Von Hertzen Brothers - Red Alert in the Blue Forest
Montrose - Paper Money
Pink Floyd - Soundtrack from the film More

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Quote from: pdw1 on April 22, 2022, 10:14:18 PMJust finished the book my daughter bought me for my birthday last month.
The Glamour Boys by Chris Bryant
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Glamour-Boys-Secret-Rebels-Britain/dp/1526601737/
you can tell he was a journalist and MP. Nice light read through the social history of England's toffs between the wars that they don't teach you at school with a nice anti-appeasement twist

I once read a Captain Underpants book 

well done: culture reaches the north at last.

No. We've not got Yoghurt yet.

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Quote from: pdw1 on April 22, 2022, 10:47:09 PMJust back from a meal out with all the family to celebrate my daughter's 20th birthday

You're old enough to have a 20 year old daughter?

most of us on here are old enough to have a 20 year old grand daughter

Speak for yourself!

Quote from: pdw1 on April 22, 2022, 10:14:18 PMJust finished the book my daughter bought me for my birthday last month.
The Glamour Boys by Chris Bryant
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Glamour-Boys-Secret-Rebels-Britain/dp/1526601737/
you can tell he was a journalist and MP. Nice light read through the social history of England's toffs between the wars that they don't teach you at school with a nice anti-appeasement twist

I once read a Captain Underpants book 

Quote from: pdw1 on April 22, 2022, 10:47:09 PMJust back from a meal out with all the family to celebrate my daughter's 20th birthday

You're old enough to have a 20 year old daughter?

Quote from: R6GYY on April 22, 2022, 03:07:33 PMWas delighted to see footage of a visiting hedgehog last night, caught on our trail camera.

A pretty rare sight.

Was it going to cross the road to see his flat mate?

Large Hardon LOL

Quote from: Slim on April 21, 2022, 07:53:24 PMThere's always option 3.. take an inner tube, a pump and a tyre lever. Has saved me more than once!

Saved me once!

Three times I've been a mile from home. Once I was 15 miles from home and bloody cold so I called out the cavalry and once it was a blow out in a tubeless tyre and there wasn't enough daylight left in the day to faff around getting a tube in it, so out came the cavalry again.

I still always have at least one inner tube, pump and tyre lever - and even Anchovy fillets for when I'm riding tubeless.

Quote from: Blastzone on April 20, 2022, 08:26:27 PMLack of sleep linked to above is also getting me very grumpy...

And we'd notice the difference how? 

Hope things pick up for you soon Mr Zone

Quote from: Rufus_the_dawg on April 19, 2022, 03:46:08 PMI thought east midlands was up north?

The North begins at Chesterfield - according to me, my old father said Clay Cross. It's a subtle thing, but then Geordies would class us as Southern puffs...

Quote from: Slim on April 17, 2022, 08:40:09 PMOne thing that irritated me slightly was that judging by the audio clips, they've settled for Geordie accents rather than the authentic Teesside. But most people south of Leeds probably couldn't tell the difference.

I'd like to think I can. As a kid my family were friends with a family from Durham and they were always pointing out how their accent differed from Geordie. To my ears the Teeside accent starts kicking in from the west side of Whitby. East side of Whitby is more Yorkshire.

Any time a TV series is set in the East Midlands the locals get given a generic Northern accent. So wrong, but the East Mids is quite hard to get right.

Managed another 50 miler today and it felt better than the last few, I think a bit of fitness is coming back now. I wasn't particularly quicker, but it required less effort to maintain the same speed. Maybe being fully card loaded after yesterday helped too. That's got me over 1,000 miles for the year now. Longest it's taken me to get there since 2016.

https://www.strava.com/activities/7003040248

I'm still on the old comeback trail and I think at the moment that 40 miles is the most I have in my legs for one ride. I've normally done a few Fondos by now, but they'll come - I hope.

Still, it was another nice day, managed to work up a bit of a sweat, even though I didn't see any discarded female underwear - hey, all the chicks round here don't wear any

Managed to get in two decent climbs today, just a bit slower than my best times for the year so far on them, but I'm now on one of the good bikes, so that just shows me how I've been knocked back. I'd say I'm about 10% down on where I was and reading an interview with a pro cyclist who's had COVID recently - and one whom I sometimes encounter when out and about - he say's he's about 105 down and he only had five days off the bike.

https://www.strava.com/activities/6992339019#

Congratulations to my mate Elisa Longo Borghini for winning Paris-Roubaix Femmes today. Not really a mate, but she'd high up the leader board on plenty of local Strava segments.

Envy of None - eponymous (In no hurry to revisit)
Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
Motorpsycho - Behind the Sun

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Quote from: Slim on April 15, 2022, 12:30:28 AMNoticed more small birds around than of late - is that a Spring phenomenon?

Mating season isn't it. They're all flying around looking for a bit of nookie, plus some of the Winter migrants are still getting together to fly back to their summer homes.

Managed my first evening ride of the year this week, thought I'd try putting a bit more effort in on Wednesday, didn't work. Thought I'd take it easy on Thursday, ended up putting a bit of effort in and doing OK.

Think I paid for it though today, was a bit of an effort at times, but I suppose that's to be expected after this year so far. It was nice to get out in the glorious warm spring sunshine in bib shorts and a short-sleeved jersey. Managed to get some work done on the tanlines, which were still quite well in evidence from last year.

Got a 38 miler in, which means I'm less than a thousand miles behind last year now!

https://www.strava.com/activities/6986535252/

Yes all that beautiful bird song, the dawn chorus, is essentially nothing but robins and blackbirds bragging about how big their todgers are 😂

Thankfully after we double glazed our house we couldn't hear the little buggers.