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I got my new sleeping bag yesterday, unpacked it last night, layer it out and thought I would check it for size and see how quickly it warms up. I didn’t zip it up completely or use the drawstring on the hood. About two minutes after getting in the bag and realising how comfortable it was I woke up an hour and twenty minutes later wondering where the fuck I was.

I just tried it in the compression sack compared to my other bag and added a bottle of cider for comparison. Green one is the new bag. Will make a huge difference to luggage space.

Before and after.

Postie brought me some goodies

Unfortunately I'm still here...just busy with life...and now I can relax after clenching my TOTY title back from goat face.

Did 8.5k with the Dear Boy today. Bloody cold but some interesting skys.

That's called a Nanna Nap, sign of old age.

Chalk lollies I got a tub of these for Christmas , done the lot of em

Well, just because the lightweights weren't up for a ride I thought I'd shame them! It was a bit chilly and pretty windy too, but I chose a route to give me as much shelter as possible. Thankful for the eBike when I was riding into 25-40kph headwind, especially up hill! @Clive that's about as deep as I'm prepared to go!

My car just passed its MOT. Before Covid it was always tested in July, usually on a nice warm day. Due to the 18 month extension it's now in January, today's test involved lots of windscreen scraping and defrosting the inside of the window before I could even drive off.

Nice one, I used to really like them. Unfortunately my teeth don't like them nowadays.......................

Seems like it, maybe he has bought a Honda.

Gay.

I dunno, they're never at home, permamently out sabotaging the local council's plans to install curfew's, barbed wire and nissen huts. Dad did ask me where he could get hold of a vaulting horse...

tell them you have teeth and you are a meat eater

Don't plant mint in your garden. keep it in a pot and if flowers appear. cut them off fast. you definitely do not want them producing seed as they grow like weeds and will take over your garden in a year or so. popping up hither and yon. here there and everywhere. mintageddon is really a thing. even if its not a word.

It's a good thing that all this rain has filled most reservoirs to an impressive level considering they were on an all time low late in September, but this shit weather is getting me down. I don't know how you can have this shit in the UK and like it. Hopefully it'll blow over and leave me with clear skies by the end of the week, I'd really like to get on the bike on the weekend and go somewhere south with a brief stop at home to see how it's fairing with all the water. I'm missing being on the bike properly

Lol, my wife asked me if I wanted a hot water bottle last night, I just gave her a look .................

His friends are mostly lovely and polite but @Pedro we are British and you know how Jekyll and Hyde some of that breed can be after a few drops

More printing today. Fake oil tank this time. Half of one anyway. This is getting monotonous for me too now, so I just click on the normal options and let it roll while I go do other things. I'm back to deafulting to taking a time lapse though, because, um, why not? It's kinda like watching paint dry. I'm sure you lot will enjoy it though! Key-ryst I need to find better hobbies.

This just about sums up my feelings; The Amazon River runs for thousands of miles. At some points it runs through areas of rain forest that are almost untouched and have been barely explored. Because of the porous limestone in these areas, the river water leaks in through the stone and travels deep into the earth, and forms underground pools almost a mile below the surface. Over thousands of years, small blind transparent fish have lived and evolved in these pools. These fish have never seen the sun or surface and have never been seen by the human eye. These fish care more about this than I do.

There are more nutters now because we no longer acknowledge mental illness, we now tell people that their delusions are real.

This was in a magazine I bought today, that any good for you?

Oh don’t go turning into an old git just yet Younger people apparently have less sex than older gens but they think that may not be the case and they’re simply more honest They’re sexually less inhibited, more adventurous, more likely to state what they want and more likely to enter into arrangements other than monogamy. So a rethink on that one Rich.

Of course!!

I don’t drink cider, that bottle was given to me some months ago. I only drink stouts and porters. Oh and wine, whisky, turps etc..

Being ginger?

Me and the wife just got back from the Urgency dept! They prescribed me some strong anti-inflammatories to help me with the stomach and back strain due to coughing!

Just opened the box to check out my DR650 parts haul from USA, to bloody cold to go out in the garage to fit them though

This uses ultra dry down that has a nano polymer treatment that repels water.

Nowadays they have to fill out a lot of paperwork before getting the bed messy. Permission slips, waivers, STD clearances, condom test certificates, damp tests etc. It's seems very admin intensive if you want to keep out of court.

My ex father in law sleeps in a sleeping bag everyday during winter, says there's no comparison in the way they put you to sleep seconds after you close your eyes.

Damn right! Real men use hot water bottles.

Mandi was taking a good look at one of them in said colours before she got the Cbf. Glad she ended up with the 1000 as it's me pushing them around the back garden to get in/out of the sheds.

Hey @MooN! How do your family members feel about being put under house arrest for the rest of their lives?

i got a van not a juggernauht

I was a postie for 15 years. I am sure if I asked ours he would give me a few thousand.

Wonder if those lights were still working out the other side.

It’s not them I’m concerned about, they can piss in their own beds.

nope. Traditionally at young peeps parties some will disappear off to find a room and let’s just say they are normally too busy to care who’s bed it is.

Do they throw up on their parents’ bed?

Got wind one of my sons might be having a few people down while we’re away next week. Not best pleased as I’ve just bought a new mattress for my room and you know what inebriated young folk are like. Going to pick up a waterproof mattress protector tomorrow

Wattle and daub is it?

So a lot of dealers would charge you £80 an hour just for labour Considering you’ve had the valve clearances done I’d say that’s a great price