So how exactly would you cook a bat?
And what did Jesus get up to between being born in a stable in a hail of
publicity, up until he appeared again at about 33 complete with a beard
and an NVQ in carpentry?
Questions like this are what happens when a middle-aged, overweight
bloke has a mid-life crisis, buys a bike and decides to cycle,
unsupported and with minimal training from Land's End to John
O'Groats.
Whilst the actual journey itself is covered in the book in a
self-deprecating humorous style of the author, as his physically
inadequate body and lack of training battle against the lack of comfort
provided by a 2-inch wide saddle along with gravity and nature seemingly
working against him for every mile, it is more about the thoughts he has
while away from home with nothing else to think about other than pushing
the left pedal followed by the right, followed by the left. And the
responses to his thoughts from work colleagues, friends and family.