I'm soooo 80s!!!
Sunday, 28 April 2013
Sunday, 21 April 2013
CMA AGM
Bad day for bikes Wednesday thanks to a woman whose only concern was dropping her kid off at school. After dithering past a couple of small gaps in a row of illegally parked cars she accelerated away, then braked suddenly when she changed her mind and wanted to turn around in a side road. Bike was lent over when I braked, so I dropped poor Gladis. Says a lot about society these days that people ignore the law just so they can drop off their kids, that they are unaware of queues of traffic they are causing, that no-ones cares whether the biker is injured, that no-one helps the biker get their bike out of the road, that after causing an accident the driver argues with other drivers (who were telling her that she has stopped suddenly right in front of me) drops her kid off, then comes back to argue with me (thinking that 'I'm 29, I've been driving 10 years' absolves her of all blame).
Anyway. Forget it. Just me paying for other people being idiots yet again.
CMA National AGM hosted by the East Mids branch this weekend. Great to see people I've met all over the country again. Amy and the guys came down from Forth and Tay, Rob (1200 Sportster) from Birmingham. We did supper and fellowship Friday evening, easy enough. Usual 5 mins late Saturday morning for my stint on Holy Joes. Morning spent with an apron on, sorting HJs, wiping up, chopping tomatoes etc. Parking duty at lunchtime. Its a special talent to spend your morning preparing food, then miss out on it completely! AGM itself was really long. We had cunningly got ourselves the sofas in the corner hehe. Drawback in that plan was having to kick Lesley when she started snoring! Although to be fair, all of the apron wearers fell asleep at some point! Had to leave for a pee halfway through the interesting debate about the nature of the National Rally/Conference.
More bike parking duty (wearing a hi vis and nodding/waving at the guys leaving!). Discovered a new bike.. Yamaha Bulldog. V nice. (Best not let Gladis hear me say that).
I have to confess to drooling over a Fat Boy again!
Poor Gladis made to look small again
Alex has got a gorgeous new bike.. 10 year old Heritage Softail. Lovely. Pearlescent White (blue sparkly bits in the paint). He let me sit on it. Still can't see myself handling a beast like this. Ian recommended a Charles Atlas course. And a few 'light breakfasts'.
Collected 60 lots of fish and chips for tea. Then the quiz. Later that night I felt bad for taking over in my team and not letting others answer more. Then I thought stuff it. Its the only thing my brain can do.. answer questions on rubbish. Well, not rubbish. Freddie Mercury's real name and lyrics from Bo Rap was just playing into my hands! Anway, we won. And Mike Fitton was hilarious at rubbing it in. More clearing up and home earlier that I'd hoped.
Car boot briefly.. spotted the 'quick cup' for Becky and Sarah..
..then mad rush back to All Saints for their service (mad rush as iPad died). Luckily Gladis is good at squeezing into small spaces at the last moment. Great sermon from Mike. Goodbyes to the few that stayed all weekend. Managed not to drop Gladis with everyone watching. Sunday afternoon faffing, ironing, reading, nap, then MotoGP. Cal got 4th.
Anyway. Forget it. Just me paying for other people being idiots yet again.
CMA National AGM hosted by the East Mids branch this weekend. Great to see people I've met all over the country again. Amy and the guys came down from Forth and Tay, Rob (1200 Sportster) from Birmingham. We did supper and fellowship Friday evening, easy enough. Usual 5 mins late Saturday morning for my stint on Holy Joes. Morning spent with an apron on, sorting HJs, wiping up, chopping tomatoes etc. Parking duty at lunchtime. Its a special talent to spend your morning preparing food, then miss out on it completely! AGM itself was really long. We had cunningly got ourselves the sofas in the corner hehe. Drawback in that plan was having to kick Lesley when she started snoring! Although to be fair, all of the apron wearers fell asleep at some point! Had to leave for a pee halfway through the interesting debate about the nature of the National Rally/Conference.
More bike parking duty (wearing a hi vis and nodding/waving at the guys leaving!). Discovered a new bike.. Yamaha Bulldog. V nice. (Best not let Gladis hear me say that).
I have to confess to drooling over a Fat Boy again!
Poor Gladis made to look small again
Alex has got a gorgeous new bike.. 10 year old Heritage Softail. Lovely. Pearlescent White (blue sparkly bits in the paint). He let me sit on it. Still can't see myself handling a beast like this. Ian recommended a Charles Atlas course. And a few 'light breakfasts'.
