This evening I was supposed to meet Mr Fogg at the local pool for a brief swim after work. When he didn’t show I thought, ok, it’s been a long day, I’ll see him at home.

On arriving home to see what happened to him, Mr Fogg explained that he had been planning to meet me but events prevented his attendance.

It turns out that on arrival home in full motorbike gear (thick, warm trousers, protective jacket and crucially, strong bikers boots) he had started to do the usual undressing act in the kitchen to remove jacket, biker boots then thick trousers. Ah, cut to Mr Fogg who started to pull the zipper to said biker boots only for it to snap. Twenty five minutes of a struggling biker trying desperately to get said boots off (all the while still stuck in said thick heavy trousers in 25 degree humid heat) and Mr Fogg finally had to go off in search of pliers to pull the broken zip down!!

I can only manage the struggle, the language and the comedy associated with the sight of a half naked biker, one leg out of the biker trousers, boot clad hopping around the kitchen working up a temper and a sweat fighting with the broken boot. Wish I’d have been there!

Oh dear, and it’s only Monday too……

Spotted walking round the canals of North Yorkshire (the lesser flooded canals that is).

Think this chick was missing her big airy biker chap

For those wondering what the title is all about (obscure reference I know), it is in reference to a line at the end of Pulp Fiction. And why I hear you ask, well to explain when we moved back to the flat cap and wippet land from the land of sheep, I bought Sasha the canary yellow commuter scooter (with me so far, good). After a year I took a real mans bike lesson and took the leap to a proper bike, ZED (the last 3 letters of it’s number plate an the reason I bought it).

Eventually I passed the ridiculous “new and improved” bike test and managed to throw my L-plates away (don’t worry the point will come soon). This year the most amazing woman in the world took me to Builth Wells to spend the day riding Harley Davidson motorbikes and I loved it so much that I decided I wanted, sorry scrub that, I needed my own.

Today we went to HarleyWorld in Chesterfield after a call about a bike I will really want, a XL883C in silver and blow me we ave gone and bought it, oh my (and there it is in the picture, PIGLET that one is even more obscure and will be explained in time)!!

So back to the explanation of the title, who’s ZED, well in 2 weeks time ZED will be no more cos ZED will be dead baby!

tWas Mrs Foggy’s bathday today she is xxyears old. Apparently I am not allowed to say that this is her 21st birthday for the 18th time.

We went to celebrate with the Barties in Hemel who were celebrating their anniversary as well. We had an amazing time on one of the hottest days of the year 31 degrees. Lorna had her first try of golf at a driving range thanks to the Barty crew, a cake with candles and a wonderful evening out.

Thanks for a wonderful time as always and we are still waiting to see you back in York.

Next year Mrs Fogg will be celebrating her 21st for the 19th time.

Tenuous link here, but Jobby aka the head of Apple computers (apple geddit), since I have upgraded my ailing iPhone 3G (which had gone to snail mode since installing iOS4) to the uber soopa iPhone4, now we is talkin!!!

Why the apple and a bite, as a homage to Alan Turning, who was originally heralded as the father of modern computing, who apparently and bizarrely committed suicide using a cyanide laden apple (muppet).

And this weekend we celebrated Mrs Fogg’s birthday a little early in Leeds at a nice hotel and a sooper meal at Wasabi Teppanyaki, watching the food being prepared on the hot plate.

Have Hippo Bathday Mrs Fogg.

Sometimes we travel all over the world only to find the most perfect view direct from our back garden. A perfect summers night just outside York.

Ah June miss ya (I knew a woman called June once) and now we is into Julie (I knew a Julie too but nowhere near as hot as a June), anyhoooo I digress. so tis the secundus of June and a nice hot summer (well for England) fussball is over (not predictable really) and now we are getting set for winter (depressing or wot). But whilst the nights are nice me and the Mrs are happily having fun with our Monster BBQ , booze and chillin after very long hard weeks. I am doing 50 hour weeks and the Mrs is not far behind at 48 hours, is it worth it, errr NO!

But it is a Friday, we are fed, gettin watered and now gonna chill. enjoy the summer y’all

For Christmas I bought Mr Fogg a little known game called Oshi, played by Samuri warriors in ancient Japan. It sat on a shelf for a while then with this wonderful warm spell we decided to play outside. It’s really simple but quite addictive. Oh did I mention I won?? It’s like two old farts in the garden at the moment, challenges for a game of Oshi and then Scrabble. Tee hee, this is all practice ready for my big “21 again” next year in St Lucia. Life feels great, shame this work lark gets in the way…..

So our really good friend Mrs Fink is doing a midnight charity womble tonight in aid of the Hospice of St Francis (Berkhamsted) and the challenge was if she raised £100 by this evening, she would do it in pink jim jams carrying a life sized plastic heron, well this is the picture of her all set to go and womble after raising in excess of £485, fantastic.

A fantastic cause and an excellent outfit.