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Bicycles and lambs

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When I asked for a bike for my birthday last Spring, I had no idea it would be THIS long before I got my first spin. Today it was beautiful biking weather, dammit, and we went in search of lambs (our local crop hasn’t ripened yet). We found a field full just up the road.

We didn’t take a good camera, so we didn’t get much in the way of pictures, but April 1 is just getting into the real lambing season. Plenty of time yet.

Goofy bastards.

Then we biked on into town, bought a loaf of fresh crusty bread and couple of newspapers and had tea and scones in a cafe.

Shit fucking fire.

Some days I think this place is going to quaint me to death.

 

 

 

 

Comments


Comment from dfbaskwill
Time: April 1, 2009, 7:37 pm

You need a job!!!! (Just kidding)


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 1, 2009, 7:42 pm

No can do. Totally against the law. Gordon Browne says I can’t work for…oh, weeks and weeks.

Can’t even do volunteer work.

Sorry.


Comment from Allen
Time: April 1, 2009, 7:51 pm

Brrrinnggg, brrrinnggg!

Hey, did you have the trusty Raleigh, and did you happen to run anyone over?

Please tell us you aren’t going to start cycling around the countryside solving murders. “Inspector, Miss Weasel is here with some information.”


Comment from jwpaine
Time: April 1, 2009, 8:00 pm

Hey! That’s a great idea! You could travel the countryside on your bike and solve murders! Gotta be mega-money in that. Of course, if you’re shooting for Murican viewership, you’ll need a [smarter-than-you|older-and-wiser-than-you|hipper-than-you|funnier-than-you|blacker-than-you] sidekick, though. That might be a deal-breaker.


Comment from Allen
Time: April 1, 2009, 8:12 pm

JW, minus the smarter, wiser, hipper, and blacker part, Joe Biden would be the perfect sidekick for Weasel. Just think, every so often she could yank a hair plug out when he did something goofy. Comedy gold.


Comment from jwpaine
Time: April 1, 2009, 8:38 pm

You should charge for this stuff, Allen.


Comment from Gnus
Time: April 1, 2009, 9:05 pm

Do ya have one of those jingly bells on the bike? That would just scream quaint to me. 🙂


Comment from porknbean
Time: April 1, 2009, 9:14 pm

Jingly bells, a basket, and tassles/streamers!!


Comment from Gromulin
Time: April 1, 2009, 9:26 pm

Needs a playing card in the spokes and one of those old headlights that drove off the tire, and got brighter the faster you went. Very Quaint.

Sweasel, did you get the “extreme sheperding” link I emailed? or did the spam filter eat it?


Comment from wendyworn
Time: April 2, 2009, 12:11 am

oh please! you love being quainted. admit it! I know I would!


Comment from Mrs. Hill
Time: April 2, 2009, 2:01 am

Spring = lambie races!
I love to watch ’em zip around like a demented school of sardines while their poor mothers stand and baa after them — baaad babies.

Gromulin,
Did you see the interview with those shepherds?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7961889.stm

“Just good dogs and very sensible sheep.” Riiiiiight!


Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: April 2, 2009, 5:53 am

I can confirm the ugly rumours about both the bell and the basket.

In fact the bell (or some other ‘get the bloody hell out of my way, damn yer eyes!’ device) is a legal requirement here so I have insisted that her Stoatliness has one.

Wouldn’t want her visa application to fail ‘for grievously failing to display a bicycle bell’ would we?

Mind you, it would have made for an interesting blog post.


Comment from Roman Wolf
Time: April 2, 2009, 10:06 am

The irony is Mr. Badger is correct…

A government bureaucrat is probably spying on them as we speak just looking for a petty excuse to deny the visa.

As for solving the quaintness overdose, I’m not sure. Most villages and towns are quaint in the England(from my experience of going over there and visiting relatives), but I’d argue that they’re not much more quaint than most rural towns here in the states(except you have a higher chance of getting a good cup of coffee or tea in England; Americans don’t know how to brew either).


Comment from Gibby Haynes
Time: April 2, 2009, 10:38 am

I didn’t realise having a bell was a legal requirement. Is that a national thing or is it some retarded local council initiative? Man, I’m still geting used to not being allowed to sit facing backwards on the handlebars and peddling backwards and wearing a bowler hat, a waistcoat and bearing a striking resemblance to Paul Newman whilst a Burt Bacharach song plays in my head, before crashing into a field and pulling a funny face at a bull. Whatever will they think of next? Swine.


Comment from Roman Wolf
Time: April 2, 2009, 10:39 am

I have a Crunchie bar here and I just realized that there is Arabic on the package(along with English)…do all candy bars in England have Arabic on them now?


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: April 2, 2009, 11:20 am

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Comment from Gibby Haynes
Time: April 2, 2009, 11:45 am

I have a Crunchie bar here and I just realized that there is Arabic on the package(along with English)…do all candy bars in England have Arabic on them now?

All I’ve got for reference is a Double Decker. All it’s got on it is English. Crunchie and Double Decker are both made by Cadbury’s, so maybe there are domestic and export versions. However, I do recall seeing Arabic and possibly Urdu on chocolate bars and sweets before. Can’t remember which ones though.


Comment from Roman Wolf
Time: April 2, 2009, 2:00 pm

It could be Urdu(I simply can’t tell the difference).

But yeah, they might have different versions for export…it’s just the first time I’ve ever noticed this.


Comment from Nicholas the Slide
Time: April 2, 2009, 2:53 pm

Please tell us you aren’t going to start cycling around the countryside solving murders. “Inspector, Miss Weasel is here with some information.”

DO EET! 😀


Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: April 2, 2009, 5:50 pm

It’s a pet bugbear of mine, Roman Wolf. Since the UK was sold to the Germans and French by the traitor Edward Heath, manufacturers have centralised production and universalised packaging design so that the back of a bottle of washing up liquid, for example, now has the essential details in 16 different languages – so abbreviated and in such small type that they are of no use to anyone.

Mind you, fearing our sub-standard plastic food bags (I kid you not) The Weasel brought a small arsenal of US ones over with her and staring at them I feel I might as well be in Barcelona.

Looks like you’re not immune, either – but at least you only have to cope with two languages. Well, unless you sell in to Canada. In which case, merdre!


Comment from Nicholas the Slide
Time: April 2, 2009, 6:01 pm

the back of a bottle of washing up liquid, for example, now has the essential details in 16 different languages – so abbreviated and in such small type that they are of no use to anyone.

Are they kind enough to provide a free magnifying glass with this or are you supposed to shell out for one on your own?


Comment from MCPO Airdale
Time: April 2, 2009, 6:35 pm

I envy you. There is nothing more beautiful than a British spring.


Comment from Mike C.
Time: April 2, 2009, 7:28 pm

OMG ! She’s going Charles Johnson on us !


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 2, 2009, 7:32 pm

Hahaha…not hardly, Mike. I squeezed out barely two miles on the damn thing and I had to walk it the last 300 yards home. Boy, am I out of shape.

I used a bike as my main transportation well into my twenties, too.


Comment from Mike C.
Time: April 3, 2009, 4:55 pm

“Hahaha…not hardly, Mike. I squeezed out barely two miles on the damn thing and I had to walk it the last 300 yards home. Boy, am I out of shape.”

That’s why God gave us internal combustion engines. Surely there’s an old Norton, BSA or Enfield somewhere about for sale. Maybe even a Vincent or Ariel if you’re lucky.


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