Things you’ve done for the first time recently…

Today for the first time, I opened a tin can with a Swiss Army Knife. (Satisfying)

Felt like Ray Mears.

I had difficulty urinating yesterday.

🤔😬😃

Moisturised my feet 😳

Binners

Rode a longboard down the street.

Foreplay.

Your mum

This is going as expected 😆

I tried the wife’s SUP in the sea the other day, managed to stand upright for about 5 seconds. I think I’ll get a kayak…

I changed the bearings on my wife’s Spark, my Oiz, my Evil, then my mate’s Evil.

Really satisfying changing frame bearings.

Crutches

Made cheese straws

Washed my hands

Jumped four stairs on a BMX. In fact jumped any stairs on a BMX.

Had my hair cut by somebody wearing PPE (gloves, mask, goggles & visor)

It was weird but limits the chit-chat ……I fear it could be the end of “something for the weekend Sir?”

😉

Been to work.

Bought a house.

Had more than a couple of nights without booze..

1. Agreed to loan my motorbike for a photo shoot involving naked ladies 😬

2.Got in trouble with my wife 🙁

Made pizza (first attempt badly , second a bit better).

Coke and hookers. Oh no wait…

Caught an edible dormouse.
Edible dormouse

Once eaten as a delicacy by the Romans. Now a protected species in the Vaterland.

Caught him and his mate after taking apart a kitchen trying to find an electrical fault. Kitchen now rewired as half the cables were chewed up.

Ridden my bike.

Off-road.

¡In the mountains (well the Cairngorms NP at least)!

Stayed in a hotel for two full weeks.

Not through choice.
Isolation regime before joining the ship.
14 days of strict social distancing (CCTV monitored)
We had to stay in our room, or go for a walk around the carpark.
Collected crappy bag meals from restraunt, and eat alone in our rooms.
Was actually a relief to be flown to the ship to start 6 weeks of work.

Whoopee, I get home for 3.5 weeks and then go through it all again.

Fishing with the boy, he’s wanted to go for years and I’ve never got round to it. But we love it as it goes 🙂

Considered mortality. Jesus Christ, why doesn’t anyone warn you about that shit?

I just made a curry, from scratch.   A chicken Tikka massalla (everyone except me doesn’t like spicy food.  It was alright – a bit watery which I blame on the tinned chopped tomatoes I used – I’ll strain them next time.

1. Agreed to loan my motorbike for a photo shoot involving naked ladies 😬

Are you going to watch? (The motorbike, in case they damage it obviously)

CBT but not the mental health version

Where/when can we see this motorbike in action?

Skydived from a hot air balloon. It was awesome. Certainly a lot safer than landing in the balloon.

Are you going to watch? (The motorbike, in case they damage it obviously)

Was going to be this morning, however seeing as my 1. & 2. firsts were not unrelated I opted to stay in my wife’s good books and let the photographer down 😬

Now a protected species in the Vaterland.

Caught him and his mate after taking apart a kitchen trying to find an electrical fault. Kitchen now rewired as half the cables were chewed up.

I’d have eaten the little git just for that! 😉

I made S’more cookie bars today as I was bored! The wife has found some more decorating I’m for next weekend though!

So good yet so bad…

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Had a rest day of the bike today as have done 6 days in a row including 2 hours on the turbo up Mont Ventoux yesterday. Was bored so picked up on of @slimmingworldsweetpea cook books and made these S’more Cookie Bars by @theboywhobakes. They are delicious!

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Moved from thinking about getting a dog to actually getting on with getting a dog, I think I’ve wanted a dog since I was 8, I’m now 42, I’ve given it enough consideration.

It will be a rescue and possibly even a slightly older, calmer rescue.

It was alright – a bit watery

This is why cornflour exists.

Cracked a helmet in two landing on my head after an unintentional endo. Polystyrene is ace!

Wild camped with the van!

It was alright – a bit watery

Use tinned plum tomatoes instead, and cut them up. Far less liquid.

Really wild on that road was it? 😛

Seconded re the whole rather than chopped tomatoes though, San Marzano preferably!

Slept in a hammock.