My kit is still drying.

Edit: Ah, now I understand.
How about, “I can’t ride because I’m too stupid to follow some simple instructions”.

Ronde van Vlaanderen sportive on April 1st, the day before the real deal. I’m not doing the whole thing.

Still here, despite a couple of dicey encounters with shop music and a cafe that gave us The Wombles and Cliff but not, fortunately, Wham.
Last year I copped it in October, courtesy of a trip to Fenwicks’ kitchen shop which happened to be next to their “Christmas” shop. Yes, before Hallowe’en.

Nothing, because I stopped paying by DD about 20 years ago, for this very reason.

Some cyclist, up whom I cannot be bothered to look, once said:
“Training is like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t stop when you are tired, you stop when the gorilla is tired.”

One way I like to use Merino is as an extra mid-layer. It packs down much smaller into a backpack than fleece and is less cumbersome to wear- a good warmth-to-weight ratio.

But thats a really quite extreme example – the air on the South Pole is amongst the driest on the planet – getting wet isnt something to worry about so much.

It is if you are sweating with the effort of hauling your laden sledges over the ice.
Vitamin A poisoning? I hadn’t heard that theory in relationship to Scott though I had heard of other expeditions coming to grief that way, mainly through eating too much polar bear liver. No PB’s in Antarctica, though.
I was being slightly tongue-in-cheek though; Amundsen succeeded for various reasons including using dogs instead of horses (Scott had to abandon the ponies and manhaul the whole way); he wasn’t squeamish about eating the dogs and in particular he spent a lot of time in the arctic learning from the locals, rather than assuming he knew best because he was a white European.

It’s worth bearing in mind that, on the quest for the South Pole, Scott and his team relied on wool clothing that often froze stiff when it got damp; while Amundsen used animal fur, as he learned from the Inuit.

I don’t have any tattoos. Am I going to look a prong in your products?

I was working for ITV when they bought Friends Reunited. Even I could see that was an insane piece of business, and I don’t know nuttin about nuttin.

That’s some discount on those Terra C’s . One is in my size, too. And I’ve been drinking beer. Uh oh…

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I have a McGee tweed sports jacket and it is sublime. In fact, a young Person complemented me on it.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/13/open-minded-and-truly-eclectic-nik-turner-was-the-spirit-of-hawkwind?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I put the first 2 sides of Space Ritual on last night, in memory of Nik. What a stupendous rhythm section that was – Dave Brock, Lemmy and Simon King. That’s basically it, with DikMik, Del Detmar and Turner himself providing sundry squawks. Even without the chemical enhancement that makes sense of it all, that’s one heck of a band.
You were very lucky to see them in that era.

I think last time I did it was to ask David’s mum whether David could come out to play.

Probably some hard-boiled anarchist.

Can anyone imagine this kind of debate goes on in the Netherlands? Does anyone know whether there’s a noisy Dutch pro-car lobby demanding exclusive access to our towns and cities and arguing that the quality of life would improve if they got rid of all those bloody cyclists?
I doubt it.

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Thanks for the tips!

SJS have the lever in stock but no clutch assembly until June ‘23 😮
Might give it a go anyway.
I hate these clutches, they upset the shifting and create a lot of drag.

He has the wurst hands.

Model railways (aka “train sets”)

I doubt that he will behave in the manner that will create a crisis and undermine the monarchy. But you never know.”
He already has. He’s a divorcee who married another divorcee. At the time, many commentators argued he was not fit to become king and by default head of the CofE. Remember Edward VIII abdicated for that reason.

In other news, I’m giving up eating Austrian bacon during the period of mourning.

No Speck for the Queen.

In other news, Thames Water is advising people not to go for a shit on the day of the funeral.

In other news, the CofE has advised people not to attend church services during the period of mourning, “as a mark of respect”.

I’d been pondering whether to join BC or CUK lately, this has helped that decision.

CUK, patron HM the Queen, also emailed to tell me how sad they all are.

There’ll maybe the ‘home guard’ out to catch anyone not at home at the telly and chase them down

Since they would then also not at home in front of the telly they would have to apprehend themselves.

^ “mobility issues”, apparently.
I wonder how long it will take for the Patriots to realise we now have a “woke” for King.

I fear she’s taken one look at the new PM and decided to check out. She must wonder what it’s all been for.

Gah!

I got my personalised plate.
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Last time I saw fly tipping and litter at the levels we have here, it was around Naples about 10 years ago, when the Mafia was in charge of refuse collecting and tipping.
I can’t understand it; it’s not like the UK is being run by the mafia…

I certainly would. I’ve been visiting nearly every day since the GoFar years. It’s a way of life. I had to go digital-only a few years ago because of my own reduced circumstances but I always thought digital subs were laughably low and I would pay more.

Druridge Bay is good, now the sand extraction and other exploitation has ended. It’s generally deserted.

Continental. It lasts a good long time and doesn’t go clumpy. I’ve used it for years.

^That exact same thing, except when I said. “Your dog just bit me”, the owner said, “No he didn’t!”
I believe this is called gaslighting and is quite the thing among certain governments.

I’m having the same issues
It looks like it’s hunting for days when the area is already downloaded in offline maps.

I raised this with OS as a fault and they said it’s set up to download the latest maps and to turn on airplane mode if you want it to use previously downloaded maps. This is a pain if you ask me, especially as I use Strava Beacon to let my wife know where I am. Also, the “latest” OS maps are often 10 years out of date so it’s hardly likely to make any difference.

I also have an issue with the red arrow showing where you are pointing in the wrong direction. For example, it shows you facing south when you are facing north! Needless to say, this is about as confusing and potentially dangerous bug as can be imagined. I haven’t found out whether it’s a problem with the app or a bug in the iPhone’s internal compass.

I took refuge in our living room this afternoon, TdF on the telly and it’s a very comfortable 26degs thanks to shutters on the windows and 18 inch thick stone walls. It’s like a fan oven outside.

My experience of Normandy was it didn’t have much “quaint” as it was pretty much levelled in WW2. I still enjoyed it though. The “Suisse Normande”, centred on the Orne Valley, was lovely.