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No the Doc has already told me off, if the vet thinks I'm fat he can fuck off

Morning. Now off to get the dog vaccinated and get told off for him being to fat.

Here she comes now,

Who's planning what for the coming summer riding wise? Any epic road trips in the planniing stages? I know Pedro was looking at a northern ride into Germany... The French, in their inimitable way, have maintained the practice of having what the uk call a bank holiday, on the actual day the date falls rather than on the nearest Monday. Though this sometimes give a random day off in the middle of the week, it will sometimes, when coupled with one of the "movable feasts" of the Christian calender, generate a ridiculously long wekend. It is then, a national sport, to spot these occurences and calculate how to get the most time off for the least number of days "paid Holiday". I have always said that you ca't get anything done in France in the month of may and 2024 is a blinder 1st of may ( labour day) is a wednesday so a day off mid week 8th of May ( V.E.Day) is rather obviously, a wednesday. 9th of May ( ascension) so another public holiday 11th and 12th are saturday and sunday, which means that if I book friday 10th May off from work I'll have 5 days off for a single day's leave from work. That's got to be bike time right? So, planning with a couple of mates,a Britanny trip for that looong weekend in May. Auxerre to probably St Brieuc on day 1 which will be bollox boring as far as Rennes but we can do without using the Autoroute. about 6 to 7 hrs riding I reckon. St Brieuc to Le Conquet along the coast on day 2 much less distance but very minor roads so much slower. Day 3 from Le Conquet to Lorient, along the coast but cutting across the odd peninsula to avoid the worst of the holiday traffic and pausing to visit the Standing stones at Carnac and the tomb of Bernard Moitessier at Le Bono on the way round. Day 4 from Lorient to somewhere like St Brévin les Pins again along the coast and day 5 from there home will be a simple but long days ride west via Nantes, Tours and Vierzon, crossing the Loire at Bonny sur Loire and thus home. should be about 2000km over the 5 days and I don't know if I'm physically capable of it. Gonna try tho cos its not going to get any easier with time First night is now sorted and the following are coming together, so... Bring it on!

I don't think so my family has longevity, my father is 90 and my mother is 86 and neither of them have had a hernia so i'm good, i had a near death illness when i was about a year old and surviving that has made me strong like @Marcel

Pretty ok, considering. Seems like the fever is gone and what I have now is a headache from my sinus being put through the ringer. Sofia is now sick as well too, which was to be expected. She’s taking it better than me though, but tired. A LOT easier than the first time though.

fixed

Being an old bastard doesn't help either

Just move back to Swansea they will kill you for free down there

Really tired today......recovery after an op seems to drain you. Is that right @boboneleg?

Lol. You guys are all the same. First of all she is ugly and from Hollywood not the backwoods. I would love to send you all of our non rednecks and just keep backwoods people in the US

No, that's just a top box, a Tour Pak is completely different.

You or the dog

The rough plan is to ride up to Zaragoza towards the end of May and meet up with three mates from the UK. Looks like it could be a six day jaunt but as of yet there are no fixed plans……..we’ll probably let the weather decide our destination most days.

Sounds like a good trip is coming together, I may get the occasional few hours out on the bike but having the 2nd one in April will probably be cutting any riding down to a minimum for a while so not going to plan anything and just take it a day at a time if I get out I get out if not then another day it is

Nurse Marcel to the rescue.

So Marcel has Viking genes , what do you have ? Tom Jones jeans

I’ve had two shots, of a proper nazi brand, and gotten covid once (maybe twice) before, so it’s natural that I’m not as affected as the first time.

He’s right you know.

Yes......but I appear to be in better shape than you Fred! Must be a very shallow gene pools in Ponty!

We need a forum nurse ................................................. oh! wait a minute

The affects of anaesthetic can last a fair while on some people.

Very similar, that's the last of the line , a 998S.

I think @Tammy has got the hots for you @Six30

Do any of you red necks look like Daisy Duke or is it all no teeth , weird amounts of fingers and living off road kill ?

why, cause you got better breasts ?

You have just broken @Six30’s heart.

My parking partner at work today………

the problem with getting to Brittany from here is that the autoroute adds so many miles that any time benefit is completely lost. I go via autoroute in the car cos its just so easy, cruise control etc etc but its still around 7 hours. The non autoroute way by bike will be around the same time frame with less kilometers and not 45€ of péage...

You must have Viking genes for sure Fred.

Germany is on my mind, but so is Italy, no plans though and work mixed with family health might mean I end up doing nothing during summer. I have been looking at the weather in Morocco now though, and I missed out on a nice trip, there’s a lesson.

Who knew the vikings were sheep shaggers

Did you know that Swansea was originally a Viking settlement?

Haven't you got an issue with sugar levels or something like that?

Or peoples immunity is getting better

You better hope you don't end up with one of these!

Looks like my old man's 996

I’d be happy to settle for ugly in her case

Only the educated city people kill each other like that... turn the news off and take a ride in the country side they got your mind up your arse...

So it is @Slowlycatchymonkey then?

It’s 03:47 and one car is just not enough.

That’s heavy for 5’5”

It's OK......the incision is still clean and it's healing slowly. Still very sore though. It gets checked out at the Health Centre tomorrow morning, with staples removal scheduled for Friday.