Wife has been clearing the garden and I've been "helping" with fire.
Wife takes a load of plants out of a massive pot to add compost to the soil. Plants are lined up neatly on the decking ready to go back in.
I come along with a brush and a bucket and introduce them to the fire.
Stupid.
Decided I didn’t like the colour of my
grips. So I decided I put new ones on and cut down the old one to cushion my bar ends. I had a brain fart and cut the brand new one instead there’s £20 down the drain.
Went for a pedal 6 days after COVID. Yeah that's hard to breath
Pressed the back button twice on an online survey and lost everything.
It was taking ages as well 🙁
Can I be bothered to start again....no.
Went in the sea. Only swam for a short way before realising I hadn’t taken my heart drugs this morning. Then didn’t have anything warm to wear to stop the late onset chills. Stupid. Fun though 🤪
Bought the wrong kind of brakes for my frame.
Found some cheap* Eclipse coping saw blades, happily ordered four packets.
When the ‘ we’ve dispatched your order’ email arrived almost immediately found I’d ordered 24 tpi rather than 14tpi. Doh. Not a disaster but will be a bit of hassle to sort out.
*as in 25% less than I saw 14 tpi elsewhere… but there is a reason- no one wants the 24tpi, certainly not 4 packets
Took opportunity in the sun to repair some of the rusty or broken paint areas of eldest_oab's van. Top coat looked like an excellent match - when wet...now darkening off as it dries..
Bought a cheapo £15 kettle bbq (looks rather similar to Weber Smokey Joe Original) because I wanted the air vent as part to modify another portable cheapo bbq from Wilko (which looks rather similar to Weber go anyway) which cost £20 ...
Started building some gap jumps over one of our streams that I will probably never be brave enough to try.
Picked up a box of 1000 wood screws out of the shed without checking that the lid was clamped down.
Spent £1500 today, not especially stupid but it turns out our fridge freezer packed up the same day my daughter needed a new bike. Not really stupid but the new bike means I had to promise to take them to Coed y Brenin next weekend which is 2 hours away. And I suggested my wife could stay home and enjoy a day on her own which means I won't be able to head out for a cheeky lap of something good myself.
Betting my last fiver in my bet365 account on Rees-Zammit scoring 3 tries or more.
This was after hearing Gabby Logan say that when Alun Wyn Jones got his 50th cap - they lost and when he got his 100th cap - they lost.
Should have just listened to her and gone for the treble 😀
Well done Italy though
Headed out on a road ride yo a cafe I thought was 30 miles away. It was 40 miles. Into a headwind.
(Un)comfortably my longest ride of the year so far.
Got sunburn after what feels like 9 years of winter. Don't even care, I feel like a new man.
Purchased yet another bag. This time retro NOS handlebar bag for the tourer. Stupid because I paid as much in again in postage and yet it still doesn’t give me the map/phone-pocket functionality that I really could do with. But it does look cool. I seem in the last few years to be turning into the Imelda Marcos of hike and bike luggage.
Ah well, now really will have to dig deep and earn a waterproof phone upgrade (and one with a battery that lasts longer than 30 mins)
Put my new gravel tyres on, didn't line up logos and valve on the back wheel
Spent ages looking at Adblue. Bought a 4.7l bottle instead of the 15l I actually need.
Rode a motorcycle round 7 junctions of the m25
Went food shopping hungry
Got sunburn
Got a bit pink myself at the cricket club trying to get the place ready for the season, mainly involving nailing Arwen-damaged rotten fence to try and get it safe enough, and my personal favourite job (massive lie) putting covers onto cover's frames having spent an hour trying to get jammed acorns out of the drain holes 😭
Filled the car with crap at 10 past 4 after google both my local tips, which said closes at 6pm.
When I arrived they were closed, it turns out thats the summer hours that start in April. Need to go at 10am tomorrow. but now all the slugs have escaped my garden waste and are crawing around the inside of the car...
