boboneleg

Am I allowed to put up three photos and then ask the others which one is best ........................... asking for a friend

@Tango I'm pleased that it went well for you. Hopefully you'll be out and about soon

We don't want pics of whatever action is going on in your van thank you ...............

OMG !! well safe journey but I'll call you out on the pizza as I'll be in Napoli (Italy) in three weeks time, the home of real pizza.

Overnight should do it. Total failure on the pics front btw

Are you driving or a flight , how far is Chicago from you ?

It’s about 13c here so I’ve been walking with my shorts on

Is it on yet ?

Well i can here @Six30 moaning like feck already ..............

Ummmmmmmmmmmmm, let me see now

I'm wondering when our resident Welsh/Dago person is going to get a photo of one of the DBM's , they must be a damned sight quicker than him ..............

No photos of gravel traps or bins as well, you know who you are ...............

Au contraire mon ami, it's a lovely ride nearly everytime I ride too work as I'm riding away from Bristol and it's mental traffic plus I get to play with Ducati's

It's not always convenient to post from hospital.

After having a coffee and walking back down the path to the bike I rode on to Midford viaduct which is part of the old Somerset & Dorset line but nowadays is a great cycle path that also goes through tunnels below Bath . This involved even more of a walk but first of all I needed somewhere to park ............ and then up this footpath which was a bit sketchy in places with warning of steep drops and then the first view of the viaduct above the reservoir ................ eventually I came onto the cycle path which was much easier going ................. and then down the footpath at the other end. It's clear that they don't want cyclis going down here so take note @Tango and @Skippy and that brought me back out to Tucking Mill which was formerly the home of William Smith who coincidently was the geologist who did the studies on the land where Combe Hay locks were built ............. and then back to the bike for more coffee and some nuts

I had a pass out this morning so I decided to go visit something just the other side of Bath. When you think of coalfields in the UK you usually think of Yorkshire, Notts, the central belt of Scotland or South Wales but North Somerset had quite a big coalfield in the 1800's and the last pit closed as late as 1973. In the early 1800's the colliery owners clubbed together to build a canal to join on to the Kennet & Avon canal and so that their coal could gain access to Bristol, Wiltshire and Berkshire. Not much remains of the canal today as it was superseded by the Somerset & Dorset railway which eventually ran more or less along the same route. One thing that does remain though is the Combe Hay flight, a series of 22 locks with a fall of 134 feet so that the canal could be dropped to the level of the Kennet & Avon. On part of the flight is a bend of almost 180 degrees which is the sharpest bend on any canal in UK. There was a decent walk to get to the flight , first off I went under the a bridge of the old Somerset & Dorset line to gain access ............ and then up further to locks 12, 13 and 14............ Here you can clearly see where the stone has been worn by people's feet while operating the lock gates ............. I walked up to the bend but you can't really go any further as the rest of it is on private land , this is the remains of the basin where the bend was .............. and then the locks go on further .............

The original was a godawful pos and that doesn't really look any better .

In our early teens we went into a corner shop in Bristol on our way to Easville Market. It was quite early on a Sunday morning and it became clear that the owner (sat on a stool) was nursing a big hangover. He told us to sort ourselves out , so we did. We had about five chocolate bars each , put three pence in the till and took out three pound notes as change

What about a gravel trap shot

It’s his Christian spirit

Not a bad spot for a coffee

Proper

Yes, you me and Leigh were down with Gruber picking him up and dusting him off while Tony was telling us to leave him behind , charming