OneGuyFromBarlick

I shall be strong today and go in the shed! No politics or shopping to get in the way. The weather looks to be OK for a walk and bookie watch later. We shall see. I have a chicken to cook this morning......
05:30. The chicken is in the oven and will be ready when I get up after second sleep.

Morning

This morning we will pop to Bacup market to see what the plant man has to offer in the way of late summer flowering plants. We don’t need anything else. I am away next week on an art course so Bob will use all the single portion meals in the freezer ie left overs from over catering at other times.

We are meeting my cousin Trish and my sister Jane for lunch at a pub near Houghton Tower. We haven’t seen each other since we spread my brothers ashes way back in February, it will be good to see gem in happier circumstances. Afterwards Bob is driving me up to Kendal where I will be staying calling at a Tesco click and collect for my groceries for the week. Bob will stay over and drive back tomorrow. Wendy understandably does not want to leave Keith over the weekend so is actually going up to Kendal on Monday morning. If Keith is feeling better he will take her otherwise her daughter, who is visiting a friend in Morecambe on Monday, will take her.

The forecast for the Lakes is cool and wet, but I will be too busy to notice. Have a good day all .

Morning Sue. well organised as usual. I have just come out of the shed.





I started the day by putting the two flats on the small end of the con-rod to get it to 5/16". Then I measured and marked the cross head, drilled the hole for the cross head pin and set up to mill out the slot for the rod. The second pic shows where I am at knocking off time. I am ready to make the cross head pin and finish the cross head.
A nice morning, now for breakfast.

Number 1 daughter doing this today ( without daughter!) not bad for a 47 year old. In case you are wondering there is a full support team and feeding stations..

https://chillswim.com/chillswim-coniston-end-to-end/

Sue wrote: ↑25 Jun 2022, 09:03 Number 1 daughter doing this today ( without daughter!) not bad for a 47 year old. In case you are wondering there is a full support team and feeding stations..

https://chillswim.com/chillswim-coniston-end-to-end/

I think chillswim is a good description, to be honest I would imagine it'll be bl**dy freezing

Sue wrote: ↑25 Jun 2022, 06:35 at a pub near Houghton Tower.

My resolution to not correct things has lasted less than 24 hours.

I hope you will understand when I explain that Mrs Tripps comes from that area, and when apart, I phoned every evening. There was no direct diallng, and each call went via an operator. To avoid confusion I spelled out H-o-g-h-t-o-n very carefully. Four ten pence pieces was the budget, and hope the operator dozed off.

Strangely, I've driven past but never actually visited Hoghton Tower

I'll stop it now - honest

Now I did not know that. I always thought it was the same as Houghton as in Houghton Le Spring in the NE where my Dads office was. I will happily stand corrected.

As for Julia, apparently she went in the water at 10.30 and should be out by 12.15 pm, I think a two hour swim will generate some heat. She is doing it with her friend Dawn, also surname Smith but a coincidence

I've had my walk and sit opposite the bookies. I set off in sunshine but then it clouded over and we have spits of rain on the wind. Back inside now.... Not very exhausting and I kept warm.... Now for some cooking I think......

Big Kev wrote: ↑25 Jun 2022, 09:44

Sue wrote: ↑25 Jun 2022, 09:03 Number 1 daughter doing this today ( without daughter!) not bad for a 47 year old. In case you are wondering there is a full support team and feeding stations..

https://chillswim.com/chillswim-coniston-end-to-end/

I think chillswim is a good description, to be honest I would imagine it'll be bl**dy freezing

Fifth female in her age group, Dawn, her friend, the taller girl in this photo won . Julia was 16 th overall in the 45-49 group out of 55 competitors. Its a proud Mum this weekend . Dawn was 5 th overall.

Excellent stuff

I am sorry if it disappoints anyone but I shall not be swimming.... I shall be in the shed with the Stuart No. 9 engine making slow but steady progress. We have a good forecast so walk and bookie watch look to be on but the wind will chill us a bit I think.

These two pics show what I did in the shed after I had given Mrs Harrison a good oiling, it has been crying out for some oil for a while but I kept crashing on. As you can see I made the crosshead pin and fitted it. Only a small thing but essential progress.....

Morning

I too shan’t be swimming Stanley but I wish we had come a day earlier to see 900+ swimmers swimming up Coniston. Bob And I used to swim early every Monday, IN A SWIMMING POOL but have not been since the start of the pandemic and that is one place I still do not fancy going......