Just tried some raw chilli MrsSB just bought..... 🥵
Fitted one new wall light. Started on the second, drilled one hole for the hanging bracket, drilled the second perfectly centred through a central heating pipe. Water fountain erupts, almost break the dog jumping over her to get to the stop tap. Dirty central heating water stains and 340 notes later having paid an emergency plumber to hack the plaster back and fix a pipe joint and I'm spending tomorrow refixing the cut out plaster board and attempting to skim over it.
Satin thr sum outsise th pub an d dranl 13 pint,s ov beeer.
Number 2 haircut with pale white line around the old hairline. Must be bad as I'm red haired and have naturally pale skin! Mrs TiRed laugher anyway.
got a bit of a sunburnt pate from working on the bikes this afternoon without a hat.
Drank red wine and vermouth. Now I feel like I have a cold.
opted for a hot cheese and onion pastie at the coffee stop on the club ride today.
Good decision at the time, it was delicious. But hot pastry and then cycling causes BAD indigestion, which made the return leg (which should have been the better one; tailwind and more downhill) quite a grind.
Tried to make my other half happy...
I am sure you all know how it turned out...
Drove over my bike. Knackers.
Went to meet the insurance assessor, building assessor and engineer to inspect the ruins of our house, foolishly thinking we’d get some decent information. Only the building assessor turned up, spent two hours totting up the damage and told us it will take forever to get a verdict.
Spent an hour last night mapping a route to ride today on the Garmin…… forgot the Garmin didn’t I !! Oh dear oh dear!!
Drove over my bike. Knackers.
I have questions🙋♂️
Just woke up - which although not a bad thing really, I woke with an idea to sell a bike I’ve spent a couple of years getting just right.
And selling loads of other bits to justify an e-bike.
Stupid thoughts!
Or are they?
Arghhhhhhh
Can someone hold my beer?
A touch greedy with the throttle yesterday, resulting in a high side exiting church at Anglesey circuit, first race weekend of the season, 2nd race.
Trip to Bangor and surgery on broken foot.
Decided to focus my art sales on commissions rather than just selling my completed art.
Sensible until I remembered I don't have any real art contacts to spread the word, don't have any galleries displaying my art at present and have only done about half a dozen direct commissions in the last 2 years.
Off to Winchester market with some sample art and some signs offering myself for art commissions. I will be the guy with the converted bicycle pedlars stall in a Big Bike Bash t-shirt all alone at the end of the market being ignored by the general public.
Wish me luck.
Removed a blown brake bulb, got distracted and then managed to refit the blown bulb instead of the new one. Took me a while to realise what I'd done when it wouldn't work.
Good luck.
Same situation here as you. Small artists need our own collective gallery :).
Stupidly I haven't done or planned anything stupid yet this weekend, the day is young however and I'm sure the universe will provide.
Drove to Leeds yesterday to visit a mate I've not seen since before lockdown.
Putting enough fuel in the car meant I had to sell a kidney to finance it.
Death roll in a GP14 resulted in an entanglement in ropes under a turtled boat yesterday. Couple of lungfuls of water and a bit of a flap from the safety boat.
Now counting bruises, digging out my safety knife to put back in my buoyancy aid and working out what the hell caused the capsize.
Spent ages looking at Adblue
Couldn't get past this bit, never mind what size you ended up buying
Who spends more than 5 seconds looking at Adblue - yep, that's adblue, buys it....?
Sprayed on suntan lotion. Put in frame bag. Went outside for long ride with OH. Got her a new road bike. She has never ridden a roadbike. She crashed into the hedge before we left our home and ended up upside down and made me go back and swap the bikes for the MTB hardtails. Forgot to switch contents of frame bag over.
4hrs of riding later and I have lobster red ears 🙁
On 'one last skiing run' I had a tumble, flying off the piste and into soft snow at the side.
It took ages to get the skis off and then back on. My goggles were full of snow, they steamed up and I've bumped the old bounce (hoorah for helmets). Apart from that everything is fine. Skiing without being able to see is not advised.
Put the summer tyres on...
Ignored my tiredness this morning and went for a hard ride before work regardless. Trails were boggy. Got stuck on a wet clay hill where a bridge had been washed away. Couldn’t get any footing and kept sliding back down. It took ages to get both bike and me up it together.
