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Anyone else in an office looking at blue skies and warm weather outside, dreaming about long grassy banked descents with a rocky drop ending in an even steeper descent? Dry stone walls and gates, sheep that stare at you and then startle and flee as you approach, barbed wire and streams running to rivers, little wooden footbridges with dank muddy banks.
Anyway.... the quarterly report requires my attention....
Yes, looking forward to my ride home through the finest Hampshire country lanes this evening!
Aye its terrible!
Group nite ride Tonight, yay!
I've got a window just behind me - luckily I had to shut the blinds down, as I couldn't see what's on the screen due to that horrible sunshine glare!
I can see the sun dappled hills from my desk and it's horrible.....
It's okay, because:
My bike is in the next room waiting for me.
I can see where I'm going riding in 'about' 79 minutes.
We've got an old, low-rise office so we can have all the windows open.
I'm free to come and go as I please, so I've been for a little walk.
Oh, I think we're having Magnums for lunch tomorrow.
I'm in a blue office looking out at a grey sky.
Nope, i start work early so am home by 2.30pm.
I've got Friday off to cycle.
Yup, compounded by the fact that a chap at work is selling his mum's house in Brittany. Nice old cottage in a nice little French town, three bedrooms, third of an acre. £33k. No, there is no zero missing. Cue a number of conversations between me and MrsIHN about whether we could afford to just say f__K it, and move to France ...
Go self employed, work from home & bunk off when you fancy.
edit- IHN, just do it. You're here once.
Half day today, have just taken my 2 year old son down the singletrack at chicksands bike park.
Now sitting in the sun eating a snack and going to do some more.
The world really sucks right now.
Aye, and it doesn’t help that the view from my desk looks directly across to one of the local hills, but on the plus side I’ve just received a nice email from Bird confirming my AM9 frame is about to be shipped so I'm suddenly feeling a bit more chipper now 🙂
It's so sunny I've just booked Friday off to go riding instead of work, so I'll apologise in advance to everyone in Surrey for the rain that we'll now have at the end of the week...
I'm taking Friday off to ride down here in sunny Devon.
I just hope the weather reports are right!!
Here's one of those grassy banked descents. 10 points if you name the location...
Woods behind Nationwide?
Nah just enjoying the trip home in the sun. Enjoy the days out and don't get hung up on missing one
Win Hill?
Hayfield. l walked our Westie along there this morning before work.
10 points Monksie. My first time over there on Monday, you live in a very scenic part of the world.
Britain is so beautiful, that’s a great picture.
After being injured for 2 years I went out on a bike for 30mins as part of my rehab. Went down a shirt off road bit and felt like I was 15 again as I was just in normal shorts and a t-shirt and Vans with no helmet, in the fading light of a lovely Yorkshire day. Bliss.
My office overlooks Biggin Hill airport - which is one of the highest points in Surrey.
When seated at my desk, the view is almost all blue sky, until a Spitfire flies past - so it's definitely spring.
Tomorrow is the first day of my effort to commute to work on one day a week, by road bike.
The ride in is 26 miles, gradually uphill, through the Sussex/Surrey/Kent country, with an ascent of the North Downs at 23 miles.
I can tolerate the view from the window, because I know how much I'm going to enjoy the ride home.
Work is the norm that allows us to appreciate the highs.
The downsides of working primarily with US companies is conference calls until 8 or 9 pm. The upside is getting your sunshine fix by riding in the morning 🙂
Sacked work off at 3 to make the most of it.
Nice ride from home to devil's elbow and lady cannings. First ride on the full-suss for 5-6 months. Running totally sweet!
Worked until 5. Nipped home and did a 3hr ride without needing lights. Has riding ever been so good?
Managed 2.5 hours before the call of the pub became too strong.
okay, as I ride goes it wasn’t the best, the wood are unsurprisingly still a bog even after almost 8 hours sun, but as an evening it was wonderful, warm, no wind, just a couple of laps sliding about and half an hour shooting the shit with a mate and watching the world go by.
Errr..Nope!
Had a cracking ride out with Ian Bell ( Bike Place Kielder prop.) ..out of West Woodburn , Fourlaws Plantation& The Wanneys..with a little trail maintenance along the way ..21c..with a cooling breeze ..
