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• Incident: DDoS Attack on 2024-05-24

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  Bon Vacation!!

• 2024 ThRNC season bedwetters

  in Midweek Evening Rides (TNRC, WNKR) • 7 months

  

  Further to the momentum of above, I had - in tribute the the copyists of old (the monks, the scribes, Bede et al.) - collected some poetry for inspiration:

  For Spring/Summer,

  ‘Country in Spring’

  These lonely hills possess such charms for me,

  These glades in all their native wilderness dressed,

  That day by day unwearied still I see,

  And plant their image in my thoughtful breast.

  Pleased, I behold the new-born verdure grow,

  The tender shoots put forth their leafy green;

  Or sit besides the stream, whose limpid flow

  Bathes, and reflects at once, the forest scene.

  Here all unseen, long tranquil days I lead;

  Here from my heart’s pernicious soil I cast

  Each evil thought, each noxious metal weed:

  Here muse in silence o’er my errors past;

  And on some tree my self-inflicted woes

  Record, and bathe with tears; and there repentance grows!

  Filicaia

  I expect, Vincenzo de Filicaia of Florence (1642 – 1707). Translated into English from the Italian composition by Edward Earl of Derby, as published in The Iliad of Homer (Sixth Edition, 1867) by John Murray (London: Albernale Street). Printed by William Clowes and Sons (of Stamford Street and Charing Cross).

  I believe a website exclusive as Bing (as of yesterday) could not locate its presence on the worldwide web.

  P.S.

  My own fond memories of Spring/Summer (yet to make it into verse) include one mid-week ride that briefly intersected with wild deer crossing the route (thankfully without physical contact).

  P.P.S.

  The incident (Incident: DDoS Attack on 2024-05-24) provided more time to find more inspiration.

  The front cover of the New Statesman for this week, 'Spring Special' was beautifully timed,

  

  (link here)

• Incident: DDoS Attack on 2024-05-24

  in Announcements, Help & Testing • 7 months

  

  I wondered why access was problematic.

  Thank you for the explanation!

• 2024 ThRNC season bedwetters

  in Midweek Evening Rides (TNRC, WNKR) • 7 months

  

  Dear Oh Dear

  During the rather long evening of last night – after sighting the rather odd appearance of morris dancers dancing in an overly-narrow urban corridor amongst buildings and pavement – I fondly remembered their aura amongst the countryside of a country pub on a long summers evening during a mid-week ride hence my wondering about this year’s season (!).