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After returning from hols post 4 hr delay at 5 am on Tuesday and working flat knacker since I managed to drag my weary body out of bed it feels like we never went away!! So tonight me and mrs w and the mini w's have so far had a game of wi bowling, crisp selection and a few drinks. Memories of the lovely holiday slowly seeping back in and cant wait to pile all the bikes in the van tomorrow and have some more family time!!!
Just been for a run and then doing naff all. Was at [url= http://photos.secretgardenparty.com/view/?image_keywords=Highlights ]SGP[/url] over last weekend, so taking it easy this one.
climbing lesson with mrsconsequence and a good friend for his birthday.
Painting the blooming extension, at least its been dry for a few days so might last another 5 years before i ave to do it again.
Still got 25miles done this morning and getting 40 tomorrow.
climbing lesson with mrsconsequence and a good friend for his birthday.
Sounds good Phil. If I was local I would come with....got no decent climbing places round my way....gah!
Edit: Yes. I did just invite myself 😉
Busy weekend so easy one tonight, some spotify surfing to find some new bands, listening/enjoying Drive By Truckers at the moment.
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Got friends staying so off for dinner at a very nice French restuarant tonight (hot evening here so summer dress will be required!) Then mountainbiking on the Berwyns all day tomorrow 🙂 (must remember to not drink too much French wine tonight ...)
A nice end to a pretty sh*tty couple of days.
Sara on her way down NOW. Haven't seen her for 2 weeks, am going to faint with excitement.
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more washing up I imagine.. the same as the last 336 hours.. I love it
Finished nights yesterday, spent the day out with my boy and the missus today touring frigates, playing on bouncy castles and at the park. Sals off out to a retirement do for a bit so me and my boy playing in the back garden before bath then bedtime. Good times.
Been on the beach most of the afternoon with the kids, so they are glowing from the wind and sun. And very tired. 🙂
Just put the youngest down (no, not like that), and have just finished up mowing the lawn in preparation for a big superhero birthday party for my 3 year old tomorrow. We are transforming the downstairs into a batcave tonight! Probably a few beers and some nice food, then sleep the sleep of them wot need it!
beer, music, cooking, CV fiddling, beer, music, faffing on internet, beer, Seinfeld DVD's (there are so many!), faffing on internet, music, CV faffing, beer. reheating previous cooking. music. something like that. you going on the Berwyns MBNW forum ride Sue? have a good un! I couldn't get off bloody work 🙁
KeV, good amount of music in there!! Just got the charts on MTV of all things blaring out in our gaff at the mo!
Onto some Gil Scott-Heron now.
BOO and indeed OOOM!
err yeah, wrighty, it's MY music choice though. Guess I'm lucky in a way :?. Mind you, some of my CD's are borked. Good choice Lifer
Kev - no, not the MBNW ride, out with some other friends - not exactly sure where we're going, but they said about 5-6 hrs across the hills so I'm packing extra jelly babies 🙂
Oh, and are you job applying? (or just CV fiddling for the sheer joy of it ..)
get the jelly babies in, they are the source of all cycling power! hope it's gonna be a smashing day for you Sue 🙂 forget the crap and have some fun with yer mates on a bike! and why not.
CV fiddling for jobs I don't care about. but want a job where I can be useful.
Nice glass of Chardonnay on the go. May switch to a meaty Spanish red later.
As I said kev "of all things" !! Me and mrs w will be hitting the spotify later for sure!!
BBQ @ son's Explorer Scout unit (it's his retirement do - he was 18 on Wednesday) followed by pub! 🙂
Just been for a blast around Shipley Glen and am about to order Dominos with the lass.
you love it really wrightson! spotify - all my newly favourite tunes I've hammered. I'm on the old CD's! Good one Lifer
You got a voucher GG??
Yes keV I'm currently dancing with the kids to a record called lmfao with the lyrics champagne showers? Seems somewhat surreal or possibly wrong?
sound like a laugh Wrighty!
Just pitched up at Silverstone ready for the super bikes tomorrow.
watching dreadful tv with my inlawws
😆 @ kimbers!! Sorry!!
Just in after a wee road run from Galashiels to St Marys Loch and back via Innerleithen and Yair Bridge. A couple of beers and now considering food!
