Saturday’s long ride 🚵🏼
I got a couple of pictures from our “longest day longest ride” at the weekend and as I said in this post, if they were any good I’d post them.…
Colden Plantation🤪🚵♂️
Manx MTB Enduro hosted round 2, 2022 in Colden Plantation at the weekend. It is only the second year that these trails have been used by Manx MTB Enduro and,…
You’re Never too Old to Send 🚵♀️
A friend shared this video. It made my day! Inspirational. Betty started mountain biking at 45 years of age. She’s still riding in her 70’s. Get out there peeps –…
Last night’s photo stop! 🚵♂️🌞
Not so much of a night ride now the days are getting longer.. Get out there! It’s ace 🌞.
Will’s graduation🎓
Well that’s the last one done! Here are some nice photos of my youngest son’s graduation in Newcastle last month.
March was a busy month🚵♂️
……. with a visit to Newcastle for my youngest son’s graduation; well done Will 👏🏻 😁 and a trip to Madeira with the boys (actually quite old men 🙂 –…
It’s my birthday soon and I don’t want to go out to celebrate it.
Why is a birthday so special? It’s not! You’re missing the point! The day of your birth is special …. and every day after that! Every day is a birthday…
A wedding speech – father of the bride.
Merry Christmas everyone! My daughter got married a couple of days ago on Thursday 23rd. What a wonderful day it was. Here is what I said to the newlyweds and…
Authoritarian regimes
Conspiracists
Digital ID
Friendship
Health
Idiots
Mainstream media
Pinned
Politics
Sars-Cov-2
Society
Vaccines
Countering propaganda during war.🪖
I am not mad. BUT, I probably have more time than most to read and analyse. And I am old and cynical. Hitler didn’t set up the Third Reich and…
We can’t like everybody, not even some of the time…
….nevermind ALL of the time. POWER.. That’s the answer to my thought for the day. That’s what most people like. And it’s what people use to attract other people, when…
OK. Here we go.
OK. Here we go. I had a bit of a Facebook (“FB”) “moment” recently where I made some offensive posts that I subsequently deleted and apologised for. Now I’m going…
Apologies if I have offended you on FB recently.
Apologies if I have offended you on FB recently. I have deleted the offensive posts. I blame: (i) a post covid energy surge; (ii) overexcitement/nervousness regarding a 4 day staycation…
Why do I not suffer from depression….?
Why do I not suffer from depression…. even just a little bit..? This is a question I ask myself pretty much all the time. I’m exciteable and energetic. I can…
Back in Brazil, December 2019 … one of my most satisfying achievements to date …🪂
226 km on a paraglider in a day! It took five and a half hours. Forget modesty; I need all the reminders these days as to quite how good life…
I had a thought this morning in the shower .. there .. no it’s gone
No it’s gone… No hang on … here it is …… It was about being brutally honest. My point is – I think – that tempering the “brutal” part of…
Laying low …. starting to not like people in general ….
Mr Grumpy here…. We are having a 3 week lockdown in the Isle of Man as a result of the new Covid-19 strain and I’m trying to lay low and…
New acronym incoming ….
snoscunts = dozy fuckers I probably need to put some context around this as it is a bit vulgar I know so my apologies for that. It popped out of…
Brazil – December 2019
Well I’m back from my trip to Brazil.. What a mind opener that was. In October, three Brazilians set a new paragliding world record of 582km there, so we knew…