What are your jeans doing today?

[Double 0 Soul]

..another thing i noticed recently.. i always get stuck in the Post Office behind lines of Chinese students.. they're usually pulling those wheeled shopping baskets, each one of them has 20-30 small parcels to send, i asked the PO staff what was going on?

Apparently.. when you buy from eBay, Amazon, Tik Tok ..ect .. the seller is based in Shenzen or something.. yet it says 3-4 days postage.. turns out, family members based in China are loading up their offsprings student flats with ebay tat avoiding VAT, customs and a 2 week shipping delay.. it offsets the cost of their education.

[fabes]

Taking some days off in the rocky mountains.  Started the day with a trail ride and spent the afternoon hiking around taking photos. 

[Thanks_M8]

Spent the last week and a half on brittany's north and west coast hiking and cycling a bit.

Tried seafood and the classic dishes here as well, kouign amann at the plomarc'h boulangerie in douarnenez is to die for.

[Double 0 Soul]

It looks like the weather is going to turn to shit this weekend so i took today off..

God damn neighbours put this Furby under their tree before they moved back to Holland.. it's been out through the winter yet, 2yrs later and it still speaks, it scares the shit out of me!

..early game of tennis.. my kid has been working on the allotments this week, doing all the jobs the old folks don't want to do.. digging, strimming, removing brambles and such, he starts at 12.30.. one of the neighbours kids used to do it but he's on a gap year in Bali.

I rode through Burbage

Through Longshaw

..and past White Edge Lodge, you can rent this joint as a holiday let, It was in the TV adaptation of Jane Eyre

White Edge

Blacka Moor

It's a great year for bilberries..

When i was a kid, my folks would take me, my friends and cousins out bilberry picking, we'd all have a bucket or a Wall's Icecream tub.. there would be a gang of kids on th hillside, our hands stained purple for the week.. they'd make bilberry jam, bilberry cheesecake, bilberry wine.. we'd live off them through the autumn, yet cost of living crisis and the bilberries are going to waste.. ?

..stopped for a pint of Absolution at the Norfolk Arms

..and home

[Geeman]

In my younger years, 5-10, was pretty much left to my own devices with cannock chase as my stomping ground. Bilberries were a staple in my diet as it was easier to gorge on them than trek miles back to eat only to head back after!

[Double 0 Soul]

My kid and 5 or 6 of his mates walked to Hathersage last night, played some pool, got burgers at the pub then got the last bus home.. while walking through Burbage, he said "Ooh! the bilberries are out' and his mates were like.. what the fuck! .. what the hell are you doing?!  don't eat random berries!

I asked him if they ate some after they'd seen you do it.. "no they wouldn't touch them"

Kids today eh?

[Double 0 Soul]

Come on Emma!