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by RIP
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:55 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 406
Views: 19418

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Top effort with the fundraising Neil - that's a nice thing to do on a BaM. Looks a good spot too, bit like an eagle's eyrie looking down on the scenery below. At night, probably an eerie eyrie too. And, er, when you next bivvy in Snowdonia no doubt you'll find an eerie Eryri eyrie :smile: . Shut up ...
by RIP
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:37 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 406
Views: 19418

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

:oops: :smile: just look upon Reg as the village eccentric in this village of eccentrics - he's probably the one sat on the seat by the pond, straw in mouth, leg swinging, cider in hand, cowshit on dungarees, watching the ducks. This village is made what it is by everyone in it and ain't like nowher...
by RIP
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:38 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Monks trod - wtf
Replies: 30
Views: 845

Re: Monks trod - wtf

Verena wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:41 am I'd better get my furry socks into gear for this month...
Good to have you back missus. Yep, but plenty of time yet. Might be fun to do 31st then wake up on April 1st to see if the joke's on you or not :smile: .
by RIP
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:23 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Todays ride
Replies: 3322
Views: 609048

Re: Todays ride

PaulE wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:58 pm a plummet down Winatt's pass
I don't suppose you came across any bits of my broken body from when I went up last weekend? :smile: My swearing is probably still echoing around the crags even now.
by RIP
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:18 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Monks trod - wtf
Replies: 30
Views: 845

Re: Monks trod - wtf

Since motorbikes and 4x4s can already use the Claerwen reservoir track, if the objective is to create a trans-Cambrian route for recreational 4x4s and trailbikes, wouldn't it make more sense to create a ROW to bridge that bit from end of that byway to the Ffair-Rhos road than to resurface the entir...
by RIP
Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:41 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 406
Views: 19418

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Thank you Lee, and other wellwishers :smile: . I'm getting worse as I get older I'm afraid. Eh? Wh-what? Er, yes, yes nurse, I'll come quietly. Please can I have an extra biscuit with my cocoa tonight?
by RIP
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:07 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 406
Views: 19418

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Nice one, bit different. You could have taken a bunch of daffs for your truckers caff table, that would have baffled them. Reminds me of the time eleven of us spent a WRT night on the verge of the A44 outside the George Borrow at Ponterwyd. I reckon my left ear was actually touching the tarmac :smil...
by RIP
Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:31 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Todays ride
Replies: 3322
Views: 609048

Re: Todays ride

whitestone wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:23 am
Dave Barter wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:16 am
The rest of the ride was just me muttering “FFS”
Just like the portion of the ride before you met him then :lol:
:lol:
by RIP
Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:22 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you listening to now?
Replies: 1122
Views: 181697

Re: What are you listening to now?

Also Cheery Friday.... at Hertford Corn Exchange..... 'The Trash' ..... ("The Only Band That Matters"... hmm not so sure about that)... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53605776989_21974e0efe_z.jpg ....supporting The Sex Pistols Expose, hilarious and uncannily accurate as ever.... hopel...
by RIP
Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:57 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 3943
Views: 483004

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

thenorthwind wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:30 am Unfortunately, today was also the day I left that bag in the garage
Of course it was :smile: . Bad luck 'Wind, what a palaver.
by RIP
Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:22 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 406
Views: 19418

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

MuddyPete wrote: Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:10 pm Congratulations Mr. Perrin :-bd
Well thank you for your esteemed company on many of them :smile:
Here's to the next hundred :wink:
Heellllppp!
by RIP
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:31 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 406
Views: 19418

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Aye it was a real headline from last year! You can see why I was mildly concerned about my bike. Although I don't think Tunstallies go as far as murdering bikes....
by RIP
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:53 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Matthew Fairbrother
Replies: 6
Views: 292

Re: Matthew Fairbrother

What a guy, astounding. A lesson in tenacity, fortitude, and winging it. Quite bonkers too of course :smile: .
by RIP
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:47 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 406
Views: 19418

