Parking across a driveway in unacceptable. Parking outside someone’s house is perfectly acceptable. Wtf is wrong with people that this needs explaining time after time?

All these people dying, but it’s never the ones you wish were dead!

Are the rumours about Princess Diana true??

Stoner – for sure.

(Although last time I tried to post pics I ballsed it up a bit and you had to “fix it for me”)

To the OP – they’ve been playing the song over here and I’m loving it!

:-)

After four days of wrapping, packing and boxing our belongings, the shipping company are finally finished. The house is empty apart from the camping matress we’re sleeping on and our suitcases.

This weekend we will visit my dad to say good-bye, next Saturday I leave SA for the UK and then a week or so later for Spain.

Exciting times ahead.

I’m looking forward to discovering the whole area this year :-)

Hopefully Ainsa will feature with the EWS again in 2017.

Sad fact of life that Bad People sometimes disguise themselves as Good People in order to carry out their evil deeds. Very unfair on the legitimate Good People who are treated with suspicion as a result, but that is how life works.

I’ll be there in three weeks and my bike will be there a week later. I have to ride and log all the routes so that I can promote them and our B&B – it’s a tough job but someone has to do it.

No doubt the middle east will be back where it belongs tomorrow, front and center. As it has been for the last fifty years.

It’s as if people are incapable of ignoring a thread that holds no interest for them.

Do these same people hang around outside a cinema showing a film they have no interest in, and then badger the patrons as they come out with questions like “why do they feel the need to see this rubbish film, when people are starving in Africa”???

(of course the answer is NO, because hanging around outside a cinema would take some effort and conviction whereas posting on a thread is easy and anonymous)

:-)

“spekkie, when I watched that scene I was stood up saying “no way!? No way!!!!””

Mikes the man! :-)

One of my fav scenes . . .

stevenmenmuir – Member

So thinking of going to the Pyrenees in the summer and never been before. Probably going to camp, driving from Edinburgh. We have a few options to break up the journey but is driving there mad? Where’s best to get the ferry? What’s the best way across France, toll roads? Any campsite recommendations, places to visit? And anything else you care to share.

We’re moving to the Pyrenees next month (from South Africa) to start renovating a property we bought last September. It’s a few km’s outside the MTB “mecca” of Ainsa.

If you PM me an email address I’ll send you some info on the area – there’s lots to do and it’s a lovely part of the world.

When we drove down there from the UK we went via the tunnel and the French toll roads. It’s a bit of a trek and a bit expensive but manageable. Next month I will do the journey again but on A roads. Will let you know how that works out!

Yaay!!! STW victim-blaming is alive and well !!

LOL @ “Victim”

#cuddlyblanket
#warm-milk
#real-world

Meeting my dad and step mum at a restaurant for Christmas lunch with my sister and her family.
Having the in-laws round on Boxing Day for lunch. Dad in law is great. Mum in law is ignorable, and I can manage that no problem.

Cheers Stoner!

MTB-Idle – I’ll look for the book. Evenings get dark early so there’s some time to kill.

Picture Here
And Here

Update . . . .

We’ve sold our house in SA. We’ve had shipping companies quote us on a container to Spain and we’ve chosen the company we will use.

Now we’re packing up our house and getting ready to leave.

Container will be packed third week of Jan. I will fly to the UK and then drive to Spain after that to start work. Mrs Spekkie will stay on here in SA with friends until all the finances are sorted out and then follow me. Maybe 6 weeks later.

Meanwhile we’re cycling every day and enjoying the heatwave we’re having at the moment!

Our exchange rate took a beating recently due to reasons I won’t go into on here. Hopefully it will recover a bit in the next 6 weeks.

I wanted to post pics from my Google Photos album by “getting Link” but it doesn’t seem to work?

Struggling to post pics. Most forums I use allow you to load a pic straight from the laptop.

Some of them made me laugh when they first came out. Was quite a while ago now though.

theres a good chance the wife knows about it already and has decided, for whatever reason, to.live with it.

