wednesday under an alien sun

sungod

'ning

venus is really bright before dawn

ride, cafe, pick up some crusty bread, bask

fat daddy

Working from home .... so OD on coffee me thinks

Matthewfalle

Just getting ready to pedal in - forecast says rain at lunchtime but not sure so going to wing it.

Apart from that, not a lot to report Guv'nor.

haydenm

Morning, office day again, boss isn't a happy bunny this week so I'd rather be out looking at trees. On the plus side I have a small Evans parcel, a big CRC parcel and a medium sized beer parcel hopefully arriving today

Stevo_666

Tired. Wine and whisky last night didn't make for a good nights sleep, and the humidity didn't help. Not too strenuous a day today thankfully.

seanoconn

Bottled my usual cycle in this morning due to the forecast. A day of work avoidance beckons.

orraloon

Little chance of sun, alien or otherwise, round these parts, forecast to hose down all day, not ideal for us self employed gardeners, so some turbo and Giro watching seem in order.

seanoconn

orraloon wrote:

Little chance of sun, alien or otherwise, round these parts, forecast to hose down all day, not ideal for us self employed gardeners, so some turbo and Giro watching seem in order.

Waterproofs?

veronese68

seanoconn wrote:

Bottled my unusual cycle in this morning due to the forecast. A day of work avoidance beckons.

With the addition of just two letters Seano's description of his day becomes appropriate to my day. Doubt work avoidance will be successful unless I turn the phones off. Pub later.

step83

Echoing Seano's though ive been lazy of late driving in because layins are more enticing.

No chance of seeing Venus pre dawn its been hoofing down most of the night so the flowerbeds round the house have returned to their moat status.

Some numpty from Openreach is meant to be gracing my lands today to fix the broadband, port appears to be up the swanny line from the local box showing just over 3Mb and me about 100m away is only seeing about 30Kbs at best. Hopefully can get him to fit one of those spindly vDSL ports so I can bin off the micro filter and iPlate miracles can happen I guess. Seeing as he was meant to ring last night or before 9AM this morning I'm not holding my breath.

Matthewfalle

Absolutely hissing down. great.

pinno

orraloon wrote:

Little chance of sun, alien or otherwise, round these parts, forecast to hose down all day, not ideal for us self employed gardeners, so some turbo and Giro watching seem in order.

Move up here, you could go part-time,

Me doing less than I should be me.

Update later.

veronese68

I got a little pot on Strava riding home last night, this is a very rare occurrence, I'm second overall on what is in Strava world an extremely challenging* segment. I know how keen MF is on Strava so I thought he'd want to bow down before me and acknowledge my magnificence.

* mild exaggeration

hopkinb

Veronese68 wrote:

I got a little pot on Strava riding home last night, this is a very rare occurrence, I'm second overall on what is in Strava world an extremely challenging* segment. I know how keen MF is on Strava so I thought he'd want to bow down before me and acknowledge my magnificence.

* mild exaggeration

You haven't done your own segment for the 20 metres or so from the end of your road to your garage doors have you? With your missus being 1st overall?!

veronese68

hopkinb wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

I got a little pot on Strava riding home last night, this is a very rare occurrence, I'm second overall on what is in Strava world an extremely challenging* segment. I know how keen MF is on Strava so I thought he'd want to bow down before me and acknowledge my magnificence.

* mild exaggeration

You haven't done your own segment for the 20 metres or so from the end of your road to your garage doors have you? With your missus being 1st overall?!

It's probably shorter than that! The KOM is held by my daughter's shopping bike that's still strapped to a turbo trainer. Ya big gay bear.
Driving today so I thought calling you a puff was de rigeur.

seanoconn

Veronese68 wrote:

hopkinb wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

I got a little pot on Strava riding home last night, this is a very rare occurrence, I'm second overall on what is in Strava world an extremely challenging* segment. I know how keen MF is on Strava so I thought he'd want to bow down before me and acknowledge my magnificence.

* mild exaggeration

You haven't done your own segment for the 20 metres or so from the end of your road to your garage doors have you? With your missus being 1st overall?!

It's probably shorter than that! The KOM is held by my daughter's shopping bike that's still strapped to a turbo trainer. Ya big gay bear.
Driving today so I thought calling you a puff was de rigeur.

