Trepid Explorer

Bike-packing, Audax, Cyclo-cross, fell running, recovering-triathlete. Engineering. Usually exhausted.

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@owentrucker Rest well. Trauma, exhaustion all wrapped up with achievement, elation and then emptiness. No wonder it's a struggle. Be kind to yourself... then enter something else. 😆

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@MartinMBrown With himself down with covid this week, just hoping to survive and take the dog for a few walks. Have a swim or two. Maybe bag a munro or three instead of just looking wistfully at them from the saddle as I ride by.

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First trip to Scotland since I stopped doing the HT550. With the family in tow I feel reponsible for everyone's enjoyment. Impossible to believe it's not ruined. It's so busy, people can charge £288pn for 1 bedroom flat. And I know the REAL secret. Wild camping is THE best option

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@peatpixie Were they trying to sell you the 70's too?

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@billplumtree @FatherHilarious I agree with this. Better a waterproof tarp so you can lay on a quiet grassy spot. As light, less volume.

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@mission753 Ah yes the fireworks. No warning to dog owners and a lot of errant hounds going mental. Remember the bloke with a rack of car horns on his back?

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@KirstendeVos @POferries I havent time to backtrack all the comments to check but ... is there a bus company that uses the route?

[Dr Andrew Digby @takapodigs]

Tonight there are #kakapo in the forest of the North Island of Aotearoa for the first time in over a century. We released four into Maungatautari Sanctuary Mountain today. #conservation #returnofthekakapo

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This is how I ride pump tracks.

[cats being weird little guys 👅 @weirdlilguys]

doing my best

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@Artfrombikeshed Still here for cats and art.

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@ameliaboone @slorgebutler I suppose there's "running through" and "doing hill reps". Though our hill-based cemeteries can be kinda spooky with the occasional gravestone at a jaunty angle.

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@mrricktaylor Two snow patches left in the corries?

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Found a balloon on today's walk. "Ash always in our hearts from Rach, mum, dad and nan". They believe she will float on that sparkly balloon for all eternity... I stamped on it twice, stabbed it with keys and binned it with Lena's poo. Thanks Ash, for making my dog shit sparkly.

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@LynneNi59944303 @NorthRoadCycles If only sighted people did this with their eyes.

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@bearbonesnorm You have to recognise some problems can't be fixed. It's difficult for engineers to get their head around, I know.

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I've been working with a female senior manager at work and today we wrapped up with one of those "been a pleasure" / "likewise" convo's and on further examination, it turns out we both just really enjoy having meetings where no one is being patronising.

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Almost a shame to waste the last one on a negative but...

S o f u c k I n g r e l I e v e d.

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It's been so long.

Remind me...

How do you start to feel better from a cold?

Do I just wake up one day without snot? This one is dragging on a bit 😴

[CPRE Peak District and South Yorkshire @cprepdsy]

After significant work in organising a coalition to protect the Upper Derwent Valley from any water storage developments, we are pleased to learn that Severn Trent Water are not progressing their plans. We will issue a statement on this news tomorrow.

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@Donald26637137 Sneezes here. Thanks for the view.