Steve Hillage - L
Queen - Queen
Wobbler - Hinterland

Mariusz Duda - Interior Drawings

Our garden Pheasants have got chicks

Spirits in the Material New World Man

I suppose we ought to be doing Rush/Foo Fighters mash ups, but I'm buggered if I can think of a Foo Fighters song - and I've got their first album...

Quote from: David L on June 16, 2022, 11:22:03 PMIf it's Copeland, they might play a couple of mash-ups:
Every Breath You Take A Friend
Can't Stand Losing It

XanaDe do do do, de da da da

Just a Squirrel attack for me this morning and a Skylark. Managed to fend them off, but Squirrels can be bloody dangerous.

It was a bit warm though, so I'm glad I have Fridays off.

Quote from: pdw1 on June 14, 2022, 05:56:12 PMJonners, agree with almost everything you said. A desert island disc for me .

And for me. Being rubbed in sand would improve it a lot

And I'm a bloody idiot! I'm retired, I've got all the time in the world to do what I want - except DIY - and there's free entry to the Test at Trent Bridge, just down the road. Never even gave it a thought about going. Mind, they could have stretched it out longer to give people better value...

I never thought that after putting InZid in and them scoring 550 that we'd win it, but there you go, that's why Test Cricket is the ultimate form of the game, time for ebbs and flows. Just hope Stokes isn't too badly injured.

The BBCs use of the word "Batter" is doing my head in though, it's BATSMAN, batter is what YJB and Stokesy were doing to the ball. Yes, language changes, but I don't want changes enforced by some liberal-lefty PC Cabal in Broadcasting House. Thankfully Aggers still says "Third Man" instead of "Third" which is also being forced upon us.

Feeling a bit jaded after yesterday, I didn't bother heading out for the Peaks today. Instead I rode the more rolling lands to the South of Chesterfield. The bloody wind was a bit of a bugger again today, but not as bad as on the tops yesterday.

Looking at what I did today a lot of roads I hadn't ridden since 2018. Down to my decision in 2019 to try and become more of a climber - why? - which lasted through COVID for some strange reason. There was an awful lot of traffic about today, lots of SUVs and Range Rovers set up for offroading which were shinier than Haysi Fantayzee.

Forty miles gets me to 353 for June.

https://www.strava.com/activities/7298057907

Every time I put the BBC News on, when they're not slagging off Boris Johnson, they're banging on about the cost of living crisis, interviewing people who are filling up their cars at petrol stations whilst moaning about how they can't afford to fill up their cars (Schrödinger's Tankstelle?) In that case you'd think they might decide to drive less to save money. Not on your Nelly, the roads out in the Peak District were chock full of people driving round aimlessly. They could or rather should do what I do and cycle out there, it's not that hard.

It's not that easy either though, especially with a headwind like today's! It was a real slog up the exposed parts of the Abney climb and even going up Padley where it should have been a tailwind the  local topography contrived to make it a cross headwind. I couldn't even be bothered to put in a final loop to get up to a Fondo today AND I finished 1 foot down on 5,000 feet of ascent for the ride I was that pooped.

https://www.strava.com/activities/7292385399

If you've only got time for one vinyl, make it a double, make it a good 'un:

Motorpsycho - The Tower

Mariusz Duda - Claustrophobic Universe

I just have a Garmin Edge 520. Probably getting to the end of its working life after six years, but I don't tend to replace things until they fail. Then I stomp around a bit.

If only they'd tour over here. 20th Anniversay tour has done North/South/Central America and Europe in September, which they say are the last dates of the Anniversary Tour

But, we did get two tours for the Wasteland album and various bits of Yurp are moaning about being missed. Plus I suppose COVID rescheduling effects are still rippling through which might limit venue availability.

And I suppose they've released so many albums now, the new one will be shit....

Got out on the Bianchi for the first time this year. Which was nice. As was the sunshine. Nice to average over 17 mph for a ride too. Definitely quicker than the Winter bike.

175 so far for June 2,106 for the year. Now over 1,100 miles down on last year.

https://www.strava.com/activities/7269232119/