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In contrast to the usual doom and gloom, post up the good things that have happened to you today ...
For me:
2 hours cycling before work on a crisp chilly day with blue skies and sunshine, with a similar ride home tonight 🙂
Decided it was 'cake friday' so bought a big chocolate cake to share with the lovely folks I work with - cue lots of happy workers and much munching of cake ...
Going to make a huge veggie curry for dinner tonight (to be accompanied by a nice glass of wine and my feet up)
Over to you guys ...
(have just noticed that biking, food and wine are all it takes to make me happy 😳 )
'Cake Friday'?
Right. Ok. I see....
😀
I went to the pub for lunch
*dozes*
Rode up to see my sheep on the way to work Sue!
[url= http://twitpic.com/76xc13 ]Bike picture (CX and muddy field content)[/url]
It's all sunny and nice today:
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What more can you ask for?
OK... cake.
Working on that... 🙂
Empty swimming pool at lunch, a rare and simple treat 🙂
Technically it could make either forum Sue. Its sort of half rice/half chips. Bi-forum if you like
Well... the suns out, I got my bike back last night from the LBS after major surgery. And for the first time in my life the bill was much less than I was expecting 🙂
Tapas for tea tonight and a few ales. Simple pleasures eh?
Cake Friday, you say?
I might have a kebab tonight actually....
Don't damage yourself again fella
Nice 2 hour road ride, off into town for coffee [s]and cake[/s], sun is out, have to get wig and some gold pants for a party tomorrow night.
The meeting I was supposed to have from 3-4:30 has been cancelled, so I get to leave work at 4 instead.
I paid for some new wheels from the classifieds on here.
Binners is that the intense fixed?
Driving home home tonight after work to catch up with my Mum tonight then my Nana tomorrow, been ages since I properly caught up with them as it has been a busy year so really looking forward to it.
Hopefully my mum will have made her world famous sticky toffee pudding and as it is a Friday I’m sure she will have a nice bottle of wine open too.
Saturday evening I’ll catch up with my dad in the pub for a pint or three and his usual far fetched stories then a long lie Sunday with the clocks and go and congratulate my best mate and his fiancé on getting pregnant on my way back up to Aberdeen.
More of a happy weekend than just a Friday but I’m really looking forward to it making today a good day.
It wasn't the kebab Binners. It can't have bin.
Kebab is healthy and nutritious.
Sat here scribbling away at a Top Secret New-Type design for something; I love it when the creative juices and ideas are flowing.
Later will come the 'now it's time to turn design into reality' phase, and that's when the soul-destruction will take place, when I've then got to go and deal with some numpty who won't have a clue what I'm on about cos 'they never do it that way' or some other such lame excuse...
(Cries in despair)
Just ate a Matador Pie washed down with a pint of Raven Gold.
Snoozing in front of teh Outlook now, watching all the crazy people talking...
I'm driving to the Peak tonigh to spend the weekend with my mates. Riding bikes, drinking beer and talking rubbish. And the weather forecast is pretty good.
Happy days indeed.
It's bloody lovely out.
I'm taking part in an informal night race / muck about in the woods with some new folk tonight.
Then tomorrow morning putting some miles in exploring local stuff round the edge of the Wolds, and scouting out new offroad commutes.
My cold has just about gone.
I'm halfway through a lovely cup of tea.
After a few weeks off the bike due to a bust finger and a badly bruised cruciate ligament, I did a group night ride during the week which I thoroughly enjoyed. Battling through the gloop in the dark never felt so good!
I'd been going a bit stir-crazy, feeling lethargic and generally crappy, not sleeping well etc. I've had 3 8hr+ nights of uninterrupted sleep and I feel awesome.
Now I'm just about to log off and do a quick 40 round the Trough of Bowland on my roadbike.
