I've been working

May already, it only feels like 5 minutes since I cleaned my Sidi's after the Mull SCX, now Spring is breathing it's heady breath and the prospect of summer is on my mind. It's been a mighty big change and now we are in the house, it deserves a posting all of it's own but what remains to be said it it is pretty damn fine, plenty still to do but the overall it is extremely comfortable, looking forward to settling in over the summer.
And settling in begins with man making fire, been trying to chop lots of wood before the midges arrive as hanging round the saw horse with a cloud of the evil decepticons munching away at me is not my idea of fun. So I bought a new saw!

Having researched chainsaws and really not been very impressed with what I found, I then had to find out what the alternatives were, and there wasn't many. fortunately I stumbled across, E. Garlick & Sons in Sheffield. wow what a great piece of kit, handmade in the UK, it is a thing of great beauty. In use as you might expect from a 3ft Crosscut it's pretty hard work but it's a very satisfying kinda work. I've got a stack of wood to get through to have any chance of having enough ready for winter and I'm relishing the thought of it in a masochistic sort of a way.
As long as I can cut more than we burn then I think I am on the right track.







Elsewhere there is plenty happening, been drifting slowly back onto my Curtis, my love hate relationship with mountain biking continues and it seems I am back in love. I remain disturbingly out of shape though but with a 5 days of riding up the west coast ahead hopefully I can salvage enough fitness to start enjoying it again. hopefully there will be enough reception up there to update the blog with some tall tales of 'epic' riding.

until then