FNRttC Cardiff to Swansea - 6th July 2012

[dellzeqq]

it was looking pretty grim this morning, but the forecast has lightened up a bit in the last couple of hours.

 

[Davywalnuts]

Spoke to Teef half hour back, he was just leaving Swindon. Been Sunny and warm with a tailwind all the way..

 

[kimble]

So, how much of the route is likely to need a snorkel...?

 

[Wobblers]

So, how much of the route is likely to need a snorkel...?

The Met and BBC forecast is looking quite... good really. I don't want to jinx anything by saying more - or rather, get the blame...

Is there going to be the usual meeting of suspects at Cardiff Central Station?

 

[theclaud]

I might have made a slight error in deciding to come home between work and the train, seeing as I work about 500 yards from the station, and I live five miles away from it and do not own a canoe.

 

[kimble]

I was thinking flooding rather than precipitation...

My train gets in at 22:31

 

[theclaud]

The Met and BBC forecast is looking quite... good really. I don't want to jinx anything by saying more - or rather, get the blame...

Is there going to be the usual meeting of suspects at Cardiff Central Station?

Too late, Wobblers - it was that comment of yours upthread that did it. I'm hoping that God is only mildly narked with you and is not gearing up for the full smiting with collateral damage.

 

[Wobblers]

You've made an error? I've signed up to join Teef in his grimfest from the bridge and I've got a perfectly good train ticket from the station only a couple of miles away

As you said to Davy: Jacket, sorted.

 

[Wobblers]

Too late, Wobblers - it was that comment of yours upthread that did it. I'm hoping that God is only mildly narked with you and is not gearing up for the full smiting with collateral damage.

"Wobblers", eh? Harrumph. May you be stuck on a tandem with Patrick on a damp Sunday afternoon.

I'll have you know that not merely is it not raining in Brum, but the sun is shining...

 

[Wobblers]

I was thinking flooding rather than precipitation...

My train gets in at 22:31

Like Scotland, Wales is used to a bit of rain. I'm sure you'll be fine with a pair of waders. Though I am taking the bike with mudguards.

Sounds like you'll be on the same train as I.

 

[CharlieB]

It was pi55ing it when I did a wee circuit round the Chilterns this morning, but a fine sunny ride down from Chesham to Slough for the train this evening. Getting in at 21:19, and heading for grub somewhere.
May the weather gods smile on us.

 

[BigGee]

just about to leave Bristol, bouyed by an Andy Murray win (that's sunday taken care of).

Its still raining here!

 

[clarion]

Hope it dries out for you, bold adventurers.

 

[kimble]

It did, mostly. Wet but in no way Mancunian. Majority of the water was on the road (and the backs of those who brought a suboptimal amount of mudguards).

 

[srw]

Hooray for mudguards*! I hope that other planned activities also proceeded well, and that quantities of fine Brains and Penderyn are being consumed.

(*Though I had a nasty discovery yesterday when I realised that the mudguards on my Dahon knock-off Trek folder are completely and utterly ineffectual.)