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    Who remembers?

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    Conkers on the ground right now here. Tempted to thread a shoelace and challenge someone . . . .
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    The village of Sieste with the Pena Montenesa behind it, taken on route ZZ-018 - "Paths Of Mondebueno & Madalena".... It's a beautiful day - dry, warm & sunny. Long may it continue! :-)
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    Food lovers market at Hillfox - one que for 30 odd tills. Slow enough to see your fav sweets as you approach them, enough time to have the internal battle with yourself and, because the que zig-zags, even if you resist the temptation as you go past, you can reach over the top if you happen to change your mind. ....
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    Cheers Robbie. The plan with the wall was to follow its original line (the wall is not as straight as it looks in some of the photo's) and use any existing parts of the wall that were strong enough - so as to retain its "character" (so to speak). The plan for the garden overall is that despite being brand new, it will blend into the surrounding scenery. When the buildings are renovated and modernised we'll follow the same principal. After a couple of years of "weather wear" the whole Project should look - from the outside anyway - as if it's been there forever.... From the inside of course it will look and feel like a top-notch place to stay with wonderful helpful owners - one of whom is obsessed with riding & guiding and the other who just wants to feed you all the time....... People will enjoy it so much they will have to come back for more!
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    Midnight Express - Brutal conditions with sadistic gaurds. Are there any prisons like that nowadays or is it all "Colour TV and Ping-Pong"
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    1976 - Coke, Fanta and Sprite yo-yo's . . . . . :-)
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    At the end of last year the work we'd been gradually doing to transform our sloping back garden into a terraced back garden was looking good. The retaining walls were coming on nicely - it's slow work but we're getting there - the weeds and brambles were all cut back and everything was under control. Nothing grew much over Winter and then just as Spring and the sun & rain came along, everything started growing just as we went into Lockdown! For the next 6 weeks everything grew like crazy but we were not allowed out. Then the day we were allowed out it was to go to work, not to go up to our Project. Once work started it didn't stop, until last week. Now I'm back up at our Project in Guaso starting to clear up the weeds and the brambles again so that I can start building the next walls..... In any case, it's nice to see ourselves making progress.....
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    Heavy traffic on the trails on Sunday! It was like driving to work on the East Rand at rush hour for goodness sake . . . .well maybe not.
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    The early "rough around the edges" stuff was good but "Go For It" was a masterpiece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FYUTEDCifE
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    I believe on of the BA planes is going to be preserved at a museum somewhere?
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    I know I've posted this view before - looking north towards France from up at the "Mirador Del Cinca" - but it's a place I pass on my normal "get out for an hour or so" ride and it never fails to impress me.... Also on yesterdays ride, I managed to find a little stretch of "dry river bed" hidden in the trees that I can use to extend one of my XC routes nicely :-)
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    Those waves get big real quick!
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    Yesterday was my first day off of work in 114 days :-) After our enforced Lockdown - mid March until the end of April - I finally returned to work at Camping Ainsa on 30th April (with a letter of permission) working a 6 day week until mid June. From mid June I worked a 7 day week until last Thursday. The site actually opened on the 1st July and closed on Wednesday 30th September. Before 1st July was "prep work" and after we've had a few days off now, I'll go back and we'll do all the shutting down and disconnecting work that needs doing before winter. 7 days a week isn't as bad as it sounds. Pretty much everyone here connected to tourism works a 7 day week during the summer season, as do the farmers of course. My hours varied depending on what was going on - so the first 6 weeks were 10am-2pm & 4-7pm - a nice 2hr break for lunch and a siesta. Then when we opened I did 2 months on contract- 7:30am to 2:30pm allowing for afternoons/evenings swimming at the river or cycling :-). Through September I did 8am to 2pm on contract and then went back for 2hrs in the evenings to tidy up and shut down the swimmng pools. During July and August this evening work was carried out by a Spanish lad but he wasn't kept on for September because the boss wanted me to "have some extra cash in my pocket".... Overall it's nice to be busy and see money coming in, and knowing that this sort of work is available and I have "first shout" at it is very reassuring because when we eventually get our own place built, any supplemental income I can earn takes some of the strain off of the B&B when it first starts running. Yesterday was a rest day. Today we're off on a hike together up above Ainsa . . . . :-)
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    Without wanting to temp fate....I haven't been sick once this year!
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    This whole idea of trying to grab someone, a bike or a handbag or a phone or whatever, and then just "wandering off" if the crime doesn't work . . . . . to try again later I guess. Knowing the chances of any repercussions are almost zero.
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    After 24 hrs of heavy rain and thunderstorms, the cloud that stretched from horizon to horizon disappeared overnight and we woke up to beautiful sunshine and a mist over our two rivers and the lake...... It's nice sometimes to look up from whatever I'm working on and just enjoy the view :-)
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    Who remembers?

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    We have a table/desk that we bought in a second hand shop that has TED engraved. An old school teachers desk.
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    Don't make me come over there seuntjie!
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    not if you carry on talking like that you're not . . . ;-)
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    Ainsa now has it's own Pumptrack! It opened yesterday evening and today the kids were testing it out.
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    39 years ago today - it was chaos in Jo'burg! Photo Credit: Mike Berridge on FB
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    We used to get amazing sunsets when we lived in South Africa. Here it's not generally so easy to see them because of the mountains but tonight was an exception . . . .
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    Since I went 1x10 on my MTB my downhill speed is severly limited. I miss my old Big Ring :-(
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    I managed a good 65km/h for 10 minutes on the flat, tucked in behind a tractor/trailer on a smooth straight road..... Perhaps not my smartest move, but I enjoyed it at the time.
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    yep
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