Got into a flap over a potential tick bite a couple of months ago after my regular run through fields. No further symptoms so I think I’m ok but very carefully checking now.

Thanks I enjoyed that. If you’d like to see in the crypt some time just let me know. For some reason this church was off the radar when the Victorian antiquarians were mapping out the Saxon churches and has been left behind despite its unusual size

When are you coming to my church All Saint’s in Wing? We’ve got the largest Saxon arch in England, a seventh century crypt and I think we are the site of Bede’s mysterious Clovesho where Theodore of Tarsus brought all the Saxon bishops together. This name lives on as the benefice name of Cottesloe!

I prefer to call him Alcuin of York (not that I’m territorial!)

Thine Bee the glory

For just a second I thought that might be a quote from Double-double-toil-and-trouble Nigel Farage

These kinds of pictures should be everywhere right now quite frankly

There is a cycle lane alongside the A418 dropping from Wing to Leighton Buzzard. No-one dips their lights for us cycling along it. Incredibly uncomfortable and potentially dangerous.

I live in a rural village. Sadly people die around here in traffic accidents because rural roads are faster. The at-fault and not-at-fault drivers are normal people whose lives are turned upside down. You’re kidding yourself if you think your driving is so incredible it couldn’t happen to you.

Genuinely, if I got killed by a driver, wouldn’t want that driver to forever not be able to get their kids to school, not be able to take their mum to hospital appointment or not be able to support their family because the range of work was severely limited for them unless they were still a danger.

As a cyclist I have a close call with motorists nearly every ride.We absolutely need to change the car-is-king culture. But I disagree with you. We live in a fallen & accident-prone world. We’re not robots (thank God). We need to come to terms with our nature & help each other in our grief & healing

I feel I’m a bit of a francophile so I’m embarrassed to say I had to reach for Google translate for some of those

Rather than introduce more laws and penalties, as a society I’d rather we try to find ways to foster a culture of thoughtfulness and respect.