There's a lot of crappy news, doom and gloom all around. For balance, let's see what good news you have?
Personally; weightloss has gone pretty well so far this year, parkrun is proving to me that I can go faster than my brain would like to limit me to, I think it may be time for a new commuter so I have an excuse to do some bike shopping. Life on the whole is pretty good to me, so I have few excuses to be the grumpy tosspot I can be!
Anyone else?
Couple actually.
At 54 I am starting to feel comfortable enough that I can actually do the job I have been doing for the last 30+ years and not feel like the least qualified person in the room. Next stop retirement!
The physio I saw today told me that despite the onset of arthritis in my toe joint there is no reason why I cant recover from the issues I have and I am looking forward to racing again and turning 55 in October and making a mark on the local Vets scene again
Is that the type of thing you meant 🙂
We need £300k for a community pumptrack that will really be an asset to the town. Secured £200k already had a meeting for £50k yesterday and a funding bid in for another £50k.
We might yet get this thing builte..
Foot is almost healed (started riding gently last week).
Mortgage approved for new house this morning. 😁
And here is the weather: It's been so nice n dry that I was able to ride home off road some of the way last night. Yeah, I got a bit lost, ended up going round in a big circle, but hey ho it was most pleasant.
In other news, tonight I'm seeing Fat White Family in a dingy club in a grotty part of Southampton and it's gonna be great.
I did a magnificent poo this morning.
Car sailed through MOT, Van needs £500 worth of routine work to pass. I'm happy with that.
Trail conditions leaning toward "hero dirt" and I'm riding this eve.
We need £300k for a community pumptrack
Is that really how much they cost? What do you get for that, may I ask?
I just farted so loudly that, even over the radio, Mrs Binners shouted her disgust from upstairs
Simple pleasures 😀
Our house / job / nursery move is progressing well. Sold ours for asking a few months ago, found a stonking new place which is cycle-commutable to work, close to family and 25 minutes from the sea. Some really promising trails close by, which is a rarity for East Anglia!
I've got a job interview, my current place is pissing my off and boring me senseless!
Think my wife is in agreement with me about getting a van.
Had a successful cataract op a fortnight ago and my last check-up for angina was all clear, so not a bad couple of weeks!
I've got pie for diner
We've had the money, for the costs incurred, from the surveyor who didn't identify asbestos on the house we bought.
Just shy of £6k B-)
Off to the cinema later with my eldest. She also wants to go the Chinese supermarket for supplies.
Weather's looking nice, might go the long way home tonight if I can get out of work on time (distinct possibility).
Mrs Dubs is playing hockey, so I'll be treating myself to a curry this evening.
Think my wife is in agreement with me about getting a van.
Winning so far.
Greggs in Uxbridge has closed
She also wants to go the Chinese supermarket for supplies.
When the owner jumps out at you unexpectedly, sort of thing?
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I'm off to the Slovak Tatra's for a work event for the next 6 days.
I'm trying to book tickets to Florence for another work event, this time with 7 teachers in tow.
Confirmation has come though that I'm also leading a week of teacher training in Dubai in December.
I've also extended dates in Cumbernauld for the teacher events there, as they're so popular.
The dog hasn't got TB (although the two cats have 🙁 )
When the owner jumps out at you unexpectedly, sort of thing?
Reported for racism. 🙂
Oh. Oh well then...
My GN:
I've just been on steroids for a week and I can understand why Bradley likes them so much.
UHF FTW!
I just found out about the bank holiday weekend!
We've accepted an offer on our house and had our offer accepted so all being well I'm moving in a couple of months. New house has an internal bike store and have approval from the boss to use it as such.
Had root canal work done on Monday, didn't hurt as much as expected...
I've started building some 'features' on our School MTB trail. The good news is that the School were doing some building work so I got several tons of spoil dumped exactly where I wanted it, and then I got some help from one of the kid's dads who brought his telehandler to shape a couple of berms... so at the cost of about £35 in sandbags we now have this:
1 week down 2 to go at work before i get home so thats a good marker out of the way.
The home bakes we get at work in the afternoon are doughnuts today! Only having one, only having one .....
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I just found out about the bank holiday weekend!
What?
Woo hoo!, I just found out about the bank holiday weekend!
Which one this weekend or the end of May?
After several disappointing years, we are expecting mini-me on the 16th May, crazily trying finish sorting the house so it's nice for us and the throng of visitors from over home. Plasterer finished just now, decorator next week, due finish 13th 😱
Starting to believe it is really happening, mild terror mixed with excitement.
Just found a box with all the bits I couldn't sell when I split up my old Orange 224 Evo, just as I was about to buy essentially the same parts for my new Orange 224 Evo.
