172traindriver
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Morning folks. A bit cool here today. Bora da to one and all. Hope you all have a good day, whatever youre doing.
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Evening Mrs D

Morning folks. A bit cool here today. Bora da to one and all. Hope you all have a good day, whatever youre doing.
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Good Sunday morn to ya
Have a nice day whatever you do, folks.
Me? slightly stiff legs after yesterdays jaunt..
must go places with nice paths...
Yes you do. Today I learned that BT Sport have exclusive rights to the second semi final of the FA Cup, the one involving LFC.... Barstewards.![]()
I've been up since 6am - at bootsale for 7am and home by 1pm. Made £40.
Well THAT was the most bizarre ride in a while - be prepared for an epic...
Decided I needed a hilly ride before the first Sportive of the year next Saturday, 8 of us set out and although it was cloudy the weather looked set fair. First hill (Cleish) warmed up the legs nicely, then we were rocking along the south side of Loch Leven chatting away - next thing I know the guys in front came to a virtual stop, I got my front wheel stuck in someone's back wheel and down I go! I strangely seemed to fall front-ways (think it was just momentum) and landed on my knee, shoulder and head - my helmet saved me getting any worse damage on my bonce (helmet debate anyone???).
Bike took a bit of a battering, front wheel and brake lever were squint - luckily the guys sorted that out while I was checking myself over.
On we went heading for our agreed cafe stop up and over the Lomonds, 2nd last but just glad to have done it - got to cafe and it was mobbed, we were lucky and managed to get a table though the staff seemed none too pleased to see us - food was good though. Just as we were finishing up a guy approached us and asked if we would push his car out of a field (it's an organic farm with camping). Being nice guys we agreed so off we trotted with cleats clacking away, little did we realise his car was about 10 minutes away! Pushed him out of the field then got his car jump started on the lane (not easy in cycling shoes), to be fair he offered to make a donation to our club - told him to give us a positive mention on Facebook instead!
Up and over the next hill (Glentarkie) I get dropped but just plod on - back to a main road we are fired up for the return leg home - 2 minutes later massive hole in the road, everyone bunny hops but Tom's back wheel just clips the edge - bloody p*nct*re! Gets it fixed but breaks valve in the process, though inner seems to be holding the air - whew! Off we go again.
Get down to the bottom of the next hill (Bein Inn) and start climbing again, my legs are really feeling it now! Manage to keep tabs on them (sort of) up the hill but dead last to the top - regrouping chat turns to the route home, back over our first hill Cleish?!? Not impressed, but I'm not losing face here.
Struggling now we head on, Garmin starts bleeping at me "Auto Pause", "Auto Resume", "Auto Pause" - then just stops altogetherWTF?!? No time to stop and check, group is still moving...
A few miles down the road we get stopped at lights - looks like my magnet has been displaced by the "off" 2 hours earlier - obvious really! Fixed, Garmin starts working again.
Home via aforementioned Cleish Hill, managed to overtake my nearest challenger so I am not Lantern Rouge! Happy with that, though my legs were not.
Here are my stats for today: https://connect.garmin.com/activity/750872590
Pretty poor but glad to have got some hills in - reckon I missed about 10k with Garmin failure. Sorry for the epic, just had to share - all in all it was a good day, just a bit strange!
GCHQ, NSA, your ISP have to retain all your data, sites visited and viewed, stuff downloaded/uploaded for 6 -12 months (I ca'nt remember)..GCHQ will retain your data, infos etc as long as they want.
To be honest, Google are the least of all evils compared to that lot.
Your texts and call history on your mobile phone is retained for the same period just in case you are a terrorist or whatever.( they were collecting this data before 9/11 and the Boston bombings and never knew nothing..
DuckDuckGo and even these new fangled Incognito pages are just as open to your ISP and the rest to monitor.
You really cannot hide even VPNs are infallible...
Every website etc is logged and tracked.
Big Brother has been here for years...
Paranoia of the 1% elites....in case the proles(the 99%) want power.
Why have Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange and Edward Snowdon been the US public enemies No1..
they spilled the beans..
Oh and good afternoon, folks
Ummmm...no. Liverpool. I don't know of a Loserpool.Loserpool you mean![]()
Ummmm...no. Liverpool. I don't know of a Loserpool.
Apparently LFC were one of the last four football teams in all of the country still in the FA Cup this year. They unfortunately are not one of only two in the final, along with many hundreds of other teams.![]()
I wouldn't have made it even the the team did.. I'll be cycling in France. I'll miss that there thingy election too.Well I will be going to Wembley![]()
A cracking day for you, sir
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