Just watched Rick Stein in Spain and really feel like moving there.. Been babysitting and planning Monday night road ride with a good friend. No drinking tonight either.
chinese billy madison and avatar thats me sorted.
Well, it's a little late, as it's now the morning, but my very warm Friday night involved eating an epic meal on Smith Street (Chilli Cumin Beef, dumplings in sour soup, etc. etc.), washed down with a little too much Harbin. It's now far too early, I have a hangover and my flight leaves in about an hour.
Time for some Kaya toast and eggs......
vodka ! 😆 😐 😳
Few beers at the Church Inn, Darley Dale with the lovely Mrs STR, daughter and a dozen or so mates post work in the beer garden.
Rode Brown Trousers/Lea/Black Rocks last night wrightyson - was perfect and dusty with beers till midnight as afters - mojo well and truly back and locked on 8)
Just split from the wife, she decided she wanted a break 4 weeks ago and decided the other night that she hasn't missed me, is not in love with me and has no feelings for me so we called it a day.
Never thought I would feel so empty and shite as this is the last thing I wanted. We've been together 11 years and it was supposed/is our 7 year anniversary this weekend.
Head is a mess at the mo, feelings range from angry to empty please tell me things will get easier and offer any advice you can
Sorry to hear that kev, that's a pretty shit situation and apologies for my earlier lol at your expense. Hope things iron out for you, my best mate went through it a few years back and after a few hard months he moved on and is now in a new house with new mrs and trying for babies. Every cloud eh....
Nice one artist btw, I heard about this brown trousers run a coupla weeks ago from a lad who rides out of heage on a Tuesday night. Not one of your group is he?? Loving black rocks any time of year/day btw and if it's quiet love the run behind birchwood farm campsite, super quick if you want it to be!!!
No mate, not one of ours - we are all Darley Dale & Matlock.
Do you know the route? I'll describe it for you if not. A lad riding up there on his own a couple of weeks ago on his own came off and broke his neck & back - hopefully going to be ok, but fortunately he had a whistle with him, otherwise he wouldn't have been found.
Cleaned the climb up to the trig point via the right hand rocky side on Thursday. Do you mean the run on the bottom side of the campsite? Got to be doing 30mph+ down there, then cut left down the chute to the A6?
Good going artist on the rhs climb, it's a technical one that one. The run down to the campsite has the site on your right, there's a sweet little jump half way down and as you say a left back on yourself then takes you half way down the incline to high peak junction. As for the brown trousers/ pants route I've no idea. In fact none of the riber or lea stuff. Any pointers would be sound. Black rocks is my true stomping ground tho, especially as I grew up near wussa!!
Strange - it states last post on here from wrightyson, but no post???
*edit* - it's appeared, but there definitely weren't two pages last time I looked.
Will add further reply in a sec...
Ha ha was just thinking the bloody same!!!
Yeah, know the jump 8)
We generally start at the White Lion pub @ Starkholmes and climb up the hairpins to Riber. As you reach the crest, 100yds on your right is a farm lane, go past the farm and onto a track that climbs a little further. This eventually descends into woods and look out for a left hander into the trees (if you reach a gate, then you've gone too far). Immediately turn right through the nettles and follow the singletrack through the trees - when you reach a dry stone wall looking down onto Cromford, nip left through a gap in the fence and down. This will bring you to the top of Brown Trousers in a clearing.
The descent is only a few hundred yards, but starts with a 1 in 4, to 1 in 3 rutted drop through the trees and then through a swage cut through the bracken - it's hairy and slidy in winter. You have to carry some good speed and if you get to the kicker at the bottom and dont get some air under your tyres you aren't going fast enough. There are various tracks cut into the hillside, which you generally see better from the bottom and know for next time, although I've never tried them.
Follow the track through the trees and look out for a path up a field to the right. Climb this and you are at the top of the woods above Lea. Head through the dry stone wall and take the path to the left on the level. There are a couple of tracks drop off to the right, so follow your nose and you will eventually end up at Lea Bottom (near Smedleys Mill) taking in some sweet singletrack on the way down. Head towards Cromford and after a few yards, next to a house you will see a path that goes over the railway and brings you to the sewage works/High Peak Junction.
We then do Black Rocks and back down, along the canal (make sure you do the drop off the wall at the Cromford car park end) and ride through to Matlock Bath, where we ride up Bath fields at the back of the station back to the pub.
Happy hunting!