There are new lambs about, I've just eaten my first fly of the season, the hawthorn buds are breaking out, and the first celandines are flowering. Sure signs of spring, every one. It doesn't get much cheeryer than that.

I plan anything that's not local. That's because I can't trust my goldfish memory (Ooh look, there's a castle.) to remember even the next turn, never mind the 3/4/5 after that. I put my routes on the etrex, and because the screen is so small, it's easiest is to follow the line. I have a fair few OS ...

Snotgobbler. My daughters’ name for one of her brothers.
Slobspawn - speaks for itself, really.
Anticipointment - When a looked-forward-to event fails to live up to expectation.

I was mooching around the web a week or two ago and came across this. It made me smile. Perhaps you’ll get a smile out of it too. :-bd A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar...

A great adventure - thanks for sharing. :-bd I had been thinking of something like this for a while, but there seem to be very few tracks close to the boundary, meaning long stretches of busy roads. “Beating the Bounds” I would have called it, after the beating the bounds ceremony that used to happe...

**No, not oven chips because they're horrible. These are real chips just that I cook them in the oven, so roasted I suppose. Controversially, and I throw this open to the usual Cheery Friday suspects for discussion, I chopped the spuds into half inch CUBES. Shades of Fawlty Towers and the 'amphibio...

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 12:44 pm What is the world coming to. I've just seen the makers of Weetabix offer up cold baked beans on top of weetabix as a serving suggestion for breakfast. What is going on? Is it the fault of lockdown?

Yerch! But, if you substitute a Battenburg for the Weetabix...... Could be a goer.

Last week actually but he brought a ti wood-stove from Joe's shop. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50921452863_e5458dd0a3.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50922270982_671e38d9d5.jpg As you can see, it works a treat, but also works well with Stu's afterburner meths stove. I already have a ...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50914651148_5128bb2bfe_c.jpg Before anyone worries, Ralph didn't sleep in the ridgeline organiser, he'd have froze up there. Despite the sun it was still only 2 degrees but the new jacket, plus many other layers, kept the chill off. https://live.staticflickr.com/...

....... but I still miss the place, people and work very much. I can sympathise with this. I’ve been asked to stay at home for the duration of lockdown - HR have done a risk assessment or something - so I’ve been hanging about at home since March. Have you ever seen a dog that’s had it’s collar tak...

4 years ago I was having a clear out and took some stuff to the "Civic Amenity Site", AKA the dump. Propped up just outside the gate was this :- https://live.staticflickr.com/8222/28955992812_7dc12b70f5.jpg It even had a label stuck to the top tube :- https://live.staticflickr.com/8051/284...

I'm now counting the days until freedom. That was me, 10/15 years ago. But the nearer it got, the less I wanted to retire. How sad is that? My solution was to persuade another old f@rt to job-share. We do one persons job, working shifts, two days on, six days off. Done this for over six years now. ...

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 7:32 pm I mostly don't know what day it is or even how old I am

Oh my bladder constantly reminds me how old I am. “Have you been, Walter?” I’m at an age where I can’t pass a toilet and never trust a fart...

Ha me too! Just did a trial burn in the kitchen and does seem a bit cleaner. Got enough to do me for years unless I drink it. Cheers! ‘S funny you should say that - I did the same. :grin: The last time I bought meths I thought it would last years too, but I used such a lot messing about making/test...

DHL brought me 12 litres of eco ethanol.... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50874982717_7b1c26aca2.jpg ...and the postman brought my my new Slow Watch - a 24 hour watch with only one finger. I havent worn a watch for years and normally worked on the principle that "a quarter to" or &qu...

BAM 1/12 In the paddock, at home. A token BAM due to the restrictions. It's not the same, but needs must when the devil drives. :cry: These, the first I've seen this year, made todays' ride a Cheery Friday ride. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50866288792_7d82080f46.jpg Of course, once I'd seen ...

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:26 pmI tend to run them at 3 o'clock as I find my ebb equipped bikes provide more grip on loose techy climbs in that position ... others may not

Can I ask? 3 o’clock looking from which side of the bike?

@Reg, you share bath water, as in one after the other, you really do live in the 1970's :shock: I haven't had a bath in years - since we got a shower - but I can well remember sharing bathwater back in the days. I can well remember everyone only having one bath a week, too, (except miners). 'S funn...

ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 7:51 pm

Congrats on your 'Golden Jubilee' there Colin!

at which point my consecutive BAMs will equal my age.

I hadn’t realised, but my BAM count/age equivalence was last December. Hmm.. that can never happen again.

My mum popped her clogs last August. Not cheery. But today we started clearing her house. Sooo much stuff. Why do women need so many shoes? 4 Zafiras full of clothes, some with labels still in. But, behind a wardrobe was an envelope with 50 £20 notes in it. Friday was pretty cheery after that.

In WW2 the National Government controlled almost every facet of the public's life from the compossition of their daily bread to where and when they could travel, for a death toll of 60-70,000 civilian deaths in 6 years, a total we've far exceeded in 10 months. Yet the only restriction we're be aske...

It's easy to think that 'that's it, things will never be the same again' but they will. 'Tis nowt but a blip. It is a big blip though and for sure we’d all be happier if it wasn’t happening, but I do get a bit annoyed with all the doom-mongering going on. Compared to the hardship my parents and gra...

Someone sent me a joke the other day. It goes like this :- Ten years from now, you’ll put on a jacket and find a mask in the pocket. “Oh man, what a weird year that was”, you’ll chuckle to yourself. It’s just a joke, but true nonetheless. COVID will pass (more or less) and life will go on. Woody All...

I love BAM too much to let a thing like a lockdown stop me. Luckily I own a couple of fields I can bivvy in so my plan for the duration is to pack the bike, ride a loop around home, (not too far), bivvy in my paddock, then reverse route back again. It's a bit like washing your feet with your socks o...

I bought and paid for a watch from Germany on 16th December - just before the shenanigans in Dover. They took my money and said it was dispatched and gave a delivery date. Immediately afterwards I got mail in German saying delivery was delayed. No date. Now you’ve got me worried with talk of import ...