StreetCowboy

I am afraid of double negatives. I am also slightly concerned about protracted illness, extreme old age and dementia. SC

Back in the day, One evening, my landlord came round substantially the worse for wear to collect rent from the boys next door. We went to assist, and pulled our landlord away while he was futilely trying to lay into one of the boys, and assisted him back to his van, and he drove off. It was some days before I felt safe to cycle again. ”don’t worry, if he hasn’t sobered up by new he’ll have wrecked the van” ”Aye, but what if he’s bought another one?”

This forum has been like a morgue recently, so I thought it was time for a cryptic thread. Post a cryptic description of where your bike’s been, and let others describe the photo; please quote the original description, as I fully anticipate there will be loads of challenges running in parallel.... then a week later, or sooner, or later, as you see fit, post the photo.

I was undergoing medicinal treatment from the chaps at Boon Rawd, and browsing this forum at the same time. I chanced to happen upon some remarkably entertaining threads, and thought perhaps, with a jolt from the old electrodes, and a judicious post or two, they could be brought back to life.... But then I thought "Is that what the good doctor would do? No - of course it's not. He wouldn't give the kiss of life to any old team and let them flounder as before. He'd bring in the best from around the world, he would scour the planet to the ends of the M62 and back to create a veritable dream thread. But did I have the courage to do the same - to create a best of best thread, with posts stitched together from whatever moribund sepulcher they could be rescued? I knew where to turn for inspiration.... Yes, yes, I would do it.... And so, I give you - DOCTOR FRANKENSTEIN'S THREAD! Cobbled together from the salvaged remnants of the long dead and more recently demised - and, perhaps, in the spirit of my compatriot doctors, the imminently fondly remembered. Perhaps I should put the ball into scrum, as it were, with a couple of examples of my own...