What are your jeans doing today?

[PartTimeBarista]

Baby snuggles

[ATWM]

19 hours ago, PartTimeBarista said:

Baby snuggles

congrats!! 

[Thanks_M8]

@PartTimeBarista congrats and best wishes!

[MJF9]

@PartTimeBarista happy days in the baby bubble... enjoy

[MJF9]

A civilised evening, wearing corduroy, seeing and hearing Bassekou Kouyate and Amy Sacko playing traditional Mali griot music from as far back as the 13th Century... why not I say

Bassekou on the ngoni - a little 4-string harp; Amy with great vocals; all in French so hardly understand a word, as O Level French was a lifetime ago, but I got the vibes... with some Mali blues to boot... enjoyed it

[Double 0 Soul]

Got up this morning.. weather was "changable" to say the least.

The rail which supports the upper tray in our dishwasher keeps falling off because the flange which retains the rollers has broken.. our dishwasher (much like the rest of the kitchen) is completely fucked, i'll buy a new'un when we eventually get it renovated..

In the meantime.. I know i'm from the north of england but fuck me! ppl.. i'm not paying £80 for 4x bits of shitty plastic, to repair a dishwasher which is worth fk all!

 

.. so i turned some replacements out of nylon in my old Boxford

Repaired the dishwasher by 10am and had some breakfast.. boiled eggs and peach tea with a biscuit from France that we got for cat sitting 😋

..set of to Eyam in the sunshine, here is a short history lesson for those that didn't come on my primary school day trip in 1983

In 1665 a tailor in Eyam ordered a bolt of cloth from London, this was during the bubonic plague, the fleas on the cloth had been feeding on the plague infested rats so they spread it to the good folks of Eyam.. in a move similar to lockdown, the villages chose to forgo ivermectin.. self isolate and die rather than spread the disease to the surrounding villages (on the up.. the sale of camper vans, coffee machines and cockapoos went through the fucking roof) it worked.. mainly because Boris Johnson wasn't on the parish council.

The singleist of singletrack

Laid in the glorious sunshine for 20mins

Down into froggatt

Book shop in Grindleford

Hand made furniture

Lovers Leap

Into Stoney Middleton.. some of the sufu-geriatrics might remember @Paul T much more comprehensive visit to William Lennon? .. if not, it's worth seeking out.

Boot making was first recorded in the village in 1797.

Hiding from the hail / cloud burst under a tree..

Shrine to St. Bertram where weary travellers can stop and say a prayer "Please god, rid our roads of Range Rovers"

Up to Eyam

..those of you who frequented DB might remember my 5yr old kid in these stocks

The churchyard is very full

There are two sets of troughs.. one for drinking water and one with a source of softer water for washing your clothes..

The wet clothes are then spread out on the adjacent parrish land to dry.. i should try this "trough wash" with these Ground Alls

..as you walk / ride around the village, all the houses have a green plaque telling you who died where

..took a byway from Eyam back to Stoney Middleton in the rain, which was more fun than i expected

..a little bit of Ibiza

That famous doorway..

William Lennon was established in 1899 to service lead miners (lead mining started with the Romans) and quarry workers.. William Lennon was born in 1873, quickly orphaned and taken to the poorhouse.. he came to Stoney Middleton in 1887 to start work as an apprentice cobbler.. bootmakers earned £1 for a 63hr week (pfft! .. i work more hours than than now.. lazy cnuts!) boys earned four shillings (20p) .. women grew round shouldered, folks had breathing dificulties and poor eyesight due to working by candlelight.

Stoney Middleton church

.. then the rain followed me all the way home.. riding up Froggatt in these conditions was.. let's say 'character building'

Edited May 17 by Double 0 Soul

[Double 0 Soul]

Got up this morning and noticed some woodlice on the fancy wood-effect linoleum.. either making sweet woodlice-love or one entrepreneurial woodlice was offering rides around the kitchen to their woodlice friends..

