Marin

Univega

Trek

Lapierre

E-bike

Yeti

Went a few weekends ago with some mates, first time in about 6 years, and we all really enjoyed it.  Shame about the trees but the riding is still great fun.  The café at Glyncorrwg is a bit basic but compensated for by the huuuuge portions, Afan centre caff and shop are both really good.  Might have lost some trade since BPW opened but both car parks were nearly full on the Sunday.  An hour long scamper round Blue Scar was particularly good fun

TC Electronics Hall of Fame 2, bloomin lovely reverb pedal with swell function.  £94 worth of shimmery goodness

Got the latest Toska album on repeat at the moment, absolutely love it

Meshuggah live are a thing of eerie beauty, just need Byzantine to come to the UK

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Also got the Xpress2. Brilliant bit of kit lives in the boot of the car with the light board. Doesn’t mark the bike, and very secure.

Have switched to Conti Rubber Queens, better all round, still good ploughing tyres

Panaracer Trailrakers are the only ones I’ve used that clear the really sticky stuff properly. They are quite narrow so don’t get many issues with clearance but can get a bit sketchy

Stayed in a rented cottage with some friends, found a big non stick pan, made a load of porridge for breakfast. Had a slight chickeny tang. Particularly unlucky for my veggie GF. Turns out the pan wasn’t non stick just covered in a welded on layer of chicken soup left by the previous guests. Bleargh

I bought a Chapman Ghost Fret on a bit of a whim a while back and they are excellent guitars and great value. Huuuuuge fun to play and really versatile

Livescribe pen and notebook synced to OneNote works well for me

BattleTech is occupying far too much of my limited brain space at the moment.  Big stompy robots blowing each other to bits, what could be better

And No Man’s Sky is available on PC

Going to the O2 on the 10th with lil bruv and best mate, can’t wait

Shameless plug for my lil’ bro’s band, playing The Star this coming Friday in the dad rock capital of Surrey

https://www.facebook.com/events/2097895087154526/

Been good so far this year:

Testament (+Annihilator)

Machine Head

Iron Maiden in August

Slayer farewell tour in November

Hearing aids for Christmas

Sunny on the Chilterns and bluebells coming out 🙂

Yoga with Adrienne on YouTube, my other half swears by it. Has a cute dog called Benji too 😁

I had three Seat Leon’s on the trot and got an Audi A4 two years ago.  All serviced at the dealer.  Much to my surprise my service costs have dropped significantly with the Audi as the service interval is almost double

The Audi is a much nicer place to be than the Seat, but the initial purchase price was bowel loosening compared to the Leons

I’ve got some of the Madison ones, pretty good fit, fairly waterproof and keep my knees warm 😁

Muddy as a

Muddy thing covered

In mud. Plastered

out early, its double buff weather. hopefully mincing my way round the chilterns trying to avoid the worst of the mud

Seen them quite a few times and still good, off to the O2 next month. Taking my little bro for his birthday so coughing up for the ticket.

Good fun live, they have learnt to take themselves a bit less seriously than the Load / St Anger years.

I live in Didcot. I’ll keep an eye out for it

Hope you get it back

Got up early
Sunny and warm
Hills to myself

Dirty Piglet outing
Over the Downs
Cuppa tea after

I’ve had Nokia’s for ages and wireless charging would be essential on any new phone, it rocks

Freezing and muddy on the Chilterns this morning, still good fun 😀

on my third pair, bearings finally died on the first after 5 years of abuse. think they are ace

Usual slopfest on the Chilterns this morning, still good fun tho, even being chased by a tiny angry dog

Just been out on my Mk 1 Piglet, still love it. They are a bit chunky but the fit and ride is great. Get one

The Laney Ironhearts are very good. I’ve got an IRT Studio 15w and a 2×12. Had to buy an attenuator for use at home, even on the 1w setting. Good range of tones and I play mostly metal stuff but it has a great clean channel and loads of IO options. Oh yeah and re-amping, which is like some sort of magic

Still mostly dry and crunchy at 9.30 too, although usual ploughing conditions in places

Basildon Park

In, with the in laws and the nephews eating curry. Then continuing the Harry Potter marathon and a farting contest @10.30. Grandma normally wins

Mooer shim verb pedal. it is ace 😯

And a whisky tasting set, which is ace for different reasons

Got the Fuel hubs. Nice and clicky but be careful taking out the back wheel, if the cassette detaches on the trail you’re screwed. I now carry a thin rubber band to hold the pawls in and a knife to cut it off once the greetings back in place. A bit of glue on the end caps helps

Ah Aviator

My little bro wrote a game for the BBC B and he got to chose two games from the vault at Acornsoft, one was Aviator the other was some crappy text based adventure game. He did nearly wee himself with excitement when they opened the door of the vault tho 🙂

Yup, Falcon4.0, still playing it after nearly 20 years, with the BMS addon. available on Steam. It has the best dynamic campaign in a combat sim which makes it endlessly replayable

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BMS stuff….

Djurgarden, boat trip, meal at Bakfikan, Skansen, National Art gallery, wandering around Sodermalm, Skogskyrkogården, gig at Debaser etc etc.

Get a Stockholm travel card for the days you are there, covers buses, trains, tubes and museums, well worth it.

Not my bike, sadly