just a pacamac and a banana Fairly sure there's more than a few BB200 entrants who'd take this approach if Stu didn't mandate minimum equipment. Rather like a banana can be dangerous in certain circumstances (" go on, come at me with that banana then" - M Python), so can downgrading impor...

'an adventure trail' or 'adventure/gravel' means more people understand what it is. Nah, just the opposite, it's just left a trail (ho ho) of confusion in its wake. Up is down and down is up. Or possibly sideways. Goodness knows what yer visitor centre punter makes of it. Maybe we should stand at t...

Awooga. Digression Alert: I note that Mounty has sold an AK Tarpstar shelter round in Classifieds. Looks like a perfectly reasonable bit of gear, no problems with it at all, all fair and square. However I would offer that it is also as misnamed as an 'Adventure' bimbly gravel path round a visitor ce...

MuddyPete wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 6:54 pm That, Lu, is the very essence of "àdventure" .

Noooo-o-o-o-o, stobbit!

Mrs P vaguely watching EuroV in the background. I've not been able to ascertain why. But I'm stuck with it too. It's all rubbish! No tunes to any of them, lot of shouting, lot of tedious repetitive beats, each set sounds exactly the same to poor old Reg. Where's the Macc Lads when you need them eh? ...

ton wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 4:52 pm supping ice cold Coors.

No need to apologise - keeps Mart in a job!

hot summery day, so what better than a nice, er, warming Crimbo beer. Er.

Bit of a tarp fanatic here, so I'll add penn'orth too. I don't use a tent. Or a bivvy bag. However my tarps are larger than most on here - 9 x 7 and 10 x 8 - so no need to faff or add weight with a bivvy bag. My config of choice is the flying diamond, or flying V as some would call it. Very very fas...

MuddyPete wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 4:29 pm I'm still trying to fathom how Ian kept his danglemug clean .

Or how it didn't manage to acquire a Stu Jokeshop Poo .

Apart from the weather going horribly wrong that was a nice WRT. The locations of the GRs meant that there was lots of the renowned WRT “bumping into other riders at random” which is one of my favourite aspects. Our LHC-B group gathered together and off we went, having lost a couple of players, but ...

As per WRT....

5/5, 5/12, 102/102

Mart wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 5:45 pm I had a water to go filter bottle. I found it impossible to suck through to get the water.

And also mine only squeezable for about 2mm deflection. ie. not squeezable.

And if you're in the Wynnstay tonight, have a Poretti and a pickled egg for me please will you? If that gets taken literally and everyone has an egg, along with a beer, please can someone ensure nobody strikes a match afterwards? Not there tonight sadly, but would like the building to still be ther...

Train booked. All set for some, er........ adventure

What's down that track? as an example. Having something planned to the enth degree simply limits the possibility of adventure. Yep. And I'll refer back to my point about imagination being required with old computer games. Imagination equally applies to adventure. Following a pre-set line or a fixed...

ádventure guaranteed Oxymoron. Adventure requires an element of the unknown, there are no guarantees. :wink: Agreed :-bd "No guarantee of return". That's adventure for you :wink: . I'll remember that this weekend :smile: . Anyroad, never mind all that, "Adventure" was in fact th...

Very nice our Neil, welcome to The Tarp Side . Once tarped, never returned.

Frey Bentos steak and kidney pie Blimey do they still exist?! I remember them from the 1970s when I was a kid. All you needed to add there was an Angel Delight pud for the full 70s experience. Using a stainless steel billy with ceramic baking beads I was able to fashion a makeshift oven Impressive....

MuddyPete wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:58 am Nice one, Phil .

Always interesting to stumble into an alternative reality .

This whole thread is a permanent alternative reality of course

Enjoyed that Phil. Would be a bit un-nerving coming across those mannequins in the dark though, especially after a few beers. "Greetings madam. May I interest you in an evening of fun and frolics?".

Just me? Just you :grin: . After many years doing voluntary wardening for a chunk of our local river and brook, Anglia Water requested a bit of (free) help surveying all the outfalls and tributaries. Yeah go on then. Spent the morning wading two miles of the brook with my chum Ruth noting all the o...

that's where my local knowledge dries up. That sounds like an ideal situation to me :smile: . From that point onwards... "feel the force" ... it's when the real adventure starts :-bd I'm not quite the random shed connoisseur you are :grin: We all have it in us, sometimes just takes a litt...

Having indeed been in said Black Lion at the time the crime occurred, after some consideration I would say that pickled eggs are probably a treat best enjoyed solo. Possibly in a hermetically sealed room .

PaulB2 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:07 pm that's where my local knowledge dries up.

That sounds like an ideal situation to me . From that point onwards... "feel the force" ... it's when the real adventure starts

Good question. Not sure TBH. This stuff doesn't seem to rip very easily - not that easy to cut to shape, and I pulled one cut edge apart as hard as I could and nowt happened. It's got the ripstop grid style weave. Obv it's pretty thin so won't stop a big thorn but keeps mat clean/dry and reduces abr...