 7 comments
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Life's important things
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Autobiographical I meant to put this up a while ago, but with all the stress and mess of moving to a new address, it slipped through. ...
Steph C - 2017/04/26 - 12:15am - 3 comments
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Little brother
Steph C's blog Author: Cyclist Caution: CAUTION: Attempted Suicide Blog About: Autobiographical Will be a little slow with stories. Little brother planned it well but got found before he could succeed. Gaybashing is the root cause. I am not in a s ...
Steph C - 2015/05/15 - 3:49pm - 10 comments
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Mixed weather
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Autobiographical I had some unexpected time off the weekend before Hallowe'en, so I started looking for somewhere to go. It was for a number of reasons, one of which is agoraphobia of an odd kind. I s ...
Steph C - 2021/11/06 - 2:14pm - 4 comments
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Music festival
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Autobiographical Well, it has been that time of year again, and I was off following Steph and Annie's footsteps to the Shrewsbury Festival. This year, I was able to take no less than five instruments ...
Steph C - 2014/08/29 - 8:59am - 10 comments
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Nasty bots
Steph C's blog Author: Cyclist Blog About: Autobiographical Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) I have been attacked by a nasty little bot that tried to steal my e-mail account. Unfortunately, my 'password reset'e-mail address ...
Steph C - 2012/11/15 - 9:12pm - 5 comments
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Poppies
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Autobiographical I took a girl friend today to see the poppies. For those who don't know, the veterans in this country set up a charity called the British Legion, who do their best to look after the w ...
Steph C - 2014/11/03 - 2:15am - 11 comments
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Shooting
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Autobiographical Just finished a conference by phone, and it was chaos. There has been a stabbing, shooting and murder-by-car at our Parliament, and many of the people I was talking to were in lockdown, li ...
Steph C - 2017/03/23 - 4:58pm - 15 comments