That isn't so much good news as evidence of fiscal incompetence but, I'll take it
After several disappointing years, we are expecting mini-me on the 16th May,
Congratulations.
You’d do well to heed my standard advice to first time fathers...
Stay up the dry end.
so at the cost of about £35 in sandbags we now have this:
Brilliant work.
The pump track fella up there wants to be talking to you.
Greggs in Uxbridge has closed
Not to worry, there's another two stores.
A bloke knocked on our door earlier as our neighbours are finally getting their horrendous leylandii cut down and he didn't want anything falling on the car.
Their leylandii were almost as tall as our roof. Good news indeed!
Cheers perchy, as the nurse in the house I have already been nominated for all code brown/ green/ yellow activities already.
First year of uni complete, at 44 years old, 5 months til the madness starts again, I feel like a time millionaire!.
Greggs in Uxbridge has closed
Bad news for the people that worked there, hopefully good news for your Chubclub efforts Rob!
As for you binners, I should have expected as much! 😉
Nice one folks, keep them coming!
You’d do well to heed my standard advice to first time fathers…
Stay up the dry end.
Some sage on here described it as 'like watching your favourite pub burn down' 😂
Congratulations though sir!
Youngest daughter has dissertation sorted so she can now concentrate on riding her bike.
Oldest daughter has just had her appeal against the penalty fare notice upheld.
Im booked in for waxing and nails done after the gym session tonight.
1 day closer to retirement when I can f off to my retirement pad in Malta. One more drive with stuff almost organised.
I'm almost 60 and have never been to a music festival but there's a rockabilly and classic car festival in Switzerland on the way back so I'm planning the drive around that. A new ar5ehole in the management structure has helped remove any doubts about whether I want to go or not, and a project which everything I've seen about looks like a disaster has been moved back to start the week after I go.
I got drunk and bought a Wayfarer dinghy. Turned out not to be the pile of crap I dreaded it would be
Life is fine, or for the Scots (sorry no subtitles for anyone else)
I'm going to live here https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/malta/gozo/munxar/gozo-munxar.html
Which one this weekend or the end of May?
There's two!!
I didn't know there was one until now.
In more personal news, whatever caused my knee to swell to the size of a grapefruit is no longer doing so and I merely need 3 doses of extra strong pain meds to walk a day. I might even risk a ride at the weekend... rude not two, LBS has lent us a couple of FS E-Bikes to play with.
Unexpected payrise. Lovely.
Bought a Fender Strat Custom Shop 70’s re-issue last weekend, and it’s a stunner and sounds like a Spring morning chorus.
🌬🎸🕺
There’s two!!
I didn’t know there was one until now.
Yup. It's May so there's 2
Local kom today. Great news.
I get to ride a mountain bike in Wales next weekend for the first time in ages and I am getting paid to do it. Marvellous.
The local community bought pub (The Crown, South Moreton) that I'm about visit is rather pleasant, will be even better when they get the furniture in for the official opening. Sadly this has coincided with me cutting alcohol intake to 5/6 pints a week as opposed to a visit...
And the :Arkitex Portal uploader to our printers' proofing system has gone green across the board so that is another newspaper finished for the week.
The Blacklist Season6 still pleases me.
My road(ish) bike is great. My MTB is even better. The Ridgeway is dry. Too many good things out there.
Bought a Fender Strat Custom Shop 70’s re-issue last weekend, and it’s a stunner and sounds like a Spring morning chorus.
I bought the Custom Shop Relic Strat when they did the first issue. It makes me happy just looking at it. In fact most listeners would prefer me to stick to that level of enjoyment. Brilliant guitars.
The man behind me at the checkout in Aldi was bulk buying mushy peas. Nice to find out I am not alone in my love of mushy peas.
I realised I've loads of leave to use (goes by calendar year) so have booked next week off work! Motorbike to get running and then strip/start modifying, shepherds hut to finish building (and then sell), and a report to finish writing to (hopefully) become a chartered building engineer.
Nothing planned in advance for this weekend, for the first time in aaages, so can just go with the flow.
Middle son got married on Saturday and it was fabulous, eldest son is getting married in August and will be quite different but equally fabulous.
Just been told one of my dad's old bikes sold for £126k at bonhams at the weekend - my brother still has a similar one.
I'll admit our pumptrack is turning into a monster. It's going to be a velosolutions track so 1.5-2m height difference in bumps and berms. Have a starters and main track and fill a space 100mx30m (six full sized tennis courts) another £50k gets us floodlights. It need to conform so sepa regulations as it's on a flood plain. So massive soak aways and half under ground level.
