Today I have been concerned with toilets to a greater degree than I would have liked. Some days are like that. It is, as I often say, my age.
I had to stop for toilets before reaching Newark. This was a nuisance, but there’s always an opportunity in adversity, and in this case it was a Bridgford Breakfast at East Bridgford Garden Centre.
As a result I didn’t need to eat again until tonight, when I added mince to the left-over vegetables and curry from the last two nights and topped it with sweet potato slices. It produced a flavoursome and fibre-filled version of Cottage Pie.
On the way home from Newark I took a few photos, topped up my grudge against cyclists and got home just in time to fall asleep and miss Pointless.
Why would anyone ride one of these? I can see there are advantages, but the main disadvantage, that cars and lorries can’t see you, seems to be a compelling reason not to ride one. There’s no point in being fit and healthy if you’re flat. There are more strange cycles here.
As a positive end to the day – Julia has taken orders for five nest boxes. That’s £25 towards new covers for the polytunnels. Only another £475 to go. Or 95 more nest boxes…
Field near Kneeton, Notts
beautiful pic love it..
Thank you. 🙂
The Bridgford Breakfast sounds like it could keep one going for quite a while. 🙂
It did keep me going until the evening. 🙂
The cottage pie sounds very appealing. In fact it made me feel so hungry, I’m off to have lunch.
Now that I’m doing more veg I need somewhere for leftovers – cottage pie and soup provide the answer. 🙂
Our house is in the country and on a very popular bike route (To my dog’s joy – she chases them silently until she gets to the end of the fence and then barks ferociously to send them on their way.) I have seen lots of odd bikes out there including the recumbent (he rides with a big group which helps with safety.) We also frequently see a couple on a bicycle built for two.
Yes, I’m sure a cyclist is a thing of joy to any dog. 🙂
Cyclists, the trash men, and the UPS man are all chased down and abused with verbal aggression. Fire trucks and other sirens get howled at from the porch. Owls are not tolerated under any circumstances.
Sounds like your dog is quite a character.. 🙂
Recumbents are brilliant. Cars are uncouth and dangerous to all concerned. I would ride a recumbent tricycle if I was able to get out of one.
I did wonder how easy they were to get in and out of, but assumed this was probably just a problem imagined by a fat man with bad knees. 🙂
They are just so aerodynamically efficient that it seems a crime not to use one.
They do seem to have a lot of advantages, but they seem so vulnerable.
They look very comfortable, especially to one who gets a sore neck and shoulders from conventional bikes. I’ve never tried one though, not yet.
They have a long list of benefits to health, but being visible to logging trucks is not one of them. 🙂
Those recumbent bikes do seem dangerous. Not many around here, probably for that reason. The pie sounds delicious, and yay for the cottage pie.
I became more adventurous after reading about “Post House Pie” in Derrick’s blog. 🙂
A couple of good landscapes there, and at least you got to miss Pointless 🙂
🙂
Oh, recumbent cycles!!!**!!! Ridden by people with a death wish I think!
That’s how it seems to me. 🙂
🙂