Friday 20 September 2024
Have I Got News for You US
Thursday 19 September 2024
Tea Coffee Success
Wednesday 18 September 2024
Tuesday 17 September 2024
Sunflower Microgreen
Monday 16 September 2024
Thorpe Park
To continue the story, the entrance was fully of barriers to make you walk around, so you don't feel like you are queuing, I call this "Heathrow Experience". We went through bag check and into Thorpe Park as it opens, most of the rides were not yet open.
I went to the first one that was open, Stealth: 0-80mph in 1.8 seconds. Because Sarah did not go with me, so I was a lone rider, I even jumped to the front to fill an empty space. Its magnitude did not dawn on me until I was strapped down. It was fast, it was scary, and it all ended very quickly.
After that, it was a bit of a daze!
Rush: giant swing is a modern version of the pirate ship, except scarier. I cheated, by closing my eyes. I hate pirate ship!
The Swarm: a winged coaster was actually very smooth, very nice. As I described it, imagine being on Julie's motorbike, fast, smooth, sweeping bends.
The Saw's queue was too long, so I passed the first time around. The screaming from the riders were not encouraging.
Colossus: world's first 10 looping coaster, in comparison is an old clunky coaster, it was fine, but it has too many corkscrew spins.
Mr Monkey's Banana Ride is a child's size pirate boat, which I just about to tolerate.
We weren't initially planning to get wet before lunch, but we walked past Storm Surge: spinning life raft, and we went for it. Sarah's rain coat protected her from most of it, and I got a little wet. The water was still quite clean in the morning.
High Striker: child's size drop ride was just around the corner, so we forced ourselves on the ride as the operator wanting to get off to his lunch, I swore it was a shorter ride than the children before us.
We nipped to our car for lunch, changed into our wet gear, in preparation of the afternoon wet rides.
Quantum: magic carpet was just by the entrance, we so went on it just after our lunch, thinking maybe we needed something calmer just after lunch.
Sunset Cinema was showing a 4D race car short clip, so we went and sit down for a little bit, there was a bit of chair shaking and air jet spraying.
When we got to Dobble Tea Party, we were the only two in the tea cup, it was a bit too spinney to my liking.
Big Easy Bumpers were very calm dodgem, sparks no longer fly around.
Most of the roller coasters' queue are getting long. We queued up for The Walking Dead: indoor roller coaster.
And Ghost Train: actors in the tube train, much like the real tube experience! At the end of a tube ride, do we still have a soul?
Nemesis Inferno also came with the Heathrow Experience, and it was also a bit old and clunky.
After that, Sarah was ready for more roller coaster, so we went on Colossus and the Swarm.
The Saw's queue had died down, so we went for it. It is like a smaller version of the Stealth, with the added thrill of part of it in the dark.
We have ruled out Hyperia, queue too long, and we might not have the stomach for; Samurai, Vortex, Zodias as we don't like to be spun; and detonator that we don't like to be dropped.
It also started raining, we were ready for the wet rides. Flying Fish junior coaster was a bit clunky, and we were on the coaster for 5 laps, we got quite wet!
Depth Charge: super slide actually wasn't wet as we imagined them to be, I slid a lot further than Sarah did.
Tidal Wave promised to drench us and it delivered, I had not been this soak for a long time.
Just as the park closes, we squeezed onto another Storm Surge ride, by now, the rafts are full of water at the bottom, that also got my feet wet!
I left the park shivering... It was a very accomplishing day.
Sunday 15 September 2024
Surrey Day 6: Woburn
Saturday 14 September 2024
Surrey Day 5: RHS Wisley
Friday 13 September 2024
Surrey Day 4: Kew Garden
Thursday 12 September 2024
Surrey Day 3: Hampton Court Palace
Wednesday 11 September 2024
Surrey Day 2: Thorpe Park
Tuesday 10 September 2024
Surrey Day 1: Windsor
Monday 9 September 2024
Surrey Day 0: Thames Ferry
Sunday 8 September 2024
Walnut Pesto
Saturday 7 September 2024
Dynamic Pricing
Friday 6 September 2024
Green Tomatoes
One of my tomatoes has irreversibly snapped, so I had to take all the tomatoes off and hope they will ripen..
