An evening at Bad Wolf bay (southerndown) part 1

Last night we went to Southerndown, AKA Bad Wolf bay from Doctor Who, we went for some sunsets and ended up with wet feet, yes the tide does come in!

Note to cyclist

 This is for the cyclist I saw the other night all in black riding the wrong way down a busy dual carriageway with no lights, dodging the traffic. 
 You really need to see a psychiatrist or phone the samaritans, if you want to kill yourself thats fine with me, but doing what your doing is going to get other people killed or injured too.  Any one of those cars could have had an accident trying to avoid you.
 It's really time the police did something about this sort of stupid riding!

I love WD 40

 WD 40 was invented by Norm Larson in1953 (WD-40, abbreviated from the phrase "Water Displacement, 40th formula", indicating it was the 40th formula the chemists tried before finding success)    Originally designed for the Atlas rocket, it has a huge host of other things it can do (including making a mini flamethrower DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME)
 Why do I love the stuff?  Well apart from all the normal jobs of loosening seized nuts and squeaky doors I just mended a torch with the stuff.... Yes a torch.   About 5 years ago I bought x2  4w torches from a well known supermarket I hate (Cough Tesco!) I was doing a fair bit of exploring tunnels at the time.  Well the batteries leaked in one and buggered up the tail cap switch, I've tried taking it to bits but it's sealed, I was going to just throw it away (I'm not short of a torch or two) but then I gave it a squirt of WD40, clicked the button a few times and blow me down with a feather! It worked fine.  Jobs a good-un!
 So well done WD 40 you might be the same age as me but your still useful...... unlike me!

Mars and my bathroom.....

 There are several different groups planning to land men and women on Mar in the next decade (including NASA)  Personally I think it's daft, and I'll tell you way.
 I've just spent the last FIVE minutes trying to stand three plastic bottles upright in my bathroom, one is shampoo, one is mouthwash and the other a container of what I use for toothpaste.  Now lets be sensible here, if we can't make a simple plastic bottle of shampoo thats not top heavy how the bloody hell are we going to get humans and all they need to survive for years 33.9 million miles away (Mars closest ever approach, the average distance is around 140 million miles) We cant really get a bus service to run properly.

Oxwich woods walk

 This is an old favorite of mine from way back, after work I'd stop off on the way to Oxwich, cut through a few fields and link up to this path through the woods between Oxwich and Three cliffs, it's seriously creepy in the dusk with the vines and creepers, just not the same in daylight.

Sam and Pen-y-fan

 For those who don't know Pen-y-fan is the highest point in South Wales, it's such a tough one the special forces and paras use it a lot for training.  Sam fancied a wander the other evening, so he followed one of my favorite routes (and the long way around) to the top.
 You can see he's in a teeshirt at the top, then 20 minutes later he's got his jacket on, it's cold up there.
 Decent was in total darkness, unless you count the torches........

Cyclists.... yet again.

I do wonder sometimes how any cyclists are still alive. In the last week I've seen countless "ninja" cyclists (no lights and dark clothing at night) I've seen a few stealth cyclists (no lights at night) And quite a lot of twat cyclists, riding the wrong way down the middle of a one way street, riding through red traffic lights, riding up a very busy main road texting with both hands. 
 What the hell is wrong with these people? Don't they have any common sense, or is it removed by Halfords when they buy the bloody bike.
 It's really time the police took some action, telling car driver the "think bike" isn't going to help, if you go around a corner and theres a cyclist going like hell on the wrong side of the road he's the one who needs to be thinking "car".
 So come on cyclists, please start being safe, buy a bloody light, the pound shop sells them for... £1, even someone on a tight budget can afford that, or is your life only worth 50p?