{"id":8278,"date":"2012-09-30T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8278"},"modified":"2012-10-28T20:38:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T20:38:35","slug":"days-like-these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8278","title":{"rendered":"Days like these"},"content":{"rendered":"

My weekend hasn’t really happened; there has been much work-related stuff but, as ever, I’ll not go in to detail about that here<\/em><\/p>\n

I did snatch a few hours off, today, and managed to put that time to Great Use!<\/p>\n

I washed a Barbour and a Drizabone riding coat.<\/p>\n

And also washed last week’s work-shirts and various socks and underwear.<\/p>\n

Soz, bordering on the TMI there.<\/p>\n

And rode the Bandit in to Norf Landahn’s Ace Cafe where I met the redoubtable Mr Masher<\/a> and his brother-in-law (Graham).<\/p>\n

And we did partake of the All Day Breakfasts and Lo, we did Eat Heartily.<\/p>\n

At Ace today was a meeting of the BSA Bantam Society (or similar).<\/p>\n

The first motorbike I ever (knowingly) touched was a BSA Bantam.<\/p>\n

It belonged to Forgotten Firstname Griffiths who lived a couple of miles down the lane at Llansabadd Farm.<\/p>\n

We mucked about with that Bantam; it was the first time I learned to take things apart and put them back together again. Successfully.<\/p>\n

We rode it around the fields, crashed it in to trees and ditches and – when that happened – we learned to rebuild it.<\/p>\n

It was weird looking at the familiar-yet-alien-by-today’s-design-standards Bantams. They seemed very ‘other worldly’.<\/p>\n

I also saw a Laverda Jota, the 1,000cc little brother to the 1,200cc Laverda Mirage I owned when I lived in Germany.<\/p>\n

What a stunning bike that was.<\/p>\n

It had superbike acceleration. And the brakes of a supertanker.<\/p>\n

Ah, the many many scares I gave myself on that monster.<\/p>\n

I changed my route home from Ace Cafe; instead of hoofing it up the A40\/M40\/A40, I went cross-country.<\/p>\n

The cross-country route was much more fun than travelling at *cough* 70mph with all the nutters on the motorway. And much prettier too.<\/p>\n

The ‘A’ and ‘B’ roads were such fun; I do love the way the Bandit throws itself around twisty-turny lanes.<\/p>\n

I got back home about 2.15pm and tucked straight in to work stuff.<\/p>\n

Between 5pm – 7pm I took a break, tidied, put a load of washing in, put the rubbish out, drank tea, had a brief visit from a friend.<\/p>\n

The usual.<\/p>\n

And now, at rapidly approaching 9pm I’ve just sent my last work email of the day, and I’m winding up on my last work phone call of the day.<\/p>\n

So all things considered, even with the work distractions, it has been a pretty good day really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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