Thursday 5 September 2024
No Fee
Wednesday 4 September 2024
Cat Beeper
Tuesday 3 September 2024
No CHATS
Monday 2 September 2024
Fushsia Berry
Sunday 1 September 2024
Chilli Honey
Saturday 31 August 2024
Barber Trainee
Friday 30 August 2024
When Universal is not Universal
Thursday 29 August 2024
Trespass Incident
There is the normal kind of train delay, then there is the abnormal kind of train delay. I was caught out in one yesterday: some trespasser was on the line and wasn't removed for two hours.
I didn't give up hope a quick resolution for an hour. I count myself lucky when my train was stuck on a train platform, so we can get out of the box. After an hour sitting on the train, I also decide to walk away.
Wednesday 28 August 2024
Hanlon's Razor
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Tuesday 27 August 2024
Scunthorpe Pride
Monday 26 August 2024
Dark Kitchen Food Court
Sunday 25 August 2024
Manchester Pride
Saturday 24 August 2024
Free Washing Machine Clean
Friday 23 August 2024
Bongkrekic Acid
Thursday 22 August 2024
Free Electricity: Summer Demand Flexibility II
Wednesday 21 August 2024
Infinite Bridge
Tuesday 20 August 2024
Sweet Pea Flower Harvesting
Monday 19 August 2024
Destructible Honda
Sunday 18 August 2024
Calderdale Pride 2024
Saturday 17 August 2024
Woodland Creation - Potting III
Friday 16 August 2024
Free Electricity: Summer Demand Flexibility
Thursday 15 August 2024
Northern Lights
Wednesday 14 August 2024
Language Error - Caterpillar
Tuesday 13 August 2024
Cheshire Adventure After Math
Monday 12 August 2024
Cheshire Adventure - Day 3
Sunday 11 August 2024
Cheshire Adventure - Day 2
Saturday 10 August 2024
Cheshire Adventure - Day 1
Friday 9 August 2024
Cheshire Adventure - Day 0
Thursday 8 August 2024
Apocalyptic Octopus
Wednesday 7 August 2024
Sport Therapist
Tuesday 6 August 2024
Summer Swell
Monday 5 August 2024
Distilled York Tour
Sunday 4 August 2024
Belper Pride
I took Karen to catch up with Sarah in Belper Pride.
It was a, little, weird, pride... Good spirit tho
Saturday 3 August 2024
Visitor Preparation
Friday 2 August 2024
Rain Finally
Thursday 1 August 2024
Nero Working
Wednesday 31 July 2024
Cougettes
Tuesday 30 July 2024
Bike Washing
After the single track roads, I gave Unthank a little rinse to get the worse off. I came home to wash her, under the Sun! It was not fun, but at least she is now black-ish again.
Monday 29 July 2024
Sunday 28 July 2024
North Pennines
Saturday 27 July 2024
Summer Heat
Friday 26 July 2024
DIY Plumbing
Thursday 25 July 2024
Sunflower Mutants
Wednesday 24 July 2024
Summer Harvest
Tuesday 23 July 2024
Monday 22 July 2024
Sunday 21 July 2024
Piaggio MP3
Saturday 20 July 2024
Carlisle LGBT
Friday 19 July 2024
Civic Duties : Report Crimes
Thursday 18 July 2024
Bike Bulb Replacement
Wednesday 17 July 2024
Grilled Courgette
So I finally had one of my courgette. They are just as I remember them, a bit tasteless, a little pointless, except the vitamins, of course...
