After three days of half-hearted Turbo Trainer use - but it felt so hard - due to cold weather and feeling rather under the weather due to a cold, I managed to get out on the roads today.

It gave me a chance to wear my new long sleeved base layer - my Disco Perv outfit as Mrs S calls it - new overshoes and new gloves. The Base Layer and Overshoes performed well, despite the overshoes being a struggle to put in - since buying them I've found people saying that Endura sizes come up small, ho-hum - but my gloves seem to be for for about 20 miles at 3C. Luckily I was out for 21 so didn't end up too bad fingerly.

Roads were a bit wet and ice free with just the occasional bit of snow transgression into the carriageway and it felt an awful lot nicer than slogging away indoors for an hour. Don't know as if I'll make it to 500 road miles in November though now, the weekend looks a wash out.

https://www.strava.com/activities/12957870538

Deep Purple - Come Taste the Band

What pisses me off - like it does with most adverts theses days is the:

"Create Exuberant" Create exuberant what?

"Live Vivid" Live vivid what?

"Delete Ordinary" Delete Ordinary what?

Adjectives and Adverbs are separate syntactical parts of grammar. Just because they both start with "Ad" it doesn't mean they are interchangeable. Go a bit further down that road and language becomes complete gibberish.

Deep Purple - Stormbringer

Yes, a good watch, watched it whilst eating my lunch.
From what I've read elsewhere, Gilmour seems to be a bit more chatty and open these days.

Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on November 16, 2024, 09:36:31 PMBe nice to get 12 more in tomorrow for 150 for the week, but the weather may not be too good. We'll see.

Weather wasn't good and I didn't feel good.

Decided to spruce up the Turbo Trainer bike yesterday. Chain was almost completely seized up, took a good hour to clean it up and get it moving, still several stiff links after that. Plenty of GT85 and lube seem to have it about 99.5% there now, might give it a try. Still don't feel good though.

Deep Purple - Burn (30th Anniversary edition)

Quote from: Matt2112 on November 19, 2024, 02:34:05 PMHad 2-3 inches of snow which started falling in the early evening yesterday. Looks like it's thawing now.

Same here.

Deep Purple - Machine Head (1997 remix)

Chesterfield gets an earliest sunset of 15:47 from the 9th to 16th of December.

Another month and the evenings start to draw out again The mornings keep getting darker though.

Coming down with the cold Mrs S and the boy have had.

Trump jnr doesn't approve

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-s-son-harshly-criticizes-approval-for-ukraine-to-strike-russia-with-atacms/ar-AA1ugo47?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=5b9475d8bf6d40c4bd91c1ed56694700&ei=5#comments

Quote from: Thenop on November 17, 2024, 05:51:02 AMWhat do you make of Martin's lyrics 

I can't say as I paid much attention to them. I had them in front of me, but I'm not a lyrics person, I make my own up.

Got out today, but not for long. Little brother came round to introduce his new lady friend to us, just a quick visit for a coffee. Three hours and a lunch later he left. Ho-hum.

Managed a quick 21.5 miles before sunset, it'll do. Be nice to get 12 more in tomorrow for 150 for the week, but the weather may not be too good. We'll see.

https://www.strava.com/activities/12915098497/

Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
Black Sabbath - Tyr
Black Sabbath - Cross Purposes

All on Ultra Clear Vinyl and all very good pressings.