What are your jeans doing today?

[tg76]

Weekend away in Wellington

Bit of art before heading out of the city

light house at Cape Palliser, a few steps, easy as

seal colony 

dozers

lake

bonus time as flights got cancelled. Extra 24 hours to mooch around with friends that luckily live nearby.

wearing my mr freedom jacket even though it’s not cold enough yet. 

Car eating cat 

Edited March 30 by tg76
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[Double 0 Soul]

7 hours ago, julian-wolf said:

Looks like a great day out on the town, but truly sad to see so much wasted potential in that garage…I’ll bet @reallypeacedoff would’ve loved it

Wasted how?.. because the cars have become almost undriveable cartoon exaggerations of themselves?

The center of gravity is so low even Tiger Woods couldn't flip them!..

They are on air-ride so they do lift before driving away but the roads are in such a shocking state over here.. for every 1mile stretch there is no less than 20 massive pot holes.. (some are so big you have to be pulled out by tractor) ..as they left the venue, sparks were flying as the exhaust hit the floor

Edited March 29 by Double 0 Soul

[reallypeacedoff]

So many of the cars look like Japanese anime caricatures. The NSX is the best car there, props to the neighbor.

Air suspension has gone a long way but still, unless it's a slow 'truck, I don't know why people hamper their Porsches with terrible suspension. Don't even get me started on stretched tires.

Did your son get any crashes from anyone leaving? If not, I guess the folks with Mustangs didn't go 😄

[Double 0 Soul]

There was only one car there with the steering wheel on the wrong side.. this'un.. it sounded fantastic but it wasn't fast..

28 minutes ago, reallypeacedoff said:

Did your son get any crashes from anyone leaving? If not, I guess the folks with Mustangs didn't go 😄

Nope.. He did send me this which he spotted last week while eating pizza up at Bents Green

..by the time he got home.. i'd found it

https://www.hagerty.co.uk/articles/this-porsche-914-restomod-comes-with-a-caymans-bite/

https://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/fifteen-eleven-design-914/review

Same^ plate.. it's from just over the hill at Bakewell.. it'll drive 1000% better than the slammed mods but at £350k it ought to!!

Edited March 29 by Double 0 Soul

[Double 0 Soul]

Short ride today.. I’m still nursing a knee injury but I had to get out on the bike because I consumed copious amounts of chocolate eggs.. oh, and the weather was glorious! 
 

Cute af lambs

😋

[Hopethisoneisnttaken]

@Double 0 Soul how’s the knee?

[Double 0 Soul]

Pretty good thanks.. according to the interwebz, it’s 2weeks of rest followed by 4weeks of build up, I played tennis yesterday and it hurt quite a lot running for the ball but today it was fine.. just had a couple of ibuprofen before I set off.. 

..alas, soon as I got home I opened the fridge and inhaled a large bag of mini-eggs, I would have burned off more calories by staying at home and taping the fridge door shut 

Edited April 7 by Double 0 Soul

[Double 0 Soul]

Welcome to this weeks episode of 'Denim Cooking with Double 0' ..featuring 90s era Silverstone

Before my kid was born and i still had a social life.. we all used to go out on Friday night then meet at Mandor Inn (affectionately known as Mandors) on London Road every Saturday afternoon.. Mandors was a trad Sichuan joint.. the food was fantastic..  if there was 10 of us we would just say 'we're not going to order from the menu, can we just give you £150 (£15ea) and you keep bringing great food out till the £150 is gone?'  😍.. One of my favourite dishes was Kung Pao.. alas, Mandor Inn eventually changed hands and became Noodle Inn.. the Sichuan cuisine was gone.. i've tried Kung Pao from numerous other joints but they never quite get it right.. always semi-westernised so i started making my own..

Ingredients

Disco tunes & beer

Helper who turned up just as i was chopping the chicken thighs 

Made a marinade for the chicken with Shaoxing wine, dark soy, salt, white pepper, corn starch and egg white.

Mixed it up and left it for 20mins..

Chopped the aromatics..

Spring onion, chilli, ginger, garlic (not qute Goodfellas thin) and sichuan pepper

Stuck the rice on then cooked the chicken till crispy in lots of hot oil

 

Empty most of the oil.. cook the aromatics

..made a sauce with sugar, black vinegar, corn starch, dark and light soy, water and sesame oil.

Wizzed it up with the milk frother..

Mixed the sauce with the chicken and aromatics

Kid doesn't like peanuts so seperated  his into a bowl.. added peanuts for the cultured peeps

Yum 😋

Edited April 11 by Double 0 Soul

[Hopethisoneisnttaken]

@Double 0 Soul
Looks wonderful! 
 

now, where is that Kiki service delivery t shirt is from? 

