WHO has been out there for weeks so as accurate as can be.

Are the WHO working in the hospitals where it is rife or are they at a distance being fed figures by Chinese officials?  The CDC don’t seem too happy with how the Chinese are “working” with the WHO (wikipedia WHO)

Beginning to think the Fourth Horseman is “Social Media”

Are there any figures for Africa infections?  A large amount of Chinese currently work in Africa.

On holiday in France in a static caravan, me and younger brother were sneaking out to explore one evening.  We were escaping through one of the windows, I was out first but brother as he clambers out says “I’m stuck”, so being helpful and impatient (and not wanting to be caught by Mother) grabbed his legs and yanked.  Trouble was the window catch was stuck in his back.  The whole campsite heard his scream as the catch ripped up his back.

Also younger brother and I were on dish washing duties and he had once again got the cushty washing job leaving me to dry and put away.  Told him that the kettle needed cleaning so he’d better put some washing up liquid in it and boil it.  2 minutes later boiling hot foam is ejected all over the kitchen…..Mother runs in hearing the commotion at which point I dob him in.

Even the dogs are rebelling, I had to drag our two around the walk this afternoon until I turned for home when they were 100ft in front.

Today’s fun was patching a shed roof in the wind and rain.

Yep, bit lame last night.  Ohh look the cybernetics Doctors working for someone else, at least make the spy in the team a surprise.  Ninja/Samurai/Romulan/Elf Assassin seems a bit of a random bolt on. Better pick up soon or it’ll go the way of Enterprise.

Drax would say hi but he’s sleeping off wearing Chewie out, his older mentor and teacher of bad habits (like the yawn of FU)

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Just build a patio, that way you can both enjoy the summer sunshine in peace……….

I’ve lived on the Sarf Downs for twenty years now, moved down in 2000, and this is the wettest I’ve seen it.  It’s been washed out since the end of September.  It’s been muddy and rubbish, Tuesdays ride was the lowlight, featuring eternal head winds, headset deep floods and then ankle deep mud for at least a mile on what I was hoping would be a less wet route.  It’s so wet near Lewes that I keep seeing Huey’s popping over the paddy field tree lines to take out Charlie with F4’s coming in and dropping “snake n nape” when the action gets too hot.

I want to move to Arizona.

Prized from my warm, white-fingers hands.

Damn you Stoner, damn you all to hell, you beat me to it!  So I’ll shoe horn in another Charlton Heston quote😂

I didn’t realise he’s wrecked Spondon as well.  What a sad end to a British Engineering firm.

I was at both but I’d watch them again:

Queen at Wembley (its a Kind of Magic Tour) and Jean Michel Jarre, Destination Docklands.

Grim, I too wondered if the cause was one too many bangs on the head.

Cane Creek Hellbender?

I’m trialling a push fit one in my Enduro and my LBS say I’m the Hannibal Lectuer of serial Bearing Killers

ALMAX V and ground anchor + alarm mines.

The Almax V will take a while to cut as its bigger than Titanic anchor chain…… and the alarm mine will scare the willies out of them.

If he’s needing fertiliser, substitute the blanks in the alarm mine for real cartridges and then bury the scum in the garden/under patio.

Nice bike Flying Ox.  They sound lovely with Akra’s (mine pops and bangs gloriously on overrun, it’s a carburettored 950 SMR).

A dignified death if at all possible.

We watched our lovely elderly neighbour (the one I had to keep fixing the hedge trimmer wiring for) gradually fading.  A few years ago he had a UTI and Sepsis.  He was really diminished for want of a better term when he came out.  He knew it.

He had a heart problem, was on warfarin, frusemide and some other medications.  His ability was to get about was going.  He told us repeatedly he had had enough, it wasn’t depression, more weariness, he had been on some great holidays, outlasted two wives and had some fun with some of the elderly ladies in our Close after this.  He wanted to go on his terms but no, he had to slide into that shitty condition, Dementia, suffer a large operation to sort out a hernia, endure a hospital related infection before going into a nice care home which hated.  We saw him the day before he died and it was gut wrenching to see the happy, full of banter, cheeky bloke reduce to babbling incoherence in a hospital bed begging to die.

