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- Sun Jan 17, 2021 8:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 9263
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Re: The post man's been ...
@Reg, you share bath water, as in one after the other, you really do live in the 1970's :shock: I haven't had a bath in years - since we got a shower - but I can well remember sharing bathwater back in the days. I can well remember everyone only having one bath a week, too, (except miners). 'S funn...
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 10:00 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2021
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1477
Re: Bivvy a Month 2021
ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 7:51 pmat which point my consecutive BAMs will equal my age.Congrats on your 'Golden Jubilee' there Colin!
I hadn’t realised, but my BAM count/age equivalence was last December. Hmm.. that can never happen again.
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:32 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 1389
- Views: 137141
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
My mum popped her clogs last August. Not cheery. But today we started clearing her house. Sooo much stuff. Why do women need so many shoes? 4 Zafiras full of clothes, some with labels still in. But, behind a wardrobe was an envelope with 50 £20 notes in it. Friday was pretty cheery after that. 

- Thu Jan 07, 2021 11:22 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: It'll pass..
- Replies: 11
- Views: 424
Re: It'll pass..
In WW2 the National Government controlled almost every facet of the public's life from the compossition of their daily bread to where and when they could travel, for a death toll of 60-70,000 civilian deaths in 6 years, a total we've far exceeded in 10 months. Yet the only restriction we're be aske...
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 11:09 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: It'll pass..
- Replies: 11
- Views: 424
Re: It'll pass..
It's easy to think that 'that's it, things will never be the same again' but they will. 'Tis nowt but a blip. It is a big blip though and for sure we’d all be happier if it wasn’t happening, but I do get a bit annoyed with all the doom-mongering going on. Compared to the hardship my parents and gra...
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:08 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: It'll pass..
- Replies: 11
- Views: 424
It'll pass..
Someone sent me a joke the other day. It goes like this :- Ten years from now, you’ll put on a jacket and find a mask in the pocket. “Oh man, what a weird year that was”, you’ll chuckle to yourself. It’s just a joke, but true nonetheless. COVID will pass (more or less) and life will go on. Woody All...
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 11:31 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2021
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1477
Re: Bivvy a Month 2021
I love BAM too much to let a thing like a lockdown stop me. Luckily I own a couple of fields I can bivvy in so my plan for the duration is to pack the bike, ride a loop around home, (not too far), bivvy in my paddock, then reverse route back again. It's a bit like washing your feet with your socks o...
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 8:31 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Overseas purchases and imports
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1063
Re: Overseas purchases and imports
I bought and paid for a watch from Germany on 16th December - just before the shenanigans in Dover. They took my money and said it was dispatched and gave a delivery date. Immediately afterwards I got mail in German saying delivery was delayed. No date. Now you’ve got me worried with talk of import ...
- Fri Jan 01, 2021 5:21 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 54099
- Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:13 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 54099
Re: Bivvy a month 2020.
I've already posted a BAM for December, but this is a better one, so you can have it too. My son had borrowd my fat-bike to be my minder on the WRT in August. We went to have our Christmas dinner with him and his family and while I was there I brought my fatbike home. How lucky was that, given that ...
- Mon Dec 28, 2020 7:09 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: I want a camera.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 239
I want a camera.
I was almost late today. Another half second and I'd have been "The Late Frogatthefarriers". It was that close. A dirty great wagon that didn't stop to look properly before pulling out of a side road nearly did for me. My dinner would have come back out of both ends simulaneously. Squirt. :o Happily...
- Sun Dec 20, 2020 7:54 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 54099
Re: Bivvy a month 2020.
Although Frog what on earth are you doing passing up a perfectly serviceable gents toilet in exchange for an empty room? Shocking and blatant example of breaking Rule #19 there matey. :grin: Sorry Reg, but I just couldn't face sweeping out all the dried leaves without a brush/shovel to hand. I'll t...
- Sun Dec 20, 2020 7:19 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 54099
Re: Bivvy a month 2020.
So, last one of 2020. A very local one in a spot I didn't know existed until a fortnight ago. I was pootling along looking for hammocking places, when I saw a gap in the hedge and a tyre mark going through it. I had to look. It's an old army camp a little more than five miles from home, that was bui...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 10:03 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Thirteen Years of surviving 'Pudding Real Moss'
- Replies: 2
- Views: 188
Re: Thirteen Years of surviving 'Pudding Real Moss'
Shaf, thanks for sharing. That was a good story. I enjoyed it a lot.
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 9:37 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Where is everyone?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 1706
Re: Where is everyone?
I’m here every day, but only log in if I’ve got something to say.
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:17 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Blink and it’s gone
- Replies: 16
- Views: 456
Re: Blink and it’s gone
All the usual 'markers' that help me define and shape the year weren't there, so any sense of time has largely gone. Each day seems a continuation of the last and a week just feels like a very long day ... if that makes sense. On a shorter timescale, I’ve been sitting at home since lockdown and my ...
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 10:43 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: xmas gifts for a cycling wife............ help!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 611
Re: xmas gifts for a cycling wife............ help!
My wife and I have been married for 48 christmases. We've come to a point where we have everything we want/need. If we need something, we buy it whatever time of year it is. Same with birthdays, so instead of buying for each other, we make a donation to the Salvation Army and buy each other a token ...
- Tue Dec 01, 2020 9:03 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: GPS Tracker Thread - Spot Content and In reach
- Replies: 31
- Views: 615
Re: GPS Tracker Thread - Spot Content and In reach
+1. My Spot 3 lasted for all 12 of last years BAM + a couple of other trips all on the one set of lithium non-rechargeable batteries that it came with.Dave Barter wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 12:10 pmSimilar to Sean I use a SPOT as battery life is fantastic with replaceable lithiums going well over 7 days
- Tue Dec 01, 2020 8:47 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 54099
Re: Bivvy a month 2020.
BAM for November. 11/12. Last chance saloon. :-bd I was going to do a double BAM in case Wales was locked down again, but it was not to be because I'd have had to be back at home before 9 o'clock on the 2nd. So it was a single in Moel Fferna quarry (disused) in the Berwyns. I got there after dark, i...
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 9:03 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 54099
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 8:43 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Overnight stays still banned?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 1482
Re: Overnight stays still banned?
Last I heard, we can still go on holiday in Wales, but only if we live in Wales. I'm on a 1 night camping holiday in a slate quarry in the Berwyns. On my November BAM - lying in bed, looking at a full moon.
- Fri Nov 27, 2020 9:10 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Overnight stays still banned?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 1482
Re: Overnight stays still banned?
I just looked. December 4th. It looks like I’ll have to do my double BAM this week then.JohnClimber wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 2:13 pmLooks like more lockdown to come for Wales from Friday next week, so the First Minister has just said
- Fri Nov 27, 2020 11:27 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Overnight stays still banned?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 1482
Re: Overnight stays still banned?
Has anyone seen how the new rules affects overnight trips to Wales? It's not an answer to your question but for us Cymros the picture is much better. This is off the Welsh gov page:- “ I live in Wales, can I go on holiday in Wales or the rest of the UK? You are allowed to go on holiday within Wales...
- Tue Nov 24, 2020 9:59 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Re-proofing Goretex
- Replies: 22
- Views: 460
Re: Re-proofing Goretex
OK, so I'm fed up of my Goretex. Lots of votes on here for the Columbia Reign, but looking at the photos, they look a bit short at the back. I fear a wet bum. So, you chaps that have them, are they long enough? And what about the other option, the Paramo Analogy? 'S a lot of money, sure, but I can s...
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 9:52 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 54099