Mr Hickman

 

We just having a cuppa when there's a soft tapping on the front door and in walks Tom. An extra cup is found and we sit for a chat. Tom has a got a new exhibition coming up at An Lanntair with the opening on Friday, which to be sure we'll be attending - free drinkies and everything.  What with all the prep Tom has been real busy. I decided to snap him up but perhaps it's not his best side or else it is the excessive grain. It is him I can assure you.

another fine morning

 

Another fresh and fine morning here on the island. There's a busy week ahead so I am up and about earlier than usual.

Lunch date with Eve's old boss who is lovely then preparations for our guest - Mrs Ook?! .

I want to finish scanning this roll of film - HP5+ shot on the EOS & 40mm [it has autofocus so I can usually get that right at least these days]. Maybe Rodinal was not the best developer for the job but it just came to hand at the time. 

Anyway, on with the day,

still love this

 

I mean tandems and everything - what's not to like.

We owned one for a few years - hung the Christmas lights on it as it had to grace the lounge in our tiny Lancs home. And tandems were a large part of my working life at Manchester Velodrome. Somewhere I have a snap of eight tandems in my works office - such as it was. They were ready for one of the Tandem omniums I ran.  Oh, and lets not forget The [two] Fuji tandems we managed to get made for Ellen and Aileen for the Athens paralympics where they won gold. [and again in Beijing].

Then Eve raced a few times on tandems with Paul Hunter and also Vic Possee, the latter in a tandem criterium I organised. She almost raced on tandem with Michael Hutchinson but the weather made the course unrideable which was a pity.

See here for more tandem posts.

Then up here in the windy cool north west Eve rode a 100 hilly and wet mile cyclosportive with Mr WInndy from which I'm not sure Mr WIndy has ever recovered from.

That's why I am attracted to images of tandems. Does that make sense>

I may have fallen asleep

 

Sorry, old age etc, I may have fallen asleep and everything. 

meanwhile down at the croft

 

A wonderful morning at the croft meeting the new hired hand and chatting with the family. Perfect condition for a stroll but less than perfect snap from the Campsnap camera I have. I bought the thing on a whim and rather wish I hadn't now. Having said that I like the popping reds.

I was

Was in the darkroom the other day - sloshing chemicals around in the cold. My old heater has decided not to heat out there which made for a cool experience.

I think the snap was from Glasgee in 2018.

in the meantime do visit a pal of mine blog for some fine b&w from the sarf

the snow

 

Snow has been here. It's ok it's melting now.

Of course we had trips to town to make, me to have my feet tickled by the nurse and Eve later to write things down at a bowls club meeting.