And brought a replacement Laplander folding saw for the one I left/lost on WRT….

RIP wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 12:13 pm
Bit ironic cos they're in the Peak as well so just need make sure I don't bump into them. What're the chances...

Hundred to one chances happen nine times out of ten. (Terry Pratchett. Can’t remember which book).

BaM for May, one of two on WRT...


5/5 for '25.

Well it came around again at last - WRT 2025 - and I got all the way round with dry feet. Miraculous! And it started with a useful win in the raffle - an Alpkit Kraku stove with gas cannister. :-bd So to the ride, we (me 'n' my son Michael) rode south, down into Hafren.. https://lh3.googleuserconten...

RIP wrote: ↑Tue May 06, 2025 5:04 pm

frogatthefarriers wrote: ↑Tue May 06, 2025 11:42 am I found a pair of glasses

EH? You found some glasses? This is unprecedented

I left my Laplander folding saw somewhere

'course you did!

You know me too well….

jay91 wrote: ↑Tue May 06, 2025 9:06 pm
….. It's always a highlight of my year.

It is for me too. The day after is such an anticlimax.

Thanks, Stu and Dee. Again.

As in the title, I found a pair of glasses (with case and cleaning cloth) on first day of WRT. Looks like someone’s put ‘em down while they put other stuff away, then got going and forgot them. (Sounds like a leaf out of my playbook :roll: ) We'd seen a couple of bike packers coming down a lane to L...

Bearlegged wrote: ↑Sun Apr 06, 2025 10:35 pm Nice trip, and the adder story is brilliant!

You're tellin' me. I'd have gladly swapped my bivvy to have seen that...

BaM for April - Done. :-bd My daughter had made plans and hired an Airbnb for herself and partner to go to the Jurassic Coast and furtle on the beaches for fossils. As it happened, her partner couldn't go (work :sad: ) so she asked if I'd like to go instead. Erm, Yes! The digs only had one double ro...

……I'll carry on working part time for a few years - with state and private pension I've no pressing need to but the "getting out" aspect is beneficial. This is what I did and am still doing eleven years later. One thing I did notice was that knowing I didn’t have to be there (in work) mad...

I’m a serial forgetter of stuff:- tarp twice, riding boots twice, fuel (cooked on fire that time), lighter, cycling jacket, money & card. I’ve also lost stuff:- a bike lock, countless pairs of glasses both reading and cycling, water bottles, a Spot Gen 3 and a down hoodie. Probably other stuff t...

Beautiful Absolutely. You is a very lucky bugger Mr Frog :-bd ‘S so true! I am. :-bd But it’s not always like this. Remember the last time we were up here? https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczMhhNfdF_85ZVpv4f10sIzhU7W7KPxPsTxaNIac7p4F6MkuuA-4GJDIPikdOuPrbzYiRsZfjVd1QWEhEsLnzJCyoV2Jw9nV7xfSEm...

Not far from home again (15miles and 1300 ft) but I got there by bike, so it counts as my March BaM. Pedalled from home to the Eglwyseg escarpment above LLangollen. It was dark already by the time I'd set up and I could see in the distance, a wildfire in the Berwyns, possibly above Llandrillo? https...

I’ve found, that whatever sport/hobby/musical instrument you take up, you’ll meet someone who’s that good at it, that you’ll feel like a numpty.

That’s why I’m the frog at the farriers - I’m trying to be a horse, but I’ll always be just a frog.

Congratulations on a fantastic effort.

But makes me feel more like a frog at the farriers than ever.

Wow! Dry stone walls and walling gives so much to our countryside. Respect! I was in Spain on the VDLP a couple of years ago There were dry stone walls there too, but you could see daylight through them. You could show them a thing or two…

I found three broken spokes on the back wheel of my everyday bike. I changed the wheels on this bike soon after rescuing it from the skip; the old wheels I hung on a nail in the shed and there they’ve stayed for quite a few years. Rather than source new spokes, down came the wheel to cannibalise the...

As I started to get set-up Rich announced that he'd left his hammock at home ….. Tsk! How can you forget your hammock FFS? Says he who has managed, on different occasions, to forget tarp (twice), riding boots, jacket (twice again), lighter - so no cuppa, stove, fuel and many others. Not to mention ...

I know it’s Sunday now, but I found out last Friday that I’ve got 24 hours of holidays left over from last years allowance. For me, that’s two days off. Again, for me on two on/six off shifts, that’s fourteen days off. To be used by the end of March.

How cheery was that?

RIP wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 8:22 pm We like "odd" . Reckon I'd've kipped in the Tower having spotted it was unlocked...

Me too. It would’ve been rude not to.

BaM under the stars. I've already got one for this month, on the Winter Event, but I'm posting this one as my February BaM. You may have heard of the Great Planetary Parade that's happening now? I thought I'd see for myself, so I packed a bivvy bag and small tarp and pedalled up to the Llandegla moo...

RIP wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 8:11 pm Yep it was real Last Of The Summer Wine stuff. If Lu was Clegg and Neil was Foggy that would make me, er....

Ha ha! Until Neil joined us we were Satler and Waldorf.

A Winter Event for Seniors. Combined age of over two centuries. :o Cow Picture. The only cows we saw.. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczMQOsH-dDf9MNXbHhttYbGhUVPpbJ3KZ3lKP25GIwKvn8AoOJ4JCMWEq0vq73B0GgGZHNDI8R5iteEI4E-hs9yvIdPd2Jj6KgHAbZZM3l964HpCc_CP=w640-h480 Daisy contemplating the geolo...

fatbikephil wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2025 2:17 pm Marvelous stuff. And a very fine point made - why go to all the hassle and expense of a hotel when you can sleep out for free in opulent luxury

So true. After all these BaMs I hate even paying for camping. Well, especially camping - at least with a B&B or hotel, you get a bit of comfort…

Slug tracks on the sides of the Overton Cave, Frodsham. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczOuKuA8Wead69EcfMn8YbqlPFNhoUZ1Zwg4uzfDL63U_PmJsQybVmDUhYIEs4fqpSjZzzjpOcGpjtOyPb64o4m2vPNCWczPFS3ii1yGVE7tt7eX4BgH=w1920-h1080 I'm curious how they've got to a wall at the back of a cave, across a good...