Yay, it's cheery Friday.

[belugabob]

Masterchef with beer.

If only that was a real thing...

[voodoo_simon]

Praise the lord that this week is over

[Bearbonesnorm]

Praise the lord that this week is over

There's another two days, all manner of stuff can go wrong in 48 hours

[TheBrownDog]

Praise the lord that this week is over

Yep. Been a weird one at BrownDogManor. Very cheery about 15 minutes ago putting an out of office message on email cos I'm having a break next week. Yaaaaaah!!!!!

[Dave Barter]

Bit late but my daughter graduated with a distinction in her MsC yesterday. I’m well happy

[Bearbonesnorm]

Well done Holly - tell her I said so please Dave.

[voodoo_simon]

Praise the lord that this week is over

There's another two days, all manner of stuff can go wrong in 48 hours

You have a way with words Stu

Anyway, that cheeky comment certainly gave me a smile

[ledburner]

Praise the lord that this week is over

There's another two days, all manner of stuff can go wrong in 48 hours

You have a way with words Stu

Anyway, that cheeky comment certainly gave me a smile

which reminds me...
Q. What the difference between a Russian Optimist & Russian Pessimist?

A. A Russian optimist says,
'Yiy, Yiy, yiy, It Can't possibly get any worse! ' .
The Russian pessimist says,
'Yiy, yiy, yiy, but oh yes it can...'

[RIP]

I ended up in News & Reviews just then, as a result of some slipped fingers and other random clicking, and saw the BB200 review which I hadn't read yet.

I always seem to end up spotting the news, or blogs or whatever they are, aeons after they're posted. Is there some auto-notification setting button thingy that I need to press so that I find out about these immediately they wing their way on the ether out of BBT?

[RIP]

Don't want to make a song and dance about it so will hide it in here, but it seems to me that this could be the time of year when the thought may cross our minds about the time and effort, and yes the odd quid or two, that Stu and Dee put in to keep This Place fun, stimulating, and informative for us all. It might be quite easy to press this button https://www.bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/donate/ by mistake whilst idly contemplating that fact too . One wishes you both a peaceful and flood-free little break from life's slings and arrows (well not the arrows obviously) .

[psling]

One wishes you both a peaceful and flood-free little break from life's slings and arrows (well not the arrows obviously) .

Huh! So just the slings then, eh...?

I found an old (c1764) Nursery Rhyme just for you Reg, no idea where to post it so I'll post it here

They hang the man and flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.

The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own,
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine

[RIP]

One wishes you both a peaceful and flood-free little break from life's slings and arrows (well not the arrows obviously) .

Huh! So just the slings then, eh...?

I found an old (c1764) Nursery Rhyme just for you Reg, no idea where to post it so I'll post it here

They hang the man and flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.

The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own,
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine

Yeah, pslings with a silent P

Enjoyed that rhyme ta, nowt's changed since then, they're just better at disguising it. Even now we still have to atone for borrowing, not even taking/stealing, twelve square feet of the earth's surface for an unobtrusive night's kip.

[MuddyPete]

Just woken-up to no more work until January ; all bikes are working and a massive box of twinkly lights has arrived for the garden (warm white ).

Friday has arrived early .

[Verena]

Just woken-up to no more work until January ; all bikes are working and a massive box of twinkly lights has arrived for the garden (warm white ).

Friday has arrived early .

Sounds fantastic, enjoy!!

[ledburner]

Just woken-up to no more work until January ; all bikes are working and a massive box of twinkly lights has arrived for the garden (warm white ).

Friday has arrived early .

Sounds fantastic, enjoy!!

warm white or yellow the Best!

[ledburner]

I've just discovered a new activity. Plogging. what? (Thanks Wikiloc newsletter )

Plogging, I need a tab-purge*

IMG_17122021_072709_(425_x_800_pixel).jpg (58.38 KiB) Viewed 1964 times

what is logo trying to tell me?

