PEDALLING TO RAISE MONEY AWARENESS FOR ZIMBABWEAN PENSIONERS
This week has been tough with not a lot of funny out there to write about. I had to drop off a Zimmer frame with an elderly lady trapped in her bed for nearly a week, because her legs have stopped working. She was crying not so much from the pain, but more from hopelessness …
Continue reading "March 4th 2021 – The Third World as seen from the saddle."
Can you imagine being eighty years old, needing a knee replacement operation, because you have bone grinding on bone plus nerve endings, but you can’t afford the procedure? The knee replacement will cost just US$10,000, but that is so far beyond your means, it might as well cost a million. Currently, you can’t even afford …
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February 17th 2021- The Third World as seen from the saddle.Of Chinamen, red mud and head-on-collusions.My abilities on a bike have received unfair scrutiny of late, mostly in my blogs, so much so that an engineer friend Graeme Bennet reached out to me with the schematics of his purpose designed ‘Eric Anti-Fall-Off-System’, a.k.a. the A.F.O.S. …
Crashes and bashes, the upside of Lock Down and an only in Zimbabwe story. Lockdown sucks, even pretend ones like the one ongoing in Zimbabwe. But I have been able to discover an upside. Jenny is helping Cailyn with her on-line learning and I get to overhear some of the conversations. I was walking through …
The Old Legs Tour is a group of middle-aged verging on bloody ancient social bike riders who pedal their mountain bikes every year from Harare to somewhere ridiculously far away, to raise money and awareness for Zimbabwean pensioners. Normally there are lots of hills involved. Because things on the ground going into 2021 are tougher …
