Me (I’m like that kid in Charlie Brown with his own dust cloud), two dogs and 6 Ferrets means that our house has never looked pristine, We keep it clean as we can but decorating is just not worth it! The freshly painted stuff will soon get the edges knocked off it!

Yes but I always bear in mind my own safety, no point being an unnecessary casualty.

Planes flying again, but for how long?

Currently listening to the rain hammering off our roof, its a light shower apparently!

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Am on lates so currently in bed sipping tea looking out the window watching the clouds over The Sarf Downs.

In the 80’s my old man and his business associates had a villa in Portugal on a relatively new estate. Now my Dads the biggest cynic going but one night he woke up and looked into the en-suite to see what he thought was my mum pointing at the loo, that was until he realised mum was in bed next to him….
He got up to see what was going on and the woman was still in the bathroom pointing at the loo, he looked back at the bed to check on my mum and then looked into the en-suite to find the bathroom empty. Properly weirded him out.

We found out a few years later that somebody else staying there spent one night in that room and then refused point blank to go in that side of the villa.

After reading this thread, with its misdirected anger, why anyone would want to deal with we the public is beyond me. PC89 must feel like he’s bought and opened Pandora’s Box.
If you’ve lost money then chase your CC company or Paypal or join the long list of creditors with the liquidator/insolvency firm.

Michelin Wild Mud, been my go to winter tyre for three years now, grip and clear most South Downs types of mud. Only thing they fail on is frosted chalk that’s melting but I defy anything to stay clear on that.

Two Staffies here, both lovely around people, one can get a bit over excited around people so we have to watch that, generally fine around other dogs but if the other dog kicks off……
Both respond well to commands, just takes consistency and time. Sheep safe if you come across one unexpectedly (again with training). Don’t like cats but fine with our ferrets.
Walk wise they get 30-45mins in the morning and 60 mins+ in the evening. Longer walks at the weekend 5-10 miles and occasional single track rides but both are getting older so we ration the rides and keep them to 8-10 miles.

We also fostered a Lurcher Staffie cross for 8 months. Lovely dog but no sense of personal space, would spread herself across the entire sofa and was occasionally found on the kitchen worktop. She also had separation issues which resulted in some pricey destruction when I forgot to remove things from tables and kitchen surfaces. We managed to train her to heel, come and leave sheep alone but failed with sit. She loved playing with other dogs and would run herself into the ground chasing our dog walkers dog who was much younger.

Come the Revolution/Coup he’ll be running the Secret Police

Another one on the way but Amazon says delivery early Jan ☹️

So when things are ordered do they disappear off the list, not wanting to double up on things…..

Lego Millenium Falcon (the big one), realistically some bits for my new Curtis

Have to say I gave up on the air Damper on my 2016 36’s as it felt very stiff and stictiony and when it dropped below 5C the increase in the feeling increased dramatically. Im a lightweight at 11st so I think that exacerbated the problem. I ended up with a PUSH coil conversion and some low friction racing seals which solved the problem.

BT have been quietly removing Huawei kit from their core network and that of EE who they recently bought out. They’ve only just admitted this after they were asked by the FT.

104 bcd, it’s going on an old M785 crankset

2 bacon
2 sausage Gf
2 Gf bread fried slice
Tinned tomatoes
Grilled Tomato
2 eggs fried
Black pudding Gf
Hash Browns Gf
Tea
Orange Juice

Apparently her arrest is a “violation of her human rights” according to China.  How have they the gall to say that?

Didn’t call me Dave try to tell the “old place” there were something’s we weren’t happy with and he got told to “like it or lump it” ?

I’ve got some Ergon FAT grips, it helpfully says Fat on them though the other one should say “and unfit”.  Definitely helped with my 3x tendon washout mangled little finger ….

When I was Oncall it was 1 week in 4, I got paid £56 a week extra oncall + whatever extra hours I worked. Some of my Colleagues were on different contracts so got better oncall (20%) salary hike that week.

We were expected to be an hour max from our vans (so didn’t matter what time of day the phone rang I was ALWAYS riding, out or walking the dog).

Min callout 2 hours if it was something we could fix over the phone/or it was rubbish, or 4 hours if we had to go anywhere.  Then once we’d hit our 12 hour limit for the day, so if you’d done 7hr standard day then max OT was 5 hrs, it was ring manager to request extension and that was usually a NO or 14 hrs MAX, then 12 hrs rest before the next call.

Ask your Boss if a fatigue based accident would go down well with the HSE.

oh and if I really didn’t want to be disturbed the phone would get wrapped in foil and put in the fridge. That way if it’s a company phone and they look at the logs they won’t see it being switched Off, just a return to coverage message when you unwrap it.

Hope it’s not from Andromeda, Blake’s 7 didn’t fair very well against visitors from there.

I’m waiting for my Curtis AM9…..

Met mine whilst buying a car engine off a mate, his gobby little sister came out and took the piss out of us talking about cars.

We’ve been married 25 years!  She still takes the piss when I talk about cars😁

Mountain biking;

a ride with your mates,

that slog up the eternal hill

dragging clay out of your wheels to make them turn on a winters day

A summers day under blue sky’s creating dust trails

Bouncing off rocks so big your giggling like a loon by the bottom

a ride under a cold and unforgiving star scape with frost under wheel and smoke on the water

Beer at the pub with your mates

Feeling like the last man on Earth looking out upon the landscape

My predictions:

Vettel/LeClerc/Ferrari will degenerate into bitter infighting and self destruction as LeClerc shows the Red Baron up.

Verstappen and Redbull will be bloody fast until the Honda hand-grenades.

Hamilton WDC for next two years, equalling MS and goes for win record and then moves to the Red Team to try to win the championship after Vettel has skulked off.

Keep going MET, and if they’re found carrying acids or alkalis then by all means pour on……

Michelin mud for slop

Pfft 40A is nothing, was looking at an 8KA breaker today (750V D.C.).

Hurling my body out into the void, attachment to bicycle optional.

actually I have been jedi’ed, there is no drop, only success

Sarf Downs near Eastbourne, lovely riding both off road and road(if you go out on the levels).  Only wish we had some igneous rock to ride on when the chalk is at its green slimy worst

Last one with the pseudo Amazon was pretty meh.  She’s also a bit to nice to be the Doctor and we really need a bit of peril and fear.  Nothing so far has really challenged her or raised my hackles, we need the Angels, the flesh eating bugs that lived in the shadows or that thing that found them when the tour buggy broke down on the cold moon (Catherine Tate and oi Spaceman era).

It’s all a bit to nice and moralistic, I keep expecting a cheesy mid 80’s final scene lesson or message ………

Yep Babylon 5 “mans last best hope for peace, it failed!”

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Time to reanimate Brother Crow to handle Brexit.

XC, road, Enduro (well as much as you can get on the Sarf Downs with the odd trip to Dartmoor, Wales, The Peaks and Cannock).  Doesn’t matter what just as long as I’m either smiling, knackered or both.

The E-Bike I bought for Mrs M, she’s called it Eva, unfortunately this means I’m Wall-E and my mates are the cockroach and the fat Captain…….

We’ve has some fantastic rides over the Sarf Downs and Dartmoor.

RIP Stan, many of my childhood heroes were from him.

Cap, Iron Man, Spidey, the X Men, Nova, the Fantastic 4 and The Hulk.

Thankyou Stan.

”Package for Tony Stank”

RIP, properly good film and fantastic voice for a homicidal computer.

Pop quiz time:  name another sci-fi film in which the AE35 antenna control unit features?