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Oh my. Your reappearance in this thread feels … significant!

I had Covid in one arm, Flu in the other yesterday, on the way back from doing a weights class at the gym, with a white wine hangover. EVERYTHING HURTS including my head

Nice!

We should take David Niven chat to the I Love thread …..

Probably the only bit of that ride I could tackle at speed now.

Ha! I fell down the Endless rabbit hole as well. Tellingly it’s only been there for a few days. What an opportunist!

Oooh, just found this one (though based on street view it looks like it has changed again even since last week. Nice one Ben.

Aww thanks. My FIL has sent us a blurry screenshot - I was wearing the cap and holding a child!

That was after learning lots of lessons and a family briefing on tactics (and using a 4 year old as bait).

Mine!

Lost out big time in the scrabble for merch when the caravans went by at Colombey les Deux Églises. Currently sat 50m before the top of the first climb today - look out for the tent with the leclerc flag and Thule trailer (not pulled by me!)

Hello!

Bit of a delayed post, but would I have spotted @middleofnowhere turning into Englands Lane on Saturday am. If not the bike and the chrome (?) bag looked v familiar

I am genuinely feeling a bit sad about commuting by bike. This morning I saw a bike have to take evasive action to avoid a bus that turned right in front of them, then had a taxi driver deliberately swerve at me because I took exception to his driving me into the kerb on Regents St. My commute is a bit central-London tastic (Oxford Circus, Piccadilly, Trafalgar Sq) but a combination of obvious driver inattentiveness and aggro is starting to make me feel not super happy about my choices.

Aaargh, just spotted this. Too late for this year but definitely next year. Have a great one and give my love to Canonbie

I’m so sorry. Sending Jenne and Eladio all the love

Some amazing recommendations in this thread.

Have had lots of travel time recently and been on a bit of an audible binge:
The Guest - Emma Cline. Loved this (including the ending, which not everyone did). In my head she was a younger Willa from Succession

Our wives under the sea - Julia Armfield. Also loved this, horror but not.

This is how you lose the war - El-Mohtar / Gladstone. Definitely worth the internet hype, clever and sparkling

Piranesi - loved this so much and the audible version is read by Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Currently reading Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz which is meeting my regular need for very Californian reads (See also Cassandra at the Wedding, and a Manual for Cleaning Women - which are very different and very Californian)

https://www.ft.com/content/a979f7b9-f3d2-413e-be55-62eeef218b98

An FT write up on Frahm ….

On a French exchange and they wouldn’t tell me what it was (though I could just about guess). They thought they were being hilarious

I’ve plateaued at 68.4 - 3 kilos since beginning of month and now no change una week. Going to start upping exercise

Down 71.4 - 68.4 since Jan 3rd. Have spent most of that time ill and pretty sedentary, so suspect it’s mostly muscle wasting! Just started to exercise again so will see whether I can keep a lid on my appetite when it t starts picking up. After years of heavy training I now equate any exertion with a licence to consume unlimited calories, which is probably why I’m in this thread.

Also +1 on BMI. At my lightest I was still within my healthy weight range while being visibly unhealthily thin. I’ve been hovering around overweight for a while - while still wearing small sizes. I don’t think it can deal with tree trunk legs in its calculation

Count me in … am now hovering around 71kg, which is a good 6kg more than I’d like (and a lot more than when I was at my cycling / rowing fittest).

I’d like to get back to 65kg over a couple of months - have lots of experience of cutting weight for lightweight racing, but that was before constant toddler-induced illness, living with someone who couldnt put on weight if they tried and extreme time poverty. Have no idea what will work now.

Loved Sonar. Especially loved being able to pop out for a 3 course menu del día mid-festival then head back to sit on nice dry astroturf. Wouldn’t go back to queuing for dubious goat curry in the mud after that.

I do exactly the same as your wife - with the same consequences, but I don’t know why. I can see it’s annoying but I simply don’t clock I’m doing it

Surely it’s eat diamonds for breakfast and risk a perforated bowel? Less cheery, more probable?