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I should not believe either of them

What time did he get back? Stoke* comprises several towns
Very good, taking a walk after dinner is recommended, helps the digestion. Learnt another Scots word recently, Iain Crichton Smith wrote about 'the messages', I couldnae puzzle it out. It means doing the shopping, errands (visiting post, doctor etc, by no means just buying), so now I talk about 'getting the messages' to confuse people

* 'we want our wet cold Wednesdays in Stoke' bleated the fans just, when protesting against the mon$t€r league plans

In the days before expensive robust tyres, I used to cut the wires out of a worn tyre, take a few centimetres out of the circumference and fit it inside a new tyre. Did not get many punctures after that

Read about that somewhere, maybe in the Gazette. Did others do the same?

The daily wail has a new editor and has changed quite a bit

Mike Sales wrote: ↑26 Apr 2021, 7:09pm

Cyril Haearn wrote: ↑26 Apr 2021, 7:05pm An opportunist thief would not reflect on possible saleability of whole or parts, they would just chuck the machine into their white van, and scarper. If they then realised what they had nicked they might dump it in a ditch. Or maybe even put it back where they found it

When I was burgled stuff was taken quite indiscriminately, stuff of no possible resale value, for instance raggy old pyjamas.
I guess that since the goods are free to the thief they can grab anything available, and worry about disposal and value later.

Let them try taking my hundreds of kilos of books

kylecycler wrote: ↑17 Apr 2021, 7:06pm Some years ago I was at a conference down in Stoke on Trent. In the evening we had dinner, sitting with some of the English folk. After dinner the chairman of the association I was with announced that he was just away for a wee donner and asked if anyone wanted to join him.

"Have you not had enough?!" asked one of our (confused) English friends...

Unless you're Scottish you might not understand that, but it's a true story.

Did he just want to visit the smallest room? Perhaps you could explain, most of us on these fora are Welsh

An opportunist thief would not reflect on possible saleability of whole or parts, they would just chuck the machine into their white van, and scarper. If they then realised what they had nicked they might dump it in a ditch. Or maybe even put it back where they found it

Not good enough. Or could this attitude perhaps be applied to traffic law enforcement? There would not be many vehicles crossing the bridge if that were done

Slightly OT, Sempe published some charming cycling cartoons/drawings, no need for words. One of his books is 'the cycle shop owner's secret'

Reasons understood by many of us. Plenty can be done to discourage TDC, the tragedy of drive-cycling

Perhaps she could use her contacts to help the ctc

So the big climb has easy gradients and the little climbs have harder gradients. Very confusing

I should like to go there and do the big climb up, as long as I do not have to cycle back down, terrified of that

Best to stay near home for a while yet, to avoid crowds and hysteria

'Can' or 'may'?
The Grauniad published an article about Unknown Places in the national parks, they are no longer unknown, -1

Apparently 600 000 people conquer Yr Wyddfa each year, I shall not be going there

What is the total ascent on the undulating ride back?