Tuesday 16 July 2024
Riding School
Monday 15 July 2024
Little Roast
Sunday 14 July 2024
Cottage Garden Crop Photo
Saturday 13 July 2024
Too Good to Go Spree
Friday 12 July 2024
Two Locks
Thursday 11 July 2024
Spring Onion Planting
Wednesday 10 July 2024
Summer Cut
Tuesday 9 July 2024
Successions Planting
Monday 8 July 2024
BANANA
Sunday 7 July 2024
Bike Fest Shafton
I have even found little old Endee.
Saturday 6 July 2024
Difficult Quiz
Friday 5 July 2024
MSG overdosed
Thursday 4 July 2024
Community Energy
Wednesday 3 July 2024
Pontefract Scufflers
Tuesday 2 July 2024
Lidl Dried Shitake
Monday 1 July 2024
Townclose Glowworms
Sunday 30 June 2024
QR Code Malfunction
Saturday 29 June 2024
Chickens for Beginners
I have been wanting to go to the poultry for beginners course at Temple Newsam for a while. Although my house deed in theory does not allow for poultry keeping.
I saw the course popped up and I signed up. Only to be confirmed that it is cancelled due to lack of student....
Is it a sign? That I shouldn't bother?
Friday 28 June 2024
Motorcycle Crimes
Thursday 27 June 2024
Useless Compost
Wednesday 26 June 2024
Heck Factory Shop
I finally got the opportunity to go to Heck Factory Shop. I had a sausage sarnie, which was okay, at least I was confident with the sausages. I was on my motorbike, so I wasn't going to carry around chilled sausages for hours in this warm weather. I got to go back another week!
I probably won't try some of the weird flavours tho.
Tuesday 25 June 2024
Monday 24 June 2024
Fizzy Cola is Back
I was disappointed the whole of 2023 because Haribo's fizzy cola was not available at the factory shop, and they said it was due to production line down. I even look for them when I was in Holland.
They are back!!!! I stashed up!
Sunday 23 June 2024
Woodland Creation - Potting
Saturday 22 June 2024
Networking with Free Food II
Friday 21 June 2024
Networking with Free Food
Thursday 20 June 2024
Missing Bike Rack
Wednesday 19 June 2024
USB-C PD
After some debate, I bought a USB-C PD charger, both as a backup charger for the laptop, and a charger for that massive power bank.
Tuesday 18 June 2024
Cancel and Rebook
Monday 17 June 2024
Humber Bridge Viewing
Sunday 16 June 2024
First Courgette
Saturday 15 June 2024
Sandals
Friday 14 June 2024
Yeasty Slug Traps
Thursday 13 June 2024
Spotting Moon
Wednesday 12 June 2024
Calimoto Desktop
Tuesday 11 June 2024
Yo! Japanese Curry
Monday 10 June 2024
Barbequed Chicken Wings
Sunday 9 June 2024
Spotting Scope
I saw a used spotting scope in a shop window, after some quick search online, I decided to enquire about it. We saw spotting scopes in Bempton Rocks, it would come in handy.
We spotted this pigeon on the bank of River Ouse in Selby. We tried it on the Moon, and it was a new moon, making it extra hard! We are looking forward to using it more.
Saturday 8 June 2024
House Sparrows
Friday 7 June 2024
Loose Leaf Tea
Thursday 6 June 2024
Overpriced Sunday Roasts
Wednesday 5 June 2024
Calimoto
Some bikers are raving about Calimoto, but is it £50 good? They used to have a basic free level, but it doesn't anymore. When we were last out, Mark's Calimoto app crashed. It surely cannot be £50 good...
Tuesday 4 June 2024
Oversized Battery Bank
Monday 3 June 2024
Kippered Out
Sunday 2 June 2024
Yorkshire Puffin Festival
I took the opportunity to go to Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Yorkshire Puffin Festival at Flamborough Cliffs. Unlike RSPB Bempton Cliffs, there's no barrier. There were more puffins than two week agotwo week ago when we were at Bempton Cliffs.
