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- Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4004
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
In other, not cheery, news, I heard they were closing the Welshpool base of Air Ambulance, combining it with Caernarvon, and basing it somewhere on the north coast instead. Rumour or......? What with the state of national services these days, wouldn't be surprised if you now get put through to 111 i...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:57 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4004
- Views: 527446
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
One for the Iceland afficionados....... I notice that on this day 5 years ago, Dick Phillips passed away. One of the foremost UK experts on Iceland, a keen walker he was also a member of the Rough Stuff Fellowship, so very much "one of us". In fact he was a founder member of RSF. In 1958, ...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:37 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Weather report
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1648
Re: Weather report
Nah - he told us on April 16th at 7:19pm. Without JC's forecast there wouldn't be any WRT weather .
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:15 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 699
- Views: 150162
Re: Wildlife
A naughty animal has burrowed a hole in our lawn. Maybe a worm on steroids. No, it'll be a bee. Not as impressive as buzzards or whatever but we'd be stuffed without them so I've installed a 24 hour security cordon round it.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:56 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 699
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- Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:41 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 546
- Views: 39569
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Biked/trained/biked to my chum's then over to the young persons popular music concert, although didn't have to hide the bike under the stairs this time. I'd like to call him Joe Strimmer, as befits my older outlook on life these days and increased indulgence in futile activities. Topper Lawnedger wa...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4004
- Views: 527446
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Off we go. 1degC tonight apparently. Bit nippy for April here. Wonder if we'll get another -4 on WRT. Note handy 'poppadom deck'.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4004
- Views: 527446
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
If you can remember the 70s... no, the 60s... you weren't there .
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4004
- Views: 527446
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Go on then.... Just packed the horse for a trip over to my chum Jezzer, with whom I shall attend "London Calling" The Clash tribute band at Bedford Esquires, then, in the best gigpacking tradition (3rd this year), kip out afterwards. Might have a curry and a beer. So that should be jolly. ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 546
- Views: 39569
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Mmm... I wouldn't want to bump into One-Eyed Joe though....
(I thought "adventure" was swear-filtered out )
(I thought "adventure" was swear-filtered out )
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:47 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 546
- Views: 39569
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
On my various wanderings one day I'd like to get off the train by mistake at a station and find out I'd ended up at Buggleskelly Halt. Although it's not a really a halt, because part of the definition of a halt is "unstaffed and no goods facilities". Obviously Buggleskelly was staffed (inc...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:56 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 546
- Views: 39569
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Is Ashey technically a Halt as it's a request stop? https://safety.networkrail.co.uk/jargon-buster/halt-or-station-halt/ "A railway station with minimal facilities where trains will usually stop only on request". Guess NR should know as they own them (although not Ashey any longer presuma...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:04 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
- Replies: 64
- Views: 5419
Re: WRT GR's
Considering that here today we've had bright sunshine, high winds, heavy rain, more sunshine, hail, and thunderstorms, all between 9am and 5pm, I shall look out of my window on May 4th and forecast "ah right, that's the WRT weather then" .
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:48 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Gobowen->Berwyns: Wayfarer & Dirt Bike School 13-15 April 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2413
Re: Gobowen->Berwyns: Wayfarer & Dirt Bike School 13-15 April 2024
Well that was a good one! Lots of things going on there Pete. And some proper weather.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:08 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 546
- Views: 39569
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Looks quite cosy but I have to say that the tree up the back there rather gives the game away .
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: The Welsh Ride Thing - Lonely Hearts Club Ride - Sat 4th May to Mon 6th May 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2475
Re: The Welsh Ride Thing - Lonely Hearts Club Ride - Sat 4th May to Mon 6th May 2024
I promise you whichever group you choose you'll probably dislike us for a bit of it, you'll be our best mates for some bits, you'll be ambivulous towards us for the other bits. At the end of the weekend you'll be happy to have done some great riding in Wales and may even want to come back again. Go...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 6677
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
they make no sense But they do to Reg so where does that leave us eh? :-P :grin: Pps i doubt any of really care, its all just a trip on a bike with some rest stops Hang on, don't kill the thread just yet, just when it's getting (even more) Bearbonesy! Sounds like you're attempting to extricate your...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:33 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 6677
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
I have to say this thread reminds me very strongly of Doolittle's conversation with Bomb #20 in "Dark Star" (*) .
(*) the best scifi film ever made obviously .
(*) the best scifi film ever made obviously .
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:15 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 6677
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
Not sure that argument stacks up camping...... precise....... Ah well, but is "camping" a precise term? In our frame of reference I don't think it is. Have a look at Bivvy a Month to see the myriad ways we do "Bearbones Bikepacking". If (elitism alert) we're not doing "bike...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:59 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 6677
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
In all of these variations bikes are involved and packing (and presumably unpacking) is involved. When people first started travelling on bikes and stopping overnight, if they had called it 'bikepacking' - because it involved bikes and [un]packing as above - and the term 'cycle touring' had never be...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:47 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 6677
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
bikepacking is similar to wave theory. Its state depends on the observer Best not to observe it because the whole thing would collapse into a specific state and then we'd understand exactly what it is :wink: . I'd rather not know. In fact there would be a definite point, which rather spoils the who...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:40 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 546
- Views: 39569
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
I need to re-read properly in the morning because had too much ale now, but initial reaction: .
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:54 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: The Welsh Ride Thing - Lonely Hearts Club Ride - Sat 4th May to Mon 6th May 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2475
Re: The Welsh Ride Thing - Lonely Hearts Club Ride - Sat 4th May to Mon 6th May 2024
As well as Karl and Cat's expert guiding, Lonely Hearters and Lost Souls also have the 'Ride With Reg' LHC option :smile: . Having run some LHC's a few years ago I felt it's time to 'give something back' again. I'm particularly keen to encourage WRT first-timers and non-Boners but all welcome if the...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Travelling across Europe quickly - how?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3193
Re: Travelling across Europe quickly - how?
Just ride there Beat me to it :wink: . But?: "disassembled bike goes as hand luggage on all [French] TGV trains so long as bag is less than 130x90cm". Doesn't mention the width though! And?: "bicycle can be taken on board [German] ICE trains if it is packed in a cover less than 120x9...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The next Eclipse
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3168
Re: The next Eclipse
Entirely coincidentally, I've just bought some E-Clips. Quite impressed. They automatically self-disengage when they detect a crash occurring so I can dismount easily. Whatever will they E- next I wonder.