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Help! BH weekend and i don't have any plans!

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Help.

Wife and daughter on on hols, GF is abroad (it's not as bad as it sounds). 🙂

What should I do? I live near The Peak.


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 11:15 am
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Do you have a bicycle?


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 11:18 am
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Do you have easy access to booze, a toastie maker and Netflix/Prime/iPlayer?


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 11:20 am
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Spend £1000 on head to toe Gore-Tex and go walk up and down Keswick high street. 80,000 people can't be wrong.


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 11:22 am
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I live near The Peak, we're going camping in The Peak

*looks out window

'Triffic...


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 11:22 am
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I'm on here, so obviously I have a selection of bikes, gravel, HT, FS.

Don't really drink and no toastie maker. I was hoping for some kind of outdoorsy suggestion? If all else fails it will be coke and hookers.


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 11:26 am
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18 Bikes 18th Birthday on Saturday.

https://www.18bikes.co.uk/blogs/blog/were-18/


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 11:27 am
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Coke and hookers while outdoors.


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 11:27 am
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I’m on here, so obviously I have a selection of bikes, gravel, HT, FS.

Do you actually RIDE them though? Cos as I understand it, that's definitely not a prerequisite for this forum! 😉


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 11:43 am
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Get on an appropriate bicycle, ride to Carsington Water and learn to SUP or windsurf or something?


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 11:48 am
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Shhhh. It's not a Holiday in Scotland.

Why, why, do we get the day in wet cold January instead?


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 11:59 am
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Because you have to be punished for having really good access laws.


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 12:04 pm
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Why, why, do we get the day in wet cold January instead?

Yeah, down here we get a wet, cold day in August instead, losers...


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 12:04 pm
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Shhhh. It’s not a Holiday in Scotland.

Why, why, do we get the day in wet cold January instead?

I get the English bank holidays now, wife and son both working/at school so long day out on the bike beckoning.

<checks forecast> Bugger


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 12:05 pm
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I'm not far from the peaks - you're welcome to come and paint my window frames. It'll help me so I can go and do more fun stuff like riding my bike


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 12:05 pm
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Buy the Lost Lanes Central book and do a couple of nice quiet gravel bike rides with coffee and cake stops


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 1:16 pm
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Help! BH weekend and i don’t have any plans!

Sounds like a great BH weekend to me!! 🙂


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 1:18 pm
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Sit on the settee and contemplate your navel?


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 1:20 pm
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Sounds like a great BH weekend to me!! 🙂

absolutely, I'd love to have a free BH weekend to myself to potter around the lanes and bridleways of the Peak District on my bike! 🙂


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 1:32 pm
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Go outside with back up girlfriend ?


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 1:38 pm
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What's a Bank Holiday? What's a weekend? Smug pensioner comment ?


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 1:38 pm
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I actively plan not to do things on BH weekends as there are 'other' people doing them, I'll stay home in favour of a quiet regular weekend thanks.


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 1:43 pm
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@ElShalimoFull book ordered, thanks.

@StuF plenty of work to do here thanks. I want to get away so I can forget about it! 🙂


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 3:59 pm
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What’s a Bank Holiday? What’s a weekend? Smug pensioner comment ?

A day off from The Man's lash.


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 4:12 pm
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Wife … on hols, GF is abroad

n+1 time.


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 4:29 pm
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Ride to thor's cave, manifold valley, hike up to the cave and they hike down with a bag full of litter dickheads had chucked on the floor.

Now in Ashbourne having a pint

https://flic.kr/p/2qbuXZj


 
Posted : 22/08/2024 6:01 pm
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Uh-oh, weather actually starting to look a bit better! Depending on how much my Lyme disease related malaise abates, I've been fancying a gravel loop around St Andrews and Tentsmuir (flooded singletrack notwithstanding). Maybe Monday could finally be the day!

https://strava.app.link/LhARvkX9hMb


 
Posted : 23/08/2024 10:17 am
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^^ a lovely loop, if it's dried out, had a cracking spin round a reduced version last summer :

https://www.strava.com/activities/9536230749


 
Posted : 23/08/2024 10:27 am
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n+1 time

Well he's already gone wife+1


 
Posted : 23/08/2024 10:34 am
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Bad planning, wife and GF away simultaneously.  On reflection, think I’d be happy to do nothing for once


 
Posted : 23/08/2024 9:41 pm
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Bank Holiday? Is there one sometime soon? They became irrelevant a few years ago when my job shift patterns required me working two weekends out of four. The compensation was I’d get over 200 days off a year, plus 25 paid days off, a day off for my birthday and a wellbeing day that could be taken any time I wanted. Now I’m retired, bank holidays have even less relevance.

My shift went - five days working, four days off, five days working, five days off, four days working, five days off. Rinse and repeat. Take four day’s holiday and have three consecutive weeks off.
They were 12 hour days, but stress-free and easy to deal with. I rather miss that job…


 
Posted : 23/08/2024 11:37 pm
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This is happening in Derby. Racing from 12


 
Posted : 24/08/2024 10:01 am
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https://www.justgoride.co.uk/ext/routes/278


 
Posted : 24/08/2024 11:20 am
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Ok so I decided not to go away. Just met a mate for a SUP, coffee and lunch. Now reading Lost Lanes Central and planning a ride.


 
Posted : 24/08/2024 1:38 pm
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What should I do? I live near The Peak

Stay at home, the Peak will be rammed.


 
Posted : 24/08/2024 9:48 pm

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