[Double 0 Soul]

I’ve had it years (back print) so excuse the yellowing underarms 

 

.. I think it was from Etsy 

[indigoeagle]

17 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Welcome to this weeks episode of 'Denim Cooking with Double 0' ..featuring 90s era Silverstone

Before my kid was born and i still had a social life.. we all used to go out on Friday night then meet at Mandor Inn (affectionately known as Mandors) on London Road every Saturday afternoon.. Mandors was a trad Sichuan joint.. the food was fantastic..  if there was 10 of us we would just say 'we're not going to order from the menu, can we just give you £150 (£15ea) and you keep bringing great food out till the £150 is gone?'  😍.. One of my favourite dishes was Kung Pao.. alas, Mandor Inn eventually changed hands and became Noodle Inn.. the Sichuan cuisine was gone.. i've tried Kung Pao from numerous other joints but they never quite get it right.. always semi-westernised so i started making my own..

Ingredients

Disco tunes & beer

Helper who turned up just as i was chopping the chicken thighs 

Made a marinade for the chicken with Shaoxing wine, dark soy, salt, white pepper, corn starch and egg white.

Mixed it up and left it for 20mins..

Chopped the aromatics..

Spring onion, chilli, ginger, garlic (not qute Goodfellas thin) and sichuan pepper

Stuck the rice on then cooked the chicken till crispy in lots of hot oil

 

Empty most of the oil.. cook the aromatics

..made a sauce with sugar, black vinegar, corn starch, dark and light soy, water and sesame oil.

Wizzed it up with the milk frother..

Mixed the sauce with the chicken and aromatics

Kid doesn't like peanuts so seperated  his into a bowl.. added peanuts for the cultured peeps

Yum 😋

Nice job and a delicious dish.

Does your son like cashews?
Gongbao Jiding is also often served with that instead of peanuts.

[Double 0 Soul]

I don't think so.. it's the texture he doesn't like, he doesn't like crisp (potato chips) either.. He's willing to give most things a try so it's not like he's eaten numerous flavours of crisp before deciding he doesn't like any of them.. he just doesn't want to eat them and it's the same with nuts.. it can't be the flavour because he loves warm nutella with a box of bread sticks.

I'm not complaining.. he's just given me a fancy pistachio and raspberry easter egg which came from his aunty over in Belgium.. 😋

Edited April 12 by Double 0 Soul

[PartTimeBarista]

Went for a family walk Friday evening along the river. The river was already flowing stronger than I’ve ever seen it just from snow melt. Still some snow hanging around, even after a day of rain today.

[CSL]

I wish I could be more prompt getting these posts together but this is from the beginning of the month when I was part of a jazz(mostly boogie piano) cruise on the Rhone.

This was the departure point. Our boat was the one on the right, behind the front boat.

 

A couple of shots of the interior, before and after the pianos were delivered.

 

My cabin. Quite comfortable overall. The shower was a bit of a challenge.

 

Leaving Lyon.

Some sights along the way.

 

This was Avignon.

The famous bridge.

The Paraboot store. Got these olive Chambords on sale.

 

I think the Pope had lived in this fine shack.

 

Next, Arles. The Romans had been here.

 

I believe the next stop was Viviers. I got a bollocking for forgetting to remove my cap here...

 

And I think the final stop was Tain L'Hermitage.

 

I need to look up what castle this was.

 

Some fine woodwork for Double0 to peruse.

 

And some artwork.

 

This was a fisherman's cross. Made for good luck, I believe.

 

 

And finally back to modern civilization...

Edited April 17 by CSL

[Broark]

Hard to follow that up, CSL is having much more fun than me lately. 
After a couple days in the hospital I had my gallbladder removed yesterday, discharged today and lounging in FW sweats back at home. Clean bill of health, just had some gallstones that were causing issues. Should be back to normal soon!

[MJF9]

@Broark wising you a speedy recovery Austin

[Broark]

Thanks Michael! Feeling much better today thankfully, should be a speedy recovery. Modern medicine is pretty cool.

[mlwdp]

@BroarkHere’s to a speedy recovery!

[Thanks_M8]

Get well soon @Broark

[Thanks_M8]

Guess that's what not having a job does to you, I guess

knit a sweater for my wife, last sweater took me 14 months on/off, this one 2 months and it went way smoother. Looks an fit are levels above as well

Bottom button is missing, will be added soon.

[Double 0 Soul]

Wow! 
 

That’s beautiful @Thanks_M8 is it 100% wool or a blend?

Lucky wife.. I could do with a husband like you 

[Thanks_M8]

Thanks @Double 0 Soul!

Of course, natures function wear!

