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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3990
- Views: 507461
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
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...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1063
Re: WRT GR's
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...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The pickled egg (and other bar snacks) thread
- Replies: 12
- Views: 218
Re: The pickled egg (and other bar snacks) thread
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 .
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:07 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1063
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Tyvek groundsheet - how long do they last?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 629
Re: Tyvek groundsheet - how long do they last?
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...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:05 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Weather report
- Replies: 7
- Views: 270
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:12 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Tyvek groundsheet - how long do they last?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 629
Re: Tyvek groundsheet - how long do they last?
Sigh. Ebay or whatever it was asked if I wanted some spinnaker. No, I've just bought it from you (as above). Oh, hang on, this one is 35gsm, much lighter than the original. Feel guilty now for breaking my rule about trying not to buy stuff until predecessor has worn out, but I went for it. Almost ha...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3990
- Views: 507461
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Ah, ta. That's good then obviously.
Talking of Fridays, I see that last Friday had "most users ever online" - 497. Aww, pity we couldn't manage just 3 more. Anyroad, who were they I wonder? Nothing on telly last Friday or summat?
Talking of Fridays, I see that last Friday had "most users ever online" - 497. Aww, pity we couldn't manage just 3 more. Anyroad, who were they I wonder? Nothing on telly last Friday or summat?
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3990
- Views: 507461
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
In other, not cheery, news, I heard they were closing the Welshpool base of Air Ambulance, combining it with Caernarvon, and basing it somewhere on the north coast instead. Rumour or......? What with the state of national services these days, wouldn't be surprised if you now get put through to 111 i...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:57 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3990
- Views: 507461
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
One for the Iceland afficionados....... I notice that on this day 5 years ago, Dick Phillips passed away. One of the foremost UK experts on Iceland, a keen walker he was also a member of the Rough Stuff Fellowship, so very much "one of us". In fact he was a founder member of RSF. In 1958, ...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:37 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Weather report
- Replies: 7
- Views: 270
Re: Weather report
Nah - he told us on April 16th at 7:19pm. Without JC's forecast there wouldn't be any WRT weather .
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:15 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 696
- Views: 139893
Re: Wildlife
A naughty animal has burrowed a hole in our lawn. Maybe a worm on steroids. No, it'll be a bee. Not as impressive as buzzards or whatever but we'd be stuffed without them so I've installed a 24 hour security cordon round it.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:56 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 696
- Views: 139893
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:41 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 506
- Views: 25075
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Biked/trained/biked to my chum's then over to the young persons popular music concert, although didn't have to hide the bike under the stairs this time. I'd like to call him Joe Strimmer, as befits my older outlook on life these days and increased indulgence in futile activities. Topper Lawnedger wa...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3990
- Views: 507461
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Off we go. 1degC tonight apparently. Bit nippy for April here. Wonder if we'll get another -4 on WRT. Note handy 'poppadom deck'.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3990
- Views: 507461
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
If you can remember the 70s... no, the 60s... you weren't there .
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3990
- Views: 507461
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Go on then.... Just packed the horse for a trip over to my chum Jezzer, with whom I shall attend "London Calling" The Clash tribute band at Bedford Esquires, then, in the best gigpacking tradition (3rd this year), kip out afterwards. Might have a curry and a beer. So that should be jolly. ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 506
- Views: 25075
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Mmm... I wouldn't want to bump into One-Eyed Joe though....
(I thought "adventure" was swear-filtered out )
(I thought "adventure" was swear-filtered out )
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:47 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 506
- Views: 25075
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
On my various wanderings one day I'd like to get off the train by mistake at a station and find out I'd ended up at Buggleskelly Halt. Although it's not a really a halt, because part of the definition of a halt is "unstaffed and no goods facilities". Obviously Buggleskelly was staffed (inc...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:56 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 506
- Views: 25075
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Is Ashey technically a Halt as it's a request stop? https://safety.networkrail.co.uk/jargon-buster/halt-or-station-halt/ "A railway station with minimal facilities where trains will usually stop only on request". Guess NR should know as they own them (although not Ashey any longer presuma...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:04 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1063
Re: WRT GR's
Considering that here today we've had bright sunshine, high winds, heavy rain, more sunshine, hail, and thunderstorms, all between 9am and 5pm, I shall look out of my window on May 4th and forecast "ah right, that's the WRT weather then" .
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:48 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Gobowen->Berwyns: Wayfarer & Dirt Bike School 13-15 April 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 306
Re: Gobowen->Berwyns: Wayfarer & Dirt Bike School 13-15 April 2024
Well that was a good one! Lots of things going on there Pete. And some proper weather.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:08 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 506
- Views: 25075
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Looks quite cosy but I have to say that the tree up the back there rather gives the game away .
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: The Welsh Ride Thing - Lonely Hearts Club Ride - Sat 4th May to Mon 6th May 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 650
Re: The Welsh Ride Thing - Lonely Hearts Club Ride - Sat 4th May to Mon 6th May 2024
I promise you whichever group you choose you'll probably dislike us for a bit of it, you'll be our best mates for some bits, you'll be ambivulous towards us for the other bits. At the end of the weekend you'll be happy to have done some great riding in Wales and may even want to come back again. Go...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2312
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
they make no sense But they do to Reg so where does that leave us eh? :-P :grin: Pps i doubt any of really care, its all just a trip on a bike with some rest stops Hang on, don't kill the thread just yet, just when it's getting (even more) Bearbonesy! Sounds like you're attempting to extricate your...