Quick Photoey Post.

Got other things going on right at this minute, which will be revealed in another post very shortly no doubt, so no big wafflicious write up or anything much.

Mind you, there wasn't much to write about really.

The weather has gone back to normal after the baking hot few days of last week. Well, if anything, it's gone a bit the other way and it has been feeling a little chilly at times, as well as wet, but still.

There was indeed a chill in the air (to me there was, but I'm a wimp I feel the cold as riding slowly I don't generate as much heat as a someone going for a personal best) as I took Fatso over to Ladock Woods again on Sunday for a rumble around. Not just a chill, but drizzle too, great waves of it drifting about the scenery, blowing in, then blowing out again. So out came the darned cycling jacket once again, and I ended up sweating like a fat bloke in a pie factory. Never knowingly under dressed, that's me. How these roadies beggar off and do a hundred miles in their vest and shorts is beyond me. I can't leave home without every clothing eventuality catered for.


But enough of all that, the ride was a very pleasant one, and it certainly soothed a few angsts and grumps I'd been having. Amazing how a quick ride on a bike can do such wonders for the general well being.

Right, photo time.

Straight in with a fuzzy one. My head is getting sore from banging it against my wall. Right click and open in a new tab if you want to see it done proper like.

Anyway, old bloke and Fatso on the lane twixt St Erme and Ladock. I don't mind days like this from a photography perspective, I get some detail in the sky. Too often we get grey days with a flat sky that just looks blown out and utter pants in photos. I could muck about with filters I suppose, but I find them a right old faff so they don't come out of the gadget bag much.

View through a gateway of a grumpy looking sky. Sun's out though... crack on!

Bombing along like a rampaging Rhino.

Enjoying gravity assisted velocities towards Ladock Woods, which lie across the road up ahead.

Bimbling about the woods, I came across a bit of a Lone Ranger in the way of this single Red Valerian, the only one in the whole wood as far as I saw.

The forestry boys and girls have been busy and there's a lot of freshly cut timber lying about, and some not so fresh too.

 Nice smiles... nice horses... ni...what the hell have you got on your head?

On your way Dobbin, nothing to see here. (that's a hell of a centre parting there too...)

The second horse got into a face off with Fatso for some reason - he seemed spooked by the bike and didn't want to pass it, but after a little encouragement from his pilot there, he bravely sauntered on. Lovely animals, thick as three trees in a wood sometimes though it seems.

They're a funny lot in Ladock, drink their own bath water and point excitedly at passing cars n'stuff like that, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if these spooky looking articles in the woods were some sort of deities, worshipped by locals dressed in flowing robes and wailing/chanting strange sounding words. These things go on round that way you know, next Saturday for example they're holding a rain dance on the village playing field (if wet, in the village hall). Funny lot they are.

There's definitely a sad looking face in the piece directly above. Look at the top and there's a down turned mouth, above that a large nose (I'm a fine one to talk...) an eye and a forehead.

I didn't stick around I can tell you, I was off faster than a well kicked cat in case I looked round to find I wasn't alone...

Thankfully though, I made it home safely, clutching my St Christopher all the way and the ride, brief though it was, did me a world of good.

I do enjoy riding Fatso, it is both docile and well balanced at low speed, and stable as an aircraft carrier at higher speeds and over rougher stuff. It really is a great bike, and I really enjoy riding it, as I do the others to be fair. But... when the N+1 bug strikes... Well... Oh hang on, there's someone at the door...

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