There were loads on the cliffs, some flying, some bobbing in the sea.
I actually took the bikers there, but they all opted for a warm cup of tea instead of seeing British wildlife.
Saturday 1 June 2024
Car Washing Finishes
Friday 31 May 2024
Ribby
Thursday 30 May 2024
Bin Diving
Wednesday 29 May 2024
Barton Marina
I was going home on A38, so I thought Barton Marina would be a good place for a break.
It was a very nice marina, a lot of nice shops, it seems popular as a family outing. I would certainly stop by again when I near it.
Tuesday 28 May 2024
Local Farmshops
Monday 27 May 2024
Overpriced Farm Shop at Chipping Norton
Fan of a certain show would know which farm shop I am talking about. One of the bikers is a fan of the show and lead a run down that direction. I have already expected it would be horrible, and it exceeded my expectations, in a bad way.
The farm is on a 8' road, and everyone just park up as soon as possible, which means parking on the verge, making the narrow road extra muddy. The overflow carpark is only single car width and has a massive potholes at the entrance. There is no warden sorting out the junctions.
The queue to anything is long. There is no entertainment on site, apart from the queueing and fellow punters' company. Apparently the queue for food, as well as queue to farm shop were two hours. Some punters implied their burger would worth the wait, of which Gwilim and I concurred that no food is worth 2 hours wait!
There's no demarcation of the queue, so you have to ask your way around to find the back of the queue. And some punters were walking and queueing what appears to be a lawn and occasionally a lady will shout, "please get off the spring barley".
Queuing, warm beer, overpriced burger, the holy trinity of British culture.
Sunday 26 May 2024
Lake Vyrnwy Bird Feeder
Saturday 25 May 2024
Scenic Route
Friday 24 May 2024
Second Sail
Thursday 23 May 2024
Wednesday 22 May 2024
PV Planning
Tuesday 21 May 2024
Underground Bakery II
Monday 20 May 2024
Holme Moss
Sunday 19 May 2024
The Otley Show
Saturday 18 May 2024
The Tetley
So the Tetley restaurant is back open, but the short cut is closed, I guess I won't be parking on Sheaf for a while.
Friday 17 May 2024
Thursday 16 May 2024
Local Blue Tit
Wednesday 15 May 2024
Coastal Trip - Day 4
Tuesday 14 May 2024
Coastal Cycle Trip - Day 3
We took the bikes to edge of Cleveland Way, pushed down the hill, across the beach and cycled all the way to the Scalby Mills, all the way up to the castle and all the way back. Apparently that is only 8 miles in total.
We did all that within the 3 hours free parking limit! We went onto Cayton Bay enroute home. We saw some sand martins at the beach.
Monday 13 May 2024
Coastal Cycle Trip - Day 2
We cycled to Bempton Cliffs, which was only 7 miles but it was general uphill and we were cycling against the seabreeze.
We did manage to see three puffins... My trusted old camera manages take their pictures. As well as a lot of guillemot, kittiwakes, razorbills, tree sparrows and a few fulmars.
Sunday 12 May 2024
Coastal Cycle Trip - Day 1
Saturday 11 May 2024
Another Folding Bike
In less than a year, I bought another folding bike.
Unlike the B Fold 3 bike with single gear, this Apollo Contour bike has 7 gears, also came with panniers, bike light, spanner and pump. Except that is too big to fit in my cupboard...
Friday 10 May 2024
Hong Kongers in the UK: A Journey of Hope and Resilience
Thursday 9 May 2024
Coptic Wedding
Wednesday 8 May 2024
30kWh Day
Tuesday 7 May 2024
Glowworm
Monday 6 May 2024
Leicester City Jam
We made a few mistake coming into the Leicester City Foxes celebration. We should have avoided it. Then the jam were not clearing off as we hoped, so we should have just pushed through rather then waiting.
