Must be more to it .. nothing happens !!!!!

Disk Brakes !!!! What's a Disk Brake ???

New Book scheduled for release: UPDATE .. Nov 13th. 2019

#1 UPDATE:  Book now on Pre-Order; Audio eBook
#2 UPDATE: Book delivered .. now enjoying the start of a new read.
#3 UPDATE: Well, overall: an ok story. Overly complicated with the insertion of throwaway characters. I missed  hearing the enjoyable banter between the solid characters developed over the span of the series. 

London, 1892―Cyrus Barker is brought into a game of international espionage by the Prime Minister himself in the newest mystery in Will Thomas's beloved series.

Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn receive in the mail an unexplained key stamped with the letter Q. Barker, recognizing it for what it is, uses the key to unlock an anonymous door in the alleyway, which opens to an underground tunnel leading to Downing Street.

The Prime Minister has a small task for Cyrus Barker. A Foreign Office agent stole a satchel in Eastern Europe, but was then himself murdered at Charing Cross. The satchel contains a document desperately wanted by the German government, but while the agent was killed, the satchel remains in English hands. With a cold war brewing between England and Germany, it's in England's interest to return the document contained in the satchel to its original owners and keep it out of German hands.

The document is an unnamed first century gospel; the original owner is the Vatican. And the German government isn't the only group trying to get possession of it. With secret societies, government assassins, political groups, and shadowy figures of all sorts doing everything they can―attacks, murders, counter-attacks, and even massive street battles―to acquire the satchel and its contents, this small task might be beyond even the prodigious talents of Cyrus Barker.

Saddleback Valley as the Sun rises

It's not all Steak and Chips or Shepherd's Pie

Steak and Chips or Shepherd's Pie, followed by Custard and Sherry Trifle. Only thing left to do: is an after-noon nap ...
So when you "NEED TO EAT YOUR GREENS...."

"The GOOSE Table" .... some TLC required - with UPDATE

Our entry hall table aka The Goose Table ... required some internal (out of sight) repairs and a giving the top a needed re-finish ... Dark Oak stain .. Danish Oil and Shellac, ought to do just fine.

Entry Table all sorted, but a companion has started to take shape ?

It's that time again

Tearooms for Sale

One of Scotland's most famous tearooms has been put up for sale.

The Charles Rennie Mackintosh-inspired Willow Tea Rooms on Buchanan Street in Glasgow is on the market to offers over £125,000.

Current owner and creator of the institution Anne Mulhern has decided to call it a day after more than 35 years, but hopes it will be given a new lease of life.

Anne opened the tea rooms in 1983.

She said: "The Willow Tea Rooms has been a joy to create and operate along with my first-class management team and staff.

Tea fit for a Hatter

Local Tea-House

1940 Tour de France

A Homage

With the last Beetle rolling off German car-maker Volkswagen's production line in Mexico on Wednesday, the legend of more than 80 years comes to an end.

Volkswagen Beetle cars on Abbey Road, London. 

Just another day in So.Cal..... July 4th.

An interesting Yarn ...

The Yarn Bombers have created a mini woolen version of their hometown including: the local pub, post office and church.  They have spent the last two years furiously threading the quiet high street of Thrapston in Northamptonshire, complete with hanging baskets and pedestrians.

Family dedicated to traditional paper-making craft .... Post # 3 of 3

Li Qiugui  prepares to dry wet paper sheets

Using a pair of bamboo-made tweezers to arrange paper sheets

Li Qiugui prepares to dry wet paper sheets

Li Zhijun makes paper sheets out of pulp

Family dedicated to traditional paper-making craft .... Post # 2 of 3

Li Zhijun makes paper sheets out of pulp at his workshop.

Li Qiugui crushes bamboo mixtures at his workshop

Li Qiugui conveys bamboo materials to make paper

Li Qiugui prepares to dry wet paper sheets 

Li Qiugui (L) makes paper sheets out of pulp following his father's guidance

Li Zhijun squeezes water out of paper

Family dedicated to traditional paper-making craft .... Post # 1 of 3

Tantou town is located in southwest of Hunan province, where bamboo grows in the mountains. An ancient handmade paper-making skill has been inherited in Tantou since the Sui Dynasty (581-618), which made Tantou once a renowned paper-making center in Central and South China. 
Since 2015, Li Qiugui, 35, has been committed to inheriting the ancient craft of handmade paper from his father Li Zhijun with the paper-making techniques such as bamboo cutting, soaking, crushing, squeezing and drying. Li Qiugui wishes that he and his father could promote their own workshop to a paper-making research institute known nationwide.

Li Qiugui scraps bamboo skin 

Li Qiugui (C) and his parents soak bamboo sticks

Transporting bamboo.

Into Denver for lunch .....

Life is a Carousel

1 of 7 .. Opening one of the 7 cakes

After processing the cake .. an infusion was made ... The tea did not disappoint .. first rate smooth taste and soothing after taste.