Fran's Friday Five
This week I have been liking...
Moulton Jubilee
It’s always nice when a bike arrives from Moulton down in Bradford-on-Avon and especially nice to get a bike for stock when lead times on these bike are currently 69 to 78 weeks.
This particular Jubilee is in Ferrari Red and comes with Campagnolo Centaur and is here in the shop to view and take away.
Books on our website
We now have five titles on our website covering Alec Moulton, Bradford-on-Avon, the development of two Moulton bike ranges and Sturmey-Archer. All highly technical and in-depth and perfect for presents or for some lockdown reading (we all know there’s going to be a fouth).
Pashley-Morgan 8 in stock
We have a fantastic bargain - it’s a Pashley-Morgan 8 with the tiniest mark on the top tube. This mark is so small you might not be able to find it if I didn’t point it out. There’s £165 off the retail price and I’ve thrown in a free Pashley Frame Guard in Black that covers the mark and best of all it’s in the shop and ready to go now.
Wilding by Isabella Tree
The story of the 'Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife.
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband decided to step back and let nature take over. Thanks to the introduction of free-roaming cattle, ponies, pigs and deer - proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain - the 3,500 acre project has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife numbers and diversity in little over a decade.
Extremely rare species, including turtle doves, nightingales, peregrine falcons, lesser spotted woodpeckers and purple emperor butterflies, are now breeding at Knepp, and populations of other species are rocketing. The degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again, heaving with life - all by itself.
Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, this inspiring story of hope was the first book in a long while I couldn’t put down and read in a few days. Let’s hope this can happen in more areas of the UK.
My lockdown jazz playlist
Here’s my ten favourite tracks from the music I’ve been listening to over the lockdown period(s). I hope you like them. If you have Spotify you can click the link below to listen.