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Congratulations Reg :-bd Sounds like the celebration distilled all the elements of your inimitable style down into one trip :grin: the middle of Stoke… I believe from The Influencers that that's what we're all aiming for, so congrats on that :wink: This influencer? "Tunstall TikTok influencer ...
by RIP
Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:41 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 406
Views: 19418

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

“Nice one Centurion, like it, like it!” (dungeon prisoner, Life Of Brian). Or is it centenarian? No, that’s not right. Anyway, whatever, 100 Bivvy a Months in a row then. Maybe there's some sort of bonus attachment for the Four Seasons Legion badge? A “bar” perhaps, or some gold stars, like they hav...
by RIP
Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:20 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you listening to now?
Replies: 1122
Views: 181697

Re: What are you listening to now?

Dave Barter wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:42 am
Reg I went to the Nijmegen and Arnham gigs. Looking to see where they are in 2025 as Gigpacking in the Netherlands rules above all else.
Aye, good stuff. Sadly no UK dates though :sad:
they are West Ham supporters so can do one.
:grin:
by RIP
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:16 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you listening to now?
Replies: 1122
Views: 181697

Re: What are you listening to now?

Ta Scott, noted! It was "convenience or death" that I don't like either of the sound of :smile: . Having been gigpacking this weekend (of which more shortly round in Trips), I have this on while I'm typing. Didn't you go Dave? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY50hQx8_xE Intriguing: "A...
by RIP
Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:04 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you drinking now?
Replies: 704
Views: 69634

Re: What are you drinking now?

MuddyPete wrote: Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:03 pm pickled egg squished up in a bag of cheese and onion crisps... :shock:
And I thought it was impossible to create farts worse than those from a dog..............
by RIP
Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:24 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 3943
Views: 483004

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

Just partaken of a pleasant luncheon. Chatted with my pal at the Council about how he's going to spend the £1m we managed to wangle for new cycleways and footpaths around the town, so that was nice. Based on the rates for HS2 I'd estimate that £1M will be enough to construct nearly 12m of new cycle...
by RIP
Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:41 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 3943
Views: 483004

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

whitestone wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:00 pm some database normalisation
Blimey, that takes me back. Databases tended to be abnormal after I'd finished fiddling with them though :smile: ..
by RIP
Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:36 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 3943
Views: 483004

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

Just partaken of a pleasant luncheon. Chatted with my pal at the Council about how he's going to spend the £1m we managed to wangle for new cycleways and footpaths around the town, so that was nice. Hope you put that on the expense account :wink: He bought me a pint :smile: . Seems a good deal on h...
by RIP
Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:04 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 3943
Views: 483004

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

Seems to be that day again then. Just partaken of a pleasant luncheon. Chatted with my pal at the Council about how he's going to spend the £1m we managed to wangle for new cycleways and footpaths around the town, so that was nice. Will shortly ride to the station and furnish myself with an off-peak...
by RIP
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:43 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you reading now?
Replies: 398
Views: 42319

Re: What are you reading now?

Blackhound wrote: Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:28 pm I saw the tv series in the early 70’s
Yep, well remember it Kev. It was refreshing to see the German commandant and guards portrayed in a, for want of a better word, sympathetic way. Anthony Valentine was suitably chilling though! Strange to think the situation was only 80 years ago.
by RIP
Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:39 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: How long does it take for your mat to lose pressure?
Replies: 9
Views: 275

Re: How long does it take for your mat to lose pressure?

I fancy injecting a good old-fashioned BBB digression in here. I reckon the "lower temperature causes mat to deflate" story is similar to the "hot drink warms you up for bed" story. I'm not convinced by either. "Adding a hot liquid to your body does increase your body temper...
by RIP
Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:27 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: How long does it take for your mat to lose pressure?
Replies: 9
Views: 275

Re: How long does it take for your mat to lose pressure?

Sorry not to answer the Q, Bear, because I don't usually have, er, problems going soft, so I'm told anyway, but just gerrit posted off to them and they'll find the leak and do a nice fix FOC.... My physics isn't up to calculating the exact pressure loss per volume per degC. "the air in the matt...