Sunday 5 May 2024
ER
Saturday 4 May 2024
Tyres Shopping
Friday 3 May 2024
Early Radishes
Thursday 2 May 2024
Plant Outdoor Acclimatisation
Wednesday 1 May 2024
GreenTech
Tuesday 30 April 2024
Manchester YHA
Monday 29 April 2024
Apple Peeler
Sunday 28 April 2024
Plant Identification
Saturday 27 April 2024
Hairball
Friday 26 April 2024
Insouciance
noun lighthearted unconcern
NONCHALANCE
I have heard of nonchalance before, insouciance is a new word to me.
Thursday 25 April 2024
Energy Generator 1 Year Review
Wednesday 24 April 2024
Three Cornered Leek
Tuesday 23 April 2024
St George Mushrooms
Monday 22 April 2024
Wild Woodears
Sunday 21 April 2024
Afternoon Tea Sugar Overdose
Saturday 20 April 2024
Wentworths
Friday 19 April 2024
Weird Tulips
Thursday 18 April 2024
Farmfoods Lucky Dips
Wednesday 17 April 2024
Try Twice
Tuesday 16 April 2024
Vanderbilt Fee
When NPR WWDTM mentioned Vanderbilt, about needing $100k a year, I had to double check their maths. They were indeed wrong, the tuition is only $62k...
Monday 15 April 2024
Wheeldale Gill Ford II
Sunday 14 April 2024
Whittling Injury
Saturday 13 April 2024
Old TV programme
Friday 12 April 2024
Garden Reorganisation
Thursday 11 April 2024
Shop Closures
Wednesday 10 April 2024
Horsepower
My bad for assuming one horse only produces one horsepower. On the other hand, I really think they should increase the sample size and type of horses.
Tuesday 9 April 2024
Model Bike
Monday 8 April 2024
Bad Hayfever
Sunday 7 April 2024
Wheldrake Ings
Saturday 6 April 2024
Supercar Trackday
Friday 5 April 2024
Coconut Juice
We bought some coconut juice, aka "coconut drink" in lieu of the coconut milk from the tin, which is way too thick, for the purple rice pudding. I think they worked well, kept the dessert cook and light for the chilled dessert.
Thursday 4 April 2024
Aluminum Steps
Wednesday 3 April 2024
Toshiba RIP
I cannot believe I have this Toshiba since 2017. It was working fine last night, albeit booted up weirdly. I tried everything, booting into safemode, boot without ram, without battery, without harddrive. I gave up. I even took it to a local computer shop, he took one look at it and said motherboard and that there is no Toshiba spares.
Tuesday 2 April 2024
Arboretum in Winter
Monday 1 April 2024
Spring BBQs
We were very lucky with the weather, the local shops were rushing to get the charcoals loaded to the front of the shop. We had BBQs two days in a row across the bank holiday!
Sunday 31 March 2024
Natural Accelerant
Saturday 30 March 2024
Scuffler
Friday 29 March 2024
Annual Tax Review
Thursday 28 March 2024
Francis Scott Key Bridge
Wednesday 27 March 2024
Garden Capture
Tuesday 26 March 2024
Spring Planting III
Monday 25 March 2024
Nottingham's Sunday
We went into Nottingham early, forever worrying about parking in an unfamiliar city, only to find the city was quite dead before noon. Only when we were leaving about 2pm, it became slightly more alive.
Sunday 24 March 2024
Spring Planting II
Saturday 23 March 2024
Spring Planting
Friday 22 March 2024
Filter Inflation
Thursday 21 March 2024
Fixed Menu
Wednesday 20 March 2024
Namewee It Might Break Your Pinky Heart
I cannot believe I haven't posted it before.
Tuesday 19 March 2024
Namewee The People Of The Dragon
I wonder if they understand sarcasm.
