biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
My working day completed I went for a test ride only a mile but enough to get an idea
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deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Springwatch news: the first ice cream van of the year has just visited the estate.
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
so, a robot is confirming I'm not a robot? 
I object!
I object!
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
well, that is the perfect approach to gardening, I must say. well done 👍
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
wow, must have a lot of goats. can't a see a tree for miles!
rockyroller
Guru
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- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
nice work. would you consider a product more durable?
View: https://youtu.be/httSHnNXN10?si=pk0_oeFdKxMnp9Yu
seanoconn
Active Member
What did you get?
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
A sense of virtuous abstemiousness.
Ultra frosty start to the day.
A previously unknown Evri person delivered a flat pack shelving unit and the replacement rucksack.
Oh! Thats why it was cheap, its small. Realised it will actually be fine for shopping trips when the shop goes in the pannier and the rucksack is just for glasses and bike light/ computerl sportscam when in the shop..
Whilst the sun was out and warm it wasn't doing anything for areas in the shade. Afternoon office visit to collect a new SIM for the work phone changing to EE from O2 was hence by car
Flat pack shelving quickly assembled.
A previously unknown Evri person delivered a flat pack shelving unit and the replacement rucksack.
Oh! Thats why it was cheap, its small. Realised it will actually be fine for shopping trips when the shop goes in the pannier and the rucksack is just for glasses and bike light/ computerl sportscam when in the shop..
Whilst the sun was out and warm it wasn't doing anything for areas in the shade. Afternoon office visit to collect a new SIM for the work phone changing to EE from O2 was hence by car
Flat pack shelving quickly assembled.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
It's been a lovely sunny day here chez Casa Reynard, albeit chilly thanks to a nagging easterly breeze.
Slept really well. Woke up to Madam Lexi purring hopefully in my ear. Had a choresy morning that included topping up the firewood bins in the house and making sure that tomorrow's Cake Day rib of beef is defrosting apace.
Had a lovely luncheon of sourdough toast, home made pate, cheddar cheese, fruit and a
Had a bit of a clear out in the garage - well the box with stuff for the tip was full, and I needed to take all the stuff the little bar steward chewed up and destroyed (including my waffle iron
). So all of that went into the car. While I was rounding up some empty plastic gallon cans, I found a box with a brand new chainsaw chain that I bought a while back and totally forgot about. So I didn't need to go to Screwfix after all. I will fit this chain to the saw and see what's what. If that solves the issue, I will be taking the chain I bought just before Christmas back to Doe's to see what they can do for me. Three months' of fairly ordinary use shouldn't be enough to fubar a chain. I normally get about three years out of one.
So off to the tip in Witchford. Everything disposed of in the correct skip. Also had a peruse of their sales area. Bikes are still really spendy - £70 to £80 for adult bikes, £25 - £40 for junior bikes. All bikes sold as seen, and tend to be the cheaper ones.
I did spot a couple of bits that @biggs682 might be interested in though. A Raleigh Banana bare frame (18-23 gas pipe) in very good condition, although it could be the modern repro, and a Claude Butler Majestic in 531, mostly a bare frame, but with chainrings and cranks still attached. Paint is a little scuffed, but largely OK. Both frames look to be big-ish, probably 23 inches. I wonder if they belonged to the same person... They're £40 each. Not brilliant, but not bad if you've the parts to build them up. Will post pics and details later in the appropriate thread.
Now sat beside the fire with a and some chocolate-covered marzipan thing.
Slept really well. Woke up to Madam Lexi purring hopefully in my ear. Had a choresy morning that included topping up the firewood bins in the house and making sure that tomorrow's Cake Day rib of beef is defrosting apace.
Had a lovely luncheon of sourdough toast, home made pate, cheddar cheese, fruit and a
Had a bit of a clear out in the garage - well the box with stuff for the tip was full, and I needed to take all the stuff the little bar steward chewed up and destroyed (including my waffle iron
). So all of that went into the car. While I was rounding up some empty plastic gallon cans, I found a box with a brand new chainsaw chain that I bought a while back and totally forgot about. So I didn't need to go to Screwfix after all. I will fit this chain to the saw and see what's what. If that solves the issue, I will be taking the chain I bought just before Christmas back to Doe's to see what they can do for me. Three months' of fairly ordinary use shouldn't be enough to fubar a chain. I normally get about three years out of one.So off to the tip in Witchford. Everything disposed of in the correct skip. Also had a peruse of their sales area. Bikes are still really spendy - £70 to £80 for adult bikes, £25 - £40 for junior bikes. All bikes sold as seen, and tend to be the cheaper ones.
I did spot a couple of bits that @biggs682 might be interested in though. A Raleigh Banana bare frame (18-23 gas pipe) in very good condition, although it could be the modern repro, and a Claude Butler Majestic in 531, mostly a bare frame, but with chainrings and cranks still attached. Paint is a little scuffed, but largely OK. Both frames look to be big-ish, probably 23 inches. I wonder if they belonged to the same person... They're £40 each. Not brilliant, but not bad if you've the parts to build them up. Will post pics and details later in the appropriate thread.
Now sat beside the fire with a
and some chocolate-covered marzipan thing.
seanoconn
Active Member
With a flake?
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Red sky at night...
VinSumRox
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders
Clever camera angles!
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Time to feed the cat, and then it will be time to feed me.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
oh man I have memories of overtime. for a stretch in the mid-late 1980s I would regularly do 4 hrs of OT every night! meaning, instead of getting out at midnight, I got out at 4am. it was brutal, but the $$ added up!
eventually they put me in charge & we added a 3rd shift. it was sweet to work normal hours, except when the 3rd shift called w/ problems to solve ...
Still running crap in the areas that's causing the issues so probably zero but you know damn well it's coming, last month I did 36 hours overtime