wild swimming Anyone explain that bit? I'd have honestly thought that most lakes / rivers would be pretty quiet given it's Jan and I don't think it's generally considered to be a team sport is it? I think it’s about minimising the risk of clogging up hospitals, not just about COVID transmission.

boris’s announcement changes my plans, will be sticking to the trainer until lockdown over

I am much more aware and careful compared to when I was immortal in my 20’s. Not very good at bouncing nowadays.

Looking at stats helps me rationalise, how many people out there on bikes and how many end up in deep poo.

Lockdowns, or more regions in tier4, between Jan until about March. Vaccine rollout should start to improve things in Q2 and Q3. But, if there are further variants which achieve vaccine escape, then all bets are off. So I’m sitting tight until March, staying local. Will reassess any plans as signifi...

Shaf, try the rspb on line shop for feeders.

I heard something recently there is evidence some birds are altering their migration patterns in response to changing climate. No siskins here, but do get bull finches. When I was a nipper, gold finches were rare, they seem to be everywhere these days.

Standard feeders here - wire mesh type and plastic tube with holes and perches, also plastic tube with tiny holes for Niger seeds which ate tracts gold finches. Nuts in mesh feeder and seeds in tubes. We get greater spotted - loves the peanuts., but no lesser (envious of you for that Stu), we get Ma...

Send them a link to Strava heat maps. Job done. Where do I send the invoice

Thanks Reg and John. Spookily although I’m based in Shropshire my partner is in Newcastle, which is where I spent the first 21 years of my life.

JohnClimber wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 12, 2020 2:22 pm

But what's your first name please Tabasco?

Sean

Missed this one, stick me down to even up the numbers. But if someone else comes along to make it odd again I think I should be allowed to not get my GR’s from Stu :)

located in mid Shropshire

I use strava shared with a few immediate family. Two buttons to press on my phone at the start of a ride, and two more at the end of the ride. That has the ride and any photos taken during the ride auto transferred across all my kit - laptop, iPad etc. I don’t look at strava whilst riding, and I don...

If you've ridden five kilometres, that's '5km' ok? It’s klicks in my world. I often switch between miles and klicks for psychological effect when convincing others things are not as bad as they have convinced themselves. Eg- How far to go? 30 miles. (sounds less than 48 klicks) How far have we gone...

What computer/tablet/screen are you using? This seems to be a bit of a minefield!! I run the bcool program on a mid range laptop running Windows10. I have a big TVs screen connected to laptop with hdmi. I put the bcool maps/scenery on the tv screen. Bcool is connected to strata, so all trainer ride...

Bcool here. I use it just to get something into the legs when I don’t have time for real cycle. They do 30 day trial. Select from famous routes or upload your own gpx. Has training plans as well. I just ride some climbs I’m familiar with in Pyrenees, map on one screen and historical documentaries th...

I bought a trainer for this winter/lockdown, still getting to grips with it. Wanted to keep the legs alive, I tried zwift trial but wasn’t for me - I think it’s good for those who like to race. I’m now on trial of bcool which is more up my street - I can select french col’s I know and get decent (pr...

Search for Coffee Break French podcasts. Lots of 15 minute lessons

I understood this all the way up..... Take the grid ref for your house and Bb towers and calculate the differences in East and North between the two points. Let’s call them dE and dN. Once all 20 grid points that Stu has to visit, just add dE and dN to each of them and you get the exact same ‘route...

If you wanted to add a twist to this, could figure out the X,Y from BB towers to your home, then apply them to each grid ref and do the same route but translocated.

Yep, I’m in

I've no idea why and really it doesn't matter because things change over time That’s life. A few years ago I got nattering to a bunch of 80+ yr olds in a cafe in the Hebrides, and mentioned my desire to bivy on St Kilda. They advised I did it whilst I could be bothered. I didn’t get it at the time,...

For years my other half and I have had this thing with wellies, she bought a pair of Aigle’s that have lasted 6+ years and I have bought a pair of <10 quid Dunlop’s every year - they always start leaking after about six months. We live rural, use them daily. I gave in this year and bought a pair of ...

Getting out of cold, wet riding gear into dry sleeping gear/bag and feeling it warm up.

Recent articles in scientific journals have suggested we’ve been fortunate with C19 not having mutated much so far, and going on to say that if vaccine roll out is not managed it could lead to pressure for mutations to develop.

Verena wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:04 pm

Ermm, asking for a friend , what would the group's take be, hypothetically, on someone breaking the covid rules slightly to do a BAM, keeping it very local and definitely not meeting a soul??

Best to test your eyesight first