So what stupid thing have you done today?

Wife has been clearing the garden and I’ve been “helping” with fire.

Wife takes a load of plants out of a massive pot to add compost to the soil. Plants are lined up neatly on the decking ready to go back in.

I come along with a brush and a bucket and introduce them to the fire.

Stupid.

Decided I didn’t like the colour of my
grips. So I decided I put new ones on and cut down the old one to cushion my bar ends. I had a brain fart and cut the brand new one instead there’s £20 down the drain.

Went for a pedal 6 days after COVID. Yeah that’s hard to breath

Pressed the back button twice on an online survey and lost everything.

It was taking ages as well 🙁

Can I be bothered to start again….no.

Went in the sea. Only swam for a short way before realising I hadn’t taken my heart drugs this morning. Then didn’t have anything warm to wear to stop the late onset chills. Stupid. Fun though 🤪

Bought the wrong kind of brakes for my frame.

Found some cheap* Eclipse coping saw blades, happily ordered four packets.
When the ‘ we’ve dispatched your order’ email arrived almost immediately found I’d ordered 24 tpi rather than 14tpi. Doh. Not a disaster but will be a bit of hassle to sort out.
*as in 25% less than I saw 14 tpi elsewhere… but there is a reason- no one wants the 24tpi, certainly not 4 packets

Took opportunity in the sun to repair some of the rusty or broken paint areas of eldest_oab’s van. Top coat looked like an excellent match – when wet…now darkening off as it dries..

Bought a cheapo £15 kettle bbq (looks rather similar to Weber Smokey Joe Original) because I wanted the air vent as part to modify another portable cheapo bbq from Wilko (which looks rather similar to Weber go anyway) which cost £20 …

Started building some gap jumps over one of our streams that I will probably never be brave enough to try.

Picked up a box of 1000 wood screws out of the shed without checking that the lid was clamped down.

Spent £1500 today, not especially stupid but it turns out our fridge freezer packed up the same day my daughter needed a new bike. Not really stupid but the new bike means I had to promise to take them to Coed y Brenin next weekend which is 2 hours away. And I suggested my wife could stay home and enjoy a day on her own which means I won’t be able to head out for a cheeky lap of something good myself.

Betting my last fiver in my bet365 account on Rees-Zammit scoring 3 tries or more.
This was after hearing Gabby Logan say that when Alun Wyn Jones got his 50th cap – they lost and when he got his 100th cap – they lost.
Should have just listened to her and gone for the treble 😀

Well done Italy though

Headed out on a road ride yo a cafe I thought was 30 miles away. It was 40 miles. Into a headwind.

(Un)comfortably my longest ride of the year so far.

Got sunburn after what feels like 9 years of winter. Don’t even care, I feel like a new man.

Purchased yet another bag. This time retro NOS handlebar bag for the tourer. Stupid because I paid as much in again in postage and yet it still doesn’t give me the map/phone-pocket functionality that I really could do with. But it does look cool. I seem in the last few years to be turning into the Imelda Marcos of hike and bike luggage.

Ah well, now really will have to dig deep and earn a waterproof phone upgrade (and one with a battery that lasts longer than 30 mins)

Put my new gravel tyres on, didn’t line up logos and valve on the back wheel

Spent ages looking at Adblue. Bought a 4.7l bottle instead of the 15l I actually need.

@revs1972 spoiler alert.. too late.

Rode a motorcycle round 7 junctions of the m25

Went food shopping hungry

Got sunburn

Got a bit pink myself at the cricket club trying to get the place ready for the season, mainly involving nailing Arwen-damaged rotten fence to try and get it safe enough, and my personal favourite job (massive lie) putting covers onto cover’s frames having spent an hour trying to get jammed acorns out of the drain holes 😭

Filled the car with crap at 10 past 4 after google both my local tips, which said closes at 6pm.
When I arrived they were closed, it turns out thats the summer hours that start in April. Need to go at 10am tomorrow. but now all the slugs have escaped my garden waste and are crawing around the inside of the car…

Just tried some raw chilli MrsSB just bought….. 🥵

Fitted one new wall light. Started on the second, drilled one hole for the hanging bracket, drilled the second perfectly centred through a central heating pipe. Water fountain erupts, almost break the dog jumping over her to get to the stop tap. Dirty central heating water stains and 340 notes later having paid an emergency plumber to hack the plaster back and fix a pipe joint and I’m spending tomorrow refixing the cut out plaster board and attempting to skim over it.

Satin thr sum outsise th pub an d dranl 13 pint,s ov beeer.

Number 2 haircut with pale white line around the old hairline. Must be bad as I’m red haired and have naturally pale skin! Mrs TiRed laugher anyway.

got a bit of a sunburnt pate from working on the bikes this afternoon without a hat.

Drank red wine and vermouth. Now I feel like I have a cold.

opted for a hot cheese and onion pastie at the coffee stop on the club ride today.

Good decision at the time, it was delicious. But hot pastry and then cycling causes BAD indigestion, which made the return leg (which should have been the better one; tailwind and more downhill) quite a grind.

Tried to make my other half happy…

I am sure you all know how it turned out…

Drove over my bike. Knackers.

Went to meet the insurance assessor, building assessor and engineer to inspect the ruins of our house, foolishly thinking we’d get some decent information. Only the building assessor turned up, spent two hours totting up the damage and told us it will take forever to get a verdict.

@TrailriderJim wins.

Spent an hour last night mapping a route to ride today on the Garmin…… forgot the Garmin didn’t I !! Oh dear oh dear!!

Drove over my bike. Knackers.

I have questions🙋‍♂️

Just woke up – which although not a bad thing really, I woke with an idea to sell a bike I’ve spent a couple of years getting just right.

And selling loads of other bits to justify an e-bike.

Stupid thoughts!

Or are they?

Arghhhhhhh

Can someone hold my beer?

A touch greedy with the throttle yesterday, resulting in a high side exiting church at Anglesey circuit, first race weekend of the season, 2nd race.
Trip to Bangor and surgery on broken foot.

Decided to focus my art sales on commissions rather than just selling my completed art.

Sensible until I remembered I don’t have any real art contacts to spread the word, don’t have any galleries displaying my art at present and have only done about half a dozen direct commissions in the last 2 years.

Off to Winchester market with some sample art and some signs offering myself for art commissions. I will be the guy with the converted bicycle pedlars stall in a Big Bike Bash t-shirt all alone at the end of the market being ignored by the general public.

Wish me luck.