Well, it depends on what you’re using it for. It’s to lubricate a chain, don’t overthink it.

I once was given free access to Dalby (pre electronic) by the lad on the gate because I had a sherwood pines pass in the window. I was willing to pay and had the cash in my hand but he said it looks like a Dalby one from here. I did have the bike on the roof and he was wearing casual MTB gear, so that probably helped. I did think at the time a discounted rate would be a good idea and easy to implement with new electronic payments.

I had a bout of shingles a little while before my wedding, most likely caused by the stress of organising it.
All went well until the big day. It started raining heavily just after the ceremony, so we have no outdoor photos. This was the same day as Tewkesbury got flooded in 2007. It did not stop raining. I was fighting against a thunderstorm during my speech. We had a marquee at the bottom of a grass field that is owned by the wife’s family. A neighbour ended up digging a trench to divert the run-off. We had to move tables because guests were getting wet feet. A call was made to evening guests to bring wellies and spares if they had them. During the wedding breakfast a small storage marquee blew away, but it was all taken care of by the staff, most of whom were friends and employees of her family.
People remember our wedding.
My wife returned from honeymoon black and blue after falling off a mountain bike riding down Austrian mountains.
This gets mentioned occasionally.

Split it and stack it but not too tightly if you have the space. Ash will burn pretty well when green so will be fine for next winter. Get swinging that axe, I’ve seen some tutorials on TicTok if you need any tips😉.

WoolieBoolies for me, though I’ve not tried many others. Tried a thin summer pair under in the recent sub-zero temps which seemed to help too.

so was fighting a headwind all the way back

I know it depends on where you live, but it’s best to return with a tailwind, the breeze will generally pick up during the day giving a net wind benefit. Plus, if you’ve knackered yourself going out, you can soft pedal on the way home, hills depending.

My wife has a towel washing day, normally after bedding washing day. Normally have two tea towels on the go one of them a fine cotton one used for drying glasses and occasionally my riding Oakleys. But we use the dishwasher for glasses so it never gets used. Still, a new ironed set will be hung on the towel rail, normally for some unfathomable reason on top of one another, so when I grab the hand towel without looking the tea towels fall on the floor. I am then reminded that THEY’RE CLEAN.
Luckily though, we don’t appear to have a display towel.

If it’s got a bar or QR code just tell him to draw it, what’s the worst that can happen.

. So I’m going for a swim tomorrow

I’ll be impressed if that’s wild swimming!

OP, go, but go steady. If you feel bad go home. It’s been cold but dry here in the East Midlands so my weekly trip to see parents is on tomorrow night but I’ll take it steady on the corners.

Symonds Yat

Clever dog that!

I hope it’s a small snowman.

My missus picked some new stamps up from the post office, where an old lady had handed over a large amount of Christmas cards with new stamps on, but she’d cut off all the QR codes. I don’t know why either.

So why not just Rufford?

It’s odd, there is no place called Ruf, but perhaps there was. A bit like Sleaford, there once was a ford over/through the river Slea. I’ve never been bothered enough to look it up TBH.

Thanks @kayak23.

Now look what you’ve done!

Rufford Ford closed to all traffic. (I tried linking to the BBC article but failed).

A quick splash of paint, wash the carpet, make simple desk, convert unused single room into wife’s office…

Or.
Full redecoration, New light fitting, new carpet, bespoke wraparound desk, move/extend electric socket, erect shelves. Oh and some double-glazing while I’m at it.

It’s no wonder I put things off.

I scoured our house several times at night trying to find a pulsing sound. Turned out to actually be MY pulse, defective hearing and lying on my ear being the cause.

Funnily enough, that’s how they fill Carsington reservoir in Derbyshire

And Rutland too. There used to be a video in the old church showing its construction, not sure if it’s worn out now though.
Instead of wasting drinking water to fill them up, we should chuck a few rocks in to raise the levels.

I always find it a bit ironic that the trail is built of huge slate blocks, slate being the stuff used to keep houses dry

Same principle at ‘machno, they keep the ground underneath dry. And you get to ride in the gutter.

