I can now add Woolsthorpe Manor to list of National Trust locations, that I’ve visited!
Last cycle of June 2025
Just done my last cycle of June 2025. I did 12.13 miles. Which, was not best. But still more than pleased with it!
You can check out the route at www.strava.com/activities/14961393190
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On This Day : 27/06/2016
On This Day back in 2016. I went out a 25 mile cycle, while wearing my Vermarc Etixx Quick-Step Cycling Team Lycra.
You can check out the route I took over at www.strava.com/activities/622748835
On This Day : 26/06/2018
On This Day : 25/06/2012
Kirby Hall (English Heritage). Tick!
UK TV programmes to watch this week : 21/06/2025
Why Cities Flood: Spain’s Deadly Disaster (BBC 1 /HD | 9:00pm to 10:00pm | Tuesday 24th June 2025)
Dramatic mobile phone video and eyewitness accounts tell the story of the 2024 floods that swept through towns in Valencia, to discover the role climate change may have played in a disaster that caused 228 deaths. The programme examines why a mobile phone alert was sent two hours too late, and how rising populations worldwide can force people to live in areas at risk of flooding.
Susan Calman’s Grand Day Out (Channel 5/HD | 8:00pm to 9:00pm | Friday 27th June 2025)
Cromer. Series 8, episode 8. The presenter travels to Cromer on the north Norfolk coast to investigate the Annual Vintage Sixties Festival. After admiring the parade of scooters, Susan joins the crowds with some swinging sixties moves. Aside from sampling local crab, she visits the Pavilion Theatre, a windmill B&B, and at Thursford Steam Museum, she is wowed by the world’s largest collection of steam engines and organs. She also meets comedian Helen Lederer, who recalls family holidays at the seaside wearing a fetching knitted swimsuit.
All TV guide information taken from DigiGuide — www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=15119
Now done 60% of Walk 1000 Miles – 2025
That’s me done 60% of the Walk 1000 Miles challenge. So 600.80 miles down and 399.20 miles remaining!
Keep up-to-date with all my cycling and walking adventures over at www.strava.com/athletes/gsvalentine
Hardwick Hall (National Trust). Tick!
Hardwick Old Hall (English Heritage). Tick!
I can now add Hardwick Old Hall to list of English Heritage locations, that I’ve visited!