This morning is sunny but rain is forecast, we are staying right in the heart of Kendal by the shops, in fact right next to M&S. We are having lunch out then Bob is driving back home. I am not sure what Barbara and I will do this afternoon. I have not seen her for nearly three years and time has taken its toll. From a super fit lady who walked a lot she has lost a lot of weight and struggles to walk. The stairs here are causing her a problem. Apparently this all started before we last met which was an accidental meeting in the centre of Bowness. She has had endless tests and scans but no one can find out what is wrong with her.

We had a good lunch at The Royal Oak near Hoghton tower and arrived here later , about 5. I understand from Facebook that Wendy had a dreadful rainstorm, there was nothing here, but I hope Rochdale had it.

Have a good day all

Morning Sue! We must have been lucky in Barlick because we never saw a thunder shower. At the moment the story here is wind.... I'm off to bed now.... we'll see what happens later.

Sue wrote: ↑25 Jun 2022, 19:43 Fifth female in her age group, Dawn, her friend, the taller girl in this photo won . Julia was 16 th overall in the 45-49 group out of 55 competitors. Its a proud Mum this weekend . Dawn was 5 th overall.

And rightly so. This is one one the bigger calendar events with swimmers training especially for it. Not just a fun day as a rather wet Glastonbury. Quite a number of the Colne swimmers taking part in spite of all my ribbing and doom saying.

Sue wrote: ↑26 Jun 2022, 06:54 I understand from Facebook that Wendy had a dreadful rainstorm, there was nothing here, but I hope Rochdale had it.

The video from inside Wendy's polytunnel looked, and sounded, pretty horrendous. We must have been just on the edge of it a bit further down the mountain. The flags got a bit damp but soon dried out.

I survived! It must have been approximately 30 minutes of torrential rain, I sat down to wait it out and took a first photo at 8.18pm, then another of the clearing sky as I emerged at 8.46pm. I don't think there was any thunder but I wouldn't have heard it above the noise of the rain

Glad you are OK Wendy.
It begs the question’What was hubby doing while all that was going on?”

Cathy wrote: ↑26 Jun 2022, 08:41 Glad you are OK Wendy.
It begs the question’What was hubby doing while all that was going on?”

Watching TV and oblivious to the rain! I sent him a text to let him know where I was, just in case he wondered where I had got to.

We had the full monty, thunder, lightning and very heavy rain, only lasted a short while, maybe 15mins, then back to sunshine.

Wendyf wrote: ↑26 Jun 2022, 08:46

Cathy wrote: ↑26 Jun 2022, 08:41 Glad you are OK Wendy.
It begs the question’What was hubby doing while all that was going on?”

Watching TV and oblivious to the rain! I sent him a text to let him know where I was, just in case he wondered where I had got to.

. No rain here in kendal last night. We have just had a short light shower but it is very windy indeed

Saw your video on FB Wendy. We just had light showers on our afternoon walk. It chucked it down mid evening though, glad we were back in the barn.

plaques wrote: ↑26 Jun 2022, 07:02

Sue wrote: ↑25 Jun 2022, 19:43 Fifth female in her age group, Dawn, her friend, the taller girl in this photo won . Julia was 16 th overall in the 45-49 group out of 55 competitors. Its a proud Mum this weekend . Dawn was 5 th overall.

And rightly so. This is one one the bigger calendar events with swimmers training especially for it. Not just a fun day as a rather wet Glastonbury. Quite a number of the Colne swimmers taking part in spite of all my ribbing and doom saying.

Yes, lots of clubs listed. Lots of triathlon athletes too. There was even an 85-89 age group...... there were also a number of individuals that did not seem to be attached to clubs

I got it wrong there were 138 competitors in her age group, 55 were women

I went to the top of the hill out of Gayle on the Kettlewell Road. Dropped Sally off so she could get onto Cam High Road which is the Roman road from Bainbridge. She was walking back down the fell to Gayle. I parked up and made a few contacts on my mobile transceiver. Dropped back down into Gayle when I felt hungry 20minutes or so in front of Sally who had returned via Burtresett. We had a bit of lunch then walked down into Hawes, a quick look round the shops then a pint in the Crown. We called at the old sweetshop which is owned and run by Sally's cousin Anne's husband Kevin. Waked back to the barn and now chilling before tea.