Mork and Mindy was required watching for a young Ming and then in my teenage years his standup video’s were side splitting, tears and struggling to breathe.

His ability to complete derail any interview was great to watch as well.

Funny man. RIP.

Shazbot indeed!

Another + for Atera, got the 2 heavy bike model.

In a word, NO! Its been a bit wet and a bit windy though judging from the The Poppet Dog’s face when I shoved her out for a wee earlier it was acid rain!

100ft up a very spindly wobbly radio mast checking the bolts for tightness, both hands in tool bag looking for correct size socket and spanner when my pole strap slipped and I drop about 6 inches before it settled. Proper screamed, massive adrenaline rush and I don’t remember how but both my hands were now on the mast leaving finger prints in the metalwork!

How my colleagues laughed.

Cat Aids

averaging 3-4 hours sleep over last ten nights due to bloody genetic insomnia, curse my mothers chromosonal heritage…….

60 miler road ride yesterday in which I blew up spectacularly at 30 mile mark and felt very ill for about 10 miles (did manage 5 hours kip though)

First day of not being the Man From Oncall so thought I’d treat myself to gluten free lager instead of cider only to find every bloody supermarket in a 20 mile radius has run out!

arrrrgh

And I spent all day today finding out that my colleague who is on holiday and earns far more than I do has not being doing his job properly and now I’m tasked with picking up the pieces.

Visited KwikFit Eastbourne for a price of 4 tyres for the focus, without even looking at the computer he gave me a once over look, like he was gauging how much I’d pay, quoted £115 a corner so I smiled and left. I took it to the local indie who after consulting the computer got the same tyres for £85.

Not my favourite place, loads of traffic, too many Boris Island entrapment camera’s for those unfamiliar with the roads and locals. That said I have a biased view as I tend to work in the scummier area’s at unsocial hours so don’t really see the nice bits.

Bus driver probably owns a jetski.

Acoustic mines, that’s what you need. Tuned to go off in response to that horrible noise. Either that or tuned to fat, retarded chav idiot genomes.

It’s probably a good thing that my plans for global domination stopped with Populus.

22 years in a “state institution”, a re-org two years ago means the can-do group I used to work for has been broken up across the “wont do” depots. I do half the work in double the time and nobody bats an eye, in fact some colleagues get the hump with how much I do, paperwork, pointless procedures and empire building rule.

It’s doing my head in.

No flexibility, not allowed to think for yourself, I’m in danger of becoming a “good German”.

at least I have job (I think)

Where to start…..

turning up 40 mins late for a job, then spending 2 hrs talking about the job/slagging it off, rather than getting on with it.

getting upset when they have to work past 1330 (after arriving late).

Buggering off to the cafe for 90 minutes every day!

Not putting clothes away, I thought on the spare bed next to the wardrobe was sufficient. IT ISN’T!

Ours developed the injector leak that leads to “the black death” at 56K. Got rid of it.

Directed by Tim Burton

Ring Body Board HQ (VERY VERY good service and won’t sell you something you wont need), but basically unless your a bloater your board should come up to your belly button-ish, as it’s cold Scotish waters go for something with a softer core (DOW/PE)for more flex (sort of like suspension, believe me a double stringered PP core on a cold choppy wave is a filling removing ride). You’ll get a choice of cresent or bat tail, one is faster than the other I cannot remember which.

Get a pair of swim fins, wet suit socks and fin savers and you can play out in the big stuff and catch bigger waves. Leash will be either bicep or wrist, I prefer wrist as less likely to pull shoulder out of socket in a big wipeout.

OR you could go old school and get a traditional cornish belly board

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I’m very tempted and according to the owner when your wearing fins and out in the big stuff they are a very connected ride with the wave.

Feeble excuse of a storm here in the City of the Old People, absolute pants, I’ve seen bigger sparks from a 20 year bicycle dynamo, pathetic. I shall go on top of the Downs later wearing copper armour continuing my insults in the hope of goading it into something better.

Smithers…

Release the Hounds!

In Shoreham somebody’s got an old minesweeper as a houseboat.

Get a decent adjustable!

Tightening a brake caliper bolt onto my motorbike and the torque wrench didn’t click so merrily tightened until the caliper stripped.

Oh like STW isn’t full of ejuts! 😆

Feel ill after the Kryton comment. Would it not dissolve the desk or note?

Press fit, CRAP CRAP CRAP. Shimano last between 4-7 months depending on season and don’t get me started on TREK press fit bearings into BB.

&

pfft pebbles; you’ve obviously not ridden slimy green chalk.

Heel or Close command, also nipping or barking at the front wheel should be corrected instantly. A few buzzes with the wheel at low speed help as well.

Chewie now knows “MOVE, MOVE, MOVE” means he’s standing in the way.

ABSOLUTELY no singletrack in Friston Forest whatsoever.

Helping Mrs M empty her work locker after quitting teaching. 🙁

Carrier bags at the self service checkout, I cannot open them when they are on the dispenser!

Chicken Tikka Naga for me last night. Whilst I was sitting on the bog 5 minutes ago the Sith Hound stuck his nose in the bathroom door, sneezed, huffed and left!

Chapel Porth and Hedgehog icecream

End of thread.

Dodgy Curry the night before, then drove from Stoke to Eastbourne. At times the Focus I was in was doing Warp 9.9, somehow I managed to get to each set of services before the next motion.

Train Journey, whilst working in a railway control the guys out on the track informed me that a landslip at Balcombe had occurred, blocking the mainline between Threebridges and Brighton. I left Croydon at 0700, got the train to Threebridges to find a near riot in progress as no buses were laid on. I got on the train to Horsham, then to Bognor, changed at Barnham, train to Brighton before getting a train to Eastbourne, finally walked in the door at 1300. I had to be back at work at 2300!

I suspect there was a zombie out break on the plane and to save civilization as we know it the pilots flew it out over the most remote bit of ocean they could find before crashing it into the sea.

If it’s the DV6 engine; AVOID.

Injector No.3 seal blows (anywhere from 50K onwards) , results in incomplete combustion, oil sludges, lunches turbo.

Change seal, change turbo and REPEAT.

The ford fix for this is to strip the engine/turbo lube system, replace most of the thin pipes and gauze filters and flush repeatedly with clean oil. Even then its no guarantee.

Still in, don’t fancy them taking it out. Jangles a bit of I catch it on a square edge (like our effing bathroom sink)

Sorry but what’s wrong with a final salary scheme? It’s run well and independently and it’s closer to 40years contributions.

As an RMT member I didn’t agree with all he did but I thank him for keeping my final salary pension intact, my workplace safe, my free travel facilities and for standing up to a rail infrastructure company when our small dept of 12 people was bullied into signing new contracts and losing most of our OT and shift enhancements. He got involved and within 48hrs we were all asked if we wanted to be put back on our original contracts.

RIP Brother Crow.

Ride In Peace

@RSE, never met him but sounds like a really good bloke.