Tea? (Part 2)

[Arch]

I was going to add to "what I can see out of my window", but I just closed the curtains....

Gonna do some trike fettling this weekend, I have a mudguard courtesy of Cyclemagic and I have to measure the boom to see if the used one the dealer has in will do to swap and give me a front mech post. It's white, so the trike will already look like a mismash, but that's sort of my style...

Tea?

 

[wafflycat]

I know it's late (early??) but as we've just won the gold in the Olympic Ladies Hurling Oneself Down A Mountain Of Ice On A Tea Tray, I do believe a celebratory cuppa is in order. Well done Amy!

 

[tdr1nka]

Hooray for Amy!
Tea abound!

New wheels are simply gorgeous.
Had a good pootle about yesterday and the Sentinel feels like a new bike!
I'll get around to washing the damn thing today to match the bling and pics will follow.

 

[ttcycle]

*sticks head round door*

did I hear something about new wheels?

Tea anyone?

 

[Arch]

Tea up!

It's been a busy day. Over to Gromit and Bikepete's to meet up with Simon-from-cyclemagic and Anita(from-italy), had a cuppa or two, received a 20" mudguard for the new trike, up to Carwash's to look at an old bike, then off with Simon to look at my old trike at the lockup. Sold! Then I get a text from a friend saying a few of them are going to the quilt museum, and do I want to go, meet in an hour. Ok, so I hare back into town, with enough time to dump panniers, change into a non cycling coat, and grab a rich tea biscuit. Hot foot to quilt museum, via cash machine, arrive at 1.30 sharp, get text to say they are on the way, but will be 10 mins. Hang about the shop for a bit, they arrive, turns out the special Viking textile stuff they wanted to see is cancelled. So we ditch that idea (the museum is pricy, and none of us are fascinated enough by quilts alone). So we go over to look at the Hungate dig site, and then up to the Guildhall for the Viking crafts.. Did I mention, it's the Viking festival this week? Anyway, lots of nice stuff. Some oddments of fur (real fur) in a basket for sale. One really lovely soft bit of rabbit?, enough to trim a pair of gloves, or a hat. Decide to leave it and look round, if it's still there, it's fate. It is, so I bought it. No real plan for it, except maybe to trim some gloves or a hat... Maybe treat myself to a ball of alpaca or cashmere to knit them with....

Anyway, then we go our separate ways, and I head off to Sainsburys for the groceries I planned to go shopping for before lunch. Oh yes, lunch, that was that rich tea biscuit I had 3 hours ago...

Shopping done, home, kettle on, reduced sushi shovelled into me, slurping my second cuppa now. Phew!

Fortunately, tonight's dinner only requires cooking some rice and reheating some casserole.

 

[longers]

Sounds busy Arch, I picked up some reduced sushi last week but put it back as it was the veggie one.

I've been recovering from last nights Christmas do. It was a good night but I do tend to have more ale than I ought to. I have had lots of tea today and that helped.

I've just got to pop back for my shopping as I had it all scanned and bagged but then realised I had no money on me. *dipstick smiley*

 

[Arch]

Yeah, veggie sushi just isn't the same. This was fish.

D'oh! about the shopping, easily done. I was dead clever, I needed to restock on a few items like curry paste and mango chutney, and I remembered to use the 'double reward points' voucher I got last week... Although thinking about it, 17 extra points works out to about 8p discount when I cash in...

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Slurps Tea from Pint Mug

Reduced Sushi?? Does that mean it's been dehydrated? If so someone should be sure the poor wee fishes have enough tea

Slurps some more Tea

 

[Arch]

I'm just going to put the kettle on. Had a nice casserole and rice supper, with some brocoli on the side for vitamins.

I think I've just committed myself in Touring, to doing the next LEL...

 

[TheDoctor]

OMFG Some EPO to go with the Tea?

 

[ttcycle]

I'm just going to put the kettle on. Had a nice casserole and rice supper, with some brocoli on the side for vitamins.

I think I've just committed myself in Touring, to doing the next LEL...

I saw that, there's no backing out now Arch!

 

[ttcycle]

In fact when you're at London and back, I'll come and wave if I'm around - heck if my health picks up I may even join you (that however is a long way and looking a bit unlikely, So I won't commit yet)

 

[Arch]

Better not start the drugs yet, there's 3 years to go.

OK. A target. Another century by May. Ish.

And a 200k by the autumn.

What's that about a midlife crisis?

 

[Arch]

In fact when you're at London and back, I'll come and wave if I'm around - heck if my health picks up I may even join you (that however is a long way and looking a bit unlikely, So I won't commit yet)

Waving will be most welcome. And who knows about the health - it isn't until 2013... But whatever, I suspect moral support matters a lot.

Jeez, this is serious.

 

[ttcycle]

It is indeed! It's what happens - when a flippant remark or hands shook can just spur you onto something much more.

My friend ran her first Marathon after we met up in the pub for drinks after she came back from travelling- she said 'maybe' she was going to do it but we shook and she didn't back out.

So here's a digital handshake--! No smiley for it which is a shame.

As for me, we'll have to see what happens- will have to work up to a century- long distances are not my strong point!!