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nice pics Grassshopper! total lockdown here now and as I'm furloughed from work there'll be no ridng at all untill further notice. I did walk the 300yds to the bakery and back for bread this morning but that is going to get stale pretty fast... ( ) I am allowed to go food shopping and from monday pick the kids up from school but them being twins and too big to fit in the panniers, that ain't going to be by bike...unless one of them gets ill... hmmm, I wonder...?

Had a great Halloween ride today through the forest to a little lake called Dragon Lake ??

All Saints Day in Spain today.......so I took a run up the remote mountain road that leads to Santiago de la Espada. I was able to get about 25 miles before I had to turn back, or I'd have gone outside the perimeters of this area. And there are restrictions in place now. This is quite a challenging road as the surface is pretty bad in most places, there's continual hairpin bends, and a drop of a few hundred feet at the sides in various places. There's also wild deer and wild boar roaming all over the place, and the deer have a tendency to leap from banks at the side of the road straight into your path. There's no phone coverage either, and if you do encounter another vehicle it'll probably be coming at you on the wrong side of the road in one of the many hairpin bends. So this really isn't an area to bin it......because you're on your own! You go over the edge and nobody's ever going to know. I think every bike I've had in Spain has done this road......some better than others obviously. But none of them have done it as easily as this Beemer! It really is an eye-opener......not because anything about it is particularly special, it's more a case of it being so well balanced and just so easy to ride. Lyn has ridden this road back in 2007.......remember it @KAYZ1? So here we go......just a short vid but you'll get the idea.

It's not the content of the photo Bob.......it's the quality of it. It's blurred and pixelated.........like he's taken it on a Polaroid Swinger from the 1960's.

He's got nothing to worry about, he is a religious extremist. But worse than that he's a feckin bus driver now ?

Well it's in! I think he's going to look for a better one! Has @Buckster seen this shit?

Dell in the picture with his back to the camera, good times Pete.. I am off to Euroland next year Bug permitting

Great looking road and vistas, i like that. Make a note of it, I want to see that when this shit opens up and I go for a visit ? Everyone’s going the extra mile for BOTM November:

Poor devil, I hope it recovers well.

So my job as a temporary veterinarian assistant saw me holding down a dog as he had his butt checked, he didn’t like it one bit as one can assume. But I used the technique I use when I need to hold Costa in the vet and it worked a treat. But today we had a cat with serious skin problems in need of a skin scratch sample and a blood sample. To my horror I was told that I would probably be holding it down, but @Sofiamanaged to do all of it with minimal fuss and I had to do nothing except hold a little bit of cotton to stop the blood after the sample was taken. I was scared shitless through the entire thing and I swear he could see the terror in my eyes when he looked at me while I was holding his paw and was evaluating how many more seconds he would give me before tearing my face to shreds. All was ok and I managed to not be mauled, but this is a very unhappy cat:

Here is a picture of Bobo and his best friend.

What? I don't take any pics from a distance, can't be arsed to walk that far...

I did try to find dry puddles but they were all wet even the trails were like streams

Below freezing this morning, kinda nice after lunch, went for a spin, i think Sean is 11 now this place hasnt been open since CornHolio showed up..

Well, what a way to start November......A quiet, sunny Sunday in autumn with brilliant corners and scenery that makes you go....damn ?

What a splendid road! Looks like a fun ride. ? We have the same here with deer, suckers just jump out from the sides and stand on the road. Although, when I see footage from Australia and what the Kangaroos do, I'll take deer any day! We don't have boar's here (they scare me) but we do have bear and elk that hang out on the roads too. All part of the fun. ?

Wow, that can be interesting work. I volunteered for awhile at a vet / animal shelter and saw some really crazy stuff. I was lucky most of the time but once had a freaked out cat get loose, it ran into a shower room for the dogs and the floor was wet, the cat turned, I slipped and it ripped me to shreds before heading out the door and down the next hallway. ?

And here's Lyn up on the summit......

So do I Michelle! Typical ungentlemanly behaviour from @MooN to take your gig!

