Author Topic: Crossing the ford  (Read 13135 times)

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Re: Crossing the ford
« Reply #60 on: February 04, 2014, 06:37:30 pm »
Hi All,
Why do you all live in a Ice Box?

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Andre Jute

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Re: Crossing the ford
« Reply #61 on: February 04, 2014, 11:06:10 pm »
In the interests of balance:

The diplomatic service lost a star when you took up cycling, Peter!

Further in the interests of balance, I remember snow in the early summer in Melbourne, a city in which eight months of the year the British-born feel right at home because it's freezing!

As for British weather, I remember and treasure each warm summer, which is easy to do as there are so few.  I remember the Fens with some pleasure. Why, one September, though I took a ride every afternoon for the whole month, I was only soaked 11 times. The special feature of the Fens is that they're flatter than Holland, so you can watch the clouds from afar and hurry home...

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Re: Crossing the ford
« Reply #62 on: February 05, 2014, 07:38:10 am »
I remember the Fens with some pleasure. Why, one September, though I took a ride every afternoon for the whole month, I was only soaked 11 times.

You say that like it's a good thing  ???

To my way of thinking 11 times soaked in one month is a pretty poor cycling record.

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Re: Crossing the ford
« Reply #63 on: February 05, 2014, 08:07:43 am »
Well Well,
I got onto a Train up to Inverness two times at the start and again at the end of February to see Snow and only got Sun back in the late 1980's!
Cycled around Loch Ness in the warm Sun  :o

Never can across any Snow  :'(

I live in Northland until 2000! and there is Not Snow! a Cold day is under 10c  :P So So Cold  :-*

I how live in Taupo and we get maybe a few mm's of Snow every two years  :(

Love to play in Snow!

We get the best in that we can see the Snow Mountains at the South end of Lake Taupo but only the cold for a few days..

Pete  8)

P.S. Back to river Crossings (Ford's) I think waiting a few days (or weeks) for a 4x4 to come and help you cross is still the Best  :P



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Re: Crossing the ford
« Reply #64 on: February 05, 2014, 08:50:54 am »
You say that like it's a good thing  ???

To my way of thinking 11 times soaked in one month is a pretty poor cycling record.

I'll have you know, in the time and the place, that's an outstanding cycling record of foresight and quick response to changing weather!