you picking the venue from your book. Hmmm? Tables nicely turned :-bd . . Everybody else scroll down, but for Lu: Real Ale Wobble in Llanwrtyd Wells (November) (there you go!) and many more :grin: Oooh! Is that a hint/suggestion? But £25? Nah, that’s not too much. And I can get there on the train. ...

Just get me roped in! Book might be Wacky Nation by Bamber (BaM-ber!) & Raynes - I've got it, let's do a grand tour. I can appreciate basic 'scenery' as much as the next Boner. "There's a mountain, very nice".For about half an hour. Then I get bit bored unfortunately :wink: . https://...

Good one Lu, with an excellent selection of food and drink! Thanks Chris. A bit too much food though. It was hard to pedal up the hills to Bedfordshire Yep nice that, lots going on there, and, er, beers :smile: . Start of a new series methinks..... Hallaton bottle kicking, Ashbourne Shrove football...

BaM 2024 - September - Done. Caught a train to Stafford (Avanti West Coast, with probably the worst designed bike space ever). Then pedalled to… https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczPqqqX4_BHHziuvDnD5sut3KYeuMmNRBAU00UtaG5AvL6Aio19rqHrBL1amNS6zseTW9-sJnW89tTLbq6B-U7mMGD-TziUHaikjb9rfp_HI8eoocY...

Oddly, I have a hankering for doing a traditional tour with panniers, going from campsite to campsite - mostly because I've never done one. Considering how much B&Bs cost now, the savings would pay for the rack and panniers I dont have :grin: I’ve been thinking for a while, that when off-road b...

August BaM already done, so this was a bonus. It’s become a sort of family tradition for my son and grandson (me too), to hang out in our hammocks. I trained it* on to Anglesey to meet them and we pitched up for a night of gammon steaks, cider and Jaegermeister (my new camping nightcap). Nothing out...

bike lock :sad: Er, glasses? :grin: You know me too well. The glasses are still at the cafe. :roll: 'S a good job I buy 'em 3 pairs at a time… The bike lock? Before leaving to catch the train I turned the house over looking for the keys. Found 'em exactly where Mrs Frog said they’d be. I’ve still g...

bike lock :sad: Er, glasses? :grin: You know me too well. The glasses are still at the cafe. :roll: 'S a good job I buy 'em 3 pairs at a time… The bike lock? Before leaving to catch the train I turned the house over looking for the keys. Found 'em exactly where Mrs Frog said they’d be. I’ve still g...

August BaM? Dunnit. Dolgellau. :-bd I should have done it earlier in the month, but I got covid again, (how can that be - I’ve had 2 actual Covids then 5 jabs) then Lady Frog got it. I couldn’t do next week cos I’ll be in court - jury service - so it had to be today, Friday. So, train to Machynlleth...

Oh, and I just read on the news this morning that the Junior Tour of Wales is in town this weekend, so I'll go and have a look :cool: If you'd like to assimilate in to the community, there used to be a Welsh folk dancing group in Brynmawr. Run by Aunty Jessie - she'd been leader for donkeys years. ...

Today I came across a new word. Two words for the same thing, actually.

I give you:- horripilation and piloerections.

They sound so silly they cheered me up anyway.

Osculation is another, but that came years ago.

@Gecko76, nice pics and congratulations on getting a teenager out bikepacking. From the smile on her face, she enjoyed it.

Result! Respect!

@frogatthefarriers, I think we chatted briefly on a lane in the first few hour or 2 of this years WRT? You'd just visited the old house we'd passed. 97 BaMs That's quite something! Plans to make the 100th is a special one? That was you? If only I’d known… As to BaMs, I’d already done 29 (on a Trek ...

Me. I’ve had mine since 2017 and it’s my go-to bike for bikepacking. Bought pre-owned (second hand) from somebody in Cornwall. He’d bought it on a cycle-to-work scheme and must have spent quite a few bob on it, then decided to sell. He’d put a few bits of bling on, - and 11 speed NX gears, fancy red...

dorsetshirelad wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 9:46 am July Bivvy

Lemon Chicken Video
https://youtu.be/H7QeCzX41YM

Respect! You’re a man after my own heart. It just goes to show that bikepacking meals don’t have to be “add-water-to-a-packet-of -summat-dehydrated”. And it gives you something to do in the evening before bed-time.

BaM for July already done, so I’ve put this in here. So I turned up at work as usual, to find that my bit of the factory was shut down (maintenance or summat) for two days. The choice was two days of boredom or make-work or two holidays. My choice. I chose the holidays and trundled off home but on t...

July BaM with Reg, in Criccieth, on the Slate tour. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczPE5hK0x7wxhC3bf4B7Ab1MqVD1G7nbT_wsbsRSo9npA3BFEHTiGo33wtZBqNRvdoHWXioNI_EdpBemfe7H1ffRN3YTithOI5m7NqCIqA3PkkgH1fUc=w640-h480 7 of 7 for 2024. Now I think about it, it also fits in with my wild-flower linke...

Here are a few more pics… Menai Straits, after Port Dinorwic https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczNGpppP8dsXY-37PshGeAfx6nT-uj91se9piqR7teaTIwwRKhE2QVASDl7URUpzWqKzbNo00KXCGhpPXPbxNh0QKBrwCdMED1i0XiWI-e3PmpK1X7UF=w640-h480 Castell Caernarfon… https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczN-_hfb2Q...

Woodpecker on the lawn. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczNAJModT6l0FVk4t148negX8SJ12n_H7v2yr1AGJsqF_Cwi4QFqlNx2ghyRjntQjBwEdvfL9pLCOmar0-PTbaz_5q3xqiwGlJ-hQd8OiDGcwKZlzElj=w1920-h1080 Usually, we see them on the nut-cage but I haven’t filled it up and probably why this one’s looking for an...

OT, Sorry, but…



It’s a parsnip I left in the veg patch from last year.

Just milk the situation in your BaM report Lu. Or is it just a load of udder bull in the first place? You want bull udder? https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczN_33wxHlW_YyVjizREFPc8TrmqeXjp2me8rfV2HPX4gggEZIcEiaBhSI24PZQMfBi38b0K_TpMgm5unABNyCLMlOKdCP4NroqNpxlFlIPhNYZza_ix=w640-h480 :-bd

Dunnit! Almost last gasp June BaM. Set out just before seven and huffed up lots of hills to where I’d thought to progress my “Bivvy in wild flowers” campaign. Didn’t work. :sad: A few years ago there had been a very pretty display of big purple thistles and I’d expected there to be another one. http...

Last minute June BaM in progress. Just finished setting up on second choice of spot and a herd of cows has turned up.



I'll survive, I expect, but will my kit? I've seen what cows can do to a tent.

Oh, and it's chucking it down with rain and the wind's getting up. Ooh err missus!

Been to the PYO. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczNrD43F4N4hVSQ6VW6CcpgAx8qzQxfCs-848OF4mjo55j297VVdSv4ZKPihtJ6MjyRsf3S8glkizeMiUSn3FVbyQrVs0m0iwp8K_FvgdjxjwWu6o_P4=w640-h480 These became nine jars of strawberry jam and six one pound bags of sliced-up strawberries 'n' sugar for in the free...

I had a similar thing happen some years ago, but I don’t remember the manufacturer of the pillow. Multiple air leaks over a wide area. At the time I put it down to using Deet. I’ve always been a midge magnet, and not knowing any better, was using Deet spray to keep ‘em off. At bed time, of course, t...