Sorry I’ve not done a vlog in over 3 months! Nothing much report, other than, I’ve got a new Lycra skinsuit!
27 mile cycle, loving the lockdown weather!
At least one good thing has come out of the lockdown and that is the weather! No idea, when the weather in UK has been this good and for so long! So I got out a 27 mile cycle, wearing the Hunter inline skinsuit Team Britain 2018.
You can check out today’s route, over at www.strava.com/activities/3472357602
More photos can be found at www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/cycling/gear/hunter-inline-skinsuit-team-britain-2018/
Pride in London Parade to return in 2021
The Pride in Parade has been cancelled this year! But not to worry, it will be back bigger and better in 2021!
Here are some photos from 2016 to 2018.
Many more photos can be found at www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/days-out/pride-london/
Alaska Airlines Miles on the Ground ✅
That’s me completed yet another Strava challenge, this time the “Alaska Airlines Miles on the Ground” challenge.
Please do check out my profile at www.strava.com/athletes/gsvalentine and better still follow me. Oh and do remember, if it’s not on Strava, it did not happen! FACT!!!!
UK TV programmes to watch this week : 16/05/2020
Off the Tracks: Inside Central Station (BBC Scotland/HD & BBC iPlayer only | 9:00pm to 10:00pm | Sunday 17th May 2020)
Storm Hector causes havoc on the tracks, Sajid completes his last shift before he retires after 45 years in the station, and Beyonce and Jay Z are in town.
The Architecture The Railways Built (Yesterday | 8:00pm to 9:00pm | Tuesday 19th May 2020)
Tim Dunn visits Ribblehead Viaduct in the Yorkshire Dales, talks to the man who saved it from closure and tours the breathtaking stations of the Hungerbergbahn in Innsbruck.
Scotland’s Home of the Year (BBC Scotland/HD & BBC iPlayer only | 8:00pm to 8:30pm | Wednesday 20th May 2020)
On the islands of Orkney and Shetland, the judges visit a home inspired by Vikings, a converted ruined steading, and a maritime-themed fisherman’s cottage.
Billy and Us (BBC Scotland/HD & BBC iPlayer only | 10:00pm to 10:30pm | Thursday 21st May 2020)
Billy Connolly shares his ideas on masculinity and talks frankly about how his time in the shipyards shaped him both as a man and as a comedian.
The World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys (Channel 5/HD | 8:00pm to 9:00pm | Friday 22nd May 2020)
Beginning in the mountaintop town of Creel, the Chihuahua Pacifico Express – or El Chepe for short – winds its way through the Tarahumara Mountains, home to the reclusive Raramuri people. Divisadero, Mexico’s most panoramic station, offers the first glimpse of Copper Canyon. Created by six separate yet conjoined gorges, it is four times the size of the Grand Canyon. The train continues on to the Urique Canyon, which at 6,200ft deep it is the deepest in North America. The final leg crosses the state of Sinaloa, Mexico’s breadbasket, before reaching Los Mochis and the gateway to the Pacific Ocean. Narrated by Bill Nighy.
Portillo’s Empire Journey (Channel 5/HD | 9:00pm to 10:00pm | Friday 22nd May 2020)
Michael Portillo visits Jamaica, the Caribbean capital of the Empire, heading to Fort Charles where the Empire enlisted the help of pirates to defend the new territory from the Spanish. At the old naval headquarters, Michael learns how the Royal Navy moved in to replace the pirates as Britain struck a deal with Spain to keep her territories. The island needed a new source of wealth, and found it in the triangular trade as slaves were shipped from Africa to work sugar plantations. In Pinnacle, birthplace of the Rastafari movement, Michael learns how Jamaicans were later inspired to create a new religion.
All TV guide information taken from DigiGuide — www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=15119.
Happy first birthday wishes for LNER’s Azuma trains
Happy first birthday to LNER’s Azuma trains, which celebrate a full year, since being launched into passenger service.
Many more photos can be found at www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/trains/class-800/
Middle of May 2020 most popular photos
Below are the top five most looked at photos on this website during May 2020.
Number 1 (113 views) : Hunter inline skinsuit Team Britain 2018
Number 2 (42 views) : Castelli Body Paint 3.3 Speed Suit
Number 3 (35 views) : Hunter inline skinsuit Team Britain 2018
Number 4 (31 views) : Hunter inline skinsuit Team Britain 2018
Number 5 (27 views) : Hunter inline skinsuit Team Britain 2018
Looking for a new host…
Think it’s time to give me with my current host! Been with them since 2003. But in the last number of weeks, my website has been going off-line at least 15+ times, a day for around 5 minutes at a time.
All they keep telling me to upgrade to WordPress Hosting plan. Which is no use to me at all, since I need access to more than one database! One to host the main part of this website, then another host Zenphoto, also need subdomains. So why would I pay more, but get less?!?!?
At least during this lockdown, I’ve got time to sort things like this out!
So here is list of the main things I need:-
- Free Website Statistics (AWStats) – Use them for my photos stats
- Free SSL Certificate (Let’s Encrypt)
- FTP access with at least of support for SFTP and SCP
- At least 50 GB of hosting space
- PHP at least version 7.5
- Need at least 5 subdomains
- Need to be Linux server
- Unmetered traffic
- Also want 99.9% Uptime Guarantee! (So not going off-line around every hour, like my current host)
Sure I have missed things, they are main ones!
P.S. My website went off-line at least 3 times, while just doing this blog post! That’s how bad it’s got!!
Now done 60% of #walk1000miles – 2020
That’s me now done 60% of #walk1000miles. So 599.94 miles down and 400.06 miles left to go!
Keep up-to-date with all my cycling and walking adventures over at www.strava.com/athletes/gsvalentine
Will be doing vlogs again soon!
All going well, I will start doing new vlogs again from this Wednesday. Not done one since, 21st February… So about time, I fixed that!
What should you like me to talk about? Also what, should I wear for it?
So far on Twitter, people have posted the following:-
- If possible and it’s not raining anything white
- Spider-Man suit but without the wetsuit underneath this time
- All 12 wetsuits and Lycra?
- Lycra, obviously
- Your new Team GB skinsuit
- Skinsuit!
- Either the new England Skinsuit, or your Zone3 wetsuit?
- Hooded wetsuit