Another Bank Holiday, the sun is out and yet again I am on call and can't go out and play..........9 out of 10 BH's in the last 2 years Leave gone in for every BH next year already
I went out for a ride to Frensham Pond and then off to Winchester - back along the A272. It was lovely weather and a great ride. Just thought you would like to know…
A lovely day indeed. I've just got back from a longish ride around Galloway - mostly around the Stewartry and into the Shire. Just about to pour a cold beer. I shall be venturing abroad later in the week: collecting something in Carlisle, then a look around the obscurer parts of the Eden Valley. Happy days.
Sorry @Dougie D but I couldn’t take pictures of all the beautiful scenery as it would have probably taken offence and slapped me for being a perv. I just had to sit there wishing I was a bit younger, in possession of a personality & sense of humour, and didn’t look so bloody ugly. Or as an equally viable alternative, wish I was rich…
I usually stay at home on Bank holidays (living where we do, near the sea, the number of day trippers coming to the coast on such days makes riding the local roads a chore rather than a pleasure) I did venture out for an hour or so this morning because the weather was so good, but the aforementioned traffic, even on the back roads, made me head back home sooner rather than later. Being retired I will probably go out again for a longer jaunt tomorrow but riding on any Bank holiday is something low down on my to do list.
I’m not a builder but the reason for the metric sizes as far as I know is to standardise building specifications making measurements divisible by 400(mm). So your ceiling joists/stud wall battens etc will be 400mm apart. I had my lounge ceiling overboarded and plastered a few years ago and the fella that did it dropped that little snippet of info out while he was measuring up. He got it spot on too, barely any left over.
If you look at a lot of measuring tapes, some have a mark every 400, or 16 inches. Thats for your stud centers
I'm not sure if my weeks (since retiring) have been comprised of mainly Saturdays or Sundays, but I certainly don't miss Mondays.
The UK TV Licence, or rather the £159 the robbin' gits want from you in exchange for one! That in itself is a joke, because now they say you don't even need the bit of paper and they actively send out emails suggesting that you go 'paperless'. Which really means they can save themselves a few bob by not having to send it out to you in the post. But do they offer any kind of discount for going paperless? No chance. The so and so' s can send me the bloody piece of paper every year until they do. After all its cost me £159! Grrrr.
Stopped mine, its a joke. They still do a black and white licence ffs! Who the fuck has a b&w tv in this day and age
Was happy with the way the bike was running so thought I'd pop down to the cafe to have a cup of tea etc. in celebration. "Payment by card or exact money only" announced the sign on the counter. I managed without a tea, or any of the other snacks on offer. I expect they'll blame Covid for going out of business.
Bloody cyclists, again. Riding gently through Church Stretton, part of the High Street is partitioned off to encourage social distancing and one way traffic. I was indicating right at the island and halfway across, when 3 lycra louts rode straight across the front of me, causing me to brake to avoid a collision. I followed them for about a hundred metres to the next junction and was undertaken by another one on the road and one on the pavement, both chatting away as if it was ok. Spandex bandits.
There is a mob of them from Halesowen who create a rolling road block of up to 60 riders, 3 abreast on a regular ride to Craven Arms.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cycling/tour-de-france-crash-watch-stage-1-b1873292.html Maybe we could get this stupid tart to stand in front of them.
