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Good evening, Elle.
Fine evening here, too.
BB will have fun at the beach.
The cycling was great, watching the green and yellow jerseys working together to escape the peloton.
Tomorrow's stage has been shortened because of the wind.
A great pity.
I cannot get a picture from the loch.
Some sort of error.

Can't see the Lock either Rusty.

Still no pictures, Pigale.
Blooming annoying!

Hey, Rusty!
This evening has definitely been the nicest part of the day!
Is that grammatical? is the evening a part of the day? or is it a part of the night? or completely in its own right? I dunno......
It is sensible to shorten the cycling course if there is a danger to participants, but I take your point about its being a setback to Quintana's plans for attacking Froome, if the Ventoux is cut out of the picture.
I suppose the cyclists are used to these sudden route changes if the environment should prove risky?
No, I cannot access the osprey site either - it does say that there is a loading error.
I haven't looked in on the chicks at all today...have there been any advances in their behaviour?


Hello, Ros,
Not even when one considers the accumulative effects of 26 years??!!

Hello, Elle,
Eve is part of my day, not sure about anyone else.
Yes, sometimes there are route changes for various reasons.
They are going part way up the Ventoux, just.
I do not know if they will pass the Tom Simpson memorial.
It was on the Ventoux that he died.
49 years ago, today.
But it was always something I (and the riders) looked out for.
The osprey site should be back up soon.
Hope someone has phoned them.

Hi, Rusty!
I am afraid that I do not know of Tom Simpson or his memorial?
Was he a cyclist who died on that spot? Was there a crash?
It is good, though, that, whoever he was, he is honoured.
Now....I know that you were but teasing me when you mentioned reading about the Utrecht Treaties (and I was slow on the uptake!) but I hate having holes in my knowledge and so I looked it up......
The War of Succession was all due to the failure of the Habsburg King, Charles II of Spain to produce an heir.
Seemingly, the Habsburgs were prone to "pedigree collapse".
There, a little 'gem' of information for you!
Still no access to the ospreys.....obviously a technical problem .
Hopefully it will be up and running again by tomorrow.

Just seen the cycling highlights - most unusual!

Elle - Tom Simpson was a sucessful English cyclist who attempted the climb of Mont Ventoux on a cocktail of brandy and ?benzedrine. He collapsed with heat exhaustion. His last words were "Put me back on my bike".

I've just read the fish poem from earlier. One of my favourites is:

"Ode to a goldfish"




Oh wet pet!

Hello, Elle,
Tom Simpson was a British rider who died on Mont Ventoux in 1967, during the Tour de France..
The official cause of death was given as "heat exhaustion."
The temperature on the Ventoux that day was said to be more than 50 C.
There were slight traces of amphetamines in his system.
There is a memorial to him near the summit.
Tom had been World Champion.
I think he is buried in Nottinghamshire.
The only foreign rider to attend his funeral was Eddy Merckx.
You are doing well with the Treaties of Utrecht!
I can not get access to the loch site either.

Chris, Tom's last words were "on, on, on".
That is what the team mechanics and soigneurs said.
The reporter who said they were "put me back on the bike" was miles away when Tom collapsed.
He invented that story.
A fairy tale for the newspapers.