Cycling North After Winter

[wuvvum]

It's been 2019 for an hour and a bit where Alex is...

[NorthernMonkey]

Here here...may 2019 bring you faster times around the cones.

 

All the best and hope to see you soon, mate!!

[The Moog]

Here here...may 2019 bring you faster times around the cones.

 

All the best and hope to see you soon, mate!!

You couldn't help yourself! Poor boy is freezing in a tent.... With only his autotest hoodie to keep him warm

[Mrs6C]

Happy New Year, Alex, wherever you are!

[purplebargeken]

Probs safely in his tent surrounded by empty pizza boxes and bottles of plonk.

[Kringle]

Best wishes to you fella

[Bucketeer]

Thanks everyone.

The old guy who owns the guesthouse I stayed at and lives there alone asked me to stay for a few days and help out around the place in return for free lodgings, and this coincided with me feeling low, so here I am.

 

 

Also, tractors and trains.

 

 

 

I know at least myself and mat_the_cat enjoy the occasional electricity pylon, so here you go Mat.

 

 

Not sure when I'm leaving here, probably today or tomorrow.

[chaseracer]

Leave when you're ready & recharged.  Der alte Mann im Gästehaus sounds like a bit of a diamond.

 

HNY m9 

[richardmorris]

Leave when you're ready & recharged.  Der alte Mann im Gästehaus sounds like a bit of a diamond.

 

HNY m9 

 

Agreed, and happy new year!

[DeeJay]

Stay as long as you're needed.

[Tickman]

That sounds like perfect timing and free lodging is a great price!

Have a great new year Alex.

[Skizzer]

That’s made me disproportionately happy

[Bucketeer]

only his autotest hoodie to keep him warm

How did you guess?

 

[DodgeRover]

Glad you have found somewhere to rest for a few days, feeling dizzy and confused could have been the start of something nasty if you had pressed on.

You must be burning through the calories, have you checked your weight at all?

[mat_the_cat]

I know at least myself and mat_the_cat enjoy the occasional electricity pylon, so here you go Mat.

 

Do I? It's not something I ever recall having mentioned or indeed considered, but I suppose that's quite an attractive one. Thanks 

[Six-cylinder]

I know at least myself and mat_the_cat enjoy the occasional electricity pylon, so here you go Mat.

 

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Don't start Mrs6C on that one, she had a spell working for National Grid! 

[Skizzer]

Do I? It's not something I ever recall having mentioned or indeed considered, but I suppose that's quite an attractive one. Thanks 

I’m partial to a good pylon (though I don’t remember mentioning it on here).

 

We had a school coach trip to France when I was about 11, the first time I’d been abroad, and the pylons were a revelation. They looked like Space Invaders. It was the best bit, apart from a Berliet fire engine and Autobianchi A112s.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

At my school we often used to enjoy a regular 'pile on', are you sure youse are spelling it right?

[Mrs6C]

Don't start Mrs6C on that one, she had a spell working for National Grid! 

 

Ah, got to love OHL towers...

 

[chaseracer]

I know at least myself and mat_the_cat enjoy the occasional electricity pylon, so here you go Mat.

Do I? It's not something I ever recall having mentioned or indeed considered, but I suppose that's quite an attractive one. Thanks 

 

Nonetheless...

 

 

[mat_the_cat]

This one looks happy.

 

[SiC]

How are the buttocks and crotch? Avoided chaffing so far?

[DeeJay]

Don't start Mrs6C on that one, she had a spell working for National Grid! 

I had a spell when I worked at Hogwarts.

[Mrs6C]

This one looks happy.

 

This is the Hello Kitty version...

 

 

Apologies for the thread hijack, Alex!

[Sheefag]

Y Tho?

[Mrs6C]

I took the photo of Hello Kitty in France, near Guemps.

 

The Clown towers are real too and can be found in Hungary, either side of the M5 motorway near Újhartyán...

 

I think we need a Pylonshite thread...

 

Ta-dah!!!

http://autoshite.com/topic/34105-pylonshite/

[Sheefag]

They have Mickey Mouse pylons near to DisneyWorld at Celebration, Florida.

 

If Alex sees any of these, he's good and lost, mind.

 

[Bucketeer]

I wasn't that far off remembering it correctly Mat.

 

I've also admired French telegraph poles too. Sometimes I can even blame the wine as well.

 

That quote was following this post on my old travel/spotting thread.

 

[bangernomics]

What a great adventure, I don’t suppose a self published travel guide akin to Kevin whosnames who did a couple or three motorcycle touring books is in the offing?

 

Now that would be cool, I’d certainly buy it for the kindle and even at 99p (49 to you) it’d soon add up to at least a free holiday or two?

[richardmorris]

How are the buttocks and crotch?

Sounds like a downmarket starsky and hutch.