Picked your track if you have it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKGOCOAI_2c&ab_channel=RogerHodgson
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Oh yes I do - its on my Music streaming play list - great track - was going to mention Supertramp when I wrote it!!!
Supertramp are rarely played these days, but were a fantastic bunch of musicians and had some great tunes. I have started listening to Roger Hodgson now too…
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Enjoy your Easter. 
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Falkirk Wheel so far today ( 10 minutes walk from our door).
Just to slosh some Forte AutoTrans Conditioner around.
So saying…it’s another corking day here.
Mmmm… 
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A lot nicer than gloomy Nottinghamshire… under the cloud today with drizzle…! 
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We spent some time there, had a butty and coffee then off to the Kelpies.
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Out in the brilliant sunshine to get some paint, posts and other stuff to replace our ancient little pergola. It all fits in the passenger space with suitable padding and ties, better than the Mazda3 where the boot would have been open.
The old pergola four years ago and still just about in its heyday.
Alas, now at probably twenty+ years old it is a sad rotten ruin; it looked OK from the outside, but under the paint inside the uprights and trellis it is posh rotten, a bit like an old MX5 sill…
We extracted the bench just in time before the pergola collapsed on it.
I’m not sure how long it will take to cut, paint and assemble the new structure; SWMBO is in two minds (at least) about the final look, or if at all (now I’ve bought the bits!)
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It has been mentioned by my good lady we should have something similar. In fact I’ve been looking at timber and taking measurements. Other jobs more pending need to be done.
Must be the season for it.
I’ve just demolished our pergola arch of many years standing (and a fair few leaning) and am pricing up the bits for a replacement. I am glad I chickened out of carrying a 3 metre plank home in the '5 last week. I chopped it in half (to restore with a mending plate later) to carry and it was just possible to get the roof up when the heavens absolutely opened on the way home.
Touché, we have some of your sun today, thanks.
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When you and me are on the phone and haven’t spoken for a couple of weeks it usually runs over an hour. After 28 years I’m bl00dy amazed you parted after 120 minutes. 
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After fitting my new head unit, decided to have a blast up to Warkworth in Northumberland.
Beautiful weather, great sounding stereo… win win
My favourite Northumberland Castle in the backdrop
Ducks obviously not impressed with my NC1
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“Ducking Idiots”!! 
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I had fancied duck with hoi sin sause this evening, pic was taken from river bank I had crept along like a ninja armed with wheel brace
Must have been quackers to think I could actually crown one of them with me brace 
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Went for my weekly shop at Tesco in the 30AE. Had great pleasure in showing some sort of Audi that had tried to attach itself to my boot just how to go through half a mile of twisties. Funny, he was there when I started! Oh look, there he is, about 200 yards behind me now!
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Great to see another enjoying the supermarket run…! 
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Must be an Audi thing, on my way home I had a 3ltr tdi infront of me, obviously more power and obviously slamming his anchors on more
I was in his back seat for around 5 miles before he slowed and pretended he wasnt trying
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Had a run out from Hailsham to Seaford to the Dymock farm shop, dropped the wife off art Beachy Head so she could walk and back via a few stops I needed to make.
Back out to pick her up from Exceat car park, back via the chippy to home where she tells me about a manhole cover she saw open at the side of the road between Friston and Exceat that someone could fall down in the dark.
So of we go again, found the approximate area and she gets out to run along the road while I’m stopped with hazards on in the very near darkness, she stops and waves up ahead, she’s found it.
Police have pulled up behind me and are flashing blues and getting out, a woman has pulled over up ahead to ask my wife if she is ok, probably worried I’m a rapist.
Police ask if I’ve broken down (top is down so it’s so easy to talk as they are at the back of the car) I explain what’s happening and that it’s a hazard we are trying to solve and if I pull forward to my wife 60 yards ahead and they cover me we can get the manhole cover back on, I’m a plumber, know what we are likely to face and have tools to lift it.
Job’s on, everything goes smooth apart from it’s damn heavy and they help me.
Back home via Jevington i the dark and the bumpiest crappiest bit of road as we hit Wannock. Beware that bit if you’re in the area, it needs a resurface.
Home again. she’s done 30k steps and 22km.
Done.
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Sounds like an eventful day… but all came good in the end…
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Quite good fun in the end, lots of driving and the road at Frog Firle near Alfriston got two goes, if you’re going north and accelerate in second gear at the bottom of the hill you can kick the back out brilliantly
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