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by Verena
Tue Nov 05, 2024 7:19 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 885
Views: 133583

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Rallypacking, love it Sean :-bd
by Verena
Tue Nov 05, 2024 7:17 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Abandoned metal mines of mid-Wales on BBC
Replies: 16
Views: 404

Re: Abandoned metal mines of mid-Wales on BBC

Ooooo this looks interesting, will put it on the watch list for this evening :-bd
by Verena
Sun Oct 27, 2024 10:45 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Todays ride
Replies: 3382
Views: 722019

Re: Todays ride

Very enjoyable day out on the bike yesterday, a kind of a "back to it" Audax ride. It was the White Horses 200, lovely route from Bristol on the Bristol to Bath cycle route, then the Two Tunnels Greenway, which was good fun, over towards Marlborough via several, yep you guessed it, white h...
by Verena
Sun Oct 27, 2024 10:38 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Todays ride
Replies: 3382
Views: 722019

Re: Todays ride

Weekend in the black mountains and Hay. Very enjoyable riding, pretty wet and boggy in places, especially bridleways in the valleys, but they were still good fun. First long rides on 'proper' terrain with the Cotic and it was very good, made any descending lots of fun, and coped admirably with all ...
by Verena
Sun Oct 13, 2024 10:36 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 885
Views: 133583

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Now let's see how much of a story I can spin out of a bivvy so local it would tbh have been just as quick to have walked rather than cycled it :grin: Our Reg had announced that he would be visiting these here parts for a few days in October, and invited himself round for a cuppa, a few beers and biv...
by Verena
Sun Oct 13, 2024 9:46 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 885
Views: 133583

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

summittoppler wrote: Sun Oct 13, 2024 8:09 am And here's a film 🎥 from my camp:

https://youtu.be/6zHX8u4azDA?si=JWZwS2665Yv8H9Aq

🎥
Looks stunning Jeff!!
by Verena
Sat Oct 12, 2024 10:04 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you listening to now?
Replies: 1217
Views: 249802

Re: What are you listening to now?

Stereophonics (right now, Dakota) In Swansea, while daughter is having a lesson on a bigger motorbike. Last night, same daughter practicing on her bass guitar in our living room. Thought I was mostly a bit done with rock, but listening to her playing, and finding out that she's getting a band togeth...
by Verena
Sat Oct 12, 2024 6:31 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 4287
Views: 649583

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

faustus wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 9:41 pm I'm in Hay ready for an early morning ride in the Black Mountains :-bd
Lovely!!
by Verena
Fri Oct 11, 2024 7:58 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you drinking now?
Replies: 749
Views: 101315

Re: What are you drinking now?

Camomile tea....recovery drink after last night's outing, ready for an early night very very soon
by Verena
Fri Oct 11, 2024 7:55 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 4287
Views: 649583

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

Yay it's Cheery Friday :-bd I have survived a cold and a little spooky graveyard bivvy with Reg, in admittedly quite luxurious accommodation. The squeaky gate and a some odd goings on on the roof by some as yet unidentified creatures kept us awake quite a bit ... An excellent evening and great to ge...
by Verena
Tue Oct 08, 2024 6:07 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Hay on Wye MTB route advice
Replies: 4
Views: 292

Re: Hay on Wye MTB route advice

Begwns are nice, from what little I've ridden/walked up there.

Hope weather will be good for you, enjoy
by Verena
Tue Oct 08, 2024 12:26 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Brompacking
Replies: 21
Views: 1673

Re: Brompacking

Bonkers :-bd
by Verena
Tue Oct 08, 2024 11:09 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 4287
Views: 649583

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

Right, off on the train for a few days wandering aimlessly round the more, er, colourful parts of the fab Welsh Valleys. Three changes of train on the way, what could possibly go wrong. Then again, who cares :smile: . Bit toasty in these fleece leggings today but it's apparently going to be 1degC t...
by Verena
Sun Oct 06, 2024 6:37 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Todays ride
Replies: 3382
Views: 722019

