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hehe, yeah sorry for the annoying electropop.

I normally like to tie my vids together with a decent copyrighted tune but then of course I can't upload it to youtube so its a bit pointless.

thanks mate, it was :-)

#nogravel in Surrey on Saturday either. Here are some edited highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Ig90RKv-k

it sounds shit but essentially isn't this exactly what the Premier League did to the football league in the 90s? And wasn't the Champions league a response to the big clubs across Europe threatening to do this a while back too?

Follow the money

I'm in

Thanks man, I bit the bullet and for £24 bought a new automatic window opener.

Seems to be working well this weekend

A nice 60km gravel ride today. It was a loop but based around the North Downs way taking us from Headley heath in the west to Caterham in the East

cool bus, was going to make the what a beast pun re the 666 in the first pic but I see @russmeyer got in there first...

I would listen to whatever Colin says first as he does this shit for a living but in my more limited experience...

I would never use wooden fence posts. They rot very quickly. Yes you can treat and protect them but even if they last 15 years that comes around much faster than you think.

You then have the joy of digging out not only the remains of the fence post but the postcrete/concrete that was around the base (I had to do this in my garden).

Far more effective is to go for concrete fence posts that will last for a lifetime and not have to be redone.

fair enough, whatever works for you.

The clematis we are supporting are those that are pruned heavily each spring and then grow back up the trellis so firstly they never get too heavy and secondly the trellis gets cleared and a chance to repair/re-secure it every year if need be.

we just bought a couple of these and are very pleased - willow trellis, round top

Bless you

yeah we thought that would work but none of us had any

Took me a while 0n Sunday to realise why my rear mech wasn't shifting correctly until I spotted that the issue was literally under my nose.

Never had this happen before in 25 years of riding. Fortunately my eldest boy was carrying some zip ties and we bodged this fix which got me through the next 3 hours riding until the cable outer split further and we ran out of zip ties. Fortunately I was at the top of the hill so rode back to the car parked at the bottom.

a Polish tumblr yesterday

Tweaking the bars

I rode QECP today, just off the A3 in the middle of the south downs.

It was my first visit and I was impressed. A great network of graded trails (blues and reds) with a load of natural trails too.

Chalk based so probably like ice in the winter but from a chilly 3 degrees at 9am it soon warmed up in the sun and we were riding in short sleeves come lunchtime.

Here's my eldest boy on his 30th birthday and his best mate hitting the kicker at the bottom of the final red trail back into the car park

that reminds me of my favourite Milton Jones joke.

When people ask me what my wife does I tell them its difficult to say.

She sells sea shells by the sea shore...

Thanks although the books probably don't hold up to closer inspection.

Plenty of pulp fiction and kids books on there.

Alt. View

Yip I shall do that.

I bit the bullet and cleared out the bags and boxes and it already feels much more welcoming.

Edit: I even watered the orchids on the window sill

Various bits of home office kit will be ordered from Central procurement office later today

The alu tubes were corroded together but I used WD 40 to free them up and so the opener does slide up and down the barrel like it should if I support it (see pic below).

I think they have beeswax in the barrel, will this deteriorate over time?

Automatic greenhouse window openers. Should they last forever?

I inherited one of indeterminate age but despite it being 20 degrees in our garden in Surrey today and even warmer in the greenhouse it hasn't moved an inch

Big Suze

Ah okay, cheers. That one had passed me by...

who is the female at bottom right?