Just to buck the trend, The Langdale Pikes give great views and get you far from the madding crowd. Decent pub nearby too :-)

The Langdale Pikes

Really? I was just using a meme to have a cheap shot – have they let you back in then?

#tjagainargues#

Leave it Dave, ‘e’s not wurf it!

No idea about the numbers I’m afraid but you do have my sympathy fwiw. I’d far rather we outlawed booze (much as I love it) and inlawed* a bit of weed.

*sort of made up word.

The Sunderland end of the c2c is nasty and depressing – avoid. I may be biased as I live here.

Xenophobia, sexism, trivialisation of conflict.

Sexism?! I can’t remember seeing a single woman in any of mine! Also used to have a massive pile of these but flogged ’em on ebay a while ago, in bundles of 10.

Perhaps I’m a little unadventurous but for me, it’d be the West coast of Scotland again with unlimited ferry tickets and maybe the occasional night in a b&b this time. Managed to spread it out to six weeks last time – felt a bit like a dream most days.

42. Nearly dead.

Please don’t waste the collective’s time with irrational, every-day bollocks again, or you will be banned. Hey! I once had a mod mend my computer!

You’re being ridiculous. I’ve seen too many completely broken 60 year old men during my previous life as a courier / warehouse worker. All the macho BS, all the manning up, all the stupid loyalty to a company that are crap enough to give you a hard time when their systems fail and finally break your body.

Stuff that.

I’ve not had many frames with a hard life make it past 6 years

Really? I’ve broken one set of forks in 25 years. To be fair, I’m only quite wee but in true STW style, I’d recommend a skillz course.

I got a bog standard Celtic cross tattoo half my lifetime ago. Meant nothing other than wanting to be cool. Never ragretted it and forget it’s even there 90% of the time.

Don’t take it too seriously – no one’s going to dig up your mummified body in 100 years time and pore over your pelt.

Congratulations! I took a year off when my wife’s maternity leave ran out and in retrospect, am very glad I did so. Tbh, I didn’t deal very well with spending the first winter stuck inside with a baby, so just make sure you get out of the house to as many cheap / free events as you can. Sitting in a circle with a bunch of mums and babies, singing about pirates may not seem ideal but it beats sitting at home watching the rain with a screaming child.

Get on all the local baby groups on FB – lots of cheap 2nd hand clothes / toys and good info about social events. Ours is three now and a source of almost constant amusement :-)

“My God!! Is that normal?!”.

Nice vid but yes, does look a bit of a stress – suppose that’s half the point!

the company went bust?

The popularity of the twinkie is all you need to know to know everything you need to know about our classless , uncultured , ill educated, simpleton cousins from across the pond

Not that popular then, eh?

Now, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Nom.

My sister is three years older than me, so when I was 10, she was still much bigger and stronger than me.

One particular day we’d been fighting on and off for hours. She eventually sat on me and held my arms down whilst spitting in my face. She knew that if she got up I would release all Hell on her sorry ass, so she sat on me for over an hour.

Eventually, the phone rang, she got up to answer it and I punched her hard in the stomach. Guess who got grounded for a month.

Pffft. Popped mine at karate camp in Lossiemouth with a 13 year old. I was the same age. No coercion, no pressure, no bullying. Just two humans who thought it might be an interesting thing to do.

Black Eyed Peas, I Gotta Feelin’ seems to be standard fare to begin with.

Thinking of it as a tax is a sure fire way to ensure there are zero art courses left within a short time. I did a photography / art course determined to be a photographer and in the full knowledge that I’d likely never see a wage close to my peers taking computer programming or opthamology.

I also knew I’d never pay off my loan and apart from the odd very good year, I haent come close.

We Are Detectives, by The Thompson Twins. It was shite.

I was always agnostic towards Dave

No-one’s suggested he’s God you know…

I get this occasionally with a 70-200. Quick clean of the contacts with the corner of your t-shirt, followed by battery out, battery back in.

Still no joy? Send it off to NPS, pay about 800 quid and it still does the same thing.

+1 the Gelert Solo. Mine was £30. Weighs less than a kilo, had it for four years and the rain still doesn’t come in, replaced the poles with Vango poles as soon as I bought it.

Packs down smaller than any other tent I’ve tried and is long enough for my 6′ frame.

Downsides; it’s very tiny – no way you’ll be able to brew up in it but if you’re used to bivvy bags it’s positively palatial. Condensation is an issue on sunny Summer mornings. The poles are made of plasticine and need replacing straight away.

I’ve mentioned it on here before, but I did spend a few years doing my (personal) dream job. Photographing impact assessments for wind farm companies. Always in remote parts of Scotland, the pay was beyond my wildest dreams, all expenses covered, climbing mountains all day with my dog.

These days I shoot weddings…

don’t forget to look up

Yeah. This too. Don’t mumble into your beard. Apart from anything else, it makes for shite photos.

Your job is to buffer them from any hassle or problems on the day. If you take the job seriously then its hard work !!!

I’ve been photographing weddings for over a decade and can count on one finger the number of times a best man has done anything useful (other than be entertaining).

As has been said, please don’t just nick a bunch of lame jokes from the web – everyone’s heard them before and they weren’t funny back in ’01. By all means take the mick a bit but keep it heartfelt where it counts.

the-muffin-man – Member
Horse Riding instructor?

Well, that a bit random!

FWIW, I do a job I should love and which I spent five years training for. It is, indeed, now just a job. Still though, it’s a shed load better than any other job I can imagine having so I say go for it.

My windscreen wiper motor packed up in torrential rain on a duel carriageway. Fortunately, everyone had slowed down to about 50 due to lack of visibility and I was able to drift, blind, across to the inside, praying hard. Unfortunately, there was no hard shoulder and I borked both nearside wheels on the bouldery verge.

Looks fantastic – posts like these always make me get out on my bike for a pootle, so thanks!

sounds like CMD may have played a blinder.

Sounds to me more like he’s lived up to his reputation as a weasly **** but that’s politics I suppose.

But WHAT’S IT FOR?!!?! I need to know!

Interesting, thanks. I’ve never had it on for more than five mins at a time so haven’t experienced this yet. My main worry is that it’s perhaps not designed to take the bashing. There’s an O-ring at the battery end but that seems to be the only concession to ruggedness. Might just stick with the cheap lights…

Just as an aside, I ended up in a pub recently where the only working tap was Carling. FML. Tastes and looks like the result of a nasty bladder infection combined with someone burping in your mouth (I’m guessing). Genuinely vile.

Stella tops ‘cos I’m not a massive snob.

then hang them on a radiator in hotel

:-D Your kind of cycle touring is much posher than mine!

I assumed it meant, ‘write a report’, in the way you’d write a diary – after the event. Anyway, still spelt wrong.