I suppose they are similar......at a stretchI ran out of rock saltso went shopping and picked up a couple of Easter eggs while I was there, not for me mind
The Retirement Thread
- Thread starter Dirk
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classic33
Leg End Member
Wonder what's tha upto.Good Morning. A beautiful day is dawning here in God's second choice for his country! Bows to @classic33 .......none of this Lancashire was the test run and Yorkshire the production model!!
I'm feeling rather chipper this morning. Still woke at 3.00am which is becoming a PIA but manged to sleep again till 6.00am. Spent the last 1.5 hours working on Covid Secure group riding for the club - I suspect this may be what's causing me to wake at 3.00am as it's a bit like being back at w**k!!
I have to stick the freezer drawer together next, then brekkie and out for a ride at 9.30. Mrs P has bought a new arbour for the garden. Anyone want to guess what this afternoon's job is? Answers on a postcard. No prizes.
Border Guards on red alert, they shall not pass.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Yes, and yes - it was!
It has taken me nearly 4 series to work out where my deja vu was coming from... How come the detective played by Nicola Walker isn't a ghost? The answer is that she played that role in River, which was on at the same time as series 1 of Unforgotten.
Confusing, or what!
You are sending ME to them too, if they agree to do the warranty replacement of the fork on my CAADX! I will give the effects of the Covid-19 jab another couple of weeks to kick in then see about taking the bike over on the train. I'll arrange to hang about while they do the job and if it is a nice day then I'll ride it back afterwards.
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oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Windy and a bit cold. Forecast seems to be for rain but so far the sun keeps shining.
Got fed up with my hair so went for a haircut this morning. There is only a ladies hairdresser available and I stopped going there as I got a terrible haircut last time I went. No option now as I cannot go to Oban so back down again and guess what? I got a worse haircut than before and I did not get the OAP discount either. Definitely not going back.
Weather for the next week does not look encouraging to try out my new tyres and gales forecast for the weekend. This used to happen often and the garage lads who worked next door to me always complained the weather during the week was good but when they had time off it was rubbish.
Got fed up with my hair so went for a haircut this morning. There is only a ladies hairdresser available and I stopped going there as I got a terrible haircut last time I went. No option now as I cannot go to Oban so back down again and guess what? I got a worse haircut than before and I did not get the OAP discount either. Definitely not going back.
Weather for the next week does not look encouraging to try out my new tyres and gales forecast for the weekend. This used to happen often and the garage lads who worked next door to me always complained the weather during the week was good but when they had time off it was rubbish.
numbnuts
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
5 mile walk done
12boy
Guru
- Location
- Casper WY USA
PaulSB...it is not if you can fix yours you could fix theirs but rather you should.
Irritatingly, to me at least, parts of the bike path were plowed and dry and others had a foot of frozen granular snow upon which walking the bike was required. Still it was so sweet to go for a ride. I bet there will be another ride today.
Mrs 12 appears about done with her vertigo and queasiness so maybe a brain MRI won't be needed. She does not want one.
I do need to fix the support post for one of my garden gates but I think the industrial glue will require of temps over 10C to cure properly. Musn't be impatient. There's always a little shrubbery trimming to do.
Dirk, I like your castle picture, but where are the walls? Were all the stones stolen over the years? Some years ago a friend and I went backpacking in the San Juan canyon lands of eastern Utah, where the Anasazi people had literally hundreds, if not thousands of little cliff dwellings in the serpentine canyons running from the mesas down to the river. Where ever the canyons faced south you could see their stone stuctures built on rocky shelves facing south. They lived there until about 1200 AD and it is so arid there there were still juniper roof beams and desicated corn cobs from that time, along with lots of pottery shards, in the old dwellings. Pictographs everywhere. As we were hiking out we came on a pair of older ladies, lean and brown who were hiking in with large packs. The trail was iffy in spots with scree and 60 foot drops, so we mentioned this to them. They laughed and said they knew that, cause they went for a couple of weeks every spring when a little potable water could still be found. Truly a magical place.
Be safe and well.
Irritatingly, to me at least, parts of the bike path were plowed and dry and others had a foot of frozen granular snow upon which walking the bike was required. Still it was so sweet to go for a ride. I bet there will be another ride today.
Mrs 12 appears about done with her vertigo and queasiness so maybe a brain MRI won't be needed. She does not want one.
I do need to fix the support post for one of my garden gates but I think the industrial glue will require of temps over 10C to cure properly. Musn't be impatient. There's always a little shrubbery trimming to do.
Dirk, I like your castle picture, but where are the walls? Were all the stones stolen over the years? Some years ago a friend and I went backpacking in the San Juan canyon lands of eastern Utah, where the Anasazi people had literally hundreds, if not thousands of little cliff dwellings in the serpentine canyons running from the mesas down to the river. Where ever the canyons faced south you could see their stone stuctures built on rocky shelves facing south. They lived there until about 1200 AD and it is so arid there there were still juniper roof beams and desicated corn cobs from that time, along with lots of pottery shards, in the old dwellings. Pictographs everywhere. As we were hiking out we came on a pair of older ladies, lean and brown who were hiking in with large packs. The trail was iffy in spots with scree and 60 foot drops, so we mentioned this to them. They laughed and said they knew that, cause they went for a couple of weeks every spring when a little potable water could still be found. Truly a magical place.
Be safe and well.
I am looking like Wurzel Gummage but it will be 3 weeks before I can get one
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Nice one.
I have just done 2 miles.......most Ican manage BUT I am definitely getting stronger. When I set off my legs are like lead and wobbly but after a few hundred metres I get into a stride.
Beautiful out there.....I even wore my sunglasses
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Necessity, only through necessity but thank you. After wrestling a tube in to a tubeless in the rain - a horrible experience - I bought a plug kit. Fixes a puncture in five minutes.
Anyone riding tubeless if you don't have a plug kit I thoroughly recommend getting one.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
I ran out of rock salt
Rock salt. It was 21⁰ with you yesterday and now it's freezing?? 🤔
numbnuts
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
Changes like the weather
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Colin you really do need to be very, very careful about this. My LBS has never been so busy, they've had to take on another mechanic to keep up with demand. It's a great shop, great people but things can and do go wrong. I hate to think of you trekking over to Blackburn only to find it can't be done on the arranged day.Yes, and yes - it was!
It has taken me nearly 4 series to work out where my deja vu was coming from... How come the detective played by Nicola Walker isn't a ghost? The answer is that she played that role in River, which was on at the same time as series 1 of Unforgotten.
Confusing, or what!
You are sending ME to them too, if they agree to do the warranty replacement of the fork on my CAADX! I will give the effects of the Covid-19 jab another couple of weeks to kick in then see about taking the bike over on the train. I'll arrange to hang about while they do the job and if it is a nice day then I'll ride it back afterwards.
Also Ewood Bikes is no longer a Cannondale stockist so check what the position is on recalls. It was a recall?
A haircut! We can only dream of a haircut by a professional at the moment
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