Curry
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I made a really good curry last night. I’ve finally cracked it, I think,
after many years of trying. Here’s how:- Into my big blue pot that I got
from Tod ...
Live to ride another day ..........
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Mountain biking is full of inherent dangers, that’s what makes the sport so
exciting.
I hate to see people riding without helmets. It makes me feel physica...
Danny Hart World Champion. OK we've had an Englishman that was cool, then a Yorkshire man that was the tits, now we have a Redcar lad as world champion that is out of this f*cking world. Not only that he did with one of the greatest runs of all time. Good on ya lad!
As a side note none of the British press have picked up on this. The national press I expect but the Evening Gazette. How many world champions do we have on Teesside? The sports article for that day was about the UK schools table tennis championship.
During my morning replication today I discovered that I in fact traveled through time. I'm pretty sure that like all other capabilities in Notes IBM will not market this one.
Keep your cricket Yorkshire has a new world champ. Congratulations Steve Peat!
It was cool that last years world champ was an English man but a Yorkshire man is the tits. A true legend in the sport. More world cup wins than anyone else and now world champ at 36. He's shown true grit to stick at it this long and it's paid off.
It looks like my little one has some competition. I guess I'll have to tell him tonight that he's got 2 years to catch up. It looks like I'm tyaking Bri to Whistler for his 4th birthday :)
I suppose 2 and riding trails on your push bike isn't bad though.
This 4 year old is rocking it. I like the 360's and the cross ups.
I love this article. A British pro MTB rider decided to enter a road race in South Africa and only had his MTB with him. He won :) That must of pissed the roadies off.
The last of Britain's greatest generation of soldiers has finally been laid to rest. More. Yes I know the term is usually used for WWII veterans but those that came before in WWI showed sacrifice and sense of duty on a scale hard to imagine.
They marched shoulder to shoulder in orderly line across no mans land by the thousands. Pipes and drums ringing in their ears they marched into withering machine gun fire. As their friend fell around them they kept on coming keeping their formation. 50,000 teenagers and young men dead before lunch. They didn't do it for a greater cause but a sense of duty to their country that hardly exists in Britain today.
All this at times in the face of incompetent and arrogant leadership given their rank due to their social position rather than leadership qualities. It was a massive waste of life playing in a chess game for dying monarchies but their bravery rose above that.
RIP Harry Patch and all your brothers in arms. The nightmares are over.
A vid from my boys in Afghanistan proving as I've always know that we are always up for a good fight. It's been almost 18 years since I took off the uniform for the final time but you never really leave. It's a family you remain a member of for the rest of your life.
Last time they went I only had a couple of good mates left serving (Benny, Mac, Gazza) This time I will have less friends there but all Howards are brothers and my thoughts are with them constantly.
Unfortunately, not every one came back and 2 more names were added to my list of the fallen I remember always.
Good luck on round 2 boy and remember those who've gone before you will always be with you.
Day 3 and every one has survived to varying degrees. The mountaint rocks and i've ridden the thing on my own bike. We're having a day of relaxing and taking some photos of the village trails. I'll get some posted tonight.
This new rail project is a great thing for the local community in the tees valley and should provide a boost for the economy.
However, who in their right mind came up with the idea of a park and ride in Grangetown or South Bank. Have they ever been there. I have some good friends who live in both places but there isn't a chance in hell I'd leave my car there all day while I went to work.
The Teesside delicacy the Parmo is to go national and distributed through Asdamore. A cousin of the Italian Parmesan Chicken/Pork we've been keeping this little delight to ourselves for years.
Next thing you know there will be one of them regional food wars going on where only true Parmos are made in Boro. Mind you in true boro fashion we won't protest to the EU for new legislation to say you can only call it a parmo if it's made in Boro. We'll just send a tranny van round full of lads and kick the shit out of the pretenders.
I think I've got the slogan "Made in Boro by daft lads"
Henry Allingham one of the last remaining survivors of world war 1 has died this weekend. When asked how he wished to be remembered he said "I don't, I want to be forgotten. Remember the others". I for one think this is one wish we should not grant this great man as by remembering him we remember the others. He become the embodiment of all those that were locked in perpetual youth by the carnage that was world war one.
Finlay let your memories wash away and rest in peace!
Well just over a week to go to my summer holidays and I'm buzzing. British Columbia, Canada is our destination. Whistler bike park and Vancouvers north shore are the main destinations. 7 Great mates, 11 days and the best mountain biking in the world. Sounds like a killer trip for a bunch of young lads living that summer to remember.
Well something like that, apart from the fact that the kid of the group is 29 and the rest of us are from the mid 30's to early 50's in age. It's billed as my 40th birthday trip, but I'd of given any designation just so I could of pulled the trip off. Also, instead of sleeping 7 to one room in a hotel we have rented a luxury apartment. That wage slave thing pays off.
