When Friends Come To Stay…
I can go and collect friends and their luggage from the station:
On the way home, we can use the excellent cornering capabilities of our Bromptons to experience the delights of British cycling infrastructure:
I can show my guests the highlights of North Shields’ classy independent retailers:
A rainy Saturday afternoon is just perfect for taking friends to see the sights they’ve always dreamed of since they were first Dire Straights fans in the ’80s. When they haven’t brought their own bike, Wife is happy to loan hers out:
… though if Wife knew where we’d taken her bike, maybe she’d have been a little more reluctant:
Not that we were cruel [brave] enough to do anything other than pose for photos on these bikes. All the kids there thought they were pretty cool, but the prospect of getting “big air” (whatever that means) wasn’t at all realistic:
Then to round off a great couple of days, I had a lovely ride home from Tynemouth with Daughter, and when we got back, Algernond showed me this video. You’ve probably already seen it, but as I’m now past 40 such things pass me by, unless someone takes the time to point my face right at them:
Yep - it’s only Saturday evening, and this is already shaping up to be a great weekend! I wonder what tomorrow’ll bring?
THE SEASIDE SHIPPING NEWS . . .Great to have Friends visiting and riding on our patch, good to love cycling right by the sea, Karl . . keeps the tubes clear! We’re a bit further inland - right by the C to C. (no pun!) Ride thisaway and you discover that you can wave and wave !! from the bridges all the way up the Derwent Walk …. seagulls galore, Kites getting more . .. . We also make it to the Inn on the Third Thursday each month, from around 8pm. Would be great to have you and visitors along, and please put May 6 - 7 - 8 in the dairy . . that’s the bike & hike and camp weekend at Stanhope. The Dales Outdoor Weekend organised by hikes and bikers, for bikers and hikers. Reach it along the Waskerley . . . And, so if that’s enough of the ship-shape comment, then we’re on The Bridge duty each month too. First Tuesday, that, right by the High Level (a bit up from the Tyne beach!)
I get taken to the classiest joints in the North. Such nice shoes in the window too. Mmmm shoes…
Calm yourself woman!