[Closed] I learned two things today.

How warm and comfy it is inside

that frozen hoof prints
A) enable you to ride bridle paths that would normally be axle deep mud this time of year

B) are not comfy on a HT

Cold children whine even if theyve just had a great time sledging!!

The hunt can trash a section of bridleway in a matter of minutes.
You can ride it when it's frozen, but it's not comfy on a f/s either.

But nice to be out in a bit of snow anyway. Only 1" so far in the Shire, but it's still fun 😀

that drinking till 1am and getting up at 5 with two toddlers is annoying to say the least

That a child can do a hell of a lot of damage to a painted wall with a bottle of windowlene.

puppy + toddler = mayhem

What appears to be frozen mud is not always the case 😆

When you have to hoik a sick PC to the local tech shop, there's never an abandoned shopping trolley about when you need one.

That people can get very jealous when you buy the last 3 bags of rock salt from B&Q

I have an unopened bottle of Jura in my drinks cabinet

Ooh ooh - also, it's a complete waste of time trying to get irrational, slightly dim people to use critical thinking and logic.

That stop start recording a little video in snow leaves you feeling dog rough until you warm up, and then when your one key shot is missed you feel even worse!

I learned today that driving behind someone in the snow who will not go >5mph will make the contents of my bladder boil.

it's a complete waste of time trying to get irrational, slightly dim people to use critical thinking and logic.

You haven't been banging on about directional hi-fi cables again have you Woppit ?

Leave it out mate............you know you're wasting your time 💡

Even though the children at my school see me most weeks, some are prepared to believe that I am in fact, Santa.

Mountain Equipment waterproof trousers last 4 months use.
Proper snow shovels are the shizzle.

ernie_lynch - Member

it's a complete waste of time trying to get irrational, slightly dim people to use critical thinking and logic.

You haven't been banging on about directional hi-fi cables again have you Woppit ?

Nah. I've moved on. I've bought this lovely little granite pyramid that's suspended by levitation directly over the by-passed power supply section of my CD player and makes everything sound a lot, erm, hang on, it's just changed again...

That I only need two lifts of tower scaffold to reach the dining room ceiling and the pink tinted white paint doesn't stay pink for long enough to see where you've been!

De-icer is shit.

There are some customers, that no matter what you do, you can't please.

S-B-Z...didn't your kids draw on the wall the other day? Today windolene?

I'd tie 'em up in the middle of the room, away from temptation.

1. A Winter picnic in minus 1 degree temperature is a little silly. 🙄

2. Removing one's gloves in the same temperature is just downright stupid.

Can I add a third?

Forgetting to wear my Windstopper Buff, my head and ears were cold. 🙁

I learnt that some soulless, vindictive, embittered, malicious, spite filled people will never cease to suprise you with the lengths they will go 👿

Thank you for listening.

I learnt that our seven month old has figured out how to undo her nappy...

Well it seems that together we have learned a lot today!

Jonny Marr uses odd chord shapes and guitar tuning and obviously has magic fingers...

The Git.

I further suspect he did all this just, mind you, just to wind me up

1. The only way to understand events is to cause them
2. Jura is infinitely drinkable

Chickens can appreciate the fact that you take the trouble to insulate their house with satisfied cooing noises.

1. It's time to write a Christmas list
2. I have no idea what I want for Christmas.

1. That the demands of my female housemates are probably causing a spike in the international energy markets.

2. That I have lost my Rohloff chain tensioner.

I learned that my my mrs has no idea how the ABS/Traction Control works on the car. It starts flashing when she applies the brakes in the snow as it is working. She thinks this is a warning to 'turn it on' and so hits the ABS/Traction Control switch, effectively turning it off.
🙄

i have on just like that stevie
today i learnt that my mrs has never in her life bothered to find out what the thermastat does.she just thought you turned the dial to switch the heating on. 😐

My Jack Russell loves the snow even more than she did last year.

My Jack Russell/Chihuahua cross loves the snow too.

Today I learned that she has to bounce in the deep snow to see where she is going.

I learnt not to go into a jewellers with my wife and allow her to see a ring she wants, before i order my new bike
and that drinking Jack daniels at three in the afternoon is a good time to start, makes me mellow all eveing

that friendship with true mates does not fade no matter how long you go without seeing each other.

i love the warmth of my house when i come home after a night out.

Watching 'Twilight' is like being beaten over the head repeatedly with a large, fluffy gonk whilst a teenage girl reads aloud from a Mills and Boon.

Crud 'Roadracer' roadie mudguards are not unbreakable.

It was more just like refining what I knew yesterday.

That having faith in an england rugby rennaisance will always lead to dissapointment

and

my kids like it when you read their bedtime stories pissed.

Watching 'Twilight' is like being beaten over the head repeatedly with a large, fluffy gonk whilst a teenage girl reads aloud from a Mills and Boon.

Sounds strangely kinky, like a guilty pleasure that should not be spoken of.

This morning I learnt that 2 hours road riding is enough to

a) Make my water bottle freeze completely solid.
b) Apparently literally freeze my nuts off.[1]

[1] Although everything does appear to be back now.

Yesterday I learnt:

1: There are still some good LBS's out there - Cycle World in Stonehaven for starters. Sorted me out good and proper, Thanks Joe!
2: I'm too old to be messing about in the snow after midnight having been in the pub for 10 hours. My thumb hurts... The lightning was ace though!

1) I get grumpy when I can't get out and ride in the snow due to man flu

2) I can never be as grumpy as MrsSwadey when she has self same man flu 🙄

..that my son would rather ride in -2' snow than in the New Forest in August....

This morning I learnt during a 20km ride :-

XTR shifters can freeze

Three layers of windproof material is not enough

The human body can produce copious amounts of snot

I should have put my knee warmers on as well

I learnt 3 women can completely empty a house of hot water and not consider pressing the button so I get a cold shower after 3-and-a-half hours in sub zero temperatures. I am now on strike from fixing things they have broken.