While I'm on the trip I'm going to try and post daily video and picture updates and some blogs from the lift cutesy of the iPhone. Additionally I'm going to try and get some of the lads to post on their thoughts as a kind of running diary. The last time I tried a running diary was in the mid 90's on a mountain biking trip to Amsterdam. Don't ask!
I've been planning this trip since I got off the plane coming back last time, 3 years ago.
Mid life crisis? I don't think so just a continuation of a life spent doing stupid things on a bike :)
No wonder China can do what they want to protesters. Check the article here.
The flow of wealth from the US to China at the end of it's reign as the leading empire is similar to the last great shift. That shift being the transfer of wealth from the British Empire to the US during and after the second world war.
It will be interesting to see how the US handles this shift. The UK struggled to readjust for years will the American ego allow it to adjust.
I've been riding mountain bikes for a long time and had quite a few of the injuries in this article pluss a few others.
These pansieswhyning about it cause trails to be closed. You ride trails at your own risk. If you don't know the trail you check it out before you try anything. If you crash the first thing you should do is look at what you did wrong. Also, there are no official bike trails up there they are all bootleg but tolerated, and have been for all 40 years of my life. To say they need sighs would change that and have the effect of getting the trails closed to bikes rather than spend the money on signs.
I liked the land managements response of you ride at your own risk.
The reason I'm sensitive about this one is that Errington woods is where I started riding and where I started BMX and mountain biking over the years. I've been allover the world and ridden some of the best trails it has to offer but The Woods will always be the first.
Non locals whinging about our trails and getting them shut would piss me off.
I've always doubted the mental capacity of anyone in their late 50's or more having kids. You will be to old to do stuff with your kids and may die of old age while they are kids.
Also what kind o state are you going to be in to control a teenager when your infirm ed.
I'm just coming up to 40 and it makes me think how I'm going to discipline a teenage boy when I'm nudging 60.
This article typifies why it's so wrong at old age to have kids.
It took a bunch of scientist to figure out that swearing helps with pain. I could of told them that when I was 6. I reaffirm my belief in that theory most weekend. The more the pain the nastier the swearing. Here's the article on the study.
I had the pleasure a couple of years ago to listen to Niel Armstrong speak about about project he worked on to install a mirror, on the moon. It blew me away and I was thankful to have the experience.
After reading the following article I realise how lucky I was.
What a great idea and I want one. I've been following Craig Calffie's bamboo bike project for a few years now. They are expensive but have a lot of merit and cool factor. Anyway when I read this article that you were going to be able to by versions of these bike but produced locally in Africa with the profits going back to the makers I was in. Also the fact that they are going to be cheep helped as in: USA built $2600+; Africa built $475.
I have all the parts spare to build it up, it's pay day and it's for a good cause let's go for it. Well it's never that simple. I checked the Acifa bike web site and the buy a bike page is blank. Also, the Calffiesite has no mention of it.
I guess I'll just have to wait and see when I can get my Bamboo Bike.
The Elizabeth Cross is now to be awarded to the families of soldiers killed in action. See the BBC Article here. It is also good to see that it is backdated to 1948 and covers those killed by terrorism so the Troubles will be covered.
I know this doesn't do shit to bring back the dead but it's a nice memento to be passed down through the generations to keep the memory of the fallen alive. The accompanying signed letter from the queen adds to the touch.
It's nice to see that now and again the establishment just do things that are right for no better reason than they should be done.
I've not realy got anything to say I'm just feeling out blogging from my new iPhone. It's a bit of a pain in the arse to be honest but it's still cool.
Well I'm Finlay getting acclimatised to the summer down here in Florida.
There has been a heat wave on down here for the last week. In northern Florida that temperatures +/- 102°F/38°C with a heat index of +/- 114°F/45°C.
You guessed it daft arse here has been trying to ride in it every day. That's despite the locals being advised not to attempt exercise out side. Obviously I was aided by growing up in the hot and humid conditions in Teesside and the extra 30+ lbs of insulation I carry on my one pack abs. The only other thing I can credit with me being here writing this and not in hospital wired to a machine is my 6 months in the tropical weather of Aberdeen.
Long story short I thought the weather was going to assassinate me on a nightly basis.
Well the weather broke last night and I was flying. I hardly broke a sweat and rode twice as far in the same time.
What was this cool temperature you may ask? 94°F/34°C! Yep it was still hotter than a hookers knickers on a Saturday night and I thought and my body acted like it was cool.
It just goes to show that perception is relative. My mother was complaining that it was too hot and humid on Teesside this week 75°F/24°C. I'd of been wearing arm warmers if last night was anything to go by.
