Mundane News

[Ming the Merciless]

I've a pair of SPD sandals, but they're tucked away for holidays. Barefoot pedalling in the Vendee, France.

But with socks ...

I already ride a recumbent and am an audaxer. I used to have sports sandals for walking and they were great. I’ll see how I get on with them on the recumbent. Many audaxer friends swear by them for long distance.

I could be doomed

 

[oldwheels]

Really a joke but better here
Leith Walk, Edinburgh

 

[Hebe]

The solar panel company that I thought might actually be a lighting company really is a solar panel company. It’s also the only one to have got back to me so far with anything useful.

 

[Oldhippy]

The solar panel company that I thought might actually be a lighting company really is a solar panel company. It’s also the only one to have got back to me so far with anything useful.

It's always the one you think will come to nothing. 😁 I remembered an idea today I'd written off a few years ago which now might just the thing as part of winding work life down.

 

[oldwheels]

Cycling sandals are superb!

I used to use sandals and bare feet when touring in summer Flat pedals so no cleats or toestraps. Good when it rained and if it got cold put on socks as warmer than without even if raining.

 

[oldwheels]

A nice trike run this morning on my usual route despite some pretty atrocious driving which did not affect me but other vehicles were annoyed.
The tourists we used to get came to an island community and were generally respectful of local people and local customs. Now the ones we have care for nobody but themselves and we are here to accommodate their every wish which includes monopolising our parking spots. The holiday homers are probably the worst and the owners do not care so long as lots of cash comes their way.
One unexpected result of the P&O affair is that we cannot now get smokeless fuel for stoves. This comes from Ireland and with no P&O ferries there are no lorries travelling apparently.
I have enough to do me for a month by which time the mess should be sorted and the weather should be getting warmer.

 

[Reynard]

Spent the afternoon lumberjill-ing.

That large ash branch is now trimmed and cut up into sections. Actually, it wasn't so much a branch as the whole top of a tree. And while I was at it, I noticed several dead trees nearby, so I felled four of them. The small ash was totally rotten, so going to leave it for all the bugs, but the three oaks were of decent quality, so those are also now trimmed and cut into sections. It will probably take me a few goes to move all of that lot.

Now sat down with a well-earned and two chocolate viennese biskits.

 

[simongt]

I've a pair of SPD sandals, but they're tucked away for holidays. Barefoot pedalling in the Vendee, France.

But with socks ...

A few of years back, I made the mistake of doing the Norwich 100 when it was a lovely sunny day and I wore my SPD sandals. My tootsies stayed lovely and cool, but I ended up with sunburn patches on the tops where the sandals didn't cover. Ouch - !
So socks do have their place with sandals in certain circumstances, or maybe I should have used sunblock.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

A few of years back, I made the mistake of doing the Norwich 100 when it was a lovely sunny day and I wore my SPD sandals. My tootsies stayed lovely and cool, but I ended up with sunburn patches on the tops where the sandals didn't cover. Ouch - !
So socks do have their place with sandals in certain circumstances, or maybe I should have used sunblock.

I have never understood why socks with sandals is such a fashion crime when it can be perfectly practical. (Summer touring a few years ago I only took sandals and waterproof socks.)

 

[postman]

Been to Edinburgh on a choo choo,Berwick is a really nice little station.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Spent the afternoon lumberjill-ing.

That large ash branch is now trimmed and cut up into sections. Actually, it wasn't so much a branch as the whole top of a tree. And while I was at it, I noticed several dead trees nearby, so I felled four of them.

You seem to spend a large part of your non-cycling time chopping down trees.

I used to love some of the mad stuff Emmaus got donated. I had a stuffed badger for a while called Simon and ended up redonating him. Two beautiful silver trays engraved in Arabic with the date 1905 on that I love and loads of odd stuff.

We get some beauties as well; there's an antique market in our town in a week or two, so all the other shops are sending us the "antique" stuff donated to them over the year in the hope we'll get a better price, cynical capitalist oppressors that we are...

Last month we had a working antique accordion*, and we recently sold an appalling two headed eagle and cups drinking set...

*Worryingly, I had to look that up in a German dictionary because I can't remember the English word; I need to go to the UK for a few weeks, I think...

 

[Andy in Germany]

I have never understood why socks with sandals is such a fashion crime when it can be perfectly practical.

There's your answer right there.

 

[Hebe]

Spent the afternoon lumberjill-ing.

"She's a lumberjill and she's okay..."

Now sat down with a well-earned and two chocolate viennese biskits.

I really want a now.

 

[biggs682]

Rear lawn has had first trim of 2022

 

[Oldhippy]

"She's a lumberjill and she's okay..."

I really want a now.

I sleep all night and work all day.
On Wednesday's I go shopping and have buttered scones for tea.