Bearlegged wrote: ↑Sun Apr 06, 2025 10:35 pm Nice trip, and the adder story is brilliant!

You're tellin' me. I'd have gladly swapped my bivvy to have seen that...

BaM for April - Done. :-bd My daughter had made plans and hired an Airbnb for herself and partner to go to the Jurassic Coast and furtle on the beaches for fossils. As it happened, her partner couldn't go (work :sad: ) so she asked if I'd like to go instead. Erm, Yes! The digs only had one double ro...

……I'll carry on working part time for a few years - with state and private pension I've no pressing need to but the "getting out" aspect is beneficial. This is what I did and am still doing eleven years later. One thing I did notice was that knowing I didn’t have to be there (in work) mad...

I’m a serial forgetter of stuff:- tarp twice, riding boots twice, fuel (cooked on fire that time), lighter, cycling jacket, money & card. I’ve also lost stuff:- a bike lock, countless pairs of glasses both reading and cycling, water bottles, a Spot Gen 3 and a down hoodie. Probably other stuff t...

Beautiful Absolutely. You is a very lucky bugger Mr Frog :-bd ‘S so true! I am. :-bd But it’s not always like this. Remember the last time we were up here? https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczMhhNfdF_85ZVpv4f10sIzhU7W7KPxPsTxaNIac7p4F6MkuuA-4GJDIPikdOuPrbzYiRsZfjVd1QWEhEsLnzJCyoV2Jw9nV7xfSEm...

Not far from home again (15miles and 1300 ft) but I got there by bike, so it counts as my March BaM. Pedalled from home to the Eglwyseg escarpment above LLangollen. It was dark already by the time I'd set up and I could see in the distance, a wildfire in the Berwyns, possibly above Llandrillo? https...

I’ve found, that whatever sport/hobby/musical instrument you take up, you’ll meet someone who’s that good at it, that you’ll feel like a numpty.

That’s why I’m the frog at the farriers - I’m trying to be a horse, but I’ll always be just a frog.

Congratulations on a fantastic effort.

But makes me feel more like a frog at the farriers than ever.

Wow! Dry stone walls and walling gives so much to our countryside. Respect! I was in Spain on the VDLP a couple of years ago There were dry stone walls there too, but you could see daylight through them. You could show them a thing or two…

I found three broken spokes on the back wheel of my everyday bike. I changed the wheels on this bike soon after rescuing it from the skip; the old wheels I hung on a nail in the shed and there they’ve stayed for quite a few years. Rather than source new spokes, down came the wheel to cannibalise the...

As I started to get set-up Rich announced that he'd left his hammock at home ….. Tsk! How can you forget your hammock FFS? Says he who has managed, on different occasions, to forget tarp (twice), riding boots, jacket (twice again), lighter - so no cuppa, stove, fuel and many others. Not to mention ...

I know it’s Sunday now, but I found out last Friday that I’ve got 24 hours of holidays left over from last years allowance. For me, that’s two days off. Again, for me on two on/six off shifts, that’s fourteen days off. To be used by the end of March.

How cheery was that?

RIP wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 8:22 pm We like "odd" . Reckon I'd've kipped in the Tower having spotted it was unlocked...

Me too. It would’ve been rude not to.

BaM under the stars. I've already got one for this month, on the Winter Event, but I'm posting this one as my February BaM. You may have heard of the Great Planetary Parade that's happening now? I thought I'd see for myself, so I packed a bivvy bag and small tarp and pedalled up to the Llandegla moo...

RIP wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 8:11 pm Yep it was real Last Of The Summer Wine stuff. If Lu was Clegg and Neil was Foggy that would make me, er....

Ha ha! Until Neil joined us we were Satler and Waldorf.

A Winter Event for Seniors. Combined age of over two centuries. :o Cow Picture. The only cows we saw.. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczMQOsH-dDf9MNXbHhttYbGhUVPpbJ3KZ3lKP25GIwKvn8AoOJ4JCMWEq0vq73B0GgGZHNDI8R5iteEI4E-hs9yvIdPd2Jj6KgHAbZZM3l964HpCc_CP=w640-h480 Daisy contemplating the geolo...

fatbikephil wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2025 2:17 pm Marvelous stuff. And a very fine point made - why go to all the hassle and expense of a hotel when you can sleep out for free in opulent luxury

So true. After all these BaMs I hate even paying for camping. Well, especially camping - at least with a B&B or hotel, you get a bit of comfort…

Slug tracks on the sides of the Overton Cave, Frodsham. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczOuKuA8Wead69EcfMn8YbqlPFNhoUZ1Zwg4uzfDL63U_PmJsQybVmDUhYIEs4fqpSjZzzjpOcGpjtOyPb64o4m2vPNCWczPFS3ii1yGVE7tt7eX4BgH=w1920-h1080 I'm curious how they've got to a wall at the back of a cave, across a good...

It looks like I'm in again. BaM 1/12 for '25 It was going to be on the W.E. but you know ... So, some months ago, I was trawling the internet to find the location of Kynaston's cave (near Nesscliffe ) when I came across these not too far away. Well, 27 miles actually. Close to Frodsham. https://lh3....

Lady Frog says,

“Phew, thank goodness”, and I’m afraid I have to agree. It could have been dangerous out there, but I doubt if I’d have not turned up.

Who knows, deferring it could have saved somebody’s life.

But, on the other hand, historically, the coldest month is February, so…

Right, I better finish these off so I can move on with commencing my 2025 attempt! Tarp required as the trees were dumping water every time the wind blew https://i.postimg.cc/qvKFMQZ5/PXL-20241227-003146814-1280.jpg Sorry for being nosy, but don’t you get cold from below with your underquilt slung ...

redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2025 7:33 pm Just to be clear. The wife is not a hybrid. She drives/owns one Thought to clarify in this modern day/age of people marrying their dogs/cars/pianos.

1) Favourite outing (not necessarily by bike) I don't know which was better - my bucket-list canoe trip in May, across the Great Glen from Aberdeen to Fort William or the Slate 2 trip with RIP in July. 2) Favourite piece of kit of 2024 My Ding-Dong bicycle bell (think the Avon telly adverts from ma...

I think Frog' deserves two awards: 1) "Inspiration to All" :-bd I dunno about “inspiration “. I just did it for myself. But thanks anyway. I did notice that it was a lot easier to get up there ten years ago. :roll: 2) "Most Sausages Eaten in One Bivi" :shock: Sausages? I thought...

TA DAAAA... December BaM done. For this months BaM I returned to the site of my first BaM in January 2015. Not far from home, (13 miles uphill) on the site of the old Minera Lead Mine. I pedalled in to the sunset and climbed to my bivvy spot with plenty of time to get there and set up/cook. I rode t...