Slowlycatchymonkey

When things are finally set up here they’re on my hit list.. the hell I won’t.. the hell I will! I’m expecting it to be a a bit of a touristy let down but growing up with limited tv offerings meant Westerns n John Wayne were waaaay up there on a kids watch list!

I’ve never tried scabbard, not sure I want to now!

@gymwitch excellent, any more? Hope it’s a good trip, you’re well kitted out for it!

Great photos n enjoyable write up. Cheers. So why are the liquor stores far n few between in Utah? Is Utah what UT means?

A typo, it’s his annual badges parade

People who follow culinary rules are daft. They restrict creative cooking and none of the brilliant fusion dishes would exist if everyone slavishly followed rules. If it taste good eat it. Then again if youre going to start putting the cream on the scone before the jam then youre a proper weirdo. Your address will be forwarded to the popo. Good job Aaaaaargh, what is wrong with you?

Mr Slowlys laptop bag was stolen 4 days ago and the ‘find my’ locations services had its last location in a vast scrubland of 3 metre high sharp pampas grass. He and the police searched for it until all hope was lost. This morning I woke up with a strong feeling Id find it. I persuaded Mr Slowly to take me there and I found it in the first bit of grass I went into. This is the size of the scrubland it was in. Mental ay. I shall be checking any seats that are pulled out for me arent ducking chairs edit: it was only the ipad I found the laptop and bag are a gonna. Heyho, it was the ipad that upset him most.

Yesterday before Id done any searching for a DIY store I asked @XTreme on here how to find one. Mr Slowly came into the room and said wotcha doin? I replied asking Pete about DIY stores, he said have a look and see if theres something called a Leroy Merlin nearby. He’d seen one in Granada so “Leroy Merlin” was repeated in the conversation several times. I opened a new page and got as far as typing ‘Le’ before Leroy Merlin was the suggested search. That type of thing with adverts and search suggestions happens all the time, it freaked me out at first but now I dont mind, saves times having what your searching just pop up in front of you even if it means your conversation is always being listened to! Many people dont realise its a thing, I think its way over the creepy line and you should be asked explicitly if you want to opt in but as usual money money money money. If you google how to stop my phone listening the instructions for switching this freaky stuff off are there. The only thing I find annoying about it is I have to spend a lot of time talking about guitars with my son and I am fed up being bombarded with guitar adverts when I dont play, search for or buy guitar stuff!

Watching Wales South Africa game that was played in Cardiff today, its sheeted down sideways non stop for the whole game!

18 degrees today and 19 tomoz but cloudless sunshine all day so it’ll feel hotter. It is going down to 11 degrees tonight, I may even leave ceiling fan off

Sleeping animals, lovely.

Went to the supermarket and got new luggage for the Himalayan, wotcha fink? they also had a posh hacksaw, Im armed and ready to destroy a perfectly good lamb joint.. But discovered you can connect an amazon firestick to a mobile network so the hacksaw massacre can wait til after the rugby and a beer or two, one doesn’t want to be hasty

That old chestnut, sink or swim?

No joy. With its case its heavy and probably hit the low unseen level. If you want a brighter note a Spanish couple knocked on the door and asked me if Id lost anything (I think thats what they said, they spoke as much english as I speak spanish!) I got excited until they proudly produced a bus ticket from that morning’s disaster run (disappointed doesn't cover it!) but they were just checking out who we were before producing Mr Slowlys passport n paperwork. They found it on the side of the road. Nice of them ay! Shame it was cancelled n useless to us but hey, nice folk

Wot friggin website are you on this evening @Sir Fallsalot? and in response

Yer I went big and thought at least a good sheepdog but he declined so me n Mr Slowly got married, alls well that ends well

Wot u wanna do? I dunno wot u wanna do?

Says the man from the West Country

People fucking other peoples wives is a worldwide phenomenon old as time Often used as a bargaining chip. Andrew tried to sell me to another farmer once for a bag of potatoes. He declined, said he was only prepared to run to carrots

I think thats a common worldwide phenomenon.

All of these have been repeat purchases. Knox waterproofs. But recently they doubled the price from the £55 mark to over £100 Not happy about that cos I want another pair of trews and I dont see any reason for the price hike. Daytona boots, designed and manufactured like the Germans can, comfortable, warm, waterproof and safe as a boot can be. Bowtex for the freedom to mobike safely in your pyjamas if you choose. Hood jeans for Mr Slowly cos those cargo pants just look too good (dont think they make them anymore) and they were fully kevlar lined. Modika summer gloves because they come in many multiple proper glove sizes, if your a size 7 you get a size 7. Lastly Unplug bags. Genuinely waterproof, multiple lashing points, bag tightning straps all over it, padded backpack straps, very tough. Id set aside double the money for the Ortlieb bag Id been pouring over n this bag blows it away. https://needtounplug.com/collections/unplug-adventure-bags If you fancy one order from amazon germany (amazon.de) as amazon.co.uk will send you the wrong bag all the way from America! Oh Im a gear geek

Mistake? I think not

I got spectacularly lost on a bicycle ride once, left the house at 9am and was still peddling at 7pm I blame the bloody fosse way (not my own incompetence of course). My phone and garmin went flat and I spied the fosse way, aha Im saved I thought, the fosse way is that old straight roman road, if I stay on that itll bring me out somewhere with a train station. Turns out my info was a few hundred years out of date and I ended up carrying my bicycle trudging through deep mud n nettles cos only parts of the fosse way are tarmac and some parts no longer exist at all

Got a good friend who’s a policeman and he’s a lovely guy. Doesnt like violence or bullying, he’s just a generally all round good’n. So nice that long ago when there were riots in Bristol and it was getting nasty he climbed on top of the police van and said he wouldn’t come down until everyone started behaving His superiors then decided his gentle even temperament made him ideal for the armed response devision cos he’d be far more likely to talk someone out of whatever stupidity they’d got themselves into than be trigger happy and blow them away. I always respected that decision making, recruiting people who arent into guns n dont actually want to shoot anyone is a sound thought process that keeps people breathing. If you’ve ever experienced a group of men egging each other on and its aimed at you its fucking frightening, one minute they can seem perfectly normal and the next some pack mentality takes over and you're no longer viewed as human (if you ever were with these types). Youre suddenly acutely aware youre in a dangerous position and no-one can help you get out of it. Its clear theres no bottom to where it can go. It happens so fast you have to hope you can recognise it quickly and get the fuck out of there as fast as you can. I think its one of the.side effects of women being viewed by some as a second rate species, that and knuckle dragging animal dominance. Generally you have to acknowledge being female in a male dominated environment is going to be dodgy cos theres always a percentage that cant/wont drag themselves into this century.