ripio wrote: ↑Thu Jun 19, 2025 1:19 am

Verena wrote: ↑Tue Jun 17, 2025 8:44 am A book!
Front cover has a picture of two blokes standing in their union jack pants at Lands End...

Should be interesting - thanks very much kind sender

Free Country by George Mahood?
Great book, amazing adventures.

Yep, that's the one

A book!
Front cover has a picture of two blokes standing in their union jack pants at Lands End...

Should be interesting - thanks very much kind sender

Off to a walking weekend in Blaenau Ffestiniog with a bunch of old mates

Bearlegged wrote: ↑Wed Jun 11, 2025 12:03 pm

Love it!!

Oh, and, didn't we use to have a thread for strange things we'd seen on our rides?

I saw one of them layzee spa jacuzzi on the mountain, middle of nowhere....

Was great. Late, short, local, windy but stayed dry - well up top anyway, and surprisingly even my feet. Found another new bit of track, to connect and extend two other bits of track I'd already found. Proper bogs and tussocks to warm the heart of any boner. Revisited and fondly remembered two of la...

I really like Iolo's series on the Valleys. But, came here to say, CF, I saw Emily Chappel's show in Newport last night, which was great, then had a bivvy which was lovely, if a little chilly. And off on holidays in the morning, training it to Germany to pick up my mum en route and have 5 days at La...

Glad to hear it Bob

Saturday into Sunday's ride, and my admittedly shabby excuse for missing WRT (take 2!), was that I rode Brevet Cymru 400km audax. I don't really know what to say about it, and I didn't really take many photos, as trying to minimise stop time so I'd get round in time. It does feel really good to find...

Love this, my Friday just got to another level of cheery!!

I knew I could rely on you lot to take this to levels of sick/ black humour that I hadn't even thought about...

He would approve!!

Despite my best intentions i had to settle for another local bivvy so off up the Malverns i went it was a glorious evening i left reasonably early and enjoyed a decent ride before searching for a room with a view i was determined to find somewhere new. I followed some sheep tracks and found an idea...

Highway to hell , one of husband's (soon to be ex husband's, as we've started the divorce process) top choices for his funeral songs... Call it morbid, or just a good idea as he really has not been well lately and for a few days it looked a bit dodge..., or call it quite good fun, I've been doing it...

Cheery Friday, because I've got the day off work, to generally laze about, and get myself ready for Brevet Cymru tomorrow.

Feeling very oddly not nervous about it, at the moment at least, just really looking forward to it.

Hope everyone doing WRT is going to have a great weekend

Looks like it's going to be a good one!! Enjoy all!!

Saw some unbelievably cute tiny coot chicks today and watched them being fed by their parents.

Also first cuckoo.

Raggedstone wrote: ↑Sun Apr 27, 2025 8:51 am Its cheered me up no end to find that Peter and myself have made it into the Wildlife thread

Raggedstone wrote: ↑Sun Apr 27, 2025 8:51 am Its cheered me up no end to find that Peter and myself have made it into the Wildlife thread

On a wander in the Forest of Dean today in search of bluebells, we found no bluebells, but a deer, and maybe its kid.

This was after a lovely "surprise" bumping into Kev and Peter at the Hopewell Colliery cafe

Glad to hear you're ok Reg - phew.

Bearlegged wrote: ↑Thu Apr 24, 2025 9:52 pm Oof, that last pic.

Thank you - it is one of a few amazing little places, right on the edge of town, and not a pretty town, and then there's these little gems.... they were all ponds to feed the Nantyglo iron works. Have been looking at old OS maps today...

There's this mountain that I've been looking at every day since moving here at the end of last summer, from my bed, and from my desk at home, and I've been itching to get up there on a nice day - last weekend it was such a day on Easter Sunday :cool: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54463649962_4...

Verena, I'd be inclined to dig out the boggy mud and divert any water around the building not through it. Even building a floor over wet ground will be cold and damp... Ah, good thinking! Worth taking a shovel up there and giving that a go. Cheers :-bd Went for a walk at the weekend and took anothe...

Very pleased indeed to be able to report that I'm actually out out. Obviously I'm also out in the sense of out of this year's BAM run, having missed March sadly, but hopefully I'm back to starting another run of consecutive months... Have opted for hammock in woodland, thinking that this is a lovel...

Very pleased indeed to be able to report that I'm actually out out. Obviously I'm also out in the sense of out of this year's BAM run, having missed March sadly, but hopefully I'm back to starting another run of consecutive months... Have opted for hammock in woodland, thinking that this is a lovely...

Beautiful