Collected 60 lots of fish and chips for tea. Then the quiz. Later that night I felt bad for taking over in my team and not letting others answer more. Then I thought stuff it. Its the only thing my brain can do.. answer questions on rubbish. Well, not rubbish. Freddie Mercury's real name and lyrics from Bo Rap was just playing into my hands! Anway, we won. And Mike Fitton was hilarious at rubbing it in. More clearing up and home earlier that I'd hoped.
Car boot briefly.. spotted the 'quick cup' for Becky and Sarah..
..then mad rush back to All Saints for their service (mad rush as iPad died). Luckily Gladis is good at squeezing into small spaces at the last moment. Great sermon from Mike. Goodbyes to the few that stayed all weekend. Managed not to drop Gladis with everyone watching. Sunday afternoon faffing, ironing, reading, nap, then MotoGP. Cal got 4th.
Sunday, 14 April 2013
Small is Beautiful
Friday: Been looking forward to it all week. Becky and Sarah came over for Pizza and games. LOTR Trivial Pursuit finished in a three way draw. Was excellent fun.
Busy day Sat, that felt really slow. Went to Ben's to clean bike.. results not as good as I'd hoped. Then ran with Josh for the last time in his cross country race at Frisby. Got nicely muddy. Then on the treadmill at home for a 5k blast. Note to self: never run in skins indoors! Bath and Bronte, and then the usual unshakeable weariness. More sorting MP3s from the old PC in the evening.
Sunday. Fab day. Started with car boot.. really late getting there despite having got my bags ready the night before. Just can't believe how nice it is to be warm at last! (Although still wore coat and wellies).. wind looking more than promising..
I can see an evening of CD to iPod-ing on the horizon!
Late to church. Oops. Sat on the floor at the back. In that kind of mood. I had really missed Tyler's drumming over the last few weeks away or at CTK. Some monster fills.
Straight off to Watermead, well, after quick picnic in tescos car park. Guys all there by the time I rolled up. So easy just grabbing a board out of the container, hurrah for club kit. Chose the easy option re wetsuits too!
About ten seconds in I was wondering what I was doing there, and a couple of minutes later I was wading back dragging my board, asking myself out loud why I still try to do this when I evidently am truly awful at it.
Then Anthony swapped me over from a 4.8m to a 3.0m sail.
And we're off! More than enough pull in the gusts... way more! But, small enough to handle, and to repeatedly haul back out of the water! I think in the end I did the most sailing.. and was the only that didn't leave a board somewhere round the circumference of the lake! Really good fun, getting quite a lick on when I could control the massive gusts. Some VERY cold dunks when I couldn't! I think today is the first time I have had to swim after the board as I have landed so far away from it, and it has sailed off without me.
I think I agree with Sarah's theory that I am a low arousal Aspie. I do stay very calm and logical in situations that would make others panic. When doing helicopters by accident and ending up underwater with a sail over my head for example.
Pops' Golf doing a fair job of pretending to be a surf van..
Triumph Stag making a better job of it!
Small is beautiful.
Was feeling quite good about myself. Until I got on shore to discover that they had been sat at the picnic table analysing my technique. I do 'Poo Man' surfing. John says I'm too on my heels. Mrs Anthony says I need to not stick my bum out. Thanks guys.. can we go back to 'put your hands up if you haven't abandoned a board on the other side of the lake today'?
Nice and easy to pack up. No board to struggle up 3 flights of stairs with. Good job, as knackered. Better after shower. Intended a nap while watching Victoria Wood telling me all about tea. Couldn't sleep. So.. Hay Day and blogging and the predicted CD ripping. Shawshank Redemption on now, so less blogging more watching and eating Doritos. Nice Day.
Busy day Sat, that felt really slow. Went to Ben's to clean bike.. results not as good as I'd hoped. Then ran with Josh for the last time in his cross country race at Frisby. Got nicely muddy. Then on the treadmill at home for a 5k blast. Note to self: never run in skins indoors! Bath and Bronte, and then the usual unshakeable weariness. More sorting MP3s from the old PC in the evening.
Sunday. Fab day. Started with car boot.. really late getting there despite having got my bags ready the night before. Just can't believe how nice it is to be warm at last! (Although still wore coat and wellies).. wind looking more than promising..
I can see an evening of CD to iPod-ing on the horizon!
Late to church. Oops. Sat on the floor at the back. In that kind of mood. I had really missed Tyler's drumming over the last few weeks away or at CTK. Some monster fills.
