Work in progress, cycling with camera

I've recently got a new bike. Being a fair weather cyclist, it has been frustrating not to get out on it very much. The last one fine day we had when I did go out, hay-makers joined forces with all the other pollen producers along my route and I came back with a week's worth of hay fever.

So today, I tried again along the same route. It was all a bit of an experiment trying out time lapse with my camera attached to the pannier rack.

Clearly there is more than a little fine tuning necessary, but basically, it seems to work. I have already worked out how to get the camera set up less precariously and at a higher level.

As for hay making, there was none, instead in the fields there were the sounds of disgruntled shorn sheep, no doubt complaining at the shock to the system of being deprived of all their weatherproofing. The unshorn lambs now looked bigger than their mothers.

Destination was Glasson Dock and a welcome cup of tea and then to the smokehouse for some smoked mackerel for tonight's tea.

Bike ride to Halton

Yesterday, finally, the weather allowed a bike ride on rusty steed. My bike computer informed me I covered 10.7 miles averaging 9.3mph,  though the read out of maximum speed of 75.9 mph leaves me wondering just how accurate it all is, unless, of course, I entered into some random quantum universe en route.

It's always good going to Halton as there is the welcome knowledge that a spicy bean burger and mug of tea  can be enjoyed together with the view over the Lune.

I always stop on the bridge in the hope that I will see the kingfisher I first saw on my first foray on this route. Alas this time, no sighting though I did see and hear two skeins of geese pass overhead and en route passed three or four goldfinches (a charmlet?)


Spiders had been busy between the metal work of the bridge but the intricacy of the design weaved into the autumn reflections behind could not be captured.