well this has all got rather confusing...

I'm going to move on to the just released Panceltic film, anyone else seen it?

RIP wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 5:21 pm
I thought they were considerately providing the wheelie bins for BaMers to sleep in....

Has been done....at least half in, for extra stealth... when kipping in near plain view of a farm house in Cwmystwyth...

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/505/217/160/328/094/small/a4f25e45b120f171.jpg Spotted on my way to lunch.* *The pub. "Weight restrictions" - isn't that a bit personal, or are they taking a hard-line approach to TLS principles? (Puts biscuit back down :oops: :lol...

Love it Josh!!

I think it's that "bonkers" element that totally does it for me, nearly every time, as most of mine are just very local and mid week.

Brilliant to have caught one of those really cold nights

Boab wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 2:30 pm ... and I'm out. Could barely stand-up last night, so thought it was a bit much to attempt to ride a bike.
Roll on next year.

O Noooooooo!!!! Such a shame!! But yes roll on many more months to come.... and most importantly, get better soon!!

It was one of you on here (who are you?) who brought Kae Tempest to my attention a couple of years ago.

"Being Kae Tempest" is on BBC iPlayer now, have just started watching it.

Early I know, but not just one, two, or even three things to be cheery about - four at the last count!!! Last opencast coal mine in UK closing today https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67564413 :-bd Got paid my annual pay award, backdated and paid in one nice lump sum today :-bd It's that most smug ...

Well done V. With regard to company, in my experience you and whoever you're riding with will both experience highs and lows but often at different times, so you can usually help pull each other through the lows. Thanks Stu, that's kind of how I work... and once feeling like I've buddied up, I woul...

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AndreR wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 1:09 pm I'm in, at the deep end. Taking a running jump and it'll be fine they said . Now feeling "powerless, weak and scared inside!!

It'll be fine, you'll have an (arctic??) blast!!

What's the thoughts on the DD hammock with the pocket for a sleeping mat? Looks like less faff and will keep the hammock spread out a bit... That's the one and only way I've ever done winter hammocking....and I found it fine. In fact, reading all this makes me fancy a night out in a hammock very so...

So, I did the Moonrakers and Sunseekers 300km audax at the weekend, and here's just a few bits of my experience, a few photos and my own reflections and things learned/ to be learned. There's obviously loads of stuff online about it, but basically, this one is a night ride, starting in 4 waves from ...

You passed less than a mile from my house so I was keeping an eye out for you all. Ahh, I see! So was it you who was standing outside a pub along the route yelling "W@ankers!!" at us as we passed? Or was that just a random Friday night reveller? :wink: Must be quite an impressive light if...

Nice clear night for it good luck. I'll keep an eye out for you in the morning. Thank you - did you mean keeping an eye out here on the forum, or were you actually there there? So, I've done it, it was brilliant, and yes it was just perfect weather, clear night with a full moon, followed by wall to...

Wasn't sure whether to say this here, on the audax thread, or the yay it's cheery Friday one... My feelings right this moment are probably most accurately reflected here... Currently en route to the Moonrakers and Sunseekers audax, starting at 22.40 and riding through the night... Exciting of course...

Ah, but did you make it out of the pub??

boxelder wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 9:13 pm
We used to occasionally bivi under the viaduct in Ingleton to go climbing. Wasn't comfortable - orange plastic bivi bag, not flat, not very sheltered and too young for a decent 'beer blanket' to add a layer of comfort.

Beer blanket

fatbikephil wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 11:34 pm
Looks a fab trip that. Plus some other good stuff going on too

in all that weather, in them there wilds, brilliant

Canal bridge doss has been done before by myself. I thought as much, sure it must have been done before... I did wonder about just how level it would be, and how wide, i.e. what would be the chances of rolling into the water in my sleep... :o ? This spot was generously wide and very flat, and I onl...

sean_iow wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 4:30 pm

whitestone wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 10:31 am *Where* did you get cold? On top? From underneath? Head end, feet?

I'll start a new thread in General to avoid bogging this down with hammock talk, I know how we like to stay on-topic around these parts

Bearlegged wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 10:31 pm Carefully scheduled to align with full moons and other celestial phenomena?

Absolutely!

Will read on and pick my favourite legend....

Megaliths of Wales, by Chris Barber. Not really on purpose, but it appeared on the dining table recently, as Mr Z has recently rediscovered his interest in archaeology. Well I picked it up out of boredom more than anything, and before I knew, various oooh and ahhh and wow that's interesting, oh look...

November BAM last night, yay! As we all know by now, it's not easy to get out of the door this time of year.... It helped that I had already packed my things last weekend, and I already had my bike in the back of the car, ready to just take out and ride into the night... Weather was stormy and rainy...

I had a real treat this weekend, popped down to Pembrokeshire on Friday lunchtime, to catch up with the lady who deserves a mention here, as it was with her that I did my first ever bivvy with - we were riding route 8 together, had prebooked campsites every night, but confessed to each other that we...