guess i need to set something new!
Yep, i've moved into the next decade of this life, thanks for the greetings.
So after the late post on Thursday not a lot has occured around chez Bell, Friday was mostly taken with small chores, replacing an inner tube (failed repair), replacing the cleats on my cycling boots, laundry, baking a cake, fetching a tomato free bit of food shopping and decorating said birthday cake!
Saturday was the big day of course, the forecast bright but with a cold north easterly so the plan was a goodly ride out to get some lunch of some sort. Well i ended up in Royal Wootton Bassett where i partook of a cheese and bacon toastie before looping down through Calne and Malmesbury and back via Bath, pausing at @ 125km for tea and cake - well it was my birthday ride. I finished on 130km with a little shy of 1000m of up, my biggest ride of 2023 so far.
It was sausage and chips for tea, washed down with a cheeky red and followed by a generous slice of that cake! Hey, i know how to live the high life!
Today is Aunty Bev's birthday so we're going out to grab some lunch and look at canals, its another bright, cold day so all is well!
There is more Gaby today, Mand’s Day Out answers one of the questions you've been demanding an answer for!
That's it for now, i'll be back with more waffle midweek, indeed next month!
For now, Tschussie,
Madeline Anafrid
Comments
Hippo Bathday Maddy
Welcome to the 60's club. I won't be a member that long as my 70th is looming.
Enjoy the day out with Bev.
Samantha
Hah! Look at you old timers.
I'm still younger than her by, let's see, almost a year and a half. Granted my body has the health of a 90 year old, but hey! Who wants be dying of nothing in the hospital at 105? :D
Hugs
Diana
Don't feel alone
Mine occurs in 9 days. At which point I will have made a liar of another doctor.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
I read that
And thought to myself, "Self," I says, "that Maddy ain't gonna see another birthday if'n she keeps textin' ev'ry mile whilst ridin' 'er bike like that!"
Just kidding! Happy Birthday Kiddo! And yes, having bacon and cheese on a croissant myself. Was too lazy to fix myself and egg :D
Hugs!
Diana
Happy Birthday
Happy birthday to both of you.!
Love and Hugs tmf
Mmm- cake.
Would you pass a Happy Birthday wish on to Bev for me please? She shares the date with a family member here so I should be able to remember it! Ta.
Good to see you're still wearing those tyres out. I must see to a good mileage route for my next birthday.
Teri Ann
"Reach for the sun."
Happy Birthday Maddy
Congratulations on making your seventh decade!
Lucy xx
"Lately it occurs to me..
what a long strange trip its been."
Congrats! !Nice! cake. May our every 'trip around the Sun' ...
... be better than the previous.
Happy you enjoyed your Day.
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I'm planning my 69th (*) to be totally self-indulgent at a restaurant locally (Chicago, IL, USA) famous for deep-dish pizza and deserts.
My goal is to get almost (but not quite) so completely stuffed (like, and with, the pizza) as to need to take a taxi home. Then pass out in bed.
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(*) 69 ??? How the heck did that even happen?!?
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A nifty thing to the internet, Google, and Wikipedia is that, when you mention a place, I can take a mini (micro?) vacation there, and maybe see what you saw.
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"Pocket boroughs" - I live in City and State regarded as among the most corrupt in the USA. One of our former state governors ended up serving a much longer prison term, than the term he was elected to.
When a national Senate seat came open, said governor tried to sell the seat to the highest 'bidder'. The Senator ... ? Quickly became known as President Barack Obama ...