Pixie post

Showing my stupidly sentimental softside here. These are two of the very few photos I have of our beloved Pixie. The rescue kitten who shared our family life for just two short weeks. She developed what should have been an unextraordinary abcess on a friday and was overcome with infection and was comatose by Monday, despite vets treatment within 30mins of the problem being found. Its possible that Pixie had an underlying blood disorder and we have his Brother Twinkle to worry about should that prove to be a genetic issue. For now however, twinkle is perfectly healthy and follows me everywhere since his Brother left us. R.I.P. Pixie, you are missed by Twinkle and your 2 week family xxx

Baby Pixie

Pixie on my lap, always timid but very loved.

Bittersweet

I bloody useless at this blogging thing. Most blogs i follow have witty observations about life,family,interests etc of the blogger. My life just seems to conspire to prevent me blogging in the bloody first place!

Since my last post I have had a stomach bug, one of our beautiful Kittens died (much tears shed and shock as totally unexpected) and I have had to complete my annual tax return – one of those jobs every year I declare I will be more organised about and do a bit every week and never do (mmm sounds a bit like blogging…) All nasty things in  their own right in varying degrees.

I had observations about all of these events that would have been blogworthy but did i put them up, the hell I did.

Sorry, this is never going to win awards, you may wish to unsubscribe if i am on your blogroll. Still seeing a post from me is always an unexpected surprise!!

To try and increase my blogging abilities i have now made this my homepage – so at the very least I can feel proper guilty when I log in ;0)

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,600 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 27 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

New year revolutions :0)

Happy new year everyone! Whats that, a new blog entry? Is the unfitbikerchick still alive then? Thought she had buggered off aaages ago. Well yep, if this was my school report there would be alot of “must try harder” comments all over it. So there you go, I not a reliable blogger, ah well can’t all be perfect can we?

However I have since I last blogged been busy with all sorts of things, namely trying to be less unfit by joining Weight Watchers and so far losing 30lbs, have reinforced my commitment to cycling more with the purchase of a much comfier new bike and have acquired 2 rather sweet kittens – whats the last thing got to do with anything you might ask? Well they are likely to feature on my blog so you may as well know about them :0)

Which brings me to one of the reasons why I think the blog dropped off my radar a bit last year. I kept feeling obliged to write only about my efforts with cycling or becoming a fitter and somehow better person. I was feeling very low this time last year so neither of those things were high priorities for so long,i felt i would be making excuses every time i posted. In fact there were loads of simple life observations i would have enjoyed sharing but they didnt fit those categories. Stupid, i even thought of starting a new blog.

Then the lightbulb moment – as its my blog,I write what the hell I want to write in it, the only restrictions are in my head (didn’t say it was a BRIGHT lightbulb moment did i??) So henceforth, the posting may or may not involve cycling or going from unfit to fit, they may be the mumblings of this mad old middle aged woman from South London – but sometimes they might actually bring a smile to your face. Read on, if you like. If you prefer not, well then thanks for visiting this one time :0) xx

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,500 times in 2010. That’s about 4 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 2 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 47 posts. There were 9 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 7mb. That’s about a picture per month.

The busiest day of the year was June 27th with 66 views. The most popular post that day was Camping it up.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were mumsnet.com, kimbofo.typepad.com, bikelite.blogspot.com, ashleen.wordpress.com, and blogger.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for heart attack burping, burping heart attack, children playing, unfitbikerchick, and heart attack and burping.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Camping it up April 2009
1 comment

2

When is a burp not a burp? June 2009
2 comments

3

*The unfit guide to cycling* March 2009
2 comments

4

The Yurt of loveliness June 2009
2 comments

5

About me February 2009
1 comment

She’s back!

Yep new year, new effort to get the blog resurrected! I wont make excuses, they wont be interesting enough to keep you reading will they? no,thought not.

Here are the highlights of the time since i last posted.

1. The unfitbikerchick family got chickens – they are lovely

2. Bastard fox killed 2 out of 3 of our chickens – one quickly,one slowly and painfully. Daughter learns about death of loved things quickly and painfully..

3. Third chicken becomes very loved and seems to be recovering – then vets discover they had missed a broken leg!! horrible weekend saying goodbye to much-loved hen – vets offer to cover all further medical bills and hallelujah after several weeks of treatment,including surgery (yes you read right) we are now the proud owners of Poppy the bionic chicken!

4. Our cycling club begins racing with other local clubs – Tiddler enjoys racing and is currently fastest under 10 girl in club :0)

5. Poppy the bionic hen now has 4 other pals -they will be introduced later…

6. Our roof leaks,we need a new one :0(

7. Have been looking at private education for tiddler - that’s a whole new world I never thought i would be part of!

8. I have decided to start running as from tomorrow – bought lovely new running shoes today especially for this purpose - very technical and took an hour of “gait analysis” to find the right pair apparently I am a mild over pronator :0?

Just hanging around

I absolutely love my job – well ok “most” of the time ;0) . I have got to know some fantastic parents and beautiful, clever children. The other day i was lucky enough to meet up with 3 of those families but with only my own tiddler to worry about. It was lovely to see how close the children were, playing together and helping each other out – including dangling small ones from rope swings apparently ( suspect long legged tiddler had a role in that…) dont worry no bumped heads occurred during the making of this photo!

All kids wanna do nowadays is hang around showing off to their mates…

Resurrected

Hello again friends, I thought todays title was apt given we are on easter break from school :0) I have been looking at my blog forlornly and with yes,Iadmit a big pang of guilt for many weeks now but truth be told, life was so veering between stupidly busy or being very poo/boring that I could not find time to begin posting after such a long gap.

I also felt very depressed by the fact that in the time I have been doing this blog.

1. I am not 3 stone lighter.

2. I cannot gleefully jump on my bike and ride 100km without needing hospitalisation (or more probably falling off after 20km)

3. I am still a very very unfit bikerchick

Actually I am probably even more unfit than I was when I started as apart from all the dramas we had last year as a family, I have developed some problems with my left wrist and elbow, requiring a very painful steroid injection in December which has effectively put paid to any real cycling for several months – oh and the weather been crap too :0(

Bet ya glad this little ray of sunshine is back on the blogroll again arent you ;0)

Dont worry (oh you werent…) I remembered that I loved doing the blog when i DID  do it and looking back on old posts made me smile alot so I figured that making time for the blog was good therapy (cheaper than the real thing too!) and made me remember the good things I had each day as well as the crap.

So watch this space, The unfitbikerchick is back ;0)

Back and biking!

Hello my friends! Sorry for the lack of blog entries since our return from the sun, sea and general lovliness of our holidays, real life got in the way with a bang! and suddenly we are half way through September.

So today I have a super biking entry for you all. Today we took part in a fabulous, once a year event in London called Skyride. All the main streets around many of the major tourist spots are completly closed to cars and the Bicycle rules!!! We were kings and queens of the road!! Cycling with our kids, along the Thames embankment, up the mall around Buckingham Palace. We had no worries about traffic, except the need to sometimes brake quickly for errant kids ;0) Instead of noisy cars and exhaust fumes, we had tinkling bells and lots of smiles. There was music, goody bags – very useful as the kids grazed all day on muesli bars ;0) games and we got to meet lots of cycling heros – Chris Hoy, Shanaze Reade and TV presenter Gethin Jones, who has just cycled 1000km around Britain. The Kids loved it all and so did I. The ride back was a bit tough on the “havnt been on a bike in a few weeks” legs, but hey you cant have everything!

Holiday blog

Hola dear readers. The biker chick has not given up blogging, but has been immersed in summer holiday activity. Firstly with small people i care for, and for the last two weeks, in the scorching sun of Gran Canaria. It averages 33 degrees celsius or therabouts most days and rain is un heard of in the summer months so suffice to say the nearest i have got to bike riding is watching the local die hards with awe! I did however take the 2 books written by Lance Armstrong for my holiday reading :0) All I can say about the guy having read them is – wow. For anyone who has never heard of him, he is a famous American Cyclist who beat the most tiny of odds to survive testicular cancer and not only survive, but return to cycling and winning the tour de france several times – google him, or read his books if you can and you will be in awe too, even if you have no cycling interest. And yes my local friends you can borrow my copies ,0).

This is a quick blog as on expensive hotel internet cafe, but normal service will be resumed shortly!

Adios!!