Opened the door and was greeted by the neighbours cat

..went to damflask

Reservoir lures

Denmarks finest

kid caugh his first pike at 11.30am

..under the willow trees are millions of floaty seeds

..at 4pm we'd fished all the way to the neck of he reservoir so we went to The Plough for food

Boy Howdie! 

..walked back to the flask and fished till 7.30pm without catching anymore fish..

Called a Molly farm for ice cream on the way home but it had closed at 5pm 😭

[CSL]

Nurseries are more Mrs. CSL's jam than mine but nevertheless this one (Bolles) does feel like a pleasant little oasis in hot, dry Bakersfield.

 

Edited June 10 by CSL

[julian-wolf]

Got hitched last weekend up in the mountains

 

Having a little reception in a couple weeks back in town, more photos to come

[Broark]

Congrats Julian!

[mlwdp]

Congratulations @julian-wolf

[CSL]

Fabulous! Congrats!!

[Dr_Heech]

Congratulations to both of you!

[Thanks_M8]

Congratulations! 

[PBTony]

Congrats! Also great suit

[smoothsailor]

Beautiful, congratulations @julian-wolf

[ATWM]

Congrats! Looking wonderful you both (and doggo) 

[nopal]

Congratulations! Thanks for sharing some of the beautiful moments from your day.

[oomslokop]

congrats @julian-wolf! also, what were your WAYWT?

[indigoeagle]

Congrats, great pictures and nice suit also.

[julian-wolf]

Thanks so much, all!

@oomslokop asking the important questions —

Pants & jacket from Evan Kinori

Shirt from Yoko Sakamoto

Belt from our very own @Duke Mantee

Birks from the one and only Birkenstock

Lichen crown by Mom, bouquet & bout by my then-wife-to-be

[MJF9]

@julian-wolf brilliant... congratulations and best wishes to you both for the future!

[Alec Leamas]

This is great! Beautiful pictures. Congratulations @julian-wolf

[beautiful_FrEaK]

just saw it: congratulations @julian-wolf

[Maynard Friedman]

Excellent news JW - congrats to you and your she-wolf!

[Hopethisoneisnttaken]

Beautiful! Congrats @julian-wolf

[CSL]

Mrs. CSL and I just had our 25 year anniversary. We're taking a little vacation trip in Northern California.

Started out in the Bay Area which meant a trip to Standard And Strange where I bought this Black Sign jacket.

 

Yesterday we headed north, avoiding interstate highways as much as possible. After stopping for dinner in Redding we decided to continue to a place called Burney where unexpectedly all motel rooms were sold out except in the worst spot in town. I should have took photos but suffice to say it would not have been out of place in a horror movie.

Surviving the night, we arose early and went to Burney MacArthur Falls which were spectacular.

 

We walked a hiking loop and after feeling inspired by a youngster we'd seen plunging into the 48 degree waters I decided I needed to do the same. 

We then drove towards Mount Shasta, which before long appeared dramatically on the horizon.

We pulled off in a charming little town called McCloud. There was a museum with various stuff relating to life there, railroads, logging, etc.

No great age to the jeans, but still pretty cool.

There was a vintage sheepskin lined Mackinaw and some cool leather mittens

Other stuff in there included a piano which they asked if I could tune...

The biggest surprise items were some fun house mirrors which I had way too much fun with.

We ended up in Dunsmuir thankfully in much nicer lodgings than the night before (not the caboose pictured below...). 
There seems to be a lot of railroad memorabilia in this part of California, which I enjoy quite a bit.

More adventures tomorrow.

 

 

 

Edited June 18 by CSL

[reallypeacedoff]

Congrats @CSL!

We did Lake Siskiyou last year, epic spot around there.

[CSL]

@reallypeacedoff

Yes! Looks great. I saw a sign for that place. Might happen today...

[MJF9]

@CSL congratulations to you and Mrs CSL... looks like a cracking trip

@reallypeacedoff that place is cool as