Straight off to Watermead, well, after quick picnic in tescos car park. Guys all there by the time I rolled up. So easy just grabbing a board out of the container, hurrah for club kit. Chose the easy option re wetsuits too!
About ten seconds in I was wondering what I was doing there, and a couple of minutes later I was wading back dragging my board, asking myself out loud why I still try to do this when I evidently am truly awful at it.
Then Anthony swapped me over from a 4.8m to a 3.0m sail.
And we're off! More than enough pull in the gusts... way more! But, small enough to handle, and to repeatedly haul back out of the water! I think in the end I did the most sailing.. and was the only that didn't leave a board somewhere round the circumference of the lake! Really good fun, getting quite a lick on when I could control the massive gusts. Some VERY cold dunks when I couldn't! I think today is the first time I have had to swim after the board as I have landed so far away from it, and it has sailed off without me.
I think I agree with Sarah's theory that I am a low arousal Aspie. I do stay very calm and logical in situations that would make others panic. When doing helicopters by accident and ending up underwater with a sail over my head for example.
Pops' Golf doing a fair job of pretending to be a surf van..
Triumph Stag making a better job of it!
Small is beautiful.
Was feeling quite good about myself. Until I got on shore to discover that they had been sat at the picnic table analysing my technique. I do 'Poo Man' surfing. John says I'm too on my heels. Mrs Anthony says I need to not stick my bum out. Thanks guys.. can we go back to 'put your hands up if you haven't abandoned a board on the other side of the lake today'?
Nice and easy to pack up. No board to struggle up 3 flights of stairs with. Good job, as knackered. Better after shower. Intended a nap while watching Victoria Wood telling me all about tea. Couldn't sleep. So.. Hay Day and blogging and the predicted CD ripping. Shawshank Redemption on now, so less blogging more watching and eating Doritos. Nice Day.
Friday, 12 April 2013
Spring?
First time in 7 months I have taught a PE lesson and still been able to feel my hands afterwards.. and now the sun is peeking through the closed blinds at Jamie's. First windsurfing club day on Sunday... phone says it will be windy. We may well get rain with that.. but I will be wet anyway! Could double figures too be too much to dream of? (above zero makes a nice change!)
Last Saturday.. a moment of madness!
Yeah, yeah.. I know.. there's a couple of threads hanging from my shorts!
Last Saturday.. a moment of madness!
Yeah, yeah.. I know.. there's a couple of threads hanging from my shorts!
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Finally.. Bumble on the road to recovery
At long, long, long last.. Bumble is on the road to recovery. Just had a phone call from insurance company... they are going to give me a cheque to pay for the replacement of the locks.. as they lost my spare key and the barrel out of the lock on the sliding door. They are also going to transport him back to Norwich tomorrow. So, thank you God for the progress so far. Next can you please show Pops why he won't start and make it something really simple! Thanks God!
Thursday... would be kinda ironic/poignant, but he wasn't actually an AA van..
Thursday... would be kinda ironic/poignant, but he wasn't actually an AA van..
Sunday, 7 April 2013
The Long Way Round
First car boot of the year. Glad to be out in me wellies, with me bag of 50ps again..
Most successful purchase of the day was what I suspected might be a microwave egg poacher. Mum was unable to confirm, as was the seller. Becky however, was over the moon, as she will now 'be able to eat at the same time as her peers' when cooking breakfasts on a Friday night. After stick fighting and hot tub she poached 8 eggs separately and got her tea after everyone else had finished. Should also explain that the wand is for a Harry Potter party they are planning for their child. The robes didn't fit, but the child's Tigers tops did.
Then off to CTK for the service (alas, no Mandy, but plenty of Dibley moments) then caching with Becky and Sarah. First one easy enough, at Swithland Reservoir..
Second had the strongest magnet in the universe!!! This was the first of many 'ideal homes' we found for Harley. Decided that the Linnetts would have one of the many huge houses, and I would have the house sized garage to live in..
The trek to the next cache proved somewhat lengthy, when just after this we discovered a break in the path and trees and fences in the way of getting our intended route.
Heading into Quorn.. more random unexpected wildlife while caching..
Heard the train, and ran to the bridge, and struggled to get the camera out in time.. Messed the angle up.
