Advantages: Cheap and cheerful day out. Disadvantages: Too many people on the routes there in the Summer.
I thought I'd write a Weston-Super-Mare review since my husband and I took our little ones there today for a spot of sandcastle building. As we only live 15 minutes away, down the M5, it's a place I have frequented throughout my life.
My Grandparents live in Worle which is just off the motorway on the way in to Weston, and always took us to the seafront in the Summer, so this is the place I shall start.
THE SEA FRONT
Weston-Super-Mare is in North Somerset (previously Avon).
Weston-sur-la-mer (on-the-sea) became Weston-Super-Mare for obvious reasons... our tangled evolution of language! I suppose it is sort of on-the-sea, but is really on the Severn Estuary. This means that there is a lot of mud washing up and down! We often, jokingly call it Weston-Super-Mud!
At Weston, the beach is very very long and expansive ...
Previously, I had a pair Of Ritchey WCS Ti spd pedals (i paid £60 on ebay, but the retail at £140!!). These were next to useless - the bearings failed within 12 months. They looked good and weighed not a lot, but didn't work very well, at all :O(
I begrudgingly purchased the XTR spd's for £56.99 from wiggle, as I didn't want to go the "shimano" route again. First impressions of quality were superb, especially for under £60!!! The smoothness of the bearings is silk like. fitting is just like any other pedal. Adjusting the tension springs was also the same as any other spd, although I didn't have to do them as tight as previoud spd's I'd owned. Clicking in and out of the pedal gave a satisfying quality click. In riding i've done so far, they perhaps clogged more than i'd have liked, but the riding was very very extreme.
After ...
Advantages: no matter how many times you read it you will still not know excatly what it is about. Disadvantages: I really dont no!
I have not read alot of Walter de la Mares work. But I have read the listeners which is a poem. Depending on how you read this poem the plot changes. If you read it literally then it is about a traveller that has arranged to go to somebodies house but no-one is there only a host of phantoms. But if you read it metaphorically then it could be about some one looking for an afterlife or a god etc. Whichever way you read it I can almost guarantee you will enjoy it and will read it through a few times. And your views on what this poem is about will most likely change everytime you read this, and I think this is one of the many reasons this poem has lasted for such a long time. ...
