Almond

Bumper edition, let's crack on.

First of all, I was reading about the 500km challenge on Rapha's website. The aim is to ride 500km between Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve and it has to be logged on Strava and all that kind of thing and then submitted. Except I don't have Strava so I just thought I'd do it mesen unofficially with the odometer on my handlebars and add up the distances. I finished it this morning in what was really pretty awful cycling weather. Killer wind. A tough ride.

A photographic thing of the seven rides that made up the 500 km is here.

Secondly, as is custom and because I know some other folk will be doing it here's a rundown of my films and albums of the year. There's a few films I missed that I wish I'd seen and several albums similarly, always the way. So, going on what I saw and what I heard...here goes.

Films
1. Manchester By The Sea
2. A Ghost Story
3. Mother
4. The Killing Of A Sacred Deer
5. Florida Project
6. Jackie
7. Baby Driver
8. God's Own Country
9. Personal Shopper
10. The Beguiled

Albums
1. Baxter Dury - Prince Of Tears
2. Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic
3. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers
4. Gas - Narkopop
5. Four Tet - New Energy
6. Equiknoxx - Colon Man
7. The Bug Vs Earth - Concrete Desert
8. F Ingers - Awkwardly Blissing Out
9. Aldous Harding - Party
10. Pessimist - Pessimist

That's it. I'm done.

Milk