The Bike Ride Which Wasn’t

After deciding not to cycle last weekend we were all looking forward to it today. Putting the bikes on the car and we discovered Daisy had a puncture. Only store open for repair kit (No, I don’t know why we didn’t have one either) was Pitsford 6.5 miles away so we drove there. As our destination was Salcey Forest we then drove there to repair the puncture and set off 17.5 miles. Upon arrival we discovered it’s worse than that (it’s dead Jim), the brakes were hanging loose with the bolt missing! So, we headed off for Halfords and, two hours after leaving home headed back home again, another 9 miles so a total of 33 miles and two hours for nothing really :-(

All rather frustrating

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robin said…

Oh Phooey! shame that it all went bosoms up!

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Budget Day

So, we have the ‘Let’s buy a whole host of gullible voters day’ with George Osborne. No doubt we’ll be told how employment is rising, how the deficit is falling, how we’re all so much better off now than we were (compared to what?). We’ll be told that there are still tough times ahead but that only a Conservative government can steer us through them. It will be pointed out how inflation remains low, how not raising duty on fuel has helped everyone as is seen by the current lower prices at the pumps (it’s going up again George). In short, I should listen to this budget later and decide to vote Conservative in May but, I won’t. Labour certainly did nothing to avoid the mess the country got in but they didn’t cause it. They made the mistake of trying to be too conservative, allowing high finance the freedom to cause a catastrophic cock up for which they took zero responsibility. They made the mistake of allowing Gordon Brown to take the job of Prime Minister, one for which he is totally...

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In life we are said to meet one soul mate, that special person we can totally relate to, who loves us no matter what and we love them the same. There was a time, not so long ago when we only had the people within a few streets of us to find them from. Then there were trains and telephones and we might find them in the next town. Cars came along to make life easier, TV showed us a bigger view and they might now be anywhere in the country. Then we got air travel and the internet, we've a whole world to choose from. Our streets is now a planet so, why are you alone precisely? My soul mate is 6,668 miles away flying in a dead straight line, that's like, wow!

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