I feel your pain, I have a special tool for undoing the sump plug on our X Trail.  On one occasion whilst servicing it, could I find the tool.  I had the shed emptied, my tool boxes emptied and sorted.  I couldn’t find it and went and bought another, after using it I thought to myself “put it in a safe place where you won’t lose it”,  The original tool was sitting in the safe place……..

Years ago we flew to America and the flight went over Greenland before coming down the Canadian east coast, it was mile after mile of frozen desolation, it seem like ages before any signs of habitation were picked up.  It really highlighted how small our country is.

Uber bike Kevlar user here.

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Our neighbour has a similar issue and it’s due to the drain pipes sunk in the ground around the garage  becoming clogged.  They are old clay pipes and some have collapsed so it would be an expensive fix.

Can you divert the water from pooling around the garage base?

Local indy here , used them for my first set of glasses and have just used them again after two years for a new set of lenses.  Eye test was fine but the manager was really disappointed/sniffy that all I wanted was a new set of lenses in the existing frames (I bought a nice set of Ti frames first time round that weren’t cheap).  Could well be spec savers next time based on the attitude of the manager.

RJ that sounds rubbish, hope your parents are OK, good to ser the community helping out.

I would like to see the humble Tailor make an appearance as an ex member of the Obsidian Order would make a good foil for Raffi, that and his dead pan delivery

Wind ramping up here on the Sarf Coast after a brief lull as we’ve had Mrs M’s mate round with the perpetual motion mouth, so even Storm Dennis couldn’t get a gust in edgewise whilst she was here, but he’s making up for lost time now she’s gone.

Get Drac to ban him

Getting windy and horrible outside now, wood burner on, chicken Zorba for tea.

Squirrels are just rats with good PR.

or worse if you watch Rick and Morty

Damp and breezy here on the Sarf Coast near Eastbourne.  It’s not really arrived yet.  The sea was rough and when we were down on the beach at low tide earlier.  Birling Gap beach is closed as there have been numerous cliff falls this week.

In my professional opinion that leg looks borked.

Lost in Space was very good ……Danger…….Will…….Robinson.  Dr Smith is well acted and a supremely vile character at times.

Netflix is also getting the Studio Ghibli back catalogue.  So far Mrs M has had to suffer Porco Rosso and Castle in the sky.

Picard on Amazon is very good so far.

Drax is already used I’m afraid (and yes he is the Destroyer)

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Here on the Sarf Coast (Eastbourne) we’ve got cavity wall insulation installed by the previous occupants of our 50’s bungalow.  One wall gets hit with the full force of the westerly winter storms and until we had our conservatory built against that wall it was always damp.  So even in a “safe” area I’d question its validity.

The least exposed and used room in the house suffers condensation issues unless the rad is on max and the windows left to vent as well.

11/24 and half of the correct answers were guesses.  I’ll move too Hawaii, that’s still part of the Empire isn’t it?

alarm mines

These will scare the crap out of any burglars and wake the neighbourhood.  Do not forget about them though……

Did you get a full service history frm BT ?
I only ask as my mates brother did a stint at one of their vehicle depots and the servicing wasnt quite in line with any manufacturers recomendations

Agreed, my organisation used BT Fleet for servicing.  Lets just say that Dave Hinde have far better customer service and quality.

Had to have two root canals in my late teens/early twenties.  Both failed, after about 25 years!  Current Dentist was pretty impressed as the tech they used back then for filling the hole left by the nerve removal was a bit basic.  I’ve had them both re-root canaled and hopefully I’ll get a similar life out of them.

Was advised not to have implants if at all possible due to it being my front teeth and Mountain Biking.

As for JRM, he’s a phoney anachronism, he couldn’t be less authentic if he were bought from AliExpress

Bookmarked for future use in discussions with Pater.

I was schooled in the early 80’s and it was all SI units and metric and on the first week of my apprenticeship we were introduced to imperial measurements!

I think aircon fitments are commonly Imperial measurements still (this coming from an old workmate who did building services stuff, though I’ve just realised he told me this 20 years ago so it may all have changed !)