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The countryside is looking very green at the moment...
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Shropshire's Wandering Trig
This otherwise perfectly unremarkable trigpoint was built on Overley Hill, just north of The Wrekin. When the M54 was extended to form the (now-dual-carriageway) road from Wellington to Shrewsbury, they cut through Overley Hill and the trig had to go. Instead of being cast aside, it was rescued by an employee of a firm of surveyors who were involved in the road-building work, and has spent several years installed right outside their offices in Bayston Hill village near Shrewsbury; in the last couple of years they've relocated their operation to Telford, and it's now living in a shrubbery in the carpark of their new offices on a business park in Hadley. A well-travelled concrete trig pillar.
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Sadly dead, probably hit by a car, but a really beautifully marked animal nonetheless and otherwise in prime condition as far as I could see
Up on the Ridgeway yesterday, looking towards Sparsholt Down. Great to be able to get out for both dog walks and rides now.
Ventured into the Urban Badlands yesterday
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Up on the Kent North Downs yesterday morning at one of the higher points (all 600ft of it), Holly Hill
Worth getting up early for.
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And a bit later on Bluebell Hill looking back over to Holly Hill and Wrotham
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Today’s short ride. Bumped into lots of people and everyone was happy and smiling. Great day to be out and about
Try to share from google photos is tricky
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My evening jaunts in the Pentlands have been a major contributor to my continued sanity in these trying times.
Took my Monkey for a paddle in the river today...
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Covid Minion
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Bit a of a trundle around the rolling bits of South Suffolk today.
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Trip to LCS and LB(butcher)S
The Ridgeway, Fyfield Down and Sustrans route across the field to the right...
Love the Minion! 😁
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One from last week: bluebells on the left, Dere St. on the right.
A lovely ride out in a very dry and dusty Epping Forest today:
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Slightly marred by hundreds of cars/people in High Beech car park which has been re-opened. I skirted through that PDQ 🙁
No longer one a day but still rode local. Daughter went to Wharncliffe for the first time since lockdown. She has had the biggest grin I've seen for the last eight weeks
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Out with the girls to pick up fruit and veg from the farm shop.
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(is it Hotlinks for forums for postimg? It is)
@Sandwich excellent pics and you have some lovely churches in your part of the country.
Today was some riding some jumping.
Not the best video taking by my lad, but I cleared the jump
Awesome fun.
Busy day on two wheels today.
A local loop early on, on't Rocket, then a nice little spin on the motorcycle in the afternoon. First time in about 2 months. Lots of bikers about.
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Another Kinnoull Hill shot
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No rain came from the clouds though 🙁
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Some greenery.
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Perfect relaxed ride this morning. Lots of people out, but avoided the busy trails as much as poss.
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Daughter has been keeping up with lockdown cakes and buns
This week we have Cadburys cream Scotch egg brownies
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She likes the timber bell!
One from an evening walk on Saturday, looking out towards Baildon Moor, and then one from yesterday riding on Baildon Moor.
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Put the summer wheels on and pooped out for some sprint intervals...
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...didn't realise I was being spied on just in case 😀
Weather was glorious, lovely to feel the whoosh of carbons wheels at a decent speed with your arms out.
We had a lovely ride out in the sunshine yesterday. Stopped at a lock for picnic lunch and got roped in to opening the gates to let a boat through. My daughter loved it.
@cinnamongirl Thanks. They were all taken on the phone and no fancy work afterwards on the computer. The skies are usually a matter of luck.
Took the commuter bike for a spin round the lanes, ended up in Caerphilly by this pond I'd forgotten existed:
<br />how to reduce my breast size at home<br />
Also forgot I'd modified the gearing to suit my pretty much flat commute, having a lowest gear of 38/28 hurt up pretty much every hill!
Edit: the title postimage gave that, what the actual... 🤣
More churches from today's jaunt. Last one is where I was christened many moons ago!
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Last one is where I was christened many moons ago!
Why is the priest still hanging about? Doesn't he know they've demolished his church and turned it into a shopping precinct?
Saturdays ride, wonderful afternoon out on the moors with my son....
"Banksey's bin to the village"
How did you miss that rather lame pun opportunity?
I went for a very gentle spin along the canal and found a quiet spot to watch a heron and have a beer
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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.
Supporting my local beerienteering group
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“Banksey’s bin to the village”
How did you miss that rather lame pun opportunity?
I thought it might just go to waste.
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.
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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!
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
I could get used to this. 🤞🏻 the weather holds.
I often wonder what she gets up to when we are not at home.
She's clearly learned that pose from someone.
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.
Sunburnt!
Dust.
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Surprise from my daughter. She baked a bouquet of cup cakes.
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A few photos worth from days out now we're allowed to travel for excercise
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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.
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
Early blast on Cutgate for us.
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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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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:
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.