h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Night GDZ.

After 20 or so minutes of refreshrefreshrefresh my olympic ticket application has gone through - just need to wait and see (again) whether we get tickets. What a pile of foetid dingoes kidneys.

The seat back with straps should arrive this morning for our new tandem - it fits onto the rear seat and should stop t'Boy falling off if he gets too tired. Then just need to fit the child seat over the rear wheel for t'other and I will be good to go again.

Have put in a temporary repair on my current bike and will ride it (carefully, nd with fingers crossed) to the bike shop later and get the chain replaced. Hate having to use the car, and walking these distances takes too long for impatient little boys!

Mornin All

Sunny and warm, at last. It's taken a week to aclimatise away from Portuguese sun to Manx summer.

Tough one, kelli. I believe I've never had a chain snap on me - not even in the glory days of my bicycling when I did 3000+ km a year just in transport. Branches, chickenwire, other stuff caught in the chain or rear derailleur, yes. Chain jumping off lowest or highest gear wheel front or back (and the latter is a real nuisance), yes. But always fixable at the cost of oiled and dirty fingers.

Oh, and never with two kids with me, too. So I'm surely with Yar in feeling the pain and wet of your ordeal.

[Nick]

I agree with Yar Kramer about the relaxing side of bicycle ownership, I just wish I ended up wet less often at the moment...

*Puts a v/_\3 on for nice, warm *

<BB<

I've not cycled for years, I don't even own one. I should really, then me K and could go out and get fitter.

As a Mancunian I have just found this rather :

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/manchester-begins-to-eat-itself-201106243992/

It relates to a rather more serious story on the Beeb:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-13900285

However, it's still very much a truism

The last bicycle that I owned, a sturdy multi-speed affair. Good intentions didn't last long, the sheer humidity we get here through the summer, the bike rested so long that the tires developed sun-rot ...

But a teen-lad of a friend has got very good use of it since.

I've ridden more this year than last, not hard to accomplish though.

Getting soaked really isn't fun.

I'm off to watch t20 cricket at Trent Bridge tonight with G, looking forward to it.

Haven't ridden a bike for several years now.

*Chloe notices that there's a CD among the calling cards on the Atelier Table*

*She picks it up and looks at it*

A85865980 - it says on the cover

*she slots it into the CD player, and music starts wafting out over the assembled salonistas*

Another epic song to add to the memoirs of the Salon

Erm, I thought: "'Is it my turn?' she says." ...

Like in:

"Hey, is this my turn?
You want me to sing now?
OK!"

?

(usual points for naming song, artist & album)

*sits back and reenjoys Greensleeves' song*

Greensleeves

[BB] Santra'ing south bound on the east coast main line with a grotty wireless signal, I'm averaging three re-loads a page.

If this gets through I'll be amazed

Peter Falk, aka Columbo, has died, age 83.

Greensleeves!

Bravo Greensleves

I spotted that on the news website Lil

I'd gone on it to find out if the cricket did restart: Went to watch Notts v Leicetershire in the twenty20, Nottingham completed their innings, but it was rained off after the interval, so no result We went about 8pm when further play was starting to look very unlikely.

>> Peter Falk, aka Columbo, has died, age 83.

Also Grandpa in Princess Bride and Maximilian Meen in The Great Race.

Off to Bedfordshire Sunday trying to catch a Barbel from the Ouse.

Have a great holiday, Tod!

A barking cat!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP3gzee1cps&feature=player_embedded

G'night all.

G'night and good morning.


HN