Man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets

Went out for a ride this am with a 3 other lads from the Cycling club
35.29 miles
2hours 15mins
15.6 mph average

map of route

I got well dropped on every hill and they were going easy on me the rest of the time too. still not bad for my first ride out in a group. I went with the early group but next wek I will go with the main group ( who are a bit slower) to give the early group a chance to go for it without having to wait for the fat bloke

I did my first TT on a bike( push bike) yesterday a 10 mile road circuit that was not hilly but it was also not exactly flat

The Club: St Johns
The Course : kc46/10h ( that is cycle geek speak for Old Hills 10
The Target for my first go: 35 mins
The Time: 30mins 25 seconds

I was pleased with that, next target is to go sub 30 then work towards doing sub 27.40 which is the clubs “Bronze” Standard

Well I made it
45 miles in 3hours 30 mins 33 seconds
12.6 mph average
It rained all the way
Lowpoint a 2 mile track that a tractor would of strugled on
Highlight a nice shower and cup of tea when I got to uncle peters house
I am sure there was more up than down the one down bit was on a really winding and pothole covered so I could not really go for it.I still did 33 before I bottled it and hauled on the brakes and then nearly wore them down doing this from my phone so will maybe do a proper one from home ok Sunday

Rainy, cold and seemingly all uphill
In Wales now there as no welcome to Wales sign so i took a picture by the england one

Up with the sparrows to catch the first train to Hereford.it is pissing down with rain,I have only rode the few miles to the station and I am soaked on the train now

Very

Once again It has been ages since last time
Firstly apologies to FoX for not doing his meme thing, I don’t enough bloggers to pass it on to.

Weekend 13/14/15 March I went to London for a mates 30th Birthday we went to Milk Kans Album Launch on the Friday night, after a Birthday Pizza and then proceeded to get very drunk we got back to Splinkers house at stupid o clock on Sat morning then got up and did the whole thing again only this time going to Worcester Finest Pop Tarts, And What Will Be Left of Them’s Album Launch party got back and a more sensible time Sunday morning, then me scopie and Gertcha got up at the sparrows fart, Gertcha ‘cos he had to go to work me and scopes to Paddington Station to get home. It was a great weekend if a little messy at times. There are plenty of photos of the weekend on facebook if you know where to look.

When I got back home Sunday it was a really sunny day so we went for a walk up the Malvern Hills with the kids.

To Cool For School, Lydia up the Malverns

A couple of weekends ago family Woo went to Alton Towers( courtesy of some free tickets, cheers Splinx )

I have been doing a lot more bike riding of late last week I went to a Roller Racing night at the local cycling club, basically you but your bike on rollers a ride like as fast as you can, the rollers are connected to a clock which measures your distance and someone with a stopwatch does your time. I did 11.77 over 250 meters which is slow but not bad for my first go. Also did a 10 mile loop on my bike in 32 minutes again not the fastest but not bad.

Talking of bikes, on the 17th of April myself and my Cousin Craig are going to ride from Hereford to Newport, via the back lanes, it is about 60 miles or there abouts

This will blow you away ( if site is down search Kutiman on youtube)

http://thru-you.com/

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Hi Guys

I have been back from the US for a couple of weeks and not blogged yet so here we go, sorry it is a bit of a moan but it is one of those things that pisses me off.

Yesterday I went to watch my youngest, Lydia take part in a dance show at a small theatre. Before the show and again before the second half started there was an announcement something like this;

” Ladies and Gentleman can we please remind you not to take photos or film video this is because of the Child Protection Act, we are sorry about this but our hands are tied, we have an official photographer who is licence to take these photos”

What a load of rubbish, this is just not true. For a start the relevant( if any) is “The Children Act” which makes it illegal to take INDECENT photos of children or to create INDECENT pseudo images of children (under 18’s).

If they had said don’t take photos as we want to flog you official photos then I have no problem with that, it is private property and they are well within their rights to do so.
But I hate this “climate of fear” we are living . I don’t want my children to grow up thinking everybody is a Pedophile or going to hurt them in some way.( In fact is is not true that something like 97 percent of abuse or harm is carried out by someone known to the child*see below*)

I am not stupid I know there is a danger ( however slim it actually is) and of course I teach my Children not to go off with anyone unless Mummy or Daddy say it is OK

Its a bit like how the powers that be bang on about Terrorism all the time in order to scare us in to having more and more of our liberties curtailed( but that is another rant)I want my kids to enjoy life not to be terifed of everyone and everything.
Just to be clear there is NO law that restricts taking decent( as opposed to indecent) photos of children as long as you are in a public space, in fact I think I am right in saying you as photographer own all rights to that image. Private land or property is a different matter and you need permission to tale ANY photo/video.

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The bit about children being harmed reminded me of when we tooj Will and Lydia to a working farm. Now bear in mind I am with my children, who are both saying Daddy look at this, Daddy look at that. I asked a little girl if she was having a nice time, she was chatting away and her Grandfather called her away and told her off for talking to strangers, it was a proper scary talk to “you don’t know what he might do to you blah blah” I was so cross that if I had of challenged him about it I would of just shouted at him, so I bit my tongue. A little while latter when we were by the piglets i told Will and Lydia that is where bacon comes from, The Grandmother says to me not in front of the children, you should not tell them that. WTF don’t tell Children that bacon comes from pigs, I said to her ” Where to you tell your children/grandchildren bacon comes from? does it magical appear on the shelf at Tesco all nicely packaged?” she just walked off without speaking.

Anyway Lydia was brill as a Fire Fairy and all the other little boys and girls where great too