Monday 18 March 2024
Feoffment
Sunday 17 March 2024
Fence Repair
Saturday 16 March 2024
Oriental City Dim Sum Master
Friday 15 March 2024
Repair Cafe at Home
Thursday 14 March 2024
Late Night Bargain Hunt
Wednesday 13 March 2024
Collage Name Tag
Tuesday 12 March 2024
Brown Bins in 2024
Monday 11 March 2024
Random Made Up Games
Sunday 10 March 2024
Painful Paddy
Saturday 9 March 2024
Friday 8 March 2024
Bread Cannot Become Bagel
Thursday 7 March 2024
Disney Plus Trial
Wednesday 6 March 2024
Roof Shapes
Tuesday 5 March 2024
Vertical Roof
Someone kept calling their dormer elevation vertical roof. Vertical roof is already an oxymoron. Cladded elevation's cladding is very much not roof tiles... If it elevates, it is an elevation...
Monday 4 March 2024
Damage-Free Fixings
Sunday 3 March 2024
Quiz Master
Saturday 2 March 2024
Moon Repair
I have had the Moon since 2018. Since then, it has moved house, change charger, moved multiple times up and down the shelves. I have kept that to minimum, on the necessary basis, because I know the Moon is fragile. So it finally happens, the charger jack holding glue gave, and I have to reinstalled it surgically... And contrary to popular believe, instead of the LED remote control, you can also touch control the moon, by touching its nipple.
Friday 1 March 2024
St David Daffodils
Thursday 29 February 2024
Free Dinner Seminar
Wednesday 28 February 2024
Arena Swimming
Tuesday 27 February 2024
Petting Zoo
Monday 26 February 2024
One Day IKEA Erection
Sunday 25 February 2024
Eat Leeds
Saturday 24 February 2024
Overwinter Garlic
Friday 23 February 2024
Zero % Everything
Thursday 22 February 2024
Wednesday 21 February 2024
Tiny IKEA Lunch
Tuesday 20 February 2024
Sunny Winter Day
Monday 19 February 2024
Big Bird Deterrant Failure
Sunday 18 February 2024
Motorcycle Outing
Saturday 17 February 2024
The Daily Show
Friday 16 February 2024
Educational Xray
I have no use of the Xray film, but since I had it, I passed it along for educational purposes. Apparently children are facinated by that.
Thursday 15 February 2024
First Year PV Review
Wednesday 14 February 2024
M60 Nightmare
There I was again, on the same trip, I already had a head start by going across M62 the night before, but M60 was still a nightmare.
Tuesday 13 February 2024
Folding a Folding Bike
Monday 12 February 2024
Weekend Shopping Mania
Sunday 11 February 2024
Superglue Dispenser
Saturday 10 February 2024
Conservatory Removal
Friday 9 February 2024
Snowy Sheffield
Thursday 8 February 2024
Etymology - Cathay
Wednesday 7 February 2024
Radiator Booster Fans
Tuesday 6 February 2024
Garforth Repair Cafe
Monday 5 February 2024
New Motorola Moto
Sunday 4 February 2024
Saturday 3 February 2024
Internet Failure
After discovering my internet not working, I spent a whole morning trying to get hold of the ISP. They have concluded the BT master plug built in ADSL filter has failed, so they would mail me a new one. The little filter is so precious, that they would not slot into my postbox?
So I tried to use the Library's internet, and their fibre was damaged last week and yet to be repaired!
The only internet working was my work phone's 4G. So don't think wired internet is any more robust than mobile internet...
I had to resort to watching terrestrial television!
After days of faffing, they finally agreed to send me a new router, and it finally fixed it five days later. Which I told them day one when I spoke to them. Let see if there will be any compensation come my way.
Friday 2 February 2024
Ozone Hole Update
Thursday 1 February 2024
Claustrophobic Bin
I was so excited to get an automatic bin. Who would have known, it stops working if it is inside a cupboard? How can a bin be claustrophobic?