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[summerdays]

So, after 2 years of cycling, I have has my first accident. I was coming over the Bourgwalk Bridge and a group of teenagers were stood talking on the pedestrian side of the bridge. One of them stepped back on to the cycle path, I shouted and swerved to avoid him and crashed into the bridge. I have a sore wrist and knee but the main thing is that Maude is okay.

Ouch ... perhaps use some ice?

 

[Smithbat]

Ouch ... perhaps use some ice?

Already on it. FT sorted me out when I got home, it was the furthest I have cycled one handed for about 30 years!

 

[hopless500]

So, after 2 years of cycling, I have has my first accident. I was coming over the Bourgwalk Bridge and a group of teenagers were stood talking on the pedestrian side of the bridge. One of them stepped back on to the cycle path, I shouted and swerved to avoid him and crashed into the bridge. I have a sore wrist and knee but the main thing is that Maude is okay.

 

[raleighnut]

So, after 2 years of cycling, I have has my first accident. I was coming over the Bourgwalk Bridge and a group of teenagers were stood talking on the pedestrian side of the bridge. One of them stepped back on to the cycle path, I shouted and swerved to avoid him and crashed into the bridge. I have a sore wrist and knee but the main thing is that Maude is okay.

 

[Reynard]

So, after 2 years of cycling, I have has my first accident. I was coming over the Bourgwalk Bridge and a group of teenagers were stood talking on the pedestrian side of the bridge. One of them stepped back on to the cycle path, I shouted and swerved to avoid him and crashed into the bridge. I have a sore wrist and knee but the main thing is that Maude is okay.

Ouchie!!!

 

[Reynard]

Wheeeeeee, I got it out of the mould... Dunking it in a pan of hot water worked. It's not perfect - boiled sugar syrup a bit too much and then didn't whisk it quite enough - but it'll do for a first attempt.

I'd have another go tonight if I could, but it used up my entire supply of icing sugar...

Here's last year's lamb, but made in cake... (same mould though)

 

[Katherine]

So, after 2 years of cycling, I have has my first accident. I was coming over the Bourgwalk Bridge and a group of teenagers were stood talking on the pedestrian side of the bridge. One of them stepped back on to the cycle path, I shouted and swerved to avoid him and crashed into the bridge. I have a sore wrist and knee but the main thing is that Maude is okay.

Glad that you're both ok!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

So, after 2 years of cycling, I have has my first accident. I was coming over the Bourgwalk Bridge and a group of teenagers were stood talking on the pedestrian side of the bridge. One of them stepped back on to the cycle path, I shouted and swerved to avoid him and crashed into the bridge. I have a sore wrist and knee but the main thing is that Maude is okay.

ouch

 

[slowmotion]

After three months of exciting, devil-may-care recklessness, I finally decided that not bothering to install overflow pipes to my two new water tanks in the loft was ever so slightly risky. Realising the error of my ways, and as I screwed the top back on the bottle of uPVC solvent weld cement, I muttered a few words of thanks to St Vincent Ferrer, the patron saint of plumbers.

Edit: I think he's working on a novel heat-proof soldering mat.

 

[classic33]

After three months of exciting, devil-may-care recklessness, I finally decided that not bothering to install overflow pipes to my two new water tanks in the loft was ever so slightly risky. Realising the error of my ways, and as I screwed the top back on the bottle of uPVC solvent weld cement, I muttered a few words of thanks to St Vincent Ferrer, the patron saint of plumbers.
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You missed Saint Isidore of Seville, 4th April

 

[slowmotion]

You missed Saint Isidore of Seville, 4th April

Sorry Pal, he may be clasping a fancy bit of 22mm copper tube in his right hand, but there's no Rothenberger Superfire gas torch to be seen. He's a fraud!

 

[classic33]

Sorry Pal, he may be clasping a fancy bit of 22mm copper tube in his right hand, but there's no Rothenberger Superfire gas torch to be seen. He's a fraud!
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Patron Saint of Technology, and more recently the Internet, a fraud.
You need him on your side!

 

[TVC]

Sunshine again, it looks like Spring may be getting the hang of things.

 

[TVC]

Are you still in Potsy-land?

I said the sun was shining

 

[mybike]

Who invented duvets? I've just been wrestling with one that was being plain awkward. I'm sure if they put an inflatable liner inside , a bit like the emergency slides on airliners. A quick plug into a compressor and it would sort itself out.

Stuff the top corners into the top corners of the cover. Stand on bed. Grasp top corners of duvet through top corners of cover, hold over floor and shake.