Cycling and Mining 2

 

Of course blogger throws a wobbly and puts the images on in reverse for a change!

So you can easily read them up instead of down!!

It was good to see a national event coming to Lochore..it was supposed to have been at Drumlanrig Castle, which would have been only 38 miles away instead of 85. However they have lost so many trees in the storms that it would not be safe to have the event there.

It was an easy quiet drive there thankfully, and day was quite bright and warm.

We enjoyed watching our friend from the Kingdom of Fife get his first podium place in a British Event...only third this time, but....good practice for the British National event which will be in Scotland in August.

There is a front garden!!

 Under all those brambles!!

The other side there is an ex Holly hedge, now very overgrown.

Pirate had good exercise wielding an axe and bow saw to clear some hazel and ivy from the gateway.

Getting things done!

 A beautiful apricot coloured sunrise for a start...then on with the jobs!!

Washing, then as our neighbour came for his cuppa and putting the world right...I left him and Pirate to it and finished off stripping the sofa..in said neighbour's garage, a very generous offer!

Would you believe it, I found the missing fire safety label...inside the sofa!!!! Inside it's construction, not just slipped down under a cushion.

The leather got packed up , the seat frame will be a small cold frame for me, the rest of the wood, mostly ply, will be firewood for our neighbour's workshop stove.

The webbing will go to Pirate's elder daughter for upholstery, the foam padding will be packing for parcels. I am not sure where the polyester pads will go, but they are clean...and the feet we have already used to raise our present sofa 10 centimetres, making it easier to use.

Then more packing , sales this time, not just some bike bits but an electric guitar case as well...that took a fair bit of construction!!  Pirate had a session riding his turbo trainer while I packed.

With a couple of family birthday cards, that all definitely justified the trip to the post office.

Back home again in time to sell a wheel locally..the best way to do business.

Pirate has been working on my bike, it now has a rack for pannier bags that suits it, we have an old set of mudguards to be fitted and today's "fun" has been working out how to fix a bottle cage with a gizmo...that's what it is called!! It's taken a while, but now he has worked out that the zip ties which hold it don't go the expected way.

It's been one of those days that no photos were taken, but plenty of things got done.

Success...a good day

 The glass is all in, the outside step is fixed and the dangerous trip hazard hole filled with cement.

Three parcels have been sent out , and when I turned the computer on to add the tracking numbers, another bike bit had sold!! 

So Pirate celebrated our good day by buying my Xmas present.....

He did object however that he has to wait until Hogmanay to taste the Black Bun that I baked last night...flour is on the shopping list now, and fruit cake on the making list!!

"hot off the press!"

 First impression looks good.

The printing rig..a glass chopping board, a length of shallow skirting board, bits of pukka tea box and tape...is working well.  I need to think of a bigger base for A3 paper, only A4 and smaller will do on this.