{"id":8687,"date":"2013-02-02T17:57:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T17:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8687"},"modified":"2015-01-28T14:26:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T14:26:49","slug":"sparkling-blogathon-228","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8687","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 2\/13 Sparkling!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t really have plans for today.<\/p>\n

And then, yesterday evening, there was some Facebook activity. And a phone call. And some more Facebook activity.<\/p>\n

As a result, two members of the Oxford Motorcycle Group (H and me) met up in a cafe, in Moreton in Marsh, at 8.30 this morning.<\/p>\n

Half an hour later the two of us pointed our bikes at Worcestershire. We arrived in the village of Hallow just before 10am.<\/p>\n

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Today I gave the Bandit the All Year Biker<\/a> treatment.<\/p>\n

This is a wash, clean, degrease, anti-corrosion treatment that spruces up, gets the winter salt out of the little nooks and cranies and finishes with a wax.<\/p>\n

As you can see, the Bandit *gleamed*<\/p>\n

While the bike was getting worked on, H and I sat in the sun, drinking tea and chatting.<\/p>\n

Later, H and I headed homewards back towards Oxfordshire.<\/p>\n

We stopped at Broadway for lunch (and a gossip and a big people-watch).<\/p>\n

The Bandit is now put to bed. It’s still gleaming.<\/p>\n

But more importantly than being clean, it has had that winter treatment.<\/p>\n

The weather was brilliant; it was a fantastic day for a big run across country.<\/p>\n

Yep, we avoided the dull dull dull motorways and had a ball on the cross-country route:<\/p>\n