If it makes you feel any better I’m not on a specific trip on a motorcycle to Ireland. I’m away with work but because I have a van that isn’t full of tools I can get my motorcycle onboard for a Sunday ride. I’ve always intended on riding the full Wild Atlantic Way so in case I don’t I’m just doing what little bit of it that I can. Not sure I’d do it on a huge GS though TBH my Supermoto is enough but then like some of the German plated bikes I haven’t ridden 1,000’s of miles to be here.
Just did ZOOM meeting to discuss company crap but I do need to modify my will. Not willpower, or his friend, just my will. This picture is better! I've got two fans in my blowing cool air. Probably 12 meters away from the River Severn.
Just ordered a pair of Chelsea shorts, blue ones, to supplement the yellow ones I'm wearing right now. Because with a yellow t-shirt it looks too yellow, God forgive me for saying so. And I've got two fans pointing at me too. Can't see the Severn from here, though could see the bridge from Cleeve Hill. Which, along with Leckhampton, is what I'll be walking up on a daily basis to start getting fit and losing weight (again!) and why I'd rather not look a totally yellow prat. Some days I'll look a yellow and blue one. Chelsea away kit as sponsored by Ducati. Got more dihydrocodeine because I need it handy just in case. Might not be precisely off-grid but I bet they'd still send the air ambulance if I couldn't walk out. Also got my first prescription for statins - that I mostly eat stuff like olives, garlic, fish, plenty of greens, fruit and fibre it was a puzzle to me how I could have high cholesterol, but apparently therefore it's probably age, genetics... and smoking... and I was told I was 20% more likely to have a heart attack without them. So I'll give them a try if I'm going to start yomping up the steepest hill in the county, preferably in weather like today's. Though the common side effects in the data sheet give pause for thought. And that's yet another drug I'm on from Sandoz. Where's the justice in that, eh? A limited view but I like it.
so as we are including scenic shots in this thread lately, here's mine (and it was taken today). It shows a hill I know very well, 15 miles away, taken atop the North Downs.
Also very pleased with a purchase in The Co-Op, 500g of popping corn by Cypressa for just over a pound! I don't know if this was a mistake* but i'm back to buy 2 more bags tomorrow. *no, std price £2.20 per kg.
Just a little luck today as this Mallard and her sweet chicks were locked down in the walled garden with no exit plan, opened the other door and watch her head for the water area. Eight chicks on the water later but i thought i counted nine in total before the road trip started. Also the first Mot of five carried out for 2025.
A couple of years or so back I read something about British meteorological records, specifically how astonishingly few times it's snowed on Christmas Day, though many, perhaps most of us, seem to remember that it used to quite regularly. That's memory for you. And I've been thinking - before this latest heatwave - that I don't remember a June as wet and windy as it has been. Wimbledon or no Wimbledon. But perhaps that's just the unreliability of memory again. What I have done today though is begin to understand why Yanks are so keen on air conditioners.
