Bike trip, part 2

[azekeil]

So, after I got back from the Exmouth trip I spent a nice afternoon/evening relaxing, catching up and posting photos. I've only just got hold of dylan's photos that he took while we were there and as he's going on holiday I thought I'd take a few choice ones to put up here. My editing skills don't really do them justice; plus I'm just plain lazy when it comes to that. Anyway, here they are:


A lovely cream tea at Castle Drogo


The beast emerges from.. under his helmet


Bexie looking somewhat like Michaela Strachan


You too can have a pocket-size Bex! So cute!


Hah! It was easy to climb...


Actually it was quite hard work..


Thankfully I recovered enough to take some photos


Bex tells the weary Azekeil she's broken her computer again..

On Wednesday we had a mini-BBQ, where kissycat1000 Tianna and Jordan, ev1ldonut, dylan and bex_sgs were present and ate lots of lovely dead meat.

Thursday morning dylan and myself headed up the A46 to Leicester and then on to Oakham. A lovely ride. We managed to avoid the police speed-trap (I think) and were doing a sensible speed when we passed the police car and two police bikers sitting waiting to chase idiots. So that was good then.

Arrived a little later than planned at daemongirl's place. Went in and had a cup of tea and said hello to Pixie before toddling off to get some food. Food grabbed and we went to a park where dylan bothered a pair of mating ladybirds. Of the numerous shots he took, this one turned out the best:


"Cor just leave us alone you insect botherer!"


Dylan watches the busy pair..


.. and then takes a nap.


Daemongirl looks bemused..


..and so she should with a label like that!

We called whotheheckami who had spotted our bikes parked up in Oakham earlier and had just walked back in through his front door, so we descended (at speed) on Chez Who. I brought out Munchkin again (much to dylan's dismay) and managed to get this shot of whotheheckami in the middle of the game:


Whotheheckami contemplates his next move

We ate and played and had fun, Pixie showed up as well and went off again. the_mendicant showed up too later after she'd got the van unstuck from the mud. daemongirl had fun, and bounced, and wrote her day up here.

We were supposed to be going to gerald_duck's later that evening for hi-fi geekery but he wasn't feeling well at all so we postponed and didn't get the message that he was feeling better the next day until we were already well on the way back, as gerald_duck explains here.

Then it was much later. dylan wasn't aware how much he'd been affected by others' activities earlier and after taking daemongirl home proceeded to make his invisible bed. It was so invisible he had to make it behind his fortress of cushions..


"Hah! You can't see it now! I can't and my eyes are as big as saucers!!"


"Well, I've made my bed but I think there's something lacking.. if you don't count my strange second pair of eyes I seem to have collected.."

A wonderful time with lovely people. *hugs you all* :)

Comments

[serena-lesley.livejournal.com]

*giggles lots*

[dylan.livejournal.com]

I like the way you've picked all the good pictures of you and all the bad pictures of everyone else. Very cunning

[serena-lesley.livejournal.com]

But that's a great photo of you"" *giggles more*

[dylan.livejournal.com]

By the time I'd found enough cushions to build my fort so azekeil and the rest of the world couldn't see my cunningly clever bed there weren't enough cushions left to build the bed.

The moral of this story is just say no

[serena-lesley.livejournal.com]

Or to stay away and not passive smoke.. *grin*

[dylan.livejournal.com]

And definitely don't ride a bike with a tinted visor in the middle of the night down unlit country lanes in that state

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

I just tell it like it is.. ;)

[dylan.livejournal.com]

So we're all weird and ugly and you're gorgeous :P

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Lol! Naah. It's just I HAVE THE POWER!! Ahem.

[dylan.livejournal.com]

The power to post the pictures you choose?

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Uh.. yes. Shhh!

[dylan.livejournal.com]

Next time I'm cancelling my holiday and posting up my own choice of pictures :P

[gerald_duck]

Hey — you've got your own livejournal. You can post whatever unnatural and unflattering photos of azekeil you like, there.

In fact, please do. (-8

[dylan.livejournal.com]

There are just too many, I don´t have the webspace

[serena-lesley.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had fun sweetie. I would have loved to come with you, I'd really like a nice break too. It's nice to see how happy and bouncy you are.

[dylan.livejournal.com]

Almost as nice as seeing how bouncy Bex was :)

[bex-sgs.livejournal.com]

And Rach, by the sounds of things...! Are you making a video collection of Bouncing Teenagers? :p

[dylan.livejournal.com]

Hey, you're the original and the best and don't you forget it :)

I haven't made any others, don't think azekeil did either

[bex-sgs.livejournal.com]

you're the original and the best
*feels much better* :)

I hope you're having a lovely holiday away...and that you got all your stuff packed up in time to leave!

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Now there's an idea! ;)

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

I know; I'd have loved you to come with me *hugs*

We really must try to organise something so we can.

[stuartl.livejournal.com]

I'm considering organising one next weekend (11th/12th September).

Available?

[bex-sgs.livejournal.com]

I love what the expression on my face says in that last photo of me :p You'll be glad to know that a few days on and my PC is still in fine working order :)

[dylan.livejournal.com]

PS I found your gorm down the back of azekeil's sofa

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it wasn't down the back of whotheheckami's sofa?!

[dylan.livejournal.com]

No, that's where I lost mine

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Why aren't you on holiday? Are you in an internet cafe?

[dylan.livejournal.com]

Gimme a chance, flying out later ... must ... start ... packing

[bex-sgs.livejournal.com]

I wasn't at whotheheckami's!!

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Maybe your gorm was stuck to dylan's backside and it was eventually found at whotheheckami's?

[bex-sgs.livejournal.com]

Na, I'm pretty sure if you look behind your sofa my gorm's there. I'd really like it back..not feeling very bright. Could u send it 1st class please? Or email if that would work?

[bex-sgs.livejournal.com]

Genius! If azekeil doesn't manage to get it back to me would u be able to fetch it? It means you'd be able to see me again! *Looks hopeful* Yes yes, I know you're going on holiday!

[dylan.livejournal.com]

I'll have to wait 2 weeks now

*cries*

[gerald_duck]

Naah — those are just words put in your mouth. If they're accurate, it's pure fluke.

You could equally well have been saying "No, officer, I didn't kill all of them. I'm sweet and innocent."

[bex-sgs.livejournal.com]

As it happens I was just looking up at azekeil when he came into my bedroom. Equally you're right though, what else might I have bin saying!?

[gerald_duck]

Great photos, and it looks like you had a fantastic time. Once again, I'm sorry and disappointed I didn't get to play my small part in the week of fun. I don't like having to stand people up like that. )-8

A bientôt!

[dylan.livejournal.com]

That's ok, it would have been fun coming to see you but it all worked out good in the end (and I was grateful for a few less miles riding)

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

No one does, it's just one of those things.

[daemongirl.livejournal.com]

hehehe. amusing. i think. the computer keeps dying at school - hope the video wasn't too bad.....