Author Archives: Alec'n'Val

Recycling prices for mobiles

There are so many different places to cash in your old mobile that we’ve added a quick comparison page.

Shoppers aren’t all motorists

There’s a lot of fuss in Congleton about car park charges being introduced that will ‘kill the town centre’, but a study of some local shopping areas in Bristol showed that traders overestimated how many shoppers arrived by car.  They thought 41%, but in fact it was only 22%  - the rest walked, cycled or [...]

Recycling batteries/electrical things

Forever, it seems like, we’ve been taking our old batteries and electrical things (mainly dead printers) to Congleton’s Curry’s for recycling, but they’ve stopped taking them. The good news is that I noticed last week that Morrison’s has a battery bin by its

Congleton Sunday morning trains?

As Congleton train travellers know, we are badly served on Sundays, with only three trains (Northern stoppers) each way and these not until the afternoon.  So the only public transport serving Congleton on Sunday mornings is

Haiti earthquake appeal – quick link

Donate now at the Disaster Emergency Commission website – funds go to 13 charities already working in the area.

Warm hands for cycling?

Just come across a possible solution – actually one for keeping hands dry but that’s half the battle.  Washing up gloves.
I’d forgotten that my 3-layer approach to fending of frostbite in

How to stay upright on icy pavements

We’re brushing up on our scuttling technique that we learnt during a winter in Poland.   It kept us upright on the icy pavements there, and so far it’s working here too.  Just as well as having to walk

Cold cyclists read this

Further to my research into warm toes etc, I found a couple of useful sites yesterday.  One is the Guardian’s Bike Blog for 5th and 6th Jan, where a lot of people have contributed ideas.  The other is about

Brrrrrrrr. It’s brassy on a bike.

How do you keep your fingers and toes toasty in this weather? Not by cycling, that’s for sure. So far no-one seems to have been out clearing or gritting any but the main roads round our way (Congleton), so we’ve left the bikes in the garage (need a spade to clear the doors anyway) and [...]

Old blog address

We decided to move our blog to Wordpress so we could incorporate more features, but it’s going to take us a while to customise it.  Bear with us.
You’ll find our older posts at this address:
http://scaresbrooks.blogspot.com/