After the smell of grinding c'l'ogs inside my head and the faint aroma of burning cabbage with saw dust (read stench) threatens to put me off my breakfast . the best I think of is like....
turbo - recycling™*... or putrid-waste-disposal
or collecting doggy bag tree berries ™*

I gave up & Google it.

It's amalgamation of Litter Picking and Jogging, the stopping & starting bending, stooping & stretching is supposted to be an around work out think farting fartlek?.
For once it a Swedism rather than a Americanism linguistic bastardism of our beautiful language The vikings are buggering our language .

Nudge Bearbones, Towels, CF litter sticks. Be the first to market. send me the cheque

So some of us have been PlikePlacking™* and we didn't know it , as well Ultra LNT™*, Hyper LNT™* & Plivvying™*

* I claim 1st use (and probably last) use of the words & phases. and other kudos.

Go-go on guys prove me wrong!

[ledburner]

Blumming- ummer, I've managed to post with no typos (it's taken 14 correction and preview), the previous post that is... double cheery Friday.

[RIP]

Well I enjoyed that post, 'Burner. Absolutely no idea what you're on about, but enjoyed it . In fact I've no idea what you're on either (*). Has your porridge gone off? A good starter for 10 for CF anyway .

Quite cheery then. Off to the Freak District this morning to meet up with up with several other luminaries of This Place for a gentle wobble round. Although given the participants, 'gentle' might be wishful thinking. Good job there's loads of cafes to distract them. These guys go so fast that at the finish I will have aged by ten years in comparison, time dilation as per Einstein's theories.

Also Mr Drakeford says 'Welsh nightclubs closed from 27 Dec plus social distancing'. I don't want to tempt fate but maybe that means the WE might be ok so long as we don't pop in to Stringfellows in Llanbrynmair. And all the Normals social distance from smelly bikepackers at the best of times anyway! Tea and toast in the carpark Stu?

(*) and this is coming from Reg........

[RIP]

I've managed to post with no typos

Shame! The typos are what lends them their style .

[Bearlegged]

The vikings are buggering our language

Just continuing a long tradition of improving our mongrelised vocabulary! Loads of viking words have made it into English, including egg and cake.

One particular highlight of this practice is "flâneur", which I'm sure will please Reg; its origin is "flana", old Norse for "to wander aimlessly.

[RIP]

The vikings are buggering our language

Just continuing a long tradition of improving our mongrelised vocabulary! Loads of viking words have made it into English, including egg and cake.

One particular highlight of this practice is "flâneur", which I'm sure will please Reg; its origin is "flana", old Norse for "to wander aimlessly.

Yep I'll have my bike tied to a tortoise this afternoon so I hope your gearing is low enough .

[ledburner]

I've managed to post with no typos

Shame! The typos are what lends them their style .

Think of all the time saved..or is it Wasted? As Fellow parisheners (sp.?) continue (hopefully) reading, Rather than give up... TLRL

[ledburner]

The vikings are buggering our language

Just continuing a long tradition of improving our mongrelised vocabulary! Loads of viking words have made it into English, including egg and cake.

One particular highlight of this practice is "flâneur", which I'm sure will please Reg; its origin is "flana", old Norse for "to wander aimlessly.

The Norman's who introduced (imposed) French, on this country at the start of the last millennium., were originally Scandavanians thus of of vikings blood. 'Normans', 'Men of the North/men of Normandy' *. I'm sure my good lady will be appalled at this historic over simplification, but slightly pleased I'm showing an interest.

* just waiting for Susie Dent to tickle the grey matter.

Flannel , trousers for wandering aimlessly.. ?
flan, a meal to wander aimlessly with...?

[ledburner]

I've managed to post with no typos

Shame! The typos are what lends them their style .

Think of all the time saved..or is it Wasted? As Fellow parisheners (sp.?) continue (hopefully) reading, Rather than give up... TLRL

you must be the only bogger who stubbornly persists in reading my brainial hiccups and drivel.

[PaulB2]

The Rus were Norse too so they got about a bit, all the way from Greenland the Black Sea.