Things are nowhere near as bad as they might be. Gets me through everything that.
After several disappointing years, we are expecting mini-me on the 16th May
Babies are ace, you have won this thread.
I have pizza rising, a beer in my hand and the sun is shining. It never fails to surprise me how good the simple feels sometimes. I got through a meeting with our auditors yesterday that had worried me with no problems (that I know about yet) but still a pizza and a beer feels way better
Just been told one of my dad’s old bikes sold for £126k at bonhams at the weekend – my brother still has a similar one.
Was it a Sick!, I've heard they're pretty rare?
accepted for teacher training
organised a ride with a pro rider/youtuber in a couple of weeks
need varifocal glasses now though
Just got payment in from a job last week. Officially my most lucrative day at work ever, by a very long way. Nice.
Currently packing my bike into a box to head off tomorrow to Italy for SSEC and then a week bikepacking Albania and Kosovo.
Still, the long range forecast for the Balkans is shite, so it's not all rosy. 🙂
I've ordered my first properly new bike in 17 years. Get it on the 19th. Sorry to my kids but I can't remember the last time I was this excited.
I became a Mother-in-law on friday - ridiculously proud mum 😀
After several disappointing years, we are expecting mini-me on the 16th May,
Congratulations.
You’d do well to heed my standard advice to first time fathers…
Stay up the dry end.
And which end is that?
Edit: Ah.. of the wife, not the baby...
I bought the Custom Shop Relic Strat when they did the first issue. It makes me happy just looking at it. In fact most listeners would prefer me to stick to that level of enjoyment. Brilliant guitars.
It is indeed a VBT, journey man not a heavy relic.. just how I like em’. I had an 80’s Strat which I butchered with stupid PU’s and put a Floyd Rose on when it was all “hair metal” era, ended up giving it away it was so shonky 🤒
I’ve been looking for about 3yrs, seen plenty and played plenty and annoyed Andertons numerous occasions... then this Sonic Blue one came up, nitro finish is sublime, greenish pickguard and PU Covers and satin neck and I picked it up and it sort of fell into my hands 🕺I’m looking forward to living with it and it become part of me.. and me it.
Like this (though this is a 63’..) I’ll get some pics of it soon..
You’d do well to heed my standard advice to first time fathers…
Stay up the dry end.
Got to disagree with that. I didn’t see our first being born (forcepts) but not only saw but acted as stirrups for the other two.
I just ordered some new brakes for the FS and have finished writing a proposal to senior management that will fundamentally change how this organisation operates and realise significant reductions in cost and risk to us.
I'm more excited about the brakes
Had a knee Arthur Roscopy 3 weeks ago & did 17 miles on the bike today which means I'll take it to Ft Willy on Friday.
The SSDT starts on Monday.
The only bad news is I couldn't get any of my favourite coffee bags today.
Got a place on a really good training course that will lead to a pay rise. The only person at work that I don't like is leaving.
Going to see one of my current favourite bands tonight at a venue just down the road.
Just plumbed in a toilet and sink, no leaks.
^ Unintentional pun of the week.
My FS bike is working fully again and it's sort of clean too (it probably wants the brakes bleeding if I'm being really anal about it) and the trails were really dry and very fast for yesterday's night ride.
Turned 50 last week, and got an interview next Tuesday for a job that will hopefully mean the last 17 years of my working life will be as interesting and lucrative as the first were, and an end to the part time daddy day care wage slave bollocks of recent years.
And there's a new bike on order...
Off to Finale in 2 weeks for 4 days of MTB 🙂
And out for free beers with work crowd tomorrow night 🙂 🙂
Decided at the last minute to do my (motorbike) CBT on Tuesday which went great.... Now pondering doing my full licence and getting a bigger bike than the new Honda Monkey I'd originally thought.
In other news the house 'remodelling' is going well with the plasterers starting in 10 days. Only downside is that we have no rads downstairs and the front door and flanking wall is being ripped out today in preparation for a new one next week - might be a little chilly!
Just got a place in this year's Great North Run and looking forward to running it again some 16 years since I last ran it and having overcome a pretty debilitating sciatica injury I had a couple of years ago and been able to get back into running the ParkRun weekly.
Finished paying my car off last month, so was looking forward to a few extra £ this month.
Until the Mrs drove it in to a wall last night.
Still - it's a bank holiday, Joe Cocker is alive and well and Roger Moore is fighting fit. Happy days!
2 bits of good news -
Since January 2018 I've now lost over 2.5 stone.
After hitting my initial target weight I decided I was going to reward myself with a new bike and on 3rd attempt it finally arrived on Tuesday afternoon :o)