HMCTS have approved my Probate application. Took less than four weeks and they work on it taking eight.
Being an Accountant I'm an expert form filler...

Quote from: David L on August 26, 2022, 07:08:19 AMJust announced - the new energy price cap will be £3549. People are definitely going to have to choose between heating or tattooing

Can't see any Tattoo parlours going out of business...

Maybe people will have false nails on every other finger

And another 43 miles today, takes me over 750 miles for August.

Had a bit of a contretemps today with a female Range Rover driver and her daughter. I'd pulled up at some traffic lights for roadworks behind a line of cars and started up when the lights turned green, I heard a car rapidly approaching from behind I turned round to eyeball them to warn them away - I have great faith in Paddington Bear style hard stares - but she just pulled out round me and slotted herself in to what was just, just, a Range Rover sized gap "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU PLAYING AT?!?!"I shouted at her, only to get some verbals from the daughter. I then noticed a dirty great Dog's head sticking out the rear window "AND READ THE HIGHWAY CODE RULE 57 AMONG OTHER THINGS" I got more unintelligible verbals back. I tapped on my front light and said "IT'S ALL BEING FILMED!" (Obvs not, but they don't know) "We don't care" was the reply I heard. They then proceeded to drive along at just over 15 mph braking all the while whilst I shook my head. Then at the next Traffic light controlled junction she turned without indication into the right turn lane and turned off just as the lights turned red.

I fail to comprehend what goes on inside other people's heads. Through light controlled roadworks, I'm as quick as a car, why do these entitled jerks think they can do what they like? It really pissed me off, there was just so much wrong (I hate myself for writing that, but hey-ho)

https://www.strava.com/activities/7691837687

It was bloody humid out there too today, I ought to put my kit to the wash, but Mrs S will kill me, it has to have over 100 miles in first...

Went out yesterday, did the same ride as last week but did it more slowly even though my legs felt better. Shows the value of having a tailwind on my 15 mile run in back home.
Overnight rain meant that the roads had been liberally - unfortunately not Conservatively - re-gravelled, with known gravel patches from last week being completely rearranged. 43 miles got me over 700 for August.

That was better today, lighter winds and a flatter parcours. Even managed to set some PBs on segments which ended up higher at the end than the beginning, not hills, maybe not even drags, but certainly not quite flat or downhill.

42.4 miles today got me to 225 for the week and 675 for the month so far. Fingers crossed that the weather stays nice enough for me to get to 900 for the month.

https://www.strava.com/activities/7676994484

I'm fed up with all the roadworks going on round here, I had to completely change what I was going to do. There's been a road closed all day that I wouldn't use, but it being closed has meant that roads I would have taken have been snarled up all day, add in the fact that another road I could have used was closed for Barlow carnival and it meant I had to spend more time than intended slogging into a headwind

Mind a headwind wasn't the only thing that slowed me down going up to Abney, a sheep had escaped from its allotted field and was in the road ahead of me, it kept running up the road "BAAING" away, but I was never sure what it was going to do and didn't want to get too close on case it decided to take me out. Luckily it eventually found a fence it could get under. I had nearly taken myself out earlier, sliding on some gravel on a 90 degree bend, I couldn't escape it as some pillock had parked his van bang on the corner

Because of the wind I failed to meet my target time of 3 hours and 15 minutes for the ride - Mrs S always likes an estimate so she knows when to start worrying - and it ended up at 3 hours 22 minutes.

https://www.strava.com/activities/7671254987

Motorpsycho - Ancient Astronauts

In Judas Priest style they just keep delivering the Goods

No, it's from a standing start.
The boy done well.

They're a bugger to get going though...

It was a 64x14 setup.

Didn't last long LOL 

Tights? I try not to wear them until November, I thought yesterday was just right - once I'd warmed up. Didn't enjoy it being a gravel ride though, all Tuesday's rain had washed a load of gravelly detritus out into the roads making for some pretty sketchy cornering and descending at times, even on what are normally decent roads.

A bit warmer today, but my legs felt empty. Wasn't particularly slower than on the same ride in previous weeks, but I think the wind direction helped.

Being as I haven't got Dirt on vinyl, I've ordered it. You can't have enough Dirt.

One of my pick me up albums along with Slayer's Reign in Blood

Quote from: Matt2112 on August 15, 2022, 07:39:42 PMFri 18th Nov - JERRY SADOWITZ, Bradford The Studio

Careful now!
Up with this kind of thing!

Of late I've been alternating between weeks on the Bianchi and weeks on the Giant TCR. This week was set to be a TCR week, although I had said to Mrs S that if the week were wet, which it could be, then the disc braked Bianchi was the better option.

Anway, I was prepping the TCR and had cleaned it and cleaned and lubed chain. I then decided to check the sealant levels in the tyres, especially as the rear tyre/wheel is new and it can do with extra checking. So, I let the air out of the tyre and the beading came out of the rim. Bum. Gave it a blast from the air tank, it appeared to pop back in, let out the air to put sealant in, just as the last bit of air came out so did the tyre bead. Repeat a stupid number of times.

I decided that maybe the beading had stretched - yeah- so I thought I'd try the old tyre from the old wheel. That wouldn't seat at all. So, it was try the new tyre in stock. Back to situation number one. Reading up on other people's travails someone else had given it a tank blast, then fitted the valve core back before the tyre fully deflated which solved the problem. I tried it and the blast of air from the valve blew the valve core down the patio...

However, I found that using just the track pump I could get the tyre to seat and I now have a tubeless sealant injector which will, if messily, put in sealant through a presta valve core. Success. I'm still using the Bianchi this week though...

I was going to fire off an email to the bloke who built the wheel for some advice, but he's on holiday for a fortnight...

Did more or less the same ride as yesterday, with a different descent back to town. Once again two bidons were just enough, I filled them three quarters full before freezing, took them an hour and twenty to get up to temperature today.

https://www.strava.com/activities/7638163138