You could take up knitting yourself keeps the hands idle and calms the nerves, you seem like a possible fit for it

[beautiful_FrEaK]

We visited the "flower island" Mainau today. The tulips 🌷 were still blooming 

 

[Double 0 Soul]

Coffee

Typical bank holiday weekend.. left the house.. only got to the end of the street and had to go back for a layer of gore

The crows and the herons were fighting again..

I had to swing by my mum's house.. i get txts.. "Does that white thing fit underneath or on top" .. i dunno, what white thing? "that thing you fitted, i've tried to do it and it wont fit" ...erm.. leave it, I'll call up.
Turns out It was the change piece for the guttering which diverts water to the water butts in the summer..

Mothers eh!..

I rode up through Ranmoor

..to Crosspool.. down into Rivelin and up to my folks house

Some of the old 00 gang are burried in here..

Past 'Our Cow Molly' farm .. where my dad and my kid used to go every Wednesday for an ice cream after nursery 😍

 

 

This is where i was brought up

 

 

My old local.. The Royal Hotel has sadly closed.. it used to be famous for folk singing and traditional village carol singing.. the tradition pre-dates church carolling by over a century.. some carols are only sung in a single location because they hail from a single family tradition.. The Royal was one such place.. Sheffield University documentad a lot of it so if you type 'The Royal, Carol Singing' into YT you'll find it.. you wont see me tho.. i was usually at The Niche or The Leadmill instead

At 18 i left this area for the heady heights of Walkley.. then years later, i nearly bought this cottage next to the pub for £54k

..rode down to Dam Flask where the rest of the 00 clan are sprinkled.. my nan and grandad used to have a motorbike and sidecar with my grandads fishing rods down the side, he would fish in his favourite spot while my nan would do her knitting.. they're both sprinkled in his fishing spot along with my dad.. who incidentally didn't like fishing because he thought it was cruel.

Lovely old village shop at Low Bradfield

..up to High Bradfield

The bells still ring out at High Bradfield church every hour which was lovely to hear.

..Past Bradfield Brewery and down into Loxley..past the Flask and down (i think it's called) Stacey Bank

I txt this photo to my friend Craig.. when we were in our 20s, both riding GTs.. i went over the bars here on the wet leaves and hit the handrail.. Ouch!

..and home

edit-

Edited May 4 by Double 0 Soul

[indigoeagle]

14 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Coffee

Typical bank holiday weekend.. left the house.. only got to the end of the street and had to go back for a layer of gore

The crows and the herons were fighting again..

 

I had to swing by my mum's house.. i get txts.. "Does that white thing fit underneath or on top" .. i dunno, what white thing? "that thing you fitted, i've tried to do it and it wont fit" ...erm.. leave it, I'll call up.
Turns out It was the change piece for the guttering which diverts water to the water butts in the summer..

Mothers eh!..

I rode up through Ranmoor

 

..to Crosspool.. down into Rivelin and up to my folks house

Some of the old 00 gang are burried in here..

 

Past 'Our Cow Molly' farm .. where my dad and my kid used to go every Wednesday for an ice cream after nursery 😍

 

 

 

This is where i was brought up

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great pictures, lovely landscape and architecture.
We should have a Sufu meetup there

And the coffee- you have come a long way, no  
Japanese hand crafted copper coffee dripper.
Weren't you partaking of Nescafe until just half a year ago or so.

[CSL]

@Double 0 Soul I love that there's a place called Dungworth. Where there's muck, there's money!?

Edited May 5 by CSL

[MJF9]

Molly's ice cream ftw

Edit - fresh from Dungworth, possibly named after the local aromas 

Edited May 5 by MJF9

[Double 0 Soul]

Indeed @MJF9 i went to school with the guy who owns it.. he inherited the farm and a small herd of friesians (not to be confused with friedmans) from his dad.. he expanded into ice cream and called it Our Cow Molly.. our milk man delivers the milk to the doorstep 😋

I like the Bakewell Tart flavour 

“Where there's muck there's brass”@CSL ..come on sort your phrasing out! .. you've been away too long!

We could have all hooked'up a The Royal for a good ole sufu-sing-along

an article here for those interested

Oh.. it's much worse than Nescafe, @indigoeagle i'm still drinking this swill as wake up juice most mornings but treat myself to a couple of nice coffees on Sunday, one in the morning the second i take on a bike ride.

Edited May 5 by Double 0 Soul

[CSL]

2 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

“Where there's muck there's brass”@CSL ..come on sort your phrasing out! .. you've been away too long!

I have heard it that way but my mother always said 'money'. A Yorkshire vs Lancashire difference perhaps? Or maybe she just updated it...

[Maynard Friedman]

These days @CSL probably says “Where there’s garbage there’s greenbacks” 😆