Happy to have got over the 1000 mile mark with a week to go.
Thank you Graham for making me do it!
The amazing Chris Bolton has put on 700 miles in a week but seems to do it in really small steps of a couple of miles each.

… but powered by my dark energy bars I could cycle up any hill, if I can find them in the bottom of my rucksack!

Ms TPT would recommend the Butterworth of Abbeydale Road.
I have had the odd job done well at the nearby Edinburgh Bike Co-Op.
The new Evans has some 50% off servicing opening offers – though they do not have a cycle rack at the front or the back – it may be worth cultivating their shiny new mechanicking staff.

A bike made out of dark matter, truly stealth.

Redmires? Wasn’t there something close to there in the news recently?
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Still not got a bike rack outside the Sheffield store.
“Plenty of car parking round the back,” says the big sign at the front.
I find this odd.

See what you mean about longs. Some 3/4 on Edinburgh Bike Co-Op

I’ll be using some canal paths that are dusty.

What country are you in? Do you mean muddy?
Tourer bike with a rack rather than carrying stuff on your back. And guards.
Revolution Tourer

£2.99 at Edinburgh Bike Co-Op.

Venice is nice with option of boat across to Slovenia.

Crowd funded card from Loveland, Ohio arrived on schedule.

A return to the classroom.
Some nice, some disruptive, some ignorant, most keen to show they have mended their ways and are willing to learn.
Ice breaker for your group session:
In late-breaking news, it has been revealed that Queens Park Rangers manager Harry Redknapp has come forward to claim that he was driving when Chris Huhne’s car was caught speeding on the M11.
His solicitor said Harry was desperate for the three points.

+1
Getting some Nutella on way home.
Not sure about savoury option.

Contaminant content more likely with black plastic trays so they do the stats and think it is easier to not accept. Not sure why, they probably have a portion that gets burnt for the energy content anyway.

Thought this was the Will Smith mash-up sequel where he is a superhero who fixes people’s love lives?

Went there on the opening day, it is on my route home from the city centre. A nice enough place with shiny bike things and loads of shiny staff for the first day.
Plenty of parking round the back, for cars.
Q (to shiny staff member): Hi is there a bike rack here?
A: Errr. Try the front?
Round the front. No bike rack either, a nice sign says plenty of car parking round the back.
Brings bike inside store and space is made by helpful member of staff.
No bike rack? At a bike superstore. 🙁

Powers
+1 Ace Trucking
Global Frequency[/url] got the transfer! But …

[cynical] I am assuming he took the court case to the brink in order to preserve some perk of the job. The majority of a parliamentary term or some other mathematical notion that ensures the pension remains intact. [/cynical]

I have Singletrack trousers, they dry out okay in the office by home time. Not sweaty as such but this may be more dependent on the shorts you wear underneath. I have spare trousers in work so always change out of them when I get in.
Nice selection of pockets. Good enough to wear at a cafe or pub though ones with bouncers might be too posh.

292 miles including the homeward leg of my commute tonight.
Would have been 300 if I hadn’t opted for the train on Monday evening. 😕

There may be specialist help local to you.
Ms TPT lost her mother last November and among others has spoken to a local charity, Cavendish.
No matter how much support, at home or away, there is always some avenue or aspect that may find the right words at the right time that allow you some measure of comfort.

Rant? 0/10
Only good thing was the completely off track postscript.

The new road sited mobile phone signal booster being developed by O2? We have them round our way too but the signal is still rubbish.

Your bike you thought was locked outside the co-op has gone! Bother!

Today I have Aldi wooly touchscreen ones inside some old and trusty Gill waterproof cycling gloves. A good bit of insulation but also cushioning on the icy bumpy trail surfaces. Minus 5 on the way home tonight!

One overtake by a car this morning with a full slush splash catching me!

Proper snow strikes Sheffield.
Snowy scene on the TPT Sheffield
Half hour longer to get to work. Way home could be a problem.

+1 Ton
Places compacted by walkers kept turning the front wheel this morning. Wrists began to ache. Virgin snow was much easier. A steady pace was possible. Way home tonight will be a fresh experience, something new every time.

Sounds like it is a maths problem not an ex-wife one. Ex in the picture about this?
Lifestyle they are accustomed to versus belt tightening.
Sound like the language of the Coalition affects everything about our lives.

Scheduled car day today. Daughter had an exam which needed a guaranteed arrival at, picked up colleague so have diluted the guilt of not riding slightly.
4/5 by bike this week, 80 miles or so in the Oath of the Winter Warrior account.

Wearing a Buff? Pulling it down below my nose prevents glasses misting up.

Have you got that yucca well insulated? This cold snap could do them in you know. Ours is still recovering from the big die back two years ago.

Guys, guys, good thread but the essential plate under the bowl for catching the boil over hasn’t been mentioned yet. 🙂

Pasting in to? May have some influence. “Paste special” or Place import filters, within that program could preserve layers.

The dialogue works well, I guess they have worked hard for it to be authentic?
New fangled technology being introduced. Just slightly short of being steampunk but opening up the possibility for other productions.

I got Ms TPT a Versalette, multifunction clothing item. A bit like a Buff but as a top. There was some slippage in the delivery times but a nice product when it arrived.
Maybe one day she’ll find an appropriate event to wear it 😕

The follow up for the project seems to have fizzled out: they got the funding for the item, produced it and sold out but didn’t then make a new range or add new colours or finesse the design. May have been burnt by the experience?

Evans opposite B&Q? Former Hancock & Lant showroom? Heck, I wondered who was developing that.
You could throw some Bombers from there and hit J E James, Decathlon, CCC, Edinburgh, Butterworth’s and Halfords!

Rain falling now, thanks you southerners for sending it!
Like a red cross parcel for POWs.

Venice to Paris Bercy, overnight.
Didn’t see much really. Nice double sleeper. Good coffee wake up in the morning. Ate before departure so didn’t use the restaurant car but had plenty of drinks. Very first world civilized.

Wrap it up in the glass and concrete and stainless steel (as it will be anyway) and drop it in a subduction zone on the ocean floor. Gets sucked in to the mantle.