Finished without any further drama, came to work and have spent the day procrastinating due to tiredness.
Left honest feedback for a non-payer on eBay. It came back with a positive for them. No way to choose negative. Emailed eBay, the email got bounced back obviously. Properly stupid to even bother. Annoyed at the buyer, eBay and myself now, what a stupid waste of time and emotions!
My gravel bike has Shimano calipers. I haven't used it for a few months. My stupidity was thinking it would work instead of having contaminated the brake pads with leaking fluid. Again.
Quick check of the new tent. Will it go back in the bag now? No. Never again will it be contained since tasting freedom.
went for a hard ride before work regardless. Trails were boggy. Got stuck on a wet clay hill
This sunny weather does trick you into thinking trails will be summer like... And they ain't!
I went for a gravel-ish ride on Saturday and there were so many puddles! Yuech, wet legs :S
Death roll in a GP14 resulted in an entanglement in ropes under a turtled boat yesterday. Couple of lungfuls of water and a bit of a flap from the safety boat.
I've done that in a 420, its quite something t o be less than 2 inches from the surface and not be able to make that last stretch to air.
The worst injury I sustained though was slipping off the gunwhale as we went over and landing one leg either side of the stay. That was a "I don't give a shit about the race, take me back in now" type conversation 😀
Quick check of the new tent. Will it go back in the bag now? No. Never again will it be contained since tasting freedom.
Are you stuffing or rolling? I've found more recent tents require the former or they just won't go in, plus side being they take up less space I guess.
just made some peanut butter on toast where I was earlier chopping up dried red chilli's....oooo that's spicey toast!!!!
Maybe not as far as stupid, but I'm currently heading back home on the train from a long weekend seeing family in Prestatyn, wondering if I did the right thing.
I was tempted to stay another couple of days and include heading over to Stwlan Dam climb i had to abandon on Saturday, after encountering some dangerous crosswinds on the Denbigh Moor plateau after climbing Road To Hell for a second time.
But there's stuff to do back home and my better half is there holding the fort while ~15 months into her Long COVID work absence.
Plus mum has a fairly new rehomed second dog that is still settling in.
I rushed to clean MrsMC's bike this morning as she wants rid of it - managed to bend over too vigorously and tweaked my back. Rest of the week off and warm sunshine forecast. Bugger.
just made some peanut butter on toast where I was earlier chopping up dried red chilli’s….oooo that’s spicey toast!!!!
add some grated carrot, a bit of chopped corriander and a squeeze of lime next time.
bangin
I spent so long trying to work out a line then stopped for some food and took my helmet off. Then continued scoping then finally built up the courage to try it out.
Then afterwards realised my head was so cold because I'd forgotten to put my bloody helmet back on.
Then got accosted by some random woman who'd videod the whole debacle.
Oops
Looked too keen and over messaged the ridiculously cute girl I went on a riding date with at the weekend. Argh.
Went out on the bike when I should really be self isolating.
(Went out yesterday too actually)
@desparatebicycle
This sunny weather does trick you into thinking trails will be summer like… And they ain’t!
I went for a gravel-ish ride on Saturday and there were so many puddles! Yuech, wet legs :S
End of the summer and the wet season where I am, but certainly it’s wetter than ideal.
Found a packet of skittles in my work bag I'd forgotten about so thought I'd have a few with my breakfast. They may be chewy but one bite was enough to chip a tooth! Hopefully it doesn't go all sensitive as I don't have a dentist.
Looked too keen and over messaged the ridiculously cute girl I went on a riding date with at the weekend. Argh.
We've all been there!
Are thegeneralist and FFJA the same person? 😉 😀
Yesterday evening, MrsIHN and I decided to drive up the A6 through Hazel Grove at about half five, to go to Dunelm Mill in Stockport, to buy something we didn't really want. The evening included a walk of the dog around Stepping Hill Industrial Estate, and eating a McDonalds in, well, McDonalds' car park.
It wasn't one of our better evenings.
We’ve all been there!
Man, she must be exhausted.
over messaged
I read that as over massaged.
