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- Sat May 11, 2024 11:20 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47102
- Sat May 11, 2024 11:13 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: WRT 2024: Tall Tales and Dirty Deeds
- Replies: 12
- Views: 641
Re: WRT 2024: Tall Tales and Dirty Deeds
WRT - Done. My tenth WRT. Picture heavy - Sorry! :roll: With my son, Mike, we set off on what was to be my shortest WRT ever. Just 15 miles to 1st bivvy, 30 miles to bivvy no.2 and an easy 15 miles back to the Towers. 6200ft of ascents. Ha! the best laid plans of mice and men, eh? In the event we'd ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Today was bike-washing day..
- Replies: 2
- Views: 163
Re: Today was bike-washing day..
Thanks for asking. Yes he’s (sort of) better - got home with no more pukes anyway.
- Tue May 07, 2024 8:47 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Today was bike-washing day..
- Replies: 2
- Views: 163
Today was bike-washing day..
But in the few days since I last mowed my lawns, the grass is ankle deep and needs cutting. But before I cut the grass, I need to prep the ground and sow my beetroot. But can’t sow the beetroot because I must wash the bikes. So I can’t wash the bike because the grass needs cutting, I can’t cut the g...
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:28 pm
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: MYOG Duomid A frame
- Replies: 2
- Views: 190
Re: MYOG Duomid A frame
That’s a pretty neat idea. I get irritated by the pole in the middle of the Gatewood. Me not being a weight-weenie, the extra weight might be a worth-while penalty.
- Wed May 01, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 699
- Views: 154588
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:21 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47102
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
BaM April 2024. Mrs Frog is having a rheumatoid arthritis flare-up, so this BaM is of necessity close to home - a couple of hours from home and somewhere I’ve used a couple of times before. Near Ellesmere. That’s a parked-up canal boat in the background. The first time I was there in my first BaM ye...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:28 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 536079
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
It's Friday. I'm lying in my hammock on my April BaM., snug and warm, listening to the rain pattering on my tarp. The 100 ml of Lidls finest cognac is just starting to kick in...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 10:30 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The pickled egg (and other bar snacks) thread
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2453
Re: The pickled egg (and other bar snacks) thread
Surface to say the smell was pretty potent and long lasting. 20 years ago, or so, I worked in a small control room with four other guys. In a spirit of fun, one night shift, I took a jar of 'em in and we ate them all. Took some cheese too. Imagine - a dozen or so, between 5 blokes. All that fart-ga...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:45 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hammock in the garden
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2814
Re: Hammock in the garden
Ha! I didn’t imagine it then?pushbikemike wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:13 pm
Sounds like a Turtledog design. Forgive the spelling.
Hammock forum will have plans.
I made one a good few years back out of easily available lumber and hardware. Cost about £20 and folded away when not in use.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:31 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hammock in the garden
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2814
Re: Hammock in the garden
I’ve seen somewhere, a pair of tripods - sort of similar to an easel - that support a long rail in the V’s at the top. The hammock is stretched out but tied to the rail near each end. This means that the tension of the hammock creates a compressing force on the rail, so doesn’t pull the trestles/eas...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:56 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Anyone local to these areas able to review (sections of) my route pls?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4526
Re: Anyone local to these areas able to review (sections of) my route pls?
Hi Shaf - I've downloaded your proposed track and indeed, it does go past my house. Sadly I won't be there - I'll be in Scotland canoeing the Great Glen canoe trail - a tick off my bucket list. :grin: Pooh! I'd have liked to have seen you or maybe ridden a little way with you. I see you've avoided t...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:33 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Anyone local to these areas able to review (sections of) my route pls?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4526
Re: Anyone local to these areas able to review (sections of) my route pls?
Hi Shaf , It’s hard to see from your screen-shot, but it looks like you’ll be going past my house (south of Wrexham). I’ve pm’ed you my location. You can send me the gpx and I can, maybe, offer some suggestions - especially avoiding the A5. Have you a specific date yet? It’d be nice to wave to you a...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:06 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Anyone local to these areas able to review (sections of) my route pls?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4526
Re: Anyone local to these areas able to review (sections of) my route pls?
Deleted. Double post.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47102
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
BaM for March '24 - Done :-bd Continuing my flower-themed BaMs. I've bivvied in violets, in primroses, in wild garlic (phew!),in bluebells and now in Daffodils. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczO2B0MXB7V4EfRuBIVhlEJ_kNrSWmPI0YZCyR6zPxOPptx0G5Qq33OKVFRXgIFIy8Gvwi3ZyIS3AYy-qt5NxakWjTnUIvY4Pm...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 536079
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Only not off topic because it’s Cheery Friday, but… I like words. I learnt a new one yesterday - Christofaschist. A lovely word. A lot of ‘em in USA apparently… Also, a disappointing truth. I’ll explain… Who’s heard of the song “Alouette, (gentille Alouette)”? I’d always thought it was about a boy s...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
- Replies: 109
- Views: 8175
Re: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
It’s a prime example of “the innate hostility of inanimate objects”. In your case, it’s just sitting there, saying “Nah, I don’t wanna. Now what are you go in’ to do?”.
Aaagh! I feel your pain
Aaagh! I feel your pain
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47102
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
You’re a man after my own heart. A bit of good food is worth carrying the extra weight for a few milesdorsetshirelad wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:25 pm
…before breakfast of bacon, egg, sausage, mushrooms and tomatoes all washed down with cowboy coffee….
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sunday conundrum.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 551
Re: Sunday conundrum.
‘S one of life’s great mysteries - like the ways of a man with a maid or how does a horse do that while he’s walking…
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 536079
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
….. my first batch of sauerkraut has seen the light of day. Congratulations. Enjoy. :-bd Making sauerkraut is very satisfying. Mine is made in a 10 litre plastic bucket, then bagged up in manageable quantities (for two), then frozen. Kefir is fun to make too. I made lots last summer but Mrs Frog ch...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:01 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47102
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Berwyn tour with Reg - Supplemental. Reg very kindly skirted around my little mix-up re start date. Mea Culpa. There, I’ve said it - but anyway, moving swiftly on…. Here are my few pics:- The night before…. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ABLVV87BDJjyzyDEj-2Q1Vx8scVs6OnaxjYs2C-kH1ONltlbI6VHNu8o...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 536079
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
I’ve got some old doors you can build a shed out of.Dave Barter wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:26 am Cheery Friday here as we take ownership of our new allotment today. I'm off to buy a pipe and some tobacco and a hoe later.
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:21 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What to do about this tubeless sealant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 480
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What to do about this tubeless sealant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 480
Re: What to do about this tubeless sealant
You'd say the sidewalls are porous Lu and the sealant is simply doing its job. Is the tyre still going down? Yup. Well I say Yup but I haven’t ridden it since the WE. It’s soft now but I wouldn’t like to say how quickly it went down. I had noticed in the past that it would “sweat” clear stuff but n...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What to do about this tubeless sealant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 480
What to do about this tubeless sealant
Before the latest Winter Event I thought to make sure my tyres wouldn’t go down and topped up (with more Stans) the Stans sealant that had been in for a year or so. Next morning:- https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ABLVV85SaH3sCFU18GxDdOhWegdn71RhvyDXYbUtSyiURzYXIHRqxzoKwZFaVpEHDfbD6VdPSFZ7PyJuqLv...