quimarche wrote:Managed to reunite this beauty with her owner.

Not so cheery after all The vet found both the current and previous owners but sadly neither have accepted responsibility. Utter, utter sub-standards. The vet says: "She is two year old Staffordshire bull terrier. She is friendly to people, but has arrived to us in season, so is currently not good with other dogs. This should improve with time and neutering. All the dogs we re-home are vaccinated microchipped and neutered. We welcome enquiries for any of our rescues."

If anyone can give her a home, please call Stella on 07544 397358. She's in Milnthorpe, Cumbria. http://milnthorpekennelsandcattery.co.uk/

That is proper pants. Wish I could stretch to a second but one keeps me fully occupied

Just had confirmation that my student loan will arrive next week Only two months late...

The postie has been thread might see some action this week for me

On a downer, I'm sat at home lesson planning full of cold Not seen my bike all week except for a short commute to my part time job!

Spent four hours yesterday in a meeting to choose house options that should have taken an hour max, and they still managed to screw it up...

...so I guess I'm cheery that I don't have that to deal with today (my missus is dealing with it instead ).

Edit - Just got tickets to see Hamilton too, so that's cool.

I'm clocking off early to go kayaking for the weekend, only my third weekend of not working on events since May. Driving to Hexham for Chinese and beers tonight; paddling the Tyne followed by more beers and a ceilidh tomorrow, paddling the Tees and driving home Sunday.

Yes it is.

Sunny few hours on the bike this morning at hill of fare.

Scolty tomorrow morning too :)

Knocked off work an hour early tonight, couple of pints in the bank, off home for some quality faffage in preparation for tomorrow's bivvy trip with HTrider, perfect weekend after months of decorating!

A guest of Open Cycles this weekend, testing their gravel bike in Switzerland. Very cheery.

I've done loads of business this week and might even be able to afford some Xmas presents.

Off up the Cairngorms tomorrow without a bike :( campervan and runners.

But it's still the Cairngorms.

Hoping for stars. Going to sleep out on gairnshiel 2 or as it's known in Audax circles "bastard hill 2"

It's a happy Friday though because i got out for a ride this morning on the td-1 and after much cursing and swearing I finally got the gas system sorted on the van:)

Cheery all round isn't it ... me, I got 'the feather burner' working without electrocuting myself, setting fire to the workshop, blowing anything up or burning off any digits. To cap it off, I made a very nice cottage pie for tea with cheesy sweet potato mash on top

Bearbonesnorm wrote:Cheery all round isn't it ... me, I got 'the feather burner' working without electrocuting myself, setting fire to the workshop, blowing anything up or burning off any digits. To cap it off, I made a very nice cottage pie for tea with cheesy sweet potato mash on top

Whats one of them then?

Currently scrabbling round for kit in prep for a very cold camp tomorrow with Blair. It was all packed away for the winter - silly boy that I am....

Whats one of them then?

It's nowt to do with keeping warm ... not uless you set fire to yourself with it. Think of it simply as a hot wire cutter for shaping the fletchings on arrows. One of those jobs where someone asked, 'can you make me one of these?' and I replied 'yes' without first engaging brain.

Had a great job in a London theatre today, found my way out of London , have beer picked up a salsa Fargo cheery

I'm a day late as always...

It's my wedding anniversary today and this came in the post, as I slid it out of the envelope I thought at first that bb towers had started sending out cards

.l

Brilliant card!
Happy Anniversary to you both, Sean.

After four years of having nowhere to tinker I have just put up a 10x8 shed at the bottom of the garden. No more removing the front wheel and storing the bike upright, no more bike maintenance outside, no more annoying the wife with the ukulele, no more tidying up everything I've been working on in the kitchen (cos I had nowhere else to work on stuff) so I can cook dinner. Fucking ace .

Ray - this will change your life - it will be ace

You will also likely end up with piles of parts everywhere, more projects than you planned and needing more space again eventually

Zippy wrote:Ray - this will change your life

Wife thinks it's going to change her life too, she's worried she's going to become a "shed widow", .

Ray Young wrote:After four years of having nowhere to tinker I have just put up a 10x8 shed at the bottom of the garden. No more removing the front wheel and storing the bike upright, no more bike maintenance outside, no more annoying the wife with the ukulele, no more tidying up everything I've been working on in the kitchen (cos I had nowhere else to work on stuff) so I can cook dinner. Fucking ace .

Totally jealous! A decent shed is second on my list of things to purchase next year, I awfy want a new bike first!

Nice one Ray, the only thing better than a shed is two sheds!
(Cue show us your shed thread....)

I realise I'm a day late but I've only just found out that the Chinese have built a massive solar farm, shaped like a ............

Amazing!

This is the last Friday I will be at work this year which is pretty cheery Hopefully the other remaining Friday’s I’ll be out on the bike which is even cheerier

As I’ve met some of you throughout the year I feel more a part of the Bearbones family so I thought this year I would share a little Christmas greeting. For reasons too long to go into here I have ended up with a collection of PG Tips monkeys. A couple of years back the wife and myself came up with the idea of making our own Christmas cards. It turns out that if you can sew a framebag you can sew a shepherd costume for a knitted monkey, so I give you the image we created for our cards... The PG Tips Monkey Nativity.



Hopefully no one is too offended by this.