Post 998, barking and bridges.

Blog Bs5 is close to the thousnad mark!

It's been a while since I blogged and I have been a Facebook tart for a week or so. Also my remote blogging from Iphone has stopped working.

Back to form with this one, I hope.

A week or so back I had a lovely day off with BS9 and we spent it pottering about in Clifton, a rather elegant part of the city. This is the Clifton Suspension Bridge (1864) and we wealked over it and back before having a spot of lunch in a nice sunny square nearby.

A day or so after that, we met this dog and his chatty owner. Improbably, the pooch was called Vincent!

On the sofa.

I had a nice treat today when my brother called in at BS5.

He is not long back from a cycle ride to Spain all through France but
he did have to hightail back through France in a hire car to catch a
ferry as his flight was cancelled.

Anyhow, he is back now and called in today with his doggies. This is a
post-lunch scene with doughnuts!

Train action.

With this and that, and the Easter break it seems like ages since top
train action here at Blog BS5.

Today I am having a fix! I am blogging from sunny Birmingham where I
have changed from the Edinburgh Pendolino to the Glasgow one in order
to complete a Bristol to Lancaster run. Mid-morning travel is
civilised as there are few commuters and precious few mobile phone
calls taking place, full of the tiresome bullshit-bingo Marketing
phrases!

On the road...

My other (France) brother is currently cycling from London to San Sebastian in Spain this week, via France. You can check out his progress with his mates HERE. It's a charity thing and follows their Land's End to John O'Groats last year.

Keep going, fellas!

Check it out...

The SPI list

My Manila brother and I have an 'SPI' list of late - this stands for 'Shit pencilled in'.

It's a to do list, if you will.

Among the articles on mine:

Paint the bathroom walls

Decorate the hall

Synch' my Iphone properly

Tax the car....but this I have just done!

Get in.

Ipad un-boxing video!

Blog BS5 is back after a week's delay with a Bristol technology video exclusive!

992 and Forty!

This is my 992nd post and it is all about 40!

Two years ago last week my elder brother turned 40 and today it is the turn of my middle brother to do the same.

He is forty today and now I am the only sub-unit in the thirties!

Anyhow, my brother who often comments here is the big old four-oh today and I suspect he will light a fire and look into it for a spiritual message from Khaless himself. He knows where to look, but BS7 reckons she can see Khaless in the viewing window of my bread maker. She is a wise woman mind you, so who knows?

Happy birthday, brother and see you at the end of the week for a Warrior's present!

Giant man!

Tonight I am with delightful BS7 (as she now is) and we are having
some time away in the English county of Shropshire.

We are in a very civilsed B and B but as it was a work day for us
both, after we arrived we went to the pub and then sat and had fish
and chips in a village chippy!

Anyhow, this well run and intensley neat establishment is jolly old;
the bathroom door would trouble a man even half my height!

A Saturday exploring Ludlow follows after a much looked forward to
early night.

Floater!

My brother passed through London yesterday on his way back over here
from Hong Kong (Phooey).

Whilst in London he spotted this floating lorry and sent a pic' along.

Maybe it was lifting itself of the ground with its crane?

And the crowd said Fuck!

At Birmingham for the 16.33 home. Got a fine seat too. Five minutes
and the train doesn't move. Ten minutes and an announcement that the
crew is not on board. Fifteen minutes and train abruptly cancelled.
Announcer said 'all change!' carriage kinda said 'fuck!' all at once
and together.

Alternative service in a handful of minutes for a train that will call
at Cheltenham on the way home and thus be full of pissed up racegoers
for the last bit.

Enough of a delay to buy 4 cold beers so hey-ho, really!

Warp Factor 9.1.

Man my home Internet was steaming along today!

American gifting.

My blog pal Alaina mailed a gift my way this week!

Way back when, Alaina blogged a post about making a gift for some of
her readers, and I was one such reader.

Made by her own fair hand, here are some knitted dish cloths as she
called them. I think I'll use one as a teapot stand and the others to
stand vases on.

It was nice to have a hand written letter there in the package.

Thank you, Alaina :-)