Photo looks nice. ? .....sigh.... I do miss seeing my Bagheera up there though.....have to get some kick'n photos this month. ?

I fail to understand how you can still be surprised at my mindboggling ineptitude with all things computerised... it's not like I haven't always been a complete arse at it.

If you're just a 'point and shoot' type of person (like me), then a good phone camera is better. You don't need a DSLR nowadays.

I find it annoying to carry a big camera, on and off the bike, completely gave up on them in favour of my phone that is now always held onto the handlebar. But I’m not one to really be into photography, I understand a proper camera makes sense for someone who actually enjoys shooting pictures. I had all my Morocco pictures in two separate hard drives, both failed which caused me great sadness because I thought I would never get to see them again. Eventually my brother managed to save them from one of the drives, and I now carry them both in a cloud and a memory card at the same time.

Not at all, I have been in car crashes in which I wasn’t half as terrified and nervous as today

It's not camera advice I need, it's money for a decent f'kin camera... I'd like a decent DSLR for Christmas if you're feeling generous... I also just discovered that I have somehow managed to loose a load of picturs...they're on here, some are on fessedebouc but they ain't anywhere I can find them on the poota. ?

Sorry, photos starting from the 26th October until the 30th November. I’ll adjust the dates and start voting polls from now on on the end of the month.

Have Buck find a pic on the internet of a bike and just use that.

Deleted years ago Yen! Strangely enough I thought this one would be deleted by now as well!

Hang on, I see lots of grapes which make wine and I see a motorcycle, what's not too like

I took one today at a distance......just in case I ever won it. That's highly unlikely of course.....unless everybody flounces and I'm the only one left.

I drove a bus once, scaring the chit out of 60 back seat "drivers" was a blast.

Apparently there are thousands of Ingurlish claiming that they are Irish just lately

It's that dodgy over in Welshland, they have even had to stop charging people to get in.......

No, the Edwardian underground toilet photos are on photobucket I think or possibly lost somewhere on one of your old sites, No way was I paying the stupid amount of money Photobucket wanted to access them. There is talk of turning the old toilets into something trendy right now. I lost my key to the locks in our office move in March to our luxury new office. This was specially built for us and we will be leaving it in a few weeks so they can sell the building. I wasn't being clever really, I found one exactly the same whilst having a wee on a green lane a few years ago and managed to google it on some weird website. It was the door and the concrete entrance that looked the same. With the brick built thing, I did wonder if it was a blasting shelter, do they mine coal with explosives ever on opencast or is it too fragile to do it that way?

Why do you think I live just over the border, I'm only just in England. Although my accent will never pass for Welsh

VIEWER WARNING High Rain Content & Visible Muddy Puddles On the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia it is very likely to rain ? for days at a time in the autumn. So you tend to get used to playing in the rain. I have come to love riding through the rainforest in the rain, with the low clouds and the mist hanging in the forest, it's magical. ?? On this ride we just putter about in the forest and stop by Phare Lake to enjoy the view. ?

Peeing down with rain here all week and locked down so not allowed out. when the rain stopped for a few hours this afternoon i went out for the sake of my sanity, usual route past Miriam's bench again but in the opposite direction, water was a bit deeper this time

Where you headed Lyn?

Right, in that case I'm bunking off work on wednesday to get a ride in

Looking backward from the cocks pit.

Wife had a salad and some spicy grilled shrimp with a bowl of green chile stew....

Beef blue corn enchiladas and a few Tecates for dinner tonight. No green chile this time- went with red instead...

How dare you that's one of the best things about the UK proper bacon here mate

Today's breakfast; egg burrito with green chile and taters with a side of bacon (real bacon. not that greasy slab of crap UK bacon)....

I'm sure deep down, considering the amount of time he spends in Wales and all the friends he's got there, he must be fucking gutted he was born on the wrong side of the bridge! I know I'd be fucking gutted if I'd been!

I was going to say yes but then i thought about Bob and thought not all, then i thought about the amount of time he spends in Wales on his bike he's practically welsh so then i thought yes again

Spending the weekend assisting Ericeira’s favourite vet, today helping a lost puppy