{"id":3370,"date":"2020-06-08T19:18:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T19:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2020-06-08T19:18:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T19:18:44","slug":"the-third-policeman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3370","title":{"rendered":"The Third Policeman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Not a song title today but a book title! The Third Policeman<\/strong> <\/em>by Flann O’Brien has achieved legendary status in our Book Club partly because of the surreal humour and partly all the references to bikes. O’Brien talks about half man\/half bike which tickled all of us regular bike riders. We often state what percentage bike each one of is! \u00a0I only chose this title because I promised a picture of Shadowfax<\/strong> <\/em>my sturdy work horse of a bike.\u00a0 So it the picture at the top minus the wheels. There is a picture of a Red Kite at the bottom of the blog because we saw many of them yesterday-beautiful birds! The re-introduction of Red Kites has been really successful.<\/p>\n

I had a delightful ride today up and down the Cotswolds. This was on my super duper bike-not Shadowfax! I also made a lovely batch of wholemeal rolls today nearly put a picture of them in the blog-then we \u00a0would then be getting like Facebook!<\/p>\n

Today’s Quiz Questions (mainly with a French theme)<\/strong><\/p>\n

a) What is the name given to last place<\/strong> <\/em>in the Tour de France?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b) What French word commonly refers to a bunch or pack<\/strong> <\/em>of cyclists?\u00a0 c)\u00a0 What French railway term refers to the gear shifting system between the chain between sprockets<\/strong><\/em>?\u00a0\u00a0 d) Who won the 2019 Tour de France?<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 e) How many bikes<\/strong> <\/em>are there roughly in the world is it one million, or hundred million, or One hundred thousand million\u00a0 or one billion?<\/p>\n

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