The TV show is unwatchable now

It was unwatchable then.
Did you know that Derek Griffiths himself played the whistle on the Bod theme?

Dear Richard Holden MP

On Friday 25th March, the Prime Minister backed Grant Shapp’s call for the boss of P&0 to resign because he broke the law.

Shapps said; “I cannot believe that he can stay in that role having admitted to deliberately going out and using a loophole – well, break the law – but also use a loophole.”

Yesterday the Prime Minister finally admitted, once he had no choice, that he too had broken the law. Yet he has not called upon himself to resign.
Does he think people don’t notice this kind of utter hypocrisy?
He must go; and take his wretched Chancellor with him.
Best regards

We get swallows on our street, usually on May Day, give or take a few days.
Loads of Curlews and Lapwings about.

{drumming joke} Obviously a flam

Very sad indeed.

It must be Illegal to park on pavements because it’s illegal to drive on them. Unless you want to claim your car was lowered into place by a helicopter.

I bought a Genesis Tarn steel hard tail 4 years ago. It’s needed nothing replacing beyond pads/cables/chains/tyres. It’s nearly all Deore spec with a hint of LX, RockSox Reba fork which I recently had serviced at TF tuned for the first time. They said it was fine inside. It’s used in all conditions and mostly left covered in mud. It goes anywhere I’m technically capable of riding. That’s all I need from an mtb.
So, no. For me it’s got cheaper.

I know that apparently closely related insects often can’t interbreed because of incompatible genitalia.

Jubilee clip will sort that.

I’ve been working with the BHS to record lost routes before the 2026 deadline. Obviously we’re delighted the deadline has been dropped but I am deeply suspicious of the Government’s motives.
In County Durham, where I live, we have identified over 600 unrecorded or under-recorded old roads and bridle roads and submitted over 300 applications so far. These are being recorded on the register of RoW and DMMO applications at County Hall, which I always understood was the minimum required to ensure they don’t die on “deadline day”. The Council has so far passed 3 of these applications. These were all “easy pickings” with no objections.
Any objections to orders made would result in a public inquiry and these would then pile up at the Planning Inspectorate. These can take years to deal with even with the low number being gxenerated prior to the campaign to identify them all – I know of some in Co. Durham that took 30 years from application to waymarking.
I suspect DEFRA has seen the huge flood of applications the deadline produced, decided they could never get them processed and have decided to “consult”, i.e. do sod all of practical value.
However, the genie is out of the bottle and the people who’ve spent the last few years scouring archives for evidence are unlikely to set it all aside and stop making applications.

So is it just walkers and horse riders that can register ROWs? Sort of explains the issue in a way

Anyone can register a Right of Way, if you can search historical archives for documents that may or may not exist, or perhaps are only to be found in the private libraries of large estates, then write an application setting out the historical evidence, track down all the landowners and fill in reams of paperwork.
I understand the Govt has also abandoned plans to make the process easier.

It’s very easy, you just have to be Prime Minister.

Nice to know it was such an equitable and open applications process with a fair equals opportunity policy.

Look at this from this perspective. How many people have been prosecuted for cycling on a footpath or pushing a bike along a footpath? Answer: none at all.

How many people have been successfully sued in the civil courts for cycling on a public footpath or pushing their bike along the path? Answer: none at all.

Overblown operatic drivel, but sad all the same.

I thought Holland Bike Shop had stopped exporting to the UK?

Completely fantastic breads in Northumberland:

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and then there’s the moron kids pulling wheelies past peopledrivers driving onto narrow pavements to park, a fatality waiting to happen.happening weekly.

Fixed

nickc

Is a word, the past tense, or plan in advance. Do you get wound up by prearranged, or premeditated?

“I’ve preplanned all my cycling activity for the coming year”.

“I have planned all my cycling activity for the coming year.” What’s wrong with that? How does it differ in meaning from your sentence? Surely “in advance” is implicit in the meaning of “plan” – that is, to make arrangements about the future.
“prearranged” – definitely annoying. I have arranged to see my dentist. Why would I also need to prearrange to see him?

You might want to consider a Peugeot Partner. My Teepee came with a surfboard rack in the roof space.

“I have rode…” – it’s “I have ridden”, you uncouth oik.

“Pre-planned” – how does a pre-planned attack differ from a planned attack?
Likewise “pre-arranged”, “pre-booked”.
My dentist has a sign on the door saying “No entry without a pre-booked appointment.”
I nearly cancelled mine.

I’ve more or less stopped riding in groups because I cannot tolerate the feeling that I am being pressured by riders behind to go faster. It’s all in my head, I expect.

Blokeuptheroad That’s far too late. Yesterday I had dates And tonight I’ve been drinking Belgian beer and the wallpaper’s already peeling off.

Standards are slipping.

As a general rule, the newer it is, the sooner it breaks.

I hope you avoid dry socket 😨

I can resist everything except temptation

It’s a it rough looking but works ok in my (3years) experience. The chainrings are better than the cranks.

We used to tip the coal man, out every week whatever the weather, lugging huge sacks of ovals into our bunker. This year he fell off the back of his wagon, broke his shoulder and died in hospital. Turned out he was 77 years old.

If the NFU has anything to do with this, it’ll be a precursor to a request that the government ban cyclists from country roads “for their own safety “. They have already, and with a straight face, demanded they be allowed to close any public right of way, at any time and with no warning and no diversions, for up to 5 months of the year, because 4 people got killed by livestock last year.

Whammed at the Sunderland Glass Centre. It’s not like I ever go anywhere!

😥

I had to wash down an entire nicotine-coated flat before painting. Sugar soap etc made little headway. I found that an ammonia solution was the answer.

We had a Charnwood Aire 5kw wood-only stove fitted to replace our open fireplace. Fantastic.
Easy to light, two or three logs of an evening gets the room glowing.
The rule of thumb is it’s better to run a smaller stove flat out than fit a bigger one and be constantly damping it down because the room’s too hot.

Ooh, are Crank Bros pedals still doing that? How quaint.

We were on the Gower peninsula in the spring, there were no roads with a speed limit above 40mph. Even the M4 at Swansea is limited to 50, for air quality reasons. It was excellent for cyclists (not the motorway, obv.)

Can anyone link to a court case where a member of the public has been successfully sued for trespassing in connection with outdoor leisure pursuit?

A chapter closes.

Galvanised ones are shit.