And you're probably first in your age group. For a man who lives on a diet of beer, curry, dead pig and biscuits that's none too shabby V.

hopkinb

Veronese68 wrote:

hopkinb wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

I got a little pot on Strava riding home last night, this is a very rare occurrence, I'm second overall on what is in Strava world an extremely challenging* segment. I know how keen MF is on Strava so I thought he'd want to bow down before me and acknowledge my magnificence.

* mild exaggeration

You haven't done your own segment for the 20 metres or so from the end of your road to your garage doors have you? With your missus being 1st overall?!

It's probably shorter than that! The KOM is held by my daughter's shopping bike that's still strapped to a turbo trainer. Ya big gay bear.
Driving today so I thought calling you a puff was de rigeur.

Quite right! I am quite the colourful chap on a velocipede today....

seanoconn

I can hear rain again. I might have to commandeer a work umbrella for my trip home. I think I'll nick it now and hide it just in case someone else tries to grab it :twisted:

step83

Safety first Seano, its been pouring down all day here, only plus side is I got to try a waterproof jacket I got a while back, turns out its fantastic came in shook it an the water came off leaving it nearly bone dry. Shame my trousers were soaked mind.

Also hit on the idea of building up the Eastway with shiny silver kit again, must block websites!

veronese68

seanoconn wrote:

And you're probably first in your age group. For a man who lives on a diet of beer, curry, dead pig and biscuits that's none too shabby V.

Second out of 2000 so I'm actually really quite surprised, I was in a bit of a rush to be fair. It's a ridiculous segment along a path you would normally not get much speed up due to peds and dogs, it was empty last night. Total time taken by me and a couple of others is 24 seconds, leader is 22 seconds. It's that hard. Normally I'm happy if I get top 10% overall.

seanoconn

Veronese68 wrote:

seanoconn wrote:

And you're probably first in your age group. For a man who lives on a diet of beer, curry, dead pig and biscuits that's none too shabby V.

Second out of 2000 so I'm actually really quite surprised, I was in a bit of a rush to be fair. It's a ridiculous segment along a path you would normally not get much speed up due to peds and dogs, it was empty last night. Total time taken by me and a couple of others is 24 seconds, leader is 22 seconds. It's that hard. Normally I'm happy if I get top 10% overall.

Well done that man. I'm sure you could shave an extra 2 seconds off that. If a dog or a ped has to be sacrificed, so be it.

Matthewfalle

Sooo wet and cold but made it home without my tyres falling off or wearing out, so all good.

Now going for hot shower and tea and hot buttered toast. Yum yum.

tlw1

V68 - Strava king! I'm rather late to the Strava party but enjoying it

Lots of fun at work today split by a JP for lunch

Sore leg equals no run, so going to watch a film with the rug rats

team47b

Soooo hot n dry, spent the day moving art from old studio to new studio, made me smile moving thousands of euros of paintings piled up on an old wheel barrow

Hot thirsty work, now drinking a beer and making pizza, without the bread base (can't eat carbs at this time of day) using courgette rings as the base baked in the oven, then gonna be topped with fresh tomato sauce with oregano, onion, mushrooms and smoked mozzarella. Margarita zucchini.

sungod

did you finish the meadow?

i succumbed to a thirst for much beer and so was unable to mow

wheelbarrow? luxury, i remember two carrier switch/routers having to go down a car park ramp on a sack barrow as they were too tall for the lifts, 500 grand each, about 2 quid per kilo, we had a lot of people hanging on to them

team47b

I only did my half of the meadow, I saved your half for another day

pinno

Had to wire up a new Solenoid on the Trattor mower today. That took me all of 30 mins. Then I bored a hole and threaded a No' 8 pool ball for a replacement gear knob. That took about 10 minutes. Then I cut the grass having actually used the ignition key to start it and not a screwdriver across the Poles That took about 1 hour. Then I pressure washed it for the first time ever. That took about 8 minutes. In between that and playing Dad's taxi, that was my day.

What's it like over there Gazza?

It turned out to be a nice day with just a bit of rain this evening.

Garry H

Same as it is over there. Started to rain a wee bit as I was getting home.

pinno

How is the Village of Calpol?

Garry H

Dry now jest

I'm trying to reawaken the spirit of Choppy Warburton.

pinno

I see. You need a cauldron from Edwyn's gaff.