What Made Me Smile today ...........................????

Great pix mate. When you visiting?

 

weather pending and if its good for you........next weekend maybe?

 

Hoping for a rideout next Sunday, but it is Mothers Day ???

 

play by ear then?

 

Some Mothers would love a good rideout to celebrate Mother's Day

 

Not mine at 95. Although...maybe with a little encouragement.

 

Well, this Mother will be hankering for one! .....................................a rideout, wash your mind out!

 

oooer missus

 

The absolute opposite to yesterday, everybody happy and nodding and even a wave or two.......
Must be the sea air giving everyone down rye way the shits yesterday.......
Bloody good day to and from the Ardingly show ground for the Classic show, must get the Bonnie finished and walk over this lot!!

 

Now there's some bloody good brickwork........sod being the hod carrier though.......

Great photo but some bugger put a Suzuki in the way.........

 

A little about the viaduct and its construction

"Built in 1841, the Ouse Valley Viaduct (also called Balcombe Viaduct) over the River Ouse is 1,475 feet (450 m) long it is 96 feet (29 m) high and is carried on 37 semi-circular arches, each of 30 feet (9.1 m), surmounted by balustrades. Each pier contains a Jack arch with a semi-circular soffit in order to reduce the number of bricks required. At each end of the abutment there is an ornamental square open tower, the brickwork of which is faced with stone from Heddon Quarries near Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
11 million bricks were needed for its construction and were travelled up the Ouse River (via Newhaven and Lewes) from Holland. It cost £38,500 to build The structure is a Grade II listed building and was restored in 1996 with grants both from the Railway Heritage Trust and English Heritage. Matching stone was imported from France, to ensure a close match to the existing balutrades and pavilions
The viaduct is still used, with around 110 trains a day passing over it on the Brighton Main Line"


as you can clearly see ...standards have dropped over the years and the restoration bricks ar nowhere near a match in colour to the originals but as stated before ...Kudos to the original designers and builders

 

i thought about inviting you down to pose in front of the structure but figured the zook would cause less offense

 

Waking up as the proud owner of the BumbleBeemer... and then seeing the weather report for the week, knowing that being unemployed I can head out for a ride anytime I like.

Shame it's foggy as hell right now!

 

Me , Les n Neil will be out later???

 

Thanks but I'm going to stick to my local roads out west this week... maybe when I'm venturing further afield - it's an hour to get over your way!

 

when you out? ive got to replace a laptop screen and order some parts but might be able to get away if i get it all done this morn

 

watching Mr Fluff discover that he can't walk on water when being curious about ducks in a pond...

 

Rectifying a couple of details on my insurance and getting a refund! Should bring down the renewal quote as well by a decent amount which is GREAT!!!!

 

Was that moving the decimal point of the 'total ccs' by one to the left?