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I am having a grumble, so if you don’t like it don’t read any further…………..

Kids went back to school round our way today and the road were chock a block with cars, why? We leave home around 8am which is before the schools start so why are the roads full of bloody cars? Its the same when the schools break up there is a noticeable drop in cars on the road. I know a couple of people who catch the bus to work in the morning and they love it when the schools break up because the buses are not crowded with school kids and the journey is about 10 to 15 minutes quicker, less stopping and less traffic.

I don’t know where the summer holidays have gone, it seems like it was only last week that the schools broke up for the summer, I was looking forward to those long summer evenings. Now it is September, it is getting dark around 8pm and now the temperature has dropped a couple of degrees over night they are talking on the radio about turning the central heating on……………….WHAT, IT IS NOT BLOODY COLD!!

Finally a thank you to the penile shaped driver, driving a V reg BMW convertible, sporting fake M3 badges. I am not annoyed that you pulled up along side me and squeezed me into the kerb (as the road went from two lanes to one) and I had to back off. No, I am annoyed that I did not think at the time that the car I was driving was a courtesy car on company insurance (mine was in the garage) so I should of held my ground and let you wreak havoc down the sides of both car because you were in the wrong and I had nothing to loose. Everybody around you would of seen you for what you are, a sad guy who thinks driving a BMW improves his image, you sad sad person!!

On Friday night we went down to Poole Quay and had a a look at the cars on show, a weekly event on a Friday night through the summer, this Friday was the last one for this year. The theme for the night was American cars. There was everything from a WWII Jeep to a road legal dragster and everything in between including a Peterbuilt Truck. Here are a few pictures from the night

Old Ford Pickup

Purple Pickup

6ltr of GM Muscle with added laughing gas for fun!!

Negative pickup, OK I played around with this one, it should be a Red Ford Coca Cola Pickup

Left-hand side of the Peterbuilt engine

The right hand side of the Peterbuilt engine, 16ltrs 6 cylinders of chrome, this Truck is all show

It was an interesting evening but a complete pig to take any pictures because people just wander across in front of you which is why I took the pocket camera rather than my dslr camera. One final shot from Friday night

Looking out across Poole harbour towards Sandbanks

Yesterday was shed painting day, it is only the second time that we have painted the shed in 7 years, one 2.5ltr tub of paint (well wood preservative as it now called) was enough to cover our small shed with enough left over to paint half a fence. So now we have to buy another tub to paint the complete the fence!!

Went out for my normal early Sunday morning ride today, wished I had stayed in bed now. It only took a couple of miles before my back started to complain, it was OK sitting on the bike and riding but when I had to exert a little pressure on the peddles (like going up a hill, even little inclines) or when I ran over a bump (tree root), my back complained. I kept thinking about cutting the ride short and heading for home but I stuck with it and did the full loop for 26 miles (probably not a good idea). Not only did my back feel worse than it did after Friday’s ride I also felt pretty worn out, so maybe my body had still not recovered from the ride on Friday? I had planned to ride tomorrow but I have binned that idea to give my back a rest and won’t look at getting back in the saddle until next Saturday.

So after a relaxing bath this morning I watched, the rescheduled Speedway Grand Prix from Croatia (rained off from Saturday night) and then flicked between the channels to watch the F1 from Belgium. While I am talking TV I have just watched Gee Atherton win the Mens UCI Downhill World Cup. In between the F1 and the Mens downhill I cleaned my bike.

Tomorrow we have the joys of a trip to the tip with all the rubbish I moved from around the shed pre painting. The car will then need to be cleaned ready to go into the bodyshop (2nd attempt) first thing Tuesday morning for the rear bumper replacement. Then we off to the local park to watch some bands play, one of the bands, is made up of the kids of the wife’s niece. By all accounts they are pretty damm good. They are building a web site at present so here is their Facebook Page Finally tomorrow, it weigh in night at Slimming World , I am not holding my breath this week.

….but you can’t come in

That is what my blog has been saying to me for the past 36 hours. Seem as though there was some file corruption in the section that controls the logins etc. After some help from the guys at WordPress Support I have been able to get access to my blog again. What I like most about this is that the WordPress software that this web site\blog is built on is free, the Theme I uploaded a couple of weeks ago is free and the support I have had over the past 36 hours has been free, that my friends is the joy of Open Source Software or OSS for short. The company I work for have just invested in a web site which has CMS (Content Management System, well technically it is WCM but I am not going into that here), which is what WordPress is, well suffice to say my solution is a hell of a lot cheaper than theirs is.

Apart from Monday night success (I lost another 3lb) there has not been a lot to write about this week which under the circumstances is just as well. No ride yesterday as it was raining and I had to get the shed cleared out so I could get all the bikes in the shed. Five hours later the shed had been cleared with enough space to park all the bikes in the shed and be able to get them out again without to much of a problem.

Went out for my customary Sunday morning Throop Loop, another two and three quarters ride time. Met Mr Grumpy on my way back along the river complaining about Mountain Bikes on the path, well I never heard him complain about the dogs that run around which are not under the owners control, causing havoc and a danger to walkers, runners and cyclists alike, leaving their deposits all over the path for other to enjoys……..NOT! Maybe Mr Grumpy should stop being a miserable old git and start enjoying the scenery.

Saw my first KingFisher today, it was only a common Kingfisher, a couple of weeks ago in the same area I saw a guy land a large 18lb-ish Pike. If had not taken up cycling I may never had seen any of this. I have seen a host of wildlife since I have started riding, ridden area that I never knew existed and I feel a lot better for all this.

Have a busy week coming up, my car is into the body shop tomorrow, I am all over the place on Tuesday, Thursday night we are going to the evening events for the Bournemouth Air Show, Saturday I am off to the wilds of Hampshire (better known as Liphook) for a cycle ride and then on Sunday were back to Bournemouth beach to see the Air Show. Better not forgets tomorrow nights weigh in and food tasting session at Slimming World , better make sure I get weighed first before I start the food tasting!!