Yay, it's cheery Friday.

[Dave Barter]

Same in the Barter household we have a takeaway mushroom wellington

[fatbikephil]

Just shove a Mikuni on it Phil. It saves all that faffing and leaking petrol

Heresy!!

[ledburner]

I've had a mail with ' turkey neck solutuon'
not much meat there!
email from trumptopia, gun tittin' mid south.

*tittin=Tottin lol

[summittoppler]

Cheery Friday cos I've packed my kit into bags on my bike so I'm ready for tomorrow :)
O I've missed that faff...

[frogatthefarriers]

Cheery for me 'coz I got a call today from my boss telling me I can go back to work. They told me to stay away just after Christmas to protect me from COVID and I’ve been hanging around at home on full pay since then. Yay! I’m a breadwinner again

[RIP]

Can we have some new flavours now you're back please Frog? Bored with all the usual ones. Some time ago somebody did a 'Special Edition' choc and vanilla flavoured one which was superb.

Anyway, belated CF here - nipped out on the Brom just now to buy a bog seat for the Hippopotamus. Brought it home in the S bag. As I was extracting it, my (fairly) long-lost BBB 18g meths Hyperstove fell out of the bag! Overjoyed or what. Anybody else still got one? Bit of a collector's item I reckon - can you remember how many you made Stu?

[RIP]

So what was that enormous bang heard down your way today Mr Barter that I've just read about? Creatively rude answers only please

[Dave Barter]

So what was that enormous bang heard down your way today Mr Barter that I've just read about? Creatively rude answers only please

The after effects of Fridays mushroom wellington

[frogatthefarriers]

Can we have some new flavours now you're back please Frog? Bored with all the usual ones. Some time ago somebody did a 'Special Edition' choc and vanilla flavoured one which was superb.

I’ll see what I can do for you, Reg, though at my level of status/influence I wouldn’t expect any more than more, or less burnt, whatever flavour.

[RIP]

So what was that enormous bang heard down your way today Mr Barter that I've just read about? Creatively rude answers only please

The after effects of Fridays mushroom wellington

[RIP]

Can we have some new flavours now you're back please Frog? Bored with all the usual ones. Some time ago somebody did a 'Special Edition' choc and vanilla flavoured one which was superb.

I’ll see what I can do for you, Reg, though at my level of status/influence I wouldn’t expect any more than more, or less burnt, whatever flavour.

Also . Anyway, I'll bet it's nice to be back. It's going to be interesting to see how long widespread WFH will continue. I'm not convinced, although there will obviously be some shift.

[RIP]

(4 hours early as usual.....)

As we know we never get threads or posts on Here about tea drinking despite it obviously being the only fit and proper drink for a bikepacker (beer is taken as read of course). Threads are always about that ridiculous gravelly sludge apparently called 'coughee' or some such; somebody saw you coming when it comes to that stuff .

I always look up to Stu when it comes to tea ceremonies (mainly his 'shove it in a rude mug and bung hot water on it' technique to be fair) but I'm beginning to think he's met his match. I shall be following all these rules in future on all my BP outings:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/f ... ea.html (no of course I don't read that ludicrous rant-rag)

[Verena]

National tea day on 21st April? Surely that calls for a celebration of sorts?

If not the napkin, then what exactly are you supposed to wipe your lips with? Your sleeve??

I'm with her on the cream first then jam.

But what do I know, I'm of poor breeding, I always clank my spoon....

Thanks for this, nice silly start to cheery Friday.

[RIP]

I must admit I didn't know if she was a spoof or not to start with, then I saw it was in the Daily Hatemail. At that point I realised it must be true. Like all their other 'articles'.

[ledburner]

I must admit I didn't know if she was a spoof or not to start with, then I saw it was in the Daily Hatemail. At that point I realised it must be true. Like all their other 'articles'.

Victoria high tea,, so the latest social etiquette advice is 120 years out of date.
So typical of the Daily Wail.

[sean_iow]

On the subject of tea, the boss bought some 'tea and biscuits' tea bags, I wasn't keen as it sounds horrible. I reluctantly tried one, tastes just like a cup of tea does when you've been dunkung malted milk and half of one falls into your tea, actually rather nice

[Bearbonesnorm]

Bollox, I was just stood in the shower wondering whether to post something here and decided, no I'll actually wait until Friday. I come downstairs after removing a mini Yorkshire Terrier* from the startled face of a Deerhound only to find Reg has nipped in

Anyway, obviously doesn't matter now, so I'm quite cheery because today was the first day in 5 weeks I've been able to walk further than half a mile without resorting to a limp or believing that someone was sticking very long and hot needles into my foot ... must be getting better

*Tiny but the heart of a very ferocious lion.

[RIP]

must be getting better

[RIP]

when you've been dunkung malted milk and half of one falls into your tea

Rookie mistake. Plainly Sean you're a rank amateur when it comes to the dark art of dunking .

Actually, a 'T and bikkies' teabag is perfect for bikepackers - textbook example of doubling-up a piece of kit .

[PaulB2]

That reminds me, use Russian caravan tea bags so that you don’t need to use two bags to get a strong cuppa.

[sean_iow]

I like to push the limits of how long I can leave the biscuit in before it gets too soggy and falls apart. A bit like riding bikes, if you never crash you're not trying hard enough

They also make toast and jam teabags

[Alpinum]

If not the napkin, then what exactly are you supposed to wipe your lips with? Your sleeve??

Multi use. When the sleeve also is a napkin.
TLS after all.

[Alpinum]

And then... when your tea bag become a water filter (before the water treatment drops).
Drinking tea is a prime example for multi use.

[Verena]

I like to push the limits of how long I can leave the biscuit in before it gets too soggy and falls apart. A bit like riding bikes, if you never crash you're not trying hard enough

Me too. Living life on the edge

[Dave Barter]

What is all this talk of tea bags? I was brought up with leaves and a strainer. How can tea taste right when filtered through a hole filled plastic bag? I despair in you lot you probably think it comes from Yorkshire