New Cards

Some cycling themed images and some from Scotland.

I've seen the printer that I think will do the job for me, handle heavier card still.

Just need to find £90 for the printer and more for the ink and card.....

Something will turn up!!

changing?

A gate in Barnard Castle (the town,not the castle itself).
 We'd always said we'd stop there instead of passing through.....

We've washed and ironed and sorted.  Put down a rug I'd been given years ago.
Moved the furniture round...."if you can't move house,...."

After a week we were feeling a little better.

Then my back decides toplay up, and the local mouse decides that our place is a"des res" for him as well.
One regular client has decided she doesn't want us anymore , and another is too ill to be at home.
So now we are without that £75 a week regular income,just when the grass stops growing.

The Pirate would love to stop working for other people. After all he is 75 and has things he wants to do for himself!
Until I can get a job....or my pension....May 2017 anyone?!.....we keepplodding along.  
It is time for a change.    Just not sure what it will be.

anticlimax

Home again to sorting out the washing mountain, carrying on the round of medical appointments....and Winter is kicking in...plus being back 600 miles further North than Kent, it feels even colder!!

Carry on as usual...battling with ever changing technology to repeat processes I thought that I'd mastered.  Ho Hum!!

Been busy riding our bikes....

 In the League of Veteran Cyclists, the women ride against men ten years older....so I get Geoff Cooke, ex-Olympian and Geoff Wiles, ex-Holdsworthy professional......still I did beat an ex national champion to get third in the sprint.....

 Meeting The Carpenter's geckos at weigh-in time.  Beats a cat if you're allergic to cat saliva!!

 renewing acquaintance with Baxter, last seen as a pup....hang on,he still thinks that he is a pup!!

 having a tour around a house in Bristol, mid-restoration/renovation....

 and The Pirate playing conkers with grandson

 To Kent to meet the Pirate's relations again, some in their 70s and 80s and not so well.
Harry the Cat at nearly 20 is deaf but doing well...

 and the newest at 8 weeks..

 





 Folkestone..now a little sad now the Channel Tunnel has taken the ferry business...no ferry since 1999 and no trains since 2009....

 This art installation says it all.    The lines will have gone by the time you read this.

 Then a walk around Canterbury, my first visit....I liked the old town around the cathedral...

 and the Green Man on the huge wooden doors..

 Then on to Manchester for the World Championships, where I managed a bronze medal in the pursuit,and....GOLD in the 500 time trial ....RESULT, after two years' work.

 A nice roof at the velodrome...just wish we could have more real light and air...a week in a stuffy tin box isn't enjoyable,but meeting everyone is!

Autumn Walk, Cwmcarn

medals

One each! (different events,different age groups)

Autumn Equinox

The Equinox...Gwyl Mabon...has crept up upon us. I think we're just too busy at the moment, for our own good.

Medals (a bronze each) have been won in a competition last weekend.
Now we are doing last minute tweaking and testing of equipment to ensure it all goes smoothly in the Masters World rack championships in Manchester...the biggest yet,with nearly 450 entries on the book (there WILL be late additions!) from 33 countries!!

We are noticing the difference in daylight between South Wales and Scotland...it has seemed strange to have half an hour less daylight in the evening.  Now the Equinox has passed, the boot will be on the other foot!

We will both be glad to return to a rural area...no streetlights, no cars racing up and down,no heavy lorries outside the window...