Tea? (Part 2)

[coffeejo]

It's getting worse ... I've even remembered to post the card to my friend who has just had a baby.

I need . Hope the bikit tin is locked away. Potsy's back on his diet. Actually, so I am, but it's much more fun to tease him, non?

 

[potsy]

I need . Hope the bikit tin is locked away. Potsy's back on his diet. Actually, so I am, but it's much more fun to tease him, non?

No jaffa-nips for a whole month

 

[TheDoctor]

I have just done a write-up of my weekend.
I have a few photos that didn't really fit into the narrative. One of them is of a delightful bridge

It's just such an elegant little structure, and a nice shade of blue against the sky.
Hang on, what does that red sign say?
Let's zoom in on it.

Well, that's us told. Or one of us anyway.

And French pylons. They look very different to ours.

Do they look like wols, or am I completely losing it?

And I'm amazed this photo worked. It's very hard to catch something that's doing 180 mph.

Not cropped, photoshopped or anything.

And finally, I just had to get one of this cycle rack in Cassel, outside the crepery where I had lunch.

 

[Arch]

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Well, that's us told. Or one of us anyway.

Poo!

Still, I do have an entire chain of motorway service areas named after me.

And French pylons. They look very different to ours.
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Do they look like wols, or am I completely losing it?

I've always seem them more as cats, to be honest, but I see what you mean.

?

 

[TheDoctor]

Oooh yes. The French may be dead good at food and wine, but they fail badly at tea.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

tonight i'd prefer the food and wine of the french over the pg tips of the english

 

[TheDoctor]

Maybe so.
Hmmm, might have to go and cook.

 

[Arch]

Oooh yes. The French may be dead good at food and wine, but they fail badly at tea.

We did have one perfect cuppa on the last trip, at this place.

http://villeprouve.pagesperso-orange.fr/

We arrived sopping wet, having ridden recumbents in the rain all day. Normally we coped with coffee (or beer), but our leader asked Madame "Du The, s'il vous plait?", in a beseeching voice, and she produced a perfect pot of tea, with mugs and a jug of milk, and homemade biscuits.

It was a stunning place - suits of armour decor, home cooked dinner, and 8 types of homemade jam at breakfast....We wished we were staying more than one night.

 

[TheDoctor]

The last French place I stayed at didn't do any of that.
They grew potatoes, And maybe carrots.
I didn't buy any to bring back, partly because I'd have to drag them round a ride all day.
They did, however, have an Earl Grey teabag in the room

 

[coffeejo]

I haven't been to France since I was 12. T'was the traditional school trip. We gorged ourselves on hot chocolate.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

I have Wiggle Haribo Sweeties

 

[phil_hg_uk]

I had Wiggle Haribo Sweeties

 

[coffeejo]

I have Wiggle Haribo Sweeties

I had Wiggle Haribo Sweeties

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[Night Train]

Will you be fitting a winch to the trailer?

(how cool would it be, if you had some way by which flipping the rear Brom wheel under disengaged the pedals from the chain, and allowed them to hitch to the trailer winch instead .)

No winch, yet.

This is me doing light weight.....

I started with an old aluminium rucksack frame. The 'shelf' bit at the bottom was removed and put on the front side so that the concave surface becomes the trailer bed.
I then had a route around a load of old aluminium tent frames for some 'stuff'.

I cut the bent bits to make them shorter at the short end and so that they would interlock with a sleeve. One of the bent bits was flattened at the long end for later. The two long straight tubes are the axle tubes, one to fit inside the other. The smaller one was drilled to take the locating balls from the quick release spindles from the wheel chair wheels.

The flattened piece was then wrapped around one of the cross members of the rucksack frame and riveted in place to form one half of the central draw bar.

The other bent piece was then riveted into the short tube and holes drilled to take the turn screw and the snap release button.

This is the axle with the holes drilled. The smaller one was jammed into the larger one and a rivet fitted in the centre to locate it.

The front of the draw bar and the ends of the axle were then secured to the frame with stainless steel cable ties, pulled tight with the proper tool.

A quick assemble to check it all looks ok.

And dismantled.

I am now gluing some oak together to make the coupling for the Brompton seat post. It will be a wooden version of the aluminum one I fettled for a friend's Brompton. If it doesn't work I will make a proper aluminium one with a quick release airline fitting.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

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