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  1. Man, this sounds a bit like a "National Geographic" tv program.... "this week we'll be looking at the endangered species "urbancyclista-energetica" and the problems they face as their area of natural habitat steadily becomes smaller and smaller due to the expansion and settlement of humans. As the human population expands, the generally timid urbancyclista-energeticas find themselves looking for alternative roads, trails and jeep tracks to satisfy their desire to ride. Often, when they cross paths with each other, the result can be violent and dangerous. Sometimes even fatal....
  2. Damn. :-(
  3. That oven they used at the end looked like one we had in a lab I used to work in years ago. We used it for environmental testing of small scale oscillator circuits. Can't remember what the range of our was - but it was something like -50C to 500C. We'd put circuits in it and leave them running while it ran through a pre-programmed range of temps.
  4. Bonus

    Who remembers?

    When you've actually got water, right?
  5. Bonus

    Who remembers?

    Yep. We lived on an Eskom town back in the day and the big sprinklers were def not clean water!
  6. This map tells you what you're looking at . . . it says "Snow" - which is correct!
  7. So we had some snow, which we enjoyed. Most of that melted and life returned to normal - then along came Storm Filomena! Spain was hit pretty bad, some places (mostly down in the south) with rain resulting in localised flooding and some places (Madrid for example) with a lot of snow, which closed major airports & freeways etc. We got off lightly, maybe 15cm of snow over 36 hrs - which is what we generally get when it snows here the once or twice over a normal winter. The council snow ploughs have been out in force and the pavements have been salted..... We did one of our local footpath walks yesterday and it really was beautiful. Not too cold as long as you were wrapped up (no wind helps) and everyone we bumped into was very socialble & in good spirits. Happy days . . . .
  8. Saw this guy while we were out on our walk yesterday . . . might have a go myself today :-)
  9. As you say Swiss, waiting at an airport to meet family and this happens must be unimaginable.
  10. "Distraction News" I think it's called . . . . .
  11. That's literally how the world works currently! :-)
  12. I'm reading that there was a couple more attacks on the Spruit last weekend :-(
  13. "Wendy" checking for cell phone signal and muttering something about "mountain rescue . . ." :-)
  14. We took a drive up out of the back of Boltana on the gravel road to Morillo de San Pietro (Sampietro) yesterday but we had to stop a couple of km short of the village when the snow got too deep. It's a route I often cycle - so I knew what was coming up - and although we have a 4WD SUV, we weren't taking any chances! It was a nice drive regardless.
  15. Guaso, where our project is, with the Pena Montenesa in the distance.
  16. It's slowly melting away now, but the day it snowed we took a drive and some photos. It's beautiful, but you have to be careful where you try and drive. We have a 4WD SUV for this very reason - rural and snowy winters - but even so we didn't go "off Piste!"! This is Latorrecilla . . . .
  17. How many issues/ problems/ altercations in the world could be avoided if the person who made the mistake just put their hand up and said sorry . . . . ?
  18. It's tricky, even spinning up a steep climb gets you breathing cold air in deeply (which is tough on the lungs) and very quickly warms the legs....sweat-time will follow! Easiest option is a gently undulating XC ride!
  19. It was around 4 degrees when I was out. The climbs and the flats are ok - but descending at 40km/h provides quite a nasty chill-factor!
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