slarge wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 8:40 pm ……but it'll be a once in a lifetime purchase!

Oh yeah. Sez who?

Tomorrow will be a lot cheerier than it might have been. Emergency op to fix a torn retina yesterday, after a previous attempt with lasers two weeks ago. This time they used cryotherapy - freezing with liquid nitrogen. Scary stuff. Only a local anaesthetic. I don't think they actually pop your eyeb...

Thanks for a beautiful video. I don’t know how you do it - have you a Time Machine ? It must take hours to set up the shots - I’m thinking, stop, set up the camera, ride back the trail a bit, turn around and ride past the camera, then stop and retrieve the camera. Not to mention the drone video. And...

A brilliant effort there, Reg & MP, though I wonder how you reconciled all the extra weight given what a weight weenie you are. You have eclipsed my steak'n'chips from my WRT this year by a long shot. :-bd ….And yes obviously one has to have a f*** (now then now then) at Crimbo, but equally obvi...

Oh Lordy! What an introduction to bikepacking for poor Nasir. He’ll probably never speak to you again, poor thing…

From this morning…

Last BaM for 2023. Coinciding with Global Fatbike Day. I'd wanted to make more of an effort, but I was working nights last night and didn't get out of bed early enough, so the Fatty was hastily loaded and I set off mid-afternoon to bivvy in a spot I've had in my sights for a good while. Arrived afte...

The original plan was an open sided barn two and a half hours away. While I actually managed to sleep last night, it was drug induced, and I think another night of that might be a good idea. I've never bivvied in the same location twice, but there is a local open sided barn, only a few KM away, tha...

BaM for November. There was a frosty layer on the car as I left home at around seven o’clock, bound for a place I’d bivvied in my first year of BaM. Twelve miles of lanes later, I pitched my hammock on Larkton Hill, and found I’d forgotten to pack my tarp. Again! A dry night was forecast so it seeme...

Actually, Lu, one of the advantages of these temperatures is you could do a re-enactment of the famous 'watertrough' bivvy and be guaranteed not to get an accidental dunking because it would be frozen! There’s a thought. Hmm. I think I'd need better insulation to prevent me from melting a hole unde...

RIP wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 1:44 pm Just be careful it's not forever, in these temperatures!

There was a bit of ice on the puddles, yes, but only -1 on our wall thermometer in the garden when I got home. I was too warm, with an Alpkit cloud cover inside my Cumulus 350 and UK hammocks underquilt. I had to uncover in the night.

...and you're a bit early for December? On yeah, so it is. Today's even cheerier then, because theres still another four weeks 'til Christmas. Have a picture from my bed… https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHdWiLdFspQK48KyhANB_IQI007j5HZnLvgvw9ddAIehK7r91L4KBCMJuE93gi23YOe9jmpLsOXZFntj0kiWUIF...

Cheery coz I'm in my hammock BaM-ing for December. I've still got a couple of slurps of Captain Morgans and I can go to sleep looking at the stars through the trees. Less cheery because I can see the stars, because I've forgotten my tarp again. Doh!

OT, sort of, but my dream T is a Zombie Bear, with more visible graphics (WRT 2020?) in bamboo.

Sorry to butt in.

Can't help you, sorry, I'm too old to manage technology. Haven't you got a 5-10 year old grandchild to do it? They're the experts.

October BaM. Just Made it. As it's Halloween, where else but a churchyard. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHc1nArkbTpEPqyVs-AwhQ2-MyIqa1f8GGwTSu8rYjGtO031gzjuHM8HuBQt5KnTfevZPaxZPsUfEEPyOBNJop8Pz9ASLgP5lN844zN4LP-Fn1k8I08=w1920-h1080 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHfc_YGgYItHICL...

He’s a big 'un… :shock: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHezZRn5T_anEDl1X0j1iK9XgC5ej8ZYKXdIkK7oTmPDXox4sM6aH6l3hnjOCq8X4Tpo_BM3fZKAaeYVljld0Foi3_oYrqKyl9u8uxaUkS7V0HuHAeZe=w720-h480 You’d know if this Spanish bad boy was on yer face in the night. The SAK is for scale and it’s not one of th...

I’ve heated crumpets in a (dry) frying pan, which, when you think about it is how crumpets are made. Funnily enough, I’ve just been looking at Trangia non-stick frying pans, though for frying sausages, not crumpets. But, what a good idea.

Cutting it very fine this month. Was going to go out this weekend but had (well didn’t have to, but you know how it is?) work so it’ll have to be a Halloween bivvy on Tuesday, come hell or high water. Photos probably follow in November.

A quick final pint in a Stoke back-street boozer to discuss and mull over our rides, then it was back on the train to Milton Keynes. 'Reg' I always think that a “de-brief” at the end of a trip is, while not a highlight, a very pleasant way to round off the occasion. And… Some nice nostalgic picture...

You don’t have to be non-inclusive for people to feel excluded. Let me explain. Many years ago, when I was still riding my motorbike, (1957 BSA C12) I went a few times to a local-ish BSA Owners Club. They were definitely not non-inclusive, but I never really felt that I could fit in. They were commi...

A Spanish deer.. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHdiE7JJzlHnr2W6nsZ5NcNdbT5O-SPEaf46mWsHuS6Id9CIek8FZiLfIQdudYfXcyyNERaBMQdUuhwv8wMrMaRz2IHoN8Xu_A9Kue52zhHGWl6OOT0=w640-h480 The only wildlife shot I got because they were all too quick. I saw a few, including a trio including a big horny st...

Good luck to him! Good luck to him indeed. “Nature Tax” my daughter calls it. "Last month". You back now then Lu? I've lost track. I’m back. Flew back in on 11th Oct. 'T was a long Ride (740 miles - 19 days riding) and made longer by my losing my down hoodie and cycling back 26 miles each...

A Mouse… https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHe74QRo8ncpcX4e1TDHqACSbLpMCxCndT13jmPdq2Wd0QEeS9PvY7WAGWOYRgSlhKSOU0euw0qlXR3rjtRtil6WIElhjP1ZSLoPPc3X9BwA4nluGYUU=w640-h480 This little feller woke me at 02:30 on one of my Spanish bivvies last month. He’d found a packet of biscuits that I’d left ...

Where was the push up, was it in the Sierra Notre park on the track with new gravel chuncks then dirt before Almaden de la Plata? Or further noth of Caceres. That one, with the viewpoints at the top, was pretty horrible coming at the end of my first day, but not the one I meant. It was much later o...