Merry Christmas, everyone

[Andre Jute]

Merry Christmas, everyone.

The bike is in the shed behind the house. If you click on the Christmas card, and scroll down on my blog, you'll find that my publisher is reissuing my ecodisaster novel SINKHOLE. If you want a complimentary e-copy, drop a note to info at coolmainpress with the commercial extension.

[julk]

and a MERRY CHRISTMAS from me.
Julian

[geocycle]

Lovely picture Andre. Seasons greetings to all in this civilised corner of the Internet.

[Matt2matt2002]

Great picture Andre.

Best wishes to everyone here.
As far as the banter goes, this group is by far the best.

And remember folks....
If at first you don't succeed
Try
Try
And try
A gin.
😉

[alfie1952]

Merry Xmas to everyone, here's hoping Santa is good to you all, and best wishes for 2017.

Alfie

[Danneaux]

How wonderful to feel and see the spirit of the season glowing brightly.

Best wishes to everyone for the happiest of holidays!

Dan.

[John Saxby]

Greetings all, and best wishes for the solstice, the holiday, and the coming year. Andre, thanks for a brilliant splash of colour, so welcome on a day when here, we have a fine blanket of snow, but not much sun or blue sky.

Safe and enjoyable rides to all, and the best of times with your loved ones.

John

[jags]

Happy Christmas one and all stay safe and keep your bike clean.

roll on the summer.

Anto .

[macspud]

Merry Christmas one and all.

GOD GRANT ME
THE SERENITY
---------------------------------
TO ACCEPT THE THINGS
I CANNOT CHANGE,
COURAGE TO CHANGE
THE THINGS I CAN
AND THE WISDOM
TO KNOW WHEN TO
---------JUST GO----------
CYCLING

[jags]

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very windy and dull here but it's 12deg  going about the place in a Tshirt. crazy weather.

[energyman]

I loved the card (especially as it did not have those sparkles stuck to it which get everywhere)
Happy Christmas from a sunny & warm 12 degrees C with a gale blowing UK.

[Mike Ayling]

Here in Melbourne OZ it was 31C on Christmas eve, 38C on Christmas day and 31C forecast for today when two of our sons and three grandchildren are joining us for lunch - salads, ham and a cold turkey which was prepared earlier.

I nee better health for 2017 as my right knee blew up with a lot of osteo athritis which made cycling too painful. It took me six weeks to get an appointment with an orthopaedic specialist on 21 December ( and that was as a private patient) and all he told me was that my knee was not bad enough for a knee replacement and I should try to cycle again and do other light exercise.  So I have started to walk the rescue greyhound again, fortunately she is a lazy beast and never wants to walk far and after Wednesday I will try to turn the pedals again and see what happens until I see the doc again on 14 February.

On an even more somber note I met a bloke at Christmas Eve Mass who I see at St John's from time. Back in the 1980s I was a Group Leader and Brian was  one of the Scout Leaders. We were much of the same age. Anyway Brian said that two of his fellow Scout Leaders had croaked during the year, one with cancer and one with a massive heart attack.

Maybe a dodgy knee at 74 is not the end of the world after all!.

Mike

[jags]

i used to cycle with a guy who had knee replacement,he never stopped moaning about the pain he was  in. i said to him for a fella that's in pain u still mange to get up every climb ahead of me ,i must have cured him because he never complained again.
stay above ground as long as possible and i hope you get back peddling real soon.

all the best

jags

[David Simpson]

Merry Christmas, everyone!

We're spending Christmas at my wife's parents' place in the beautiful Okanagan Valley, about 400km east of Vancouver. A perfect day, -2C, with about 10cm of snow on the ground.

I didn't get any cycling gear for Christmas, but I got a great cycling book: "Keep Calm and Pedal On". It is a collection of quotes about cycling.
https://www.amazon.ca/Keep-Calm-Pedal/dp/0091957796

Here's one of my favourite quotes:
"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring."  -- Desmond Tutu

- DaveS

[Pavel]

Christmass kind of snuck up on me this year.  I did much the same as on most other days - nothing.  I hope you all had a good one. Tis the season to be ... planning bicycle trips!