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  1. Last ride of the year - a spin in the snow. :-) It's cold here now, need to dig out my winter kit. Summer kit plus "arm warmers and a Buff" are just not enough!
  2. Snow & Sunshine - outside the village of Latorrecilla, just down the road from our "Project"
  3. We have a daughter like that! "Didn't see your message" despite living with the phone attached to you 24/7....
  4. Off to get a couple of warm French loaves from the bakers for breakfast.... With Spanish Butter & Jam and a cup of English breakfast Tea . . . .perfect!
  5. Used to buy my MTB shoes there. Cheaper on line but I liked Linden so supported them.
  6. STORED at Tarbes airport... Photos: Eurospot twitter.com/cliper31
  7. Temps dropped here over the last week - and then last night around midnight it started snowing! I took these outside our rented flat at 1am last night. It was amazingly quiet and still, with just a light falling of snow coming down . . . . . the tyre tracks were from a patrolling police car.
  8. Black Ops . . . . :-)
  9. Whether you tap the horn once or twice, or hit it long and hard makes a world of difference. I always try and do a little double-tap if I want to alert someone that I'm behind them. The long hard style is like typing in capitals and imo generally not necessary.
  10. Can you see that cyclist Roundhousing anyone???
  11. The spanish people love Christmas and we have lots of Christmas Trees here in Spain, but out on my ride yesterday I came across this "Christmas Ladder" in the nearby village of Margudged, decorated with baubles, flowers and cuddly toys..... :-) Andrea & I wish everyone on Bikehub a Merry Christmas. Best wishes to everyone. Tony.
  12. Wasn't a police station robbed of guns last week?
  13. Not sure I'd be keen to play the "CPT Bike Lottery" this Christmas . . . .
  14. Yeah the old building was a small shepherds "shelter" for him and any lambs in bad weather apparently.
  15. Glad you're enjoying it! Re the rocks for our wall building . . . . Initially, we used the rocks/stones from the original little wall that existed when we arrived. We dismantled the wall, firmed it up and then re-used anything that was the right size/shape. That only got us about 40cm's of height though! Then we got permission from the person we bought the barn from - Ramon the Farmer - to harvest rocks from on his land. He's got plenty of land with plenty of rocks, including some good stone from a small building that fell down when his mother was a child - so about 100 odd years ago. Additionally, we find rocks/stones on local land who's owners we also know or occasionally stuff that's just out in the countryside in the middle of nowhere. There are literally so many rocks that the few we need are not an issue. If somebody were to try and do it on a "commercial scale" I'm sure it would be a problem and be stopped quickly enough, but we're fine.
  16. The philosophy here is "If you're riding a trail and you see a stone in the way, just move it". If everyone does that then the Zona Zero trails remain well maintained with the minimum of work. The Zona Zero team have provided a broom at the Pump Track so that if anyone turns up to ride and the track is a bit dirty, they can give it a sweep..... :-)
  17. I did read a bit about a few cattle too.
  18. I see fences . . . .
  19. I had a look at the original photo and it was just under 3mb in size. Most of what I take - generally with my phone while we're out walking or I'm out riding - are between 2.5 and 5mb in size, way too big to post directly onto here. I copy everything from my phone into a Temp folder on the laptop, open it with "Windows Live Photo Gallery", select "Properties", "Resize", "Resize & Save", and use "Medium: 1024" to create a copy of the photo about 500kb in size. I whizz through and do this to all the photo's I need to shrink, then save the original "big" files into my backed-up personal Photo's folders (to keep forever) and use the smaller ones to post on here before deleting them . . . . It takes a little while but it's been a pretty good get-around of the file size problem. Edit: If we were posting photo's to advertise our place etc, then we'd look for a way of posting much higher quality for sure.
  20. Beautiful plane, and nicely noisy. Saw it at various displays in the UK some years ago. One year it was "holding" over Worthing Town for 10 minutes (where I lived) before swinging over to Shoreham Airshow to display.
  21. Actually the original pic was pretty good but I shrink everything down to post on here, so I lose a bit of quality . . . . Edit: I'll post the original later and you can tell me if the difference is noticeable.
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