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F is reading it and enjoying it.

It’s fine. The Prologue was good, and thus encouraging, but the rest of the book wasn’t as interesting. It’s more of a list of “things cyclists do on mountains” than “why cyclists like mountains”, and there’s my usual bugbear of testosterone-fuelled conquering of mountains rather than the beauty of being amongst them.

Fantastic. There's no fluff, no messing about, no wishy-washy kiddie's stuff, just proper adventure and meaning and love.

My son says it’s brilliant, and that I should read it too. Who am I to argue.

I have a couple of Max Leonard books on my reading list. This is not one of them, but this is the one I found in the library, so it'll do for now! Initial reading is positive, with funny turns of phrase.

Ooh, too much, too soon. I'm sure for experienced woodworkers it's a fun list of projects, but for me it's a list of complicated stuff and too many expensive tools. It puts me off a fair bit.

I only recently noticed that Barn the Spoon has written more books.

Good to re-read it for inspiration and encouragement.

Re-reading it, after having bought a couple of excellent hand-carved spoons.