John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever.
One up one down.

Amateur dramatics
Cooking
Reading
Various little writing assignments
Play the drums

Awww. Truly loved these, and still find them curiously soothing.

Ringo is a lefty who plays right-handed and it never did him any harm.

Everything is possible, you just have to believe, man!

I recognise a few of those characters. We had a lot of fun.

The only thing we do know is that you can’t trust the Poll’s.

See, more xenophobia.

OP bumblebees going about their business really give me a lift.

Surprised to find that Adele is white.

Somewhat outre

Senor j have you stayed on for the whatsit doodah Orchestra?

Take the insoles out and wash them.

Shower gel and trample them in the shower or wash them in the sink. Wring them inside a towel to get them dry by morning.

You’ve got to be an inny to winny

My wife spotted your friend on the 30 miler; I followed Penny Farthing man up and down the hill to Chatsworth. That was an education.

Today on R4 has been asking all types of people all over the UK their views this week. It is ‘traditional’ Labour voters who seem to be the most vociferous in their denouncment of the EU, and how we should leave immediately.

If we leave the EU it’ll be because some racist old git in Merthyr had his shed broken into. Depressing.

That makes me want to go back to Ireland. What’s the mountain at 1’50?

Safety bicycle, please.

😀 wanger on top tube?

I’d agree with thestabiliser. I found fine grade wire wool and T-cut very good for brightening alloy parts. If the wheels really can’t be resurrected there are still plenty of screw-on freewheel wheelsets available that will be no worse than those. Thorough wash, degrease and polish for the frame, new cables, bar tape. Maybe some nice amberwall tyres.

Inspiring as always!

Can I be first to mention T-cut?

Owww. I had no idea you were even breakable. Enjoy the ice cream.

Put up signs saying “do you want bikes banned from X? Come to a public meeting at….blah blah.”
See who turns up, and give them all a presentation on why sabotage is stupid and dangerous…or Bombers.

I was out enjoying myself and some other people enjoyed themselves nearby. Bloody other people.

There was a very good orogramme about this on BBC R4 the other week, about the “imposter syndrome”. Even surgeons get it.

Don’t forget to take a copy of Cider with Rosie

I’m just old enough to remember England going to Mexico in 1970, collecting the Shell coins and the plastic busts of the players – so Gordon Banks, Bobby Charlton, Colin Bell are memorable.Then there was Pele to watch, Cruyff. Beckenbauer and Sep Mayer too as my Grandma was German.
I also liked Eddie Merckx, Jimmy Connors, Evil Kenevel.
I haven’t seen too many wimmin mentioned so I will throw in Chris Evert.

^are all those buttons really necessary? I bet half of them are for show.

Not like stw to generate so few responses to an enquiry about alternative household heating!

If you want to avoud france altogether then netherlands, Germany, Austria to Innsbruck and the Brenner Pass?

Nobody burst out of a wardrobe like him.

Cockwomble

Can I be the first to say…

STRAVA!!!

No, but I know Two Ton Ted from Teddington, and he drives a baker’s van.

Anyway, good man Alex, whoever you are.

At least fly tipping is fairly contained and relatively easy to deal with. The idiots who do it often leave useful clues as to their identities. It’s the quantity of casually discarded rubbish that really depresses me – all along the verges, the nearer you get to a local village the worse it is, and at sliproads and roundabouts on main roads. Just grim.

650ml glasses bring the beer alive

I think it’s meant to be ironic. Still crap though.

Are you southern, by any chance?

If I get served breakfast on a fing coal shovel, said server will end up wearing said coal shovel…..

It’s how it was done in the days of steam on the railways. Fireman would cook breakfast on the coal shovel, in the locomotive’s firebox. Of course, for the full effect you need to fry it over half a hundredweight of nutty slack.