Verena wrote: ↑Fri May 02, 2025 7:35 am ...bluebell BAM this time next year...

Excellent idea!

Valerio wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 10:10 am ...cars parked in the middle of the road, long queues...

Hey! They've paid their "road tax" .

They should've taken parking lessons from this chap:
https://youtu.be/3-MaC9fFtz0?feature=shared

Still battling with my hobo mojo though this year, I think I've burned myself out with last year's full-on collection of madcap schemes. Here you go: HoverBivi . Your challenge is combine a bivi with a visit to a hovercraft factory or musuem :cool: . https://www.griffonhoverwork.com/ https://hoverc...

I find Reg-BAMs, physically, are pretty easy. But mentally: very demanding

As renationalisation seems to be politically fashionable I suppose we can look forward to British Rail Mk2 placing a whopping order for a new fleet of hovercraft, made using British steel .

19/19

I'm sorry for the loss of your father: a big trip sounds like the ideal tonic :smile: . You may find the Rough Stuff Fellowship, Adventure Cycling Association and Bikepacking (as well as 'Boners, of course) of help . https://www.rsf.org.uk/ https://www.adventurecycling.org/ https://bikepacking.com/

Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery, John.

Longer opening hours for VE day, giving us the opportunity to spend more time in "...the nation's second home."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg24x5l404o

Yes last day for about ten days, off on the overnight boat on Sunday heading down to Wiltshire for a few days with the bikes, probably spend a bit of time in the Marlborough Downs, perhaps Salisbury Plain and possibly Forest of Dean, looking at a potter along the Kennet and Avon canal to Bath too. ...

...and it's led to a "Of course: marshmallows expand in a vacuum" declaration. Although why someone has been trying to vacuum-up marshmallows in this house is beyond me .

I was just about to post that, too .

It leads to this...https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-41612812

...which reminds me of the Frankie Boyle "How many Fruit Pastilles does it take to choke a kestrel?" student research .

I took the little car out for a pre-breakfast blast towards Silverstone and am currently "not-WFH" in this café, near the circuit https://blackpitbrewery.co.uk/ .

This may become a Friday ritual: just don't tell anyone .

.... And for us insignificant people don't buy American products. America will feel it because cash is king . Cancelled Strava premium etc. Governments should fight fire with fire none of the appeasement like reducing US tech tax ,put it up to the level Trump wants. Free trade will return if US fee...

"Have a purpose" in retirement is something I've heard and read often. What's the view on this?

AndreR wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 10:55 am ...quality time with my pint...

Absolute bliss!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DG-VMpdIA0T ... R0Zjg2YWkx

March BaM at The Brown Dog's country residence. Bicycles were involved. "Spot The Reg", lurking in the background.

18/18

Another last-minute BaM :roll: . Continuing the "bird hide" theme I headed south last night to somewhere between Tring and Aston Clinton to the most palatial one so far: space for 'Boners-a-plenty and it even had a door to keep out the draughts. There was wildlife artwork, too :-bd . The r...

Sadly it won't catch on... It will if we want it to. The Government is seeking comments on this consultation paper about how Great British Railways will serve the public. It had a good, solid, 8/10 from Richard Bowker (former Head of the Strategic Rail Authority) on the Green Signals podcast. Oppor...

Buffalo Windshirt, with just a fleece or two underneath perhaps?

An excellent weekend, with plenty to satisfy the inner 9-year-old .

There's an award category here too: most outrageous carpet kipped on during a bivi .

The 70s have a lot to answer for... .

Another last-minute Utility BaM, on 30 January 2025. https://www.instagram.com/p/DFhdWeyoxiV/?img_index=9&igsh=Y3hna3pxZDQ1OWo3 Persistent rain in a floodplain nature reserve, so water was a theme. A very early start was needed on the return, to catch a train that didn't fall foul of the "n...

https://i.ibb.co/stPRN07/IMG-20250104-221250-593.jpg https://i.ibb.co/wJr2Xs6/IMG-20250105-092517-626.jpg https://i.ibb.co/9T5b7Gp/IMG-20250105-093734-756.jpg https://i.ibb.co/wgB9nYy/IMG-20250105-093640-084.jpg Beer can for pole stability? Ingenious :geek:. It looks like most of the snow has hidde...

whitestone wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 1:52 pm Chatting to a neighbour yesterday (he's pretty right wing by his own admission) and he was on about people taking early retirement.

Was he of the opinion it's a good thing? Or did he wish he had retired sooner?

Got my first surfing lesson on Monday... At Lost Shore, by any chance? https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/travel/2024/nov/21/perfect-waves-at-the-touch-of-a-button-catching-a-break-at-scotlands-first-inland-surf-resort May visit the Black Forest on the way down... Plenty of knobbly-ty...

Count me in .

Cycling: local bivvies, but in places I've not bivvied before .

Non-cycling: complete my Sports Diver course and spend more time volunteering with the Nautical Archaeology Society .