And he went on to ‘run’ our country..

You spelled ruin wrongly.

Just a thought on the tree felling.
The disease will kill the tree(s) eventually and the timber will be worthless, so while the disease won’t be affecting all trees, they will be felled while they still have commercial value.

Sometimes it’s harder to spend money you actually have. When you’re spending the bank’s, it’s them taking the risk.

and that’s a light with dip and high beam.

Check out Ravemen lights PR series. The dip is not quite a hard cutoff like a car’s but is a lot less glaring than most.

Obviously WCA branded first aid kits. Personal ones to thread onto a bumbag or handbag and bigger ones for workshops. Kayak off of ‘ere could be your first influencer.
Thank me later.
Good luck.

Hmmm who knew?
( well, they did, obviously ) 😊

Ha Ha!
Must check what auto-correct thinks my fat fingers mean more often. And book a very overdue opticians appointment.

Lots of families cycling on the Monsal trail (I was strolling gently with the wife). Hassop Station really busy but good natured, all today’s prophets going to Cancer Research apparently.

Yeah it’s long, but it’s nothing compared to the queue for the gondola at Fort Bill WC. That’s the World Cup, not the bogs (though that was long too).

For those who say we should vote for a head of state, look what was elected the last time we did.

This is how dead things get recycled. Chop up, store and dry, burn. Stop worrying.

Lovely, but that line over the roots looks sketchy.

*go on bite again*

Muuussst….. resisssst…

Just read a post on our local Nextdoor group going on about the toxic pedantry and inane arguements on some site called ‘Singletrack World’. Looks like one to avoid…

*arguments*

This was a trap, wasn’t it?

I was up in Plockton in June, I stopped indoors mostly. Mostly because Scottish weather, but smidge seemed to work, and I’m a bitey-bastard magnet. Stopped using DEET years ago after the bottle leaked in the camping box and ‘melted’ the plastic handle of the chef’s knife.

To line them, I used a load of those vinyl advertising banners you see zip-tied to railings. Your local council might regularly remove them because they rarely have planning permission. Worth an ask. Alternatively put on some hi-viz and liberate some.

chevychase
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I say kill half the population – then we’ll have plenty of water.

Thanos was right.

esselgruntfuttock
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I’ve said this all along, 1/2 the population = 1/2 the pollution/resources required.
It’s not even science just logic & obviousness.

Well, we’ve got our first two volunteers.
It’s not the problem many think it is. The fact that we have a population of a certain size shows the resources can and have supported it. But obviously there will be a limit to expansion. We have exploited history and it will be at the expense of the future. We can harness the power of the sun and moon, but we’re running out of dead dinos. The famines in Africa aren’t as far away as people like to think. If we’d had this current drought earlier in the year, we wouldn’t be having the successful harvest we’re having now.
I think this generation will probably get away with it and that’s as far ahead as most of us like to think.

Just need a woof rack

Get ya coat!

As the late, great Billy Connoly once said…

I know he’s not very well, so he might well tell you to…
&*%$ off

On the lorry front; it will eke out a bit of extra time before the driver needs a break (stopped counts as ‘other work’ rather than driving time). Tachos work by the minute but not parts of, so if they can stretch the stop to a minute it can add up especially in queues like the ones to Dover.
I’m with the try and keep it rolling in tickover camp, it’s more efficient. It stops people thinking you’re looking at your phone too.

I’ve never ‘got’ Eurovision. What am I missing?

Fabulousness!

As a long term thigh gripper, it’s taking quite a while to get used to a dropper. Would people recommend wider bars to compensate and add a bit more control in the corners?

Check your stem bolts. I had a stiff feeling front end (ahem) on my bike. Turned out to be a slightly dirty thread, so even though torqued correctly it wasn’t actually gripping the stearer tube. It felt fine when doing the usual checks but was pushing down onto the head tube when weighting the bars. This would be exacerbated with a racy position like yours.
Either that or a flat tyre.