Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

orraloon

pinno said:

orraloon said:

Hearing the chuff, chuff, chuff-chuff-chuff of a steam locomotive getting underway.

Where?

Didcot Railway Centre. There's a cycleway, part of NCN5 the other side of the main line from the section of track in the centre where they ferry punters to and from the entrance to the middle of the yard.

shortfall

That reminds me about my grandad. He fell on the line and was killed by a steam train. Chuffed to bits he was.

thistle_

Doing a linear walk solo, but no public transport on Sundays so riding my nice bike to the start point and leaving it locked up (with cycling shoes) in some dodgy looking train station car park on an industrial estate and coming back 5 hours later to find it still there

orraloon

shortfall said:

That reminds me about my grandad. He fell on the line and was killed by a steam train. Chuffed to bits he was.

😊

To continue. Rediscovering the Boulting and Millar podcast, had dropped it from my subscriptions somehow. Anyway, like.

morstar

thistle_(mbnw) said:

Doing a linear walk solo, but no public transport on Sundays so riding my nice bike to the start point and leaving it locked up (with cycling shoes) in some dodgy looking train station car park on an industrial estate and coming back 5 hours later to find it still there

Intrigued...
You did a linear walk from where you left your bike.
How did you get back to it?

pinno

Perhaps he walked like a Crab?

Pross

morstar said:

thistle_(mbnw) said:

Doing a linear walk solo, but no public transport on Sundays so riding my nice bike to the start point and leaving it locked up (with cycling shoes) in some dodgy looking train station car park on an industrial estate and coming back 5 hours later to find it still there

Intrigued...
You did a linear walk from where you left your bike.
How did you get back to it?

I initially wondered that and concluded he drove his car to the end of the walk, cycled back to the start and then drove back to collect the bike

pinno

One for the seemingly intriguing thread.

thistle_

Pross said:

morstar said:

thistle_(mbnw) said:

Doing a linear walk solo, but no public transport on Sundays so riding my nice bike to the start point and leaving it locked up (with cycling shoes) in some dodgy looking train station car park on an industrial estate and coming back 5 hours later to find it still there

Intrigued...
You did a linear walk from where you left your bike.
How did you get back to it?

I initially wondered that and concluded he drove his car to the end of the walk, cycled back to the start and then drove back to collect the bike

Correct, with added dropping off the D locks at the start point en route.

bompington

Riding in the rain.

Coming home from work today was the first time in ages I've got really, really wet: first time (on the bike) with the wetsuit gloves since I bought them last year, first time the heavy waterproof jacket has been out of the cupboard in over a year.
There's something joyous about barrelling along, spray flying, tailwind roaring, just getting wetter and wetter - until you can't get any wetter, of course...

(About 10mm of rain fell in an hour's ride on already flooded roads, max wind gust locally 72kmh)

pblakeney

I prefer the summer humidity build up torrential downpour.
Absolutely soaked in shorts and s/s jersey, but still warm.

thistle_

The boiler repair/servicing people signing off their emails with "warm regards"

bompington

Time to ride home and guess what the weather is like...

briantrumpet

thistle_(mbnw) said:

The boiler repair/servicing people signing off their emails with "warm regards"

Reminds me of the time someone was coming to fit a chimney liner, and his wife emailed in the morning to apologise that he'd not be coming "because he had the flue".

surrey_commuter

I went to my first drive in movie today. I always imagined it would be on date, roof down in California.

The reality was a rain swept field in Wales

bompington

bompington said:

Time to ride home and guess what the weather is like...

Sure enough, wetter than Tuesday

briantrumpet

bompington said:

bompington said:

Time to ride home and guess what the weather is like...

Sure enough, wetter than Tuesday

It was dry in my back garden for my ride (at) home. Mind you, I'd been busy earlier, moving buckets around in the house because of a leaky roof...

Pross

surrey_commuter said:

I went to my first drive in movie today. I always imagined it would be on date, roof down in California.

The reality was a rain swept field in Wales

Let me guess, in those parts it was ET finally being screened for the first time?

surrey_commuter

Pross said:

surrey_commuter said:

I went to my first drive in movie today. I always imagined it would be on date, roof down in California.

The reality was a rain swept field in Wales

Let me guess, in those parts it was ET finally being screened for the first time?

Close - Paddington.

The Abergynolwyn Show Ground is not as glamorous as it sounds

Pross

surrey_commuter said:

Pross said:

surrey_commuter said:

I went to my first drive in movie today. I always imagined it would be on date, roof down in California.

The reality was a rain swept field in Wales

Let me guess, in those parts it was ET finally being screened for the first time?

Close - Paddington.

The Abergynolwyn Show Ground is not as glamorous as it sounds

Hope you've got a bike with you up there, you can have a little jaunt up the Bwlch y Groes.

thistle_

Pross said:

surrey_commuter said:

Pross said:

surrey_commuter said:

I went to my first drive in movie today. I always imagined it would be on date, roof down in California.

The reality was a rain swept field in Wales

Let me guess, in those parts it was ET finally being screened for the first time?

Close - Paddington.

The Abergynolwyn Show Ground is not as glamorous as it sounds

Hope you've got a bike with you up there, you can have a little jaunt up the Bwlch y Groes.

It's even better when it's raining

surrey_commuter

thistle_(mbnw) said:

Pross said:

surrey_commuter said:

Pross said:

surrey_commuter said:

I went to my first drive in movie today. I always imagined it would be on date, roof down in California.

The reality was a rain swept field in Wales

Let me guess, in those parts it was ET finally being screened for the first time?

Close - Paddington.

The Abergynolwyn Show Ground is not as glamorous as it sounds

Hope you've got a bike with you up there, you can have a little jaunt up the Bwlch y Groes.

It's even better when it's raining

Is there another option

Stevo_666

Glad I don't mind riding in the rain. Was moderate to biblical riding home from the office yesterday evening.

mrfpb

Damn neighbourhood kids, setting off CCTV motion sensors with their bike riding:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=3xj-J0NUuk8

morstar

This fits the title thread. Answer to a question on Amazon

lesfirth

mrfpb said:

Damn neighbourhood kids, setting off CCTV motion sensors with their bike riding:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=3xj-J0NUuk8

briantrumpet

Using the link at the bottom of the page to get back to Cake Stop, when I'm on the laptop.

pblakeney

Simply this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DysigzGQvU

morstar

The Isadore cycle clothing advert on Eurosport subtly taking the piss out of us cyclists.

briantrumpet

Reconnecting all my gizmos (midi keyboard, mini mixing desk with microphone & clever trumpet mute/mic thing), firing up all the software, after a long summer lay-off, and it all working first time, ready for tomorrow's teaching from (quarantined) home. Even Zoom have now got a specialist music setting. Makes up (at least, a bit) for having to work, and not being able to get out on the bike yet.