Re: Todays ride

It's good to have that encouragement and support, sounds amazing too :-bd My ride today was while my son was doing this https://lakelander.co.uk/destination-item/50km-little-dog-route/ He did well 👍 I pottered about nearby Screenshot_20241005-215208~2.png Well done to your son :-bd , and of course ...
by Verena
Sat Oct 05, 2024 7:59 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: BB200 2024
Replies: 301
Views: 28118

Re: BB200 2024

Good luck all :-bd
by Verena
Sat Oct 05, 2024 7:40 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Todays ride
Replies: 3382
Views: 722019

Re: Todays ride

...was lovely. But yesterday's ride is the one I wanted to talk about... So I'm in the beautiful Pyrenees again at the moment, third time as a cycling based trip. Where I'm staying is in a valley, and the only way out in any direction really is up a Col. Pretty big mountains, so to go further is kin...
by Verena
Sat Oct 05, 2024 7:27 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 4287
Views: 649583

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

godivatrailrider wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2024 9:28 am
Verena wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 10:08 am 'Twas definitely a Cheery Friday last night - I was "out out" in Abergavenny doing some, erm, fieldwork based research for SWWB :-bd
:-bd testing the pub hopefully!
Erm, it might have been a bit more than just the one pub... :oops:
by Verena
Mon Sep 30, 2024 7:04 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 4287
Views: 649583

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

I seem to be in the process of being adopted by a rather sweet all white cat, which is hanging around the house and garden lots, and which I'm told is wild/ownerless. Risky with a greyhound....but she seems to not have noticed him or her yet, as too close I think and not moving ... I read somewhere...
by Verena
Sun Sep 29, 2024 5:45 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 885
Views: 133583

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Let me know if you're definitely going, and I'll rejoin the tradition with you - when is it again? ( She asks, lazily...) I’m down to be on nights that weekend - 16th November - but it’s still do-able if I can get the time off. Won’t know until tomorrow. Fingers crossed. :grin: Ah, I'm double booke...
by Verena
Sun Sep 29, 2024 5:40 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 4287
Views: 649583

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

Finally some good news, cat has been missing for a week and we’ve found him today! So excited to have the little knobber home :-bd Tracker ordered and it’s on its way - he’s ground until tomorrow Found via the power of Facebook, through a friend of a friend Time to feed him up Excellent news :-bd I...
by Verena
Sat Sep 28, 2024 12:26 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 885
Views: 133583

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

you picking the venue from your book. Hmmm? Tables nicely turned :-bd . . Everybody else scroll down, but for Lu: Real Ale Wobble in Llanwrtyd Wells (November) (there you go!) and many more :grin: Oooh! Is that a hint/suggestion? But £25? Nah, that’s not too much. And I can get there on the train. ...
by Verena
Sat Sep 28, 2024 12:24 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 885
Views: 133583

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

sean_iow wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 3:31 pm For example 'I saw a gert mallyshag on my ride' = large caterpillar.
Yep that one would've had me lost for words on how to reply :???:
by Verena
Sat Sep 28, 2024 10:08 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 4287
Views: 649583

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

'Twas definitely a Cheery Friday last night - I was "out out" in Abergavenny doing some, erm, fieldwork based research for SWWB :-bd
by Verena
Sun Sep 15, 2024 6:45 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 4287
Views: 649583

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

CF, made a very quick recovery from what I think is the latest round of COVID, Glad to hear it :smile: and have made it to the start of my holidays, a girls boating week on the Norfolk Broads with my friend and Hermione. What're you calling the tour then? Two, sorry Three, Broads Around The Broads?...
by Verena
Fri Sep 13, 2024 9:43 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 4287
Views: 649583

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

CF, made a very quick recovery from what I think is the latest round of COVID, and have made it to the start of my holidays, a girls boating week on the Norfolk Broads with my friend and Hermione.

Never been to this part of the world before, weather forecast is good, looking forward to it :cool: