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Happy New eBikes (?)

Greenford Road near Sudbury Hill, Saturday 10 January 2026

These “Voi” brand eBikes are blocking the pavement beside the busy A-road.

The mostly eBikes, mostly Voi on this occasion, are also partially obstructing the service road.

Click the eBikes tag to see our previous posts about eBike hazards and nuisance.

Happy and peaceful Christmas to all

Crowded eBikes blocking footpath – Greenford Road

This crowd of “Voi” and “OnLime + Uber” ebikes completely blocked the footway for pedestrians today, forcing them into a bike lane. A bike lane! They are dumped near an official parking place for them but there are too many to fit in that space.

Update: It’s no better today.

The Blue of You by Amanda Huggins

What happens when you go back to your hometown after many years away and find that everything you thought you knew about people has gone adrift and all you feared, everyone you loved, and the town itself is different but only to you. You had it all wrong. And there is newness in the old place, new people and new decisions to be made.

A book about love and loss, exile and return. You may recognise some of the chapters from stories first published right here in Stories of the Month. It’s a page turner from Amanda Huggins.

Buy from Waterstones or direct from Northodox Press or all online booksellers.

Stephen Moran

The Grand Union canal at Ladbroke Grove

Autumnal scene 4x3 photo of a canal bending away into the distance under a thinly overcast sky with lilac grey tones reflecting amid gleams and shadows in the water. Houseboats are parked to the right. There are buildings on the left beside a towpath with with one or two people in the distance, approaching. Between the towpath and the buildings there is a raised area with metal steps up and some sort of decorated green hoarding. The farthest building says "Sainsburys" on the side. — Afternoon, Thursday 13 November 2025

Willesden Sports Centre by moonlight, 2009

WB Yeats “The O’Rahilly” set to music of a sort (demo)

Follow this link to see what that moonlighting so-and-so has to say about chords(?). How he has time to do all this while supposedly working for me, I really cannot fathom. Feargal, any thoughts? (Red)

A Tune for WB Yeats “The O’Rahilly” (Demo) – plus Guitar Chords

Circus Brazil at Ealing Common Fri 24 Oct – Sun 2 Nov

How to make quince jelly – illustrated

Is this thing working? Hello? I really don’t know how Moran has time to produce something like that when he can’t lift a finger to help our flagship newspaper blog. Give me patience! Will you give him a rocket please Feargal. (Red, via AudioBlagger™)

Making Quince Jelly

Short Story: Voyagers by Tom Vowler

There are more stars up there than grains of sand in the world, Nadia announces, as we lie head-to-toe beneath a low-wattage sky, the only female astrophysicists this side of the Pennines, waiting for the psilocybin to bind itself to the serotonin receptors of our brains.

Described by judge Fred D’Aguiar as “the erotics of science; desire mediated through a quest for knowledge; sex between two kindred souls as a metaphor for finding their bearings as people on a planet in a cosmos.” Prospect Magazine online: “Voyagers” by Tom Vowler, winner of the VS Pritchett Short Story Prize 2024.

Accident at South Vale, Harrow

Don’t know what happened here but I have previously seen a car almost do the same as it swung around this bend. That time, the driver swung the steering wheel the opposite way and the car then came straight at me but luckily slowed to a stop.

Ed.