Verena wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:50 am

Ooooo, bivvy-in-the-bluebells, is that a thing? I like it

I dunno about it being a “thing”, but it sure smells better than bivvy-in-the-wild-garlic.

I got back from my March/April bivvy to find an email saying I've got a place as crew on a five-week voyage in a tall ship. That's one tick off the bucket list.

With Wales being open for unlimited travel (in Wales) I plumped for a March 31st/April 1st double in the Berwyns. Bivvy 1. March 31st. On the way there.... Wood anemonies https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51090022672_0b289e4746.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51089940941_bd4381fc6b.jpg The...

Landslide wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 26, 2021 8:33 pm

Flobalobadobble.

Bluddybuggabum.

Hurray! New easing of Welsh lockdown means I can holiday in Wales again - as long as it’s in “self contained” accommodation. It doesn’t come more self-contained than bivvying on my own in some remote shed/ditch/forest somewhere. I’m thinking of a double, 30th/1st two nighter, in case the rules chang...

Oh ‘eck, poor old Sam. Get well soon - and when you do, learn the best way to land on your face...

BigdummySteve wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 24, 2021 10:31 pm

Bit of a shock really, I’d assumed I was fairly healthy.

I can relate to this, ‘cos so did I up until May last year and my BP was typically 135/85 at the time. Now I’m thinking it might be time to draw up a bucket list.

Can we have some new flavours now you're back please Frog? Bored with all the usual ones. Some time ago somebody did a 'Special Edition' choc and vanilla flavoured one which was superb. I’ll see what I can do for you, Reg, though at my level of status/influence I wouldn’t expect any more than more,...

Cheery for me 'coz I got a call today from my boss telling me I can go back to work. They told me to stay away just after Christmas to protect me from COVID and I’ve been hanging around at home on full pay since then. Yay! I’m a breadwinner again

From speaking with various people it does seem that the AZ one gives you a bit of a whack. Had mine at 11am last Fri, fine all day, hands seized up a bit at 10pm so went to bed. Shivered like mad for 4 hours despite 3 quilts and hot water bottle, and sweated at same time. Next morning headache and ...

Me? I’d go for a more-defined Zombie-bear one like last years WRT if it were available. Dead Kool that’d be..

:lol: Hah! I'll give him a run for his [enormous fortune of] money :grin: Had the AZ version. The Moderna/Pfizer versions use an mRNA platform but AZ is chimpanzee adenovirus vectored. I always thought I had a chi[m]p on my shoulder and now it's guaranteed! While you're at it, you'd better get a ti...

RIP wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 02, 2021 9:04 pm

Got the slippers and everything.

Ah! But are they tartan ones with roll tops and zips up the front? Don’t count if not.

I’m getting fed up of these garden bivvies, but hey-ho, needs must, when the Devil drives. For this month, I packed as for a normal bivvy and set out in the late afternoon for a twenty mile loop, ending at home. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50983345231_ef6a72b147.jpg By the time I’d set up ca...

There are new lambs about, I've just eaten my first fly of the season, the hawthorn buds are breaking out, and the first celandines are flowering. Sure signs of spring, every one. It doesn't get much cheeryer than that.

I plan anything that's not local. That's because I can't trust my goldfish memory (Ooh look, there's a castle.) to remember even the next turn, never mind the 3/4/5 after that. I put my routes on the etrex, and because the screen is so small, it's easiest is to follow the line. I have a fair few OS ...

Snotgobbler. My daughters’ name for one of her brothers.
Slobspawn - speaks for itself, really.
Anticipointment - When a looked-forward-to event fails to live up to expectation.

I was mooching around the web a week or two ago and came across this. It made me smile. Perhaps you’ll get a smile out of it too. :-bd A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar...

A great adventure - thanks for sharing. :-bd I had been thinking of something like this for a while, but there seem to be very few tracks close to the boundary, meaning long stretches of busy roads. “Beating the Bounds” I would have called it, after the beating the bounds ceremony that used to happe...

**No, not oven chips because they're horrible. These are real chips just that I cook them in the oven, so roasted I suppose. Controversially, and I throw this open to the usual Cheery Friday suspects for discussion, I chopped the spuds into half inch CUBES. Shades of Fawlty Towers and the 'amphibio...

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 10, 2021 12:44 pm

What is the world coming to. I've just seen the makers of Weetabix offer up cold baked beans on top of weetabix as a serving suggestion for breakfast. What is going on? Is it the fault of lockdown?

Yerch! But, if you substitute a Battenburg for the Weetabix...... Could be a goer.

Last week actually but he brought a ti wood-stove from Joe's shop. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50921452863_e5458dd0a3.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50922270982_671e38d9d5.jpg As you can see, it works a treat, but also works well with Stu's afterburner meths stove. I already have a ...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50914651148_5128bb2bfe_c.jpg Before anyone worries, Ralph didn't sleep in the ridgeline organiser, he'd have froze up there. Despite the sun it was still only 2 degrees but the new jacket, plus many other layers, kept the chill off. https://live.staticflickr.com/...

....... but I still miss the place, people and work very much. I can sympathise with this. I’ve been asked to stay at home for the duration of lockdown - HR have done a risk assessment or something - so I’ve been hanging about at home since March. Have you ever seen a dog that’s had it’s collar tak...

4 years ago I was having a clear out and took some stuff to the "Civic Amenity Site", AKA the dump. Propped up just outside the gate was this :- https://live.staticflickr.com/8222/28955992812_7dc12b70f5.jpg It even had a label stuck to the top tube :- https://live.staticflickr.com/8051/28440496494_2...