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[garynortheast]

Morning all. Wet morning here but it's supposed to dry up a bit later.

I seem to be spending a bit of time travelling back and forth to the midlands lately. Train ride to Wolverhampton today, for a little memorial service at the Quaker Meeting House for an old friend of mine who passed away a few weeks ago. I never made it to his funeral because I had covid, so I'm keen to go for this.

Managed to get a bit of gardening in yesterday, but I think anything else I do in that area is likely to be in the greenhouse or the potting shed, as the weather forecast is pretty dire for tomorrow.

What's everyone else up to?

[admin]

Grandsons here for the weekend. I'm exhausted already.

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[garynortheast]

Morning Org. Wet n' windy here this morning. There were supposed a few of us getting together to plant bulbs and plug plants on a grass bank here this afternoon, but the forecast is so poor we've postponed it.

A day indoors I think...

[Craig380]

Same here from what I can see out of the window. I'm glad my bike was clean, with a mist of FS365 and the chain lubed when I put it away after my most recent ride, otherwise I'd have to get my son to clean it

[garynortheast]

Originally Posted by Craig380

Same here from what I can see out of the window. I'm glad my bike was clean, with a mist of FS365 and the chain lubed when I put it away after my most recent ride, otherwise I'd have to get my son to clean it

[Sir Trev]

Managed to clear up most of the fallen leaves this weekend between the showers, washed the pots I used earlier in the year, and decided to strip and clean my hedge trimmers. The last one proved to be very sweary, but I blame Mr. C for showing how reasonably straightforward (his take, not mine) it was to service Stihl kit. His latest 'Tube video shows him servicing a monster stone cutting saw, so I dived in to one of my similarly orange trimmers. Got the blades clean and it's much easier to sharpen them one at a time in the vice, but reassembly is a sod as one blade jumps off its pin if you're not super careful. Got there in the end, and it runs sweet. Mercifully the other one has the same mechanism so when I'm less tired I'll do that one too.

[garynortheast]

Morning all. Sunny this morning , so off out for a walk with Mabel. I shall need to keep an eye on her as her claw is still not fully healed up.

[garynortheast]

Morning orgers. Chilly night last night - had to put the heating on for a couple of hours. Damn!

Off out into the hills today, leading a walking group on a local walk. Weather looks pretty reasonable here so, hopefully it'll stay dry.

I need to clean the bike this afternoon after yesterdays ride. It didn't get that mucky so won't need too much attention.

[Craig380]

Originally Posted by garynortheast

I need to clean the bike this afternoon after yesterdays ride. It didn't get that mucky so won't need too much attention.

This is the thing I dislike most about winter rides. I just don't like putting it away / leaving it dirty after a ride. I have to clean it. I should get over myself and be less fussy, but I can't.

It's the reverse of when I was 17 / 18, back then I didn't care how filthy the bike was. Age doesn't always bring wisdom

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by garynortheast

Morning orgers. Chilly night last night - had to put the heating on for a couple of hours. Damn!

Don't you have a thermostat to put the heating on? Ours comes on if its chilly enough and still some mornings it doesn't come on. This morning was one of those, it didn't come on early but then clicked on about 8:30. It's off again now.