Found the cache at the bridge, thanks to a moment of genius from Becky figuring out the hint. Would have been gutted if we hadn't been able to find it having walked so far. Luckily there was another route back, but it was almost as long. We did come across the train again, and I just managed to wrestle the camera out of the rucksack again. Much better pics..
And we got a wave!
Another lovely day out. Minor disappointment on discovering that the chippy is closed on Sundays. First race of the new MotoGP season at 7:30. So very excited. Would have been happy with Rossi in 6th.. but give that boy a decent bike and you can't stop the racer. It just got better and better. Sad for Cal, but last few laps were unbelievable. So glad he whooped the Rookie. Don't like Marquez. Yamaha 1, 2. Hopefully if Rossi can get decent qualifying and decent starts then he will be able to take the title from flippin Lorenzo. ... THE DOCTOR IS BACK!!!!
Lets not think about going back to school tomorrow. Meh.
Most successful purchase of the day was what I suspected might be a microwave egg poacher. Mum was unable to confirm, as was the seller. Becky however, was over the moon, as she will now 'be able to eat at the same time as her peers' when cooking breakfasts on a Friday night. After stick fighting and hot tub she poached 8 eggs separately and got her tea after everyone else had finished. Should also explain that the wand is for a Harry Potter party they are planning for their child. The robes didn't fit, but the child's Tigers tops did.
Then off to CTK for the service (alas, no Mandy, but plenty of Dibley moments) then caching with Becky and Sarah. First one easy enough, at Swithland Reservoir..
Second had the strongest magnet in the universe!!! This was the first of many 'ideal homes' we found for Harley. Decided that the Linnetts would have one of the many huge houses, and I would have the house sized garage to live in..
The trek to the next cache proved somewhat lengthy, when just after this we discovered a break in the path and trees and fences in the way of getting our intended route.
Heading into Quorn.. more random unexpected wildlife while caching..
Heard the train, and ran to the bridge, and struggled to get the camera out in time.. Messed the angle up.
Found the cache at the bridge, thanks to a moment of genius from Becky figuring out the hint. Would have been gutted if we hadn't been able to find it having walked so far. Luckily there was another route back, but it was almost as long. We did come across the train again, and I just managed to wrestle the camera out of the rucksack again. Much better pics..
And we got a wave!
Another lovely day out. Minor disappointment on discovering that the chippy is closed on Sundays. First race of the new MotoGP season at 7:30. So very excited. Would have been happy with Rossi in 6th.. but give that boy a decent bike and you can't stop the racer. It just got better and better. Sad for Cal, but last few laps were unbelievable. So glad he whooped the Rookie. Don't like Marquez. Yamaha 1, 2. Hopefully if Rossi can get decent qualifying and decent starts then he will be able to take the title from flippin Lorenzo. ... THE DOCTOR IS BACK!!!!
Lets not think about going back to school tomorrow. Meh.
Friday, 5 April 2013
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Most awesome cache yet
Went caching today with Becky and Sarah. We went to Croft in Leicestershire and found spent the afternoon looking for a brilliant multi cache. Each stage required a different tool to get the numbers for the next co-ordinate. My favourite was the one requiring a magnet.. magnets are cool anyway.. but even cooler when your team mates bring a magnet on the end of a fishing rod!!!
Fishing for ferrous bolts.. Caught one!!
Spanner outside a pub..
My wife is taking photos. I'll just sit down on a lump of grass and wait..
As easy as falling off a log...
I left the Woody Cars trackable in here.. hopefully the next finder will be as chuffed as me..
Off to the Toby at about 3pm for dinner! Biiiig carvery. Couldn't fit in an 'afters'. By the time we got to Thornton's in Fosse Park I'd made room for a scrummy ice cream hehe. Cooooold bike ride home.. but I can do it without GPS now.
Will adding .jpg to the ones I downloaded from Becky's FB mean they work now???
Yes, seems so. Hurrah!
Fishing for ferrous bolts.. Caught one!!
Spanner outside a pub..
My wife is taking photos. I'll just sit down on a lump of grass and wait..
As easy as falling off a log...
I left the Woody Cars trackable in here.. hopefully the next finder will be as chuffed as me..
Off to the Toby at about 3pm for dinner! Biiiig carvery. Couldn't fit in an 'afters'. By the time we got to Thornton's in Fosse Park I'd made room for a scrummy ice cream hehe. Cooooold bike ride home.. but I can do it without GPS now.
Will adding .jpg to the ones I downloaded from Becky's FB mean they work now???
Yes, seems so. Hurrah!
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