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..aint self employment brilliant !😉
It was a masterstroke working over a wet Easter: cashing in a day off tomorrow for my first MTB ride of the year. Hopefully I’ll remember what to do.
I can tolerate the view from the window, because I know how much I’m going to enjoy the ride home.
I was right. Even a cleat working loose on the last climb, this morning, and running out of steam a bit, on the way home (forgot my 4 o'clock snack) couldn't spoil it.
Sure as hell beat the normal battle with the numpties on the Motorway
Was trapped in That London yesterday, rang wife, rearranged a few things, worked this Am in London, flew home, 10 mins in house, into already packed car and now sitting having a whisky in Aviemore 🙂
The hills are just opposite my office .
Thanks to french employment laws , the working week is only 35 hours , so i am always done by 3.30pm . 2pm on a friday .
mtb yesterday , 1200m of climbing over 30km but 2 EWS downhills ;
Road today along the river and back ;
and more MTB tomorrow with more EWS downs .
Even worst!
Day off and spending it inside a hospital!
Noticed a rash on my arm yesterday and my finger has swollen up.
i have had a mad allergic reaction to something!
Currently staying overnight in an emergency ward with my arm elevated and on an antibiotic drip!
No riding for a while!
Max
Well my "office" all this week is outside under the blue sky, surrounded by hills, pulling up barbed wire as I try and fence out the 1000 new trees planted last month so that I can let the sheep back in that field. Rest time is spent sat under a tree near the pond I dug a couple of months back, punctuated by the soft muzzles of sheep and their lambs coming to see if I have any "sheep nuts" for them in my pocket. It is just a bit too hot for my liking and sweat is pouring out as I hammer in staples by the hundred, painfully aware that this dry spell could end at any moment. Still another 300 metres of wire to unroll and stretch out before stapling to the posts. Hopefully tomorrow I will break the back of it though. It is not like I don't have another thousand jobs to do now the ground has dried out enough to do something.
I might be financially poor but I could never go back to sitting in an office.
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Ok. Tomorrow I’ll be handing in my notice with my employer.
i live in Geneva and have been working with gobshites for a couple of months, but no more,
money just isn’t worth it sometimes.
**** them,I want to ride my bike and my wife is fully supportive.
That’s that taken care of.
Just gave notice so after next week I’ll be free to enjoy my bikes in and around the alps again and breath the fresh air, free of tinge of corporate bullshit.
Nice one On+On. I applaud your stance. What are you gonna do for money? Do you have tons of inherited wealth? ;o)
I have a ton of savings from a contract role I did in the UK before moving to Switzerland
and my wife is an SVP for a large Corp ( she loves her job )
So ill be effectively a house bitch. Cook clean iron and ride bikes.
I just took this picture of the Jura mountains from my bedroom.
next week they’re all mine to explore.
It's always the same for me when the weather turns. Too much time staring out of the window. I'm only 10 minutes away from Peaslake too.
This afternoon however, I will be disappearing early and going for a blat on the way home. Looking forward to shorts & t shirt riding weather again. I am so sick year of mud, and all the layer to ride in.
Riding again tomorrow and racing on Sunday. Certainly making the most of it this weekend.
Nope, retired so heading off now in the sunshine for a day of bumbling and exploring to survey some nice bikepacking locations in the Mourne Mountains
Nothing exciting on the scenery front, but god it was good to be out in the sun again.
Nope my one small window looks out into a corridoor but hey the last office didn't have a window at all so things are on the up! Heading straight off from work this evening straight to Betws-y-coed so can't complain too much.
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Nice weather but did you actually leave the road? Hope so, otherwise peaked helmet and hydration pack fail 😀
Will probably go home a more interesting way tonight
Nice weather but did you actually leave the road?
70% offroad today, some link up sections of roads of course. But mostly trails.
mmm love that Guinness lager. V nice
I also love that ride home after a pint in the sun. No rush. strap the helmet to the pack and feel the breeze on your face. Feeling a bit quiffy, get some more beers ont way home!
Swap with you.....unemployed for nearly a year now and it’s not good.
Go self employed, work from home & bunk off when you fancy.
BUNK off... you sure you meant to say BUNK off??
DrP