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Country diary 1948: role of the bike in rural life (Grauniad)
The work of the farm labourer, ditcher, hedger, market gardener or teacher could not go on if it were not for the ordinary safety bicycle
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/13/country-diary-1948-role-...
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Ah, the Granuida - printing rubbish even then. Everyone knows that without motor vehicles you can't work or even get food in the country!
https://tradesmansbike.wordpress.com/
A guy with one of those knife grinding bicycles turned up in our village just a few years ago. I was thrilled to see it and asked if he could sharpen a few of our kitchen knives. He confirmed my address and said he would be round in due course. Later that day, he arrived in a car with a battery powered angle grinder and did a bad job on all the knives. Ho hum.
Did you check afterwards that all your locked bikes were still there?
Ha! Yes all good. All I lost that day were some naive ideas about life in the country.