FNRttC Friday Night Ride to the Coast 18th March to Southend-on-Sea 2011

[Mice]

Hijack!
In tandem with myself, I would like to wish Timothy Hall, photographer, teepee aspirant, tandemista, another one of the good looking repair peloton etcc etc, an extremely lovely day celebrating his 50 not out, whilst batting for Life's XI in their current match against Livingpressure All-Stars XI.

Tim - good health and happy days! (Someone will be along with the cake soon)

Hijack! Tim - Happy Birthday to you!


Hope you have a great day - full of and and of course

M

 

[ianrauk]

^^^

LOL, did the speed camera flash?

ps Happy Burpday Tim

 

[redjedi]

^^^

LOL, did the speed camera flash?

ps Happy Burpday Tim

I'm surprised the shutter speed was fast enough not to catch more than just a blur

Happy Birthday Tim

 

[Tim Hall]

Blimey. I thought I'd kept it quiet. <fx: goes to edit profile>

Thanks everyone for the cakey wishes. Malted chocolate cake was made last night and scoffed in the office.

The magenta bike is getting a makeover as a present from Mrs. Hall. The Girl made me a klein bottle hat. (google it, you know you want to). The Boy is getting me cycling apparel too. My grate frend Penfold sent me a crate of beer from The Black Sheep brewery.

And now back to work.

 

[Aperitif]

Blimey. I thought I'd kept it quiet. <fx: goes to edit profile>

Thanks everyone for the cakey wishes. Malted chocolate cake was made last night and scoffed in the office.

The magenta bike is getting a makeover as a present from Mrs. Hall. The Girl made me a klein bottle hat. (google it, you know you want to). The Boy is getting me cycling apparel too. My grate frend Penfold sent me a crate of beer from The Black Sheep brewery.

And now back to work.

Everyone on here knows Klein bottles inside out Tim. Did yor grate friend Penfold send you the beer c/o The Rose Café perchance?
(I think I could probs. answer that for me as well ) Have fun!

 

[TimO]

I wasn't aware of the existence of Klein Bottle hats, but am now (I've known of Klein bottles themselves for many year). Googling for them, I see you can also get Mobius scarves. Very cool.

 

[ianrauk]

Talking of strange hats...
I want one of these

As modelled by the Very Reverend Billy Gibbons

 

[deckertim]

Tim
Happy birthday. A great vintage if you ask me.

 

[rb58]

Talking of strange hats...
I want one of these

Would you wear that under, or over, your buff Ian?

 

[Aperitif]

Tim
Happy birthday. A great vintage if you ask me.

Yeh - nice name too! Another few years and the 'vintage' will start to really mature.

Just go for the beardy bit Ian, it will save carrying a bit of bike polishing rag around with you!

 

[theclaud]

Did someone mention cake? Is there any left?

 

[Aperitif]

As referenced in The Crow Road. Much easier to make than a Klein Bottle hat as well, turn end and sew to other end.

I spent a lot of time with single sided surfaces - mostly during the sober bits of Art School. My tutor at Chelsea was John Ernest, a Moebius strip fiend... we used to make them out of the casings of fluorescent lights and try to resurrect the three-dimensionality! He was a fearful scotch guzzler too, European postal chess champion - I once made him a cake of three intersecting circles a logic cake! (Venn diagram in other words...)ah the good ole days.. "Happy Birthday Tim" See what you've done?

 

[Tim Hall]

Why did the chicken cross the Moebius strip?

To get to the other...

Bugger.

 

[TimO]

... Much easier to make than a Klein Bottle hat as well, turn end and sew to other end.

I wondered if that was cheating, and whether you could knit a Möbius scarf in one piece, but I'm not sure that's possible, since you effectively have to start at both edges, and join it together in the middle (sort of, but you know what I mean). ...

I think I'll leave it to the more exotically and technically advanced research knitters.

 

[swarm_catcher]

Going back via the bird sanctuary place is a nice route Frank - and you get to see the concrete barges too - along with lovely wide-screen views of the approaching London skyline.

Thought I would have a look at Two Tree Island after breakfast. Will take train back to London from Leigh-on-Sea.