It is indeed Rusty. The spoilt, pampered American heap of overpriced scrap metal is back home, courtesy of Loctite
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new bearings, bushes, pivots, cables and (another bloody) bottom bracket. I hope its grateful. Me and Mr Starship are out on Sunday to give it a beasting down the Belmont 😀
[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/15-years-you-get-less-than-that-for-murder-these-days?replies=1#post-3107153 ]I've got my own Happy Thread...! [/url]
Good to hear you managed to get it fixed, i guess it will give you longer to save for the Transition Convert you were drooling over on the hora's next bike thread 😉
Been told I qualify for an extra chunk of money, this has cancelled out my general grumpiness, going to have a chinese later - this takes me into happy territory 😛
I'm off way Oooop North to MrsBouys parents farm laters with the bike in the back of the Van. Clean riding gear too (nice smell for a change, hahahaha) MrsBouys looking forward to see me too by all accounts (nice phone call earlier MWAxxx) and has already made a shedfull of Apple Pies (I love her) And we're attending a planning meeting tomorrow eve which will invariably get heated and angsty and end up in the Cat "n" Fiddle accompanied by Ale. I shall be making funny holes in Pumkins with BinL's kiddles and lighting tea lights, feeding cattle, walking in poo splattered fields, herding ducks and chickens, getting freezing fingers and cold shoulders, watching the sunset over the hills and generally kissing my own ass because I'm a very lucky Bouy indeedy..
MWA X all.
My ginormous specialist rubber item has arrived so I will be grunting and sweating trying to mount it tonight. I'll post pictures later
It's my 40th today so will be getting spoilt by Mrs MM and her family. 😀
The Transition has gone on the letter to Santa. I've got to admit I'm not optimistic though. Oh well 😉
New warranty brakes to fit (RX's) and I get paid tomorrow!
Mother in law is coming to stay 🙁
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Which means she can baby sit whilst I take Mrs J out for dinner 🙂
Every cloud eh Geoff 😉
Someone just gave me two chocolate digestives!
I woke up to find I was still alive...
Four day weekend starting today!! Nothing like a good puente to cheer me up.
Gah! No-one locally's got a bit of 18-22mm ply off cut, although the place down Poplar High St has a 2'x1' bit of 15mm stuff that might do the job actually so I best nip down and get it...
Every cloud eh Geoff
Indeed. 8)
Elfin - wot u building?
a go pro for my birthday, and i didn't even know i wanted one. my wife's awesome.
Its one of these isn't it Fred?
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@ Binners - 'bi-forum' 😆 But I've told you before half rice / half chips is not a good combo ...
What Tyres for Go-karts?
Elfin - wot u building?
It's Top Secret I'm afraid; all shall be revealed in the Fullness of Time.
It's actually 12mm but it'll be ok. I'm so excited I fear there may be tears before bedtime. 😐
Speaking of rice; I've got to go out again bloody hell meant to get some the other day bloody forgot again and I've just walked past a dozen rice shops. 🙄 😳
You have rice shops? Tsk! Bloody poncey southerners!
We have to get our wellies on and harvest our own in the East Lancs [s]paddy fields[/s] flooded swamp
I've just finished building bicycle number 100 😛 and now it's beer and curry time . . . that's it, my work here is done.
Have a good weekend folks!
I've just finished building bicycle number 100
Your [b]Wunundredth[/b] bicycle??? 😯
That's nearly as many bicycles as there are in Beijing...
Yeah, almost deserves a thread of it's own eh, Elf . . . but I'm not proud 😕 . Time to put a lid on it methinks 😆
[i]Its sort of half rice/half chips. Bi-forum if you like[/i]
*likes*
Taught two delightful children to ride bikes - and I got paid to do it 😀
Mamadirt - that's awesome! (speaking as someone who's far too technically incompetent to build even one bike let alone 100)
Trouble with having had a happy day is that I've ridden 50 miles, which was great, but legs and bum are now possibly too knackered to go mtb tomorrow ... need immediate recovery suggestions???
You'll be needing a leg n bum massage.
Getting a full weekend with my wife and kids as opposed to the 1/2 day last weekend and making the most of it by visiting Studley Royal tomorrow then Otley farmers market sunday and then a walk through Danefield woods.
Only 2 days til the kids go back to nursery/school (leaps around the room yelping with glee)
The Southern Yeti - Member
Empty swimming pool at lunch, a rare and simple treat
I'm wondering how a swimming pool with no water could be a treat? 😉