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Posted : 19/05/2020 7:13 pm
"Banksey's bin to the village"
How did you miss that rather lame pun opportunity?
Posted : 19/05/2020 8:47 pm
I went for a very gentle spin along the canal and found a quiet spot to watch a heron and have a beer
Posted : 19/05/2020 8:48 pm
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Took the trail bike out to check I'd fixed the rear brake, success! It no longer pumps up when warm. Took a different route to the hills I found last week, never knew there was a Glamorgan Canal in Cardiff, right below the M4. Amazingly tranquil with a lot of birds and other wildlife milling around.
Posted : 19/05/2020 8:53 pm
Supporting my local beerienteering group
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Posted : 19/05/2020 8:55 pm
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Posted : 19/05/2020 9:47 pm
Topic starter
“Banksey’s bin to the village”
How did you miss that rather lame pun opportunity?
I thought it might just go to waste.
Posted : 19/05/2020 9:57 pm
First proper Mtb ride since lockdown as have to drive (though been out on the road/turbo most days). Surrey Hills on a weekday evening in the sun, far from the maddening crowds of a weekend.
Posted : 19/05/2020 11:14 pm
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Went to the far corner of my local moor to check out a vaguely promising track I'd spotted on Google Earth. Turned out to be 80% pushing!
Posted : 20/05/2020 4:11 pm
I often wonder what she gets up to when we are not at home.
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She knows she can't get on the furniture in the house but never had the chance outside
Posted : 20/05/2020 5:37 pm
I could get used to this. 🤞🏻 the weather holds.
Posted : 20/05/2020 6:04 pm
I often wonder what she gets up to when we are not at home.
She's clearly learned that pose from someone.
Posted : 20/05/2020 6:46 pm
New bike arrived last wee; think I bought the last available one in my size on the planet - third ride on it this afternoon after flipping the bars for the early 90's totally horizontal flat bar look.
Posted : 20/05/2020 7:16 pm
Sunburnt!
Posted : 20/05/2020 8:51 pm
Dust.
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Posted : 20/05/2020 10:25 pm
Surprise from my daughter. She baked a bouquet of cup cakes.
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Posted : 22/05/2020 10:41 pm
A few photos worth from days out now we're allowed to travel for excercise
Posted : 23/05/2020 8:49 am
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Posted : 23/05/2020 3:13 pm
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Rode along the Pilgrims Way to the memorial cross at Lenham (in Kent). I’ve been travelling past this cross for many years but never been to it, so I thought I’d have a ride out on a lovely day.
Posted : 23/05/2020 3:37 pm
He makes me look garbage.
Not one of my best, but you can only have the wife taking so many videos before she gets bored. I do notice that even though I thought I was working on my entry speed, it's still slower than his
Posted : 23/05/2020 3:43 pm
Early blast on Cutgate for us.
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Posted : 23/05/2020 3:49 pm
Not quite up to Weeksy Jnr's level but a lot of fund was had on a dad & son morning out:
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Posted : 23/05/2020 5:02 pm
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Kryton, your son looks SO happy in those shots. That kind of thing is why I started this thread.
Really windy here today so we took a v short drive to some woods. No photos of the biking, largely because I'm embarrased by the fact that my 2yo i already a better MTBer than me.
Anyway - trees:
Posted : 23/05/2020 5:20 pm
Kryton, your son looks SO happy in those shots.
Ha, thanks. The complexities of parenthood. Yesterday I was hiding my own sadness from him as we had to dress him down over abusing his tablet allowance (i grew up as an unhappy child, and don’t want ours to be the same) and today he says this was one of favourite rides.
I was riding behind him mostly and he was swerving around singeletrack with an audible “wheee” and “woo hoo” at pace to the point I was nervously thinking “Christ, that’s going to wash out in the dust any minute...”
Fun times.
Posted : 23/05/2020 6:32 pm
The top window has a special place in history.
Posted : 24/05/2020 11:20 pm
Rapunzel's tower?
Posted : 25/05/2020 12:18 am
Posted : 25/05/2020 12:25 am
#beerienteering
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Posted : 25/05/2020 12:30 am
Stunning day out there, sunny, dry, but damn it's bumpy at times.
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Posted : 25/05/2020 2:49 pm
The top window has a special place in history.
Fox Talbot.
Posted : 25/05/2020 2:58 pm
Early ride in Wharncliffe for us.
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Posted : 25/05/2020 3:08 pm
Posted : 25/05/2020 3:35 pm
With a view like that I hope you had fish and chips😉
Posted : 25/05/2020 3:39 pm
Took the summer beast...
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...out for my sprint session today.
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6 x up that 6% at max watts then 20k home. Was very beautiful and still with the whirring of the 50's, except going through Epping Forest cap park which was jammed with shouty people and cars.
Posted : 25/05/2020 3:44 pm
Blissful.
Posted : 25/05/2020 4:02 pm
Posted : 25/05/2020 5:07 pm
Well 1 a day isn't needed anymore so I went for a second. Took a cold tinnie, a camera and a 100-400 lens to shoot some of the birds I've seen on my regular stops on the route home round the fields behind the house.
The last few days: loads of birds, several pairs of Red Kites especially including several low altitude low speed cruises up the field edge no more than 15ft from me.
Today: Nothing.
Have a bee and some daisies.
Posted : 25/05/2020 6:35 pm
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Posted : 25/05/2020 6:55 pm
Dales was mentally busy today, so I went high and cheeky to try to lose the crowds.
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Posted : 25/05/2020 7:21 pm
More #beerienteering today. 64km which pretty much killed me. It just feels like I've lost loads of fitness, likely the after-effects of CV19. Still, a lovely, if slightly breezy, day so no hurry.
Loads of insects around now
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Huge swathes of bog cotton
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But the highlight came when I sat down to have some food and saw a bird flying over.
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Looked hawk-like, but too big. Too "fine" in features to be a buzzard or eagle. Then I saw it heading to its nest.
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Osprey!!
Posted : 25/05/2020 8:40 pm
Managed to find some new (to me) gravel routes this morning
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Posted : 25/05/2020 8:57 pm
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The kids in the village still finding more ways to be creative. This is a 'rock caterpillar'.
Posted : 25/05/2020 9:20 pm
