ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I remember there being one, but I would have had to check the year. I felt the heat for some reason...
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classic33
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I can't think why you felt the heat.I remember there being one, but I would have had to check the year. I felt the heat for some reason...
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1982 was the next warm spell.
1982 was a memorable year for us.
We moved into the house we are still in.
The company I was with collapsed leaving me and 2,600 others on the dole.
It was, as you said, a fabulous, hot summer. We bought a cheap BBQ and I was brewing wine......guess what we lived on for several months
G'day cobbers.
A nice but strange day yesterday.
0600 I went for a walk.
Got some jobs done.
1000 I got another 2 mile walk in. Felt ok to start with but part way through my energy disappeared. Fortunately I had an energy bar plus water with me but it was a worry.
1400 I was going to bed for a couple of hours when daughter and SiL turned up. He came to plant out our "planters" plus other jobs. We were very pleased but they stayed till 7 pm and I was dead on my feet.
So that was my day
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A nice but strange day yesterday.
0600 I went for a walk.
Got some jobs done.
1000 I got another 2 mile walk in. Felt ok to start with but part way through my energy disappeared. Fortunately I had an energy bar plus water with me but it was a worry.
1400 I was going to bed for a couple of hours when daughter and SiL turned up. He came to plant out our "planters" plus other jobs. We were very pleased but they stayed till 7 pm and I was dead on my feet.
So that was my day
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Aaagh... WTF!!!! Why are 2 alarms going off after only about 4 hours sleep???
Oh, dear... 100 miles to ride!!!
Must dash...
Oh, dear... 100 miles to ride!!!
Must dash...
Flick of the Elbow
less than
- Location
- Midlothian Edinburgh
Good morning all, just catching up from yesterday.
My day was spent cutting hedges then catching up with the Tour. This involves first listening to the previous days’ Cycling Podcast, then, on GCN Eurosport, catching up with Orla’s wardrobe selection, then Jonathan H-B’s introduction, and only then can I commence watching the stage
And what a good one it was 😍
I’ve done my surname check on yesterday’s link, Nottingham, sounds about right from what we know of my Dad’s family, which isn’t much !
My day was spent cutting hedges then catching up with the Tour. This involves first listening to the previous days’ Cycling Podcast, then, on GCN Eurosport, catching up with Orla’s wardrobe selection, then Jonathan H-B’s introduction, and only then can I commence watching the stage
And what a good one it was 😍
I’ve done my surname check on yesterday’s link, Nottingham, sounds about right from what we know of my Dad’s family, which isn’t much !
I wish you all the best for this.Aaagh... WTF!!!! Why are 2 alarms going off after only about 4 hours sleep???
Oh, dear... 100 miles to ride!!!
Must dash...
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Good morning people
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Aaagh... WTF!!!! Why are 2 alarms going off after only about 4 hours sleep???
Oh, dear... 100 miles to ride!!!
Must dash...
Sounds like fun, enjoy you're ride, I don't think I could manage a 100 now.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I have risen!
I remember 1976 well. A proper drought, not just a day or two with no rain that people call a drought these days. Not a cloud in the sky the whole summer holidays. Standpipes in the street.
Two memorable things happened that year.
My ill fated attempt to break the sound barrier on a Raleigh Chopper.
And my Dad, who go so fed up of not being able to sleep because of the hest he went and slept on a deck chair in the garden. He awoke in the wee small hours to find it had started raining
I remember 1976 well. A proper drought, not just a day or two with no rain that people call a drought these days. Not a cloud in the sky the whole summer holidays. Standpipes in the street.
Two memorable things happened that year.
My ill fated attempt to break the sound barrier on a Raleigh Chopper.
And my Dad, who go so fed up of not being able to sleep because of the hest he went and slept on a deck chair in the garden. He awoke in the wee small hours to find it had started raining
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Good morning. It's a dull but warm morning. I still have the cough which I think is going to take weeks to shift but other than that I feel quite chipper.
Off to Manchester this afternoon where No.1 son is taking us out to eat. My birthday treat.
Before that I'm going for a quick ride, a local 30 mile loop, ad I haven't ridden for ten days with being unwell. I need to find out where I am with this. A bit worried to be honest, think I'll either be fine or will have to admit I'm a long way from being better.
My closest friend came round yesterday evening. We sat out the front and chatted for 90 minutes. It's one of the most normal things I've done in 18 months. First time since January 2020 we've met up properly - not standing two metres apart in the wet on a doorstep!! Very happy.
Good luck @ColinJ a big ride under any circumstances.
Off to Manchester this afternoon where No.1 son is taking us out to eat. My birthday treat.
Before that I'm going for a quick ride, a local 30 mile loop, ad I haven't ridden for ten days with being unwell. I need to find out where I am with this. A bit worried to be honest, think I'll either be fine or will have to admit I'm a long way from being better.My closest friend came round yesterday evening. We sat out the front and chatted for 90 minutes. It's one of the most normal things I've done in 18 months. First time since January 2020 we've met up properly - not standing two metres apart in the wet on a doorstep!! Very happy.
Good luck @ColinJ a big ride under any circumstances.
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I have risen!
I remember 1976 well. A proper drought, not just a day or two with no rain that people call a drought these days. Not a cloud in the sky the whole summer holidays. Standpipes in the street.
Two memorable things happened that year.
My ill fated attempt to break the sound barrier on a Raleigh Chopper.
And my Dad, who go so fed up of not being able to sleep because of the hest he went and slept on a deck chair in the garden. He awoke in the wee small hours to find it had started raining
I remember 1976, I was living in a bedsit, working in a local radio and TV workshop, I ran the stores, and had just brought a new motorbike, a bright yellow MZ250. I remember the rain when the drought broke, I was in London at a motorbike show and rode back to Coventry in a torrential downpour.
I have NEVER managed a 100. Used to get up to 60/70 max.
Hats off to those that can.
BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
1976. We were “on holiday” in Cornwall, having towed our caravan from home (Near Sunderland, at that time). Oldest son was 4 and developed measles whilst we were there, newly arrived foster child (son), aged 2, was very difficult, and, it was scorching hot, every day. Yes, fond(?) memories of 1976. 
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Morning. I am up.
1976 was Def a scorchio year. I had a 3 year old and a 1 year old to look after. It was very difficult keeping a 3 year old inside because he was fair haired and would have been burnt to a crisp.
Stay safe folks
1976 was Def a scorchio year. I had a 3 year old and a 1 year old to look after. It was very difficult keeping a 3 year old inside because he was fair haired and would have been burnt to a crisp.
Stay safe folks