Friends of ours had a daughter who was having an affair with a married man who was also her boss. Drove her dad nuts. Dad exposed the man to the wife but to no avail.

The wife called out her husband, he cried and said it would stop. It didn’t stop. He blamed the daughter saying she wouldn’t leave him alone (which may actually have been true too). A month later repeat the whole process and again, and again. Eventually the daughter moved away and as far as I know the man and wife are still man and wife.

BBC news website headline:

Athletics doping: Kremlin says claims are ‘groundless’.

:-)

Bit disappointed over here in SA. But the guys did as well as they could. So many points through penalties – so few points (!) through tries! The AB’s were the better team.

Last week so game was cracking! Watched it in a pub in Johannesburg. Atmosphere was amazing.
Bit nervous for Saturday’s game now though. The AB’s are strong :-(

Bald is one thing, but I discovered a grey hair somewhere I didn’t want to the other day :-(

My life is over . . . .

Kato – re wife asking if it was based on a true story – I read in an interview someone asked MD if it was “lonely” filming like that. He tactfully pointed out that the entire film and support crew were never more than “about 5 feet away” and anyway (spoiler alert!!) they weren’t really on Mars.

Not Easyjet and not Luton, but for what it’s worth, at Heathrow our hand luggage was checked for size by airport security. They had a cage your bag had to fit inside. If it didn’t fit you were in trouble. That was before we got to the X-Ray scanners etc and was nothing to do with any airline.

The guy doing it must be hoarse by the end of 8 hrs of repeating “I don’t make the rules, it my job”

My GF commented on the state of toilets at Victoria Station, after paying 50p to get in. I used the one on the train for free.

I would guess so. She didn’t sound like a very pleasant individual.

Been paying for plastic bags in South Africa for years. Became necessary to introduce a charge because of the litter aspect. You’d have thought SA’s national flower was the plastic bag there were so many of them snagged on barber wire fences out in the veld.

Sat in front of a woman of the plane back from the UK last week who was outraged with the new smoking law. She said to the person sitting next to her that it was her car and her kids. No one else had a right to interfere. Funnily enough, and I’ve only just put these two things together, the captain on the plane made an announcement that two smoke detectors had gone off in two toilets during the flight and that if they found out who the culprit was they’d be handed over to police on landing. Maybe it was her.

Damn.

We’ve just flown in from South Africa on our way to Spain – in SA we don’t have a TV (through choice, I mean there is TV) so we’re not up to speed on the whole immigrant situation. Just know what we know from the odd internet headlines.

Watching TV here now is a real eye opener.

Saw a guy on TV this morning comparing the current situation to evacuating children from Nazi Germany. Saw another guy, an American politician I think, saying you “can’t put a dollar value on this aid” (I’m sure you can, and will have to actually). Very emotive and very conflicting views from people.

Heard a guy on the radio yesterday saying the father of the drowned children is wholly responsible for the death of his children, because he, for the third time (I think it was) had organized the very dangerous trip that lead to their death. The first trip led to deportation back home, the second trip never materialized after he paid the money.

Another person was talking about some of the immigrants marching on the freeway being barefoot while others were smoking. smoking & drinking whilst claiming poverty always sets a few people off.

On the same news bulletin last night there was a story about how much money the UK government should be pledging to help the immigrants and a story about 16 (??) cancer treatment drugs taken of the medicine list due to expense cuts.

It certainly is a messy and conflicting situation.

I’d be interested to know what’s really in the hearts of the British public, not just the ones who get a slot on TV. Few people are so uncompassionate that they wouldn’t feel for the immigrants plight, but at the same time the country has been experiencing budget cuts, NHS cuts etc etc for years.

I’ll be watching with interest.

Shocking! We used to stand right there and watch the show when I lived in Lancing.

Not a pretty picture :-(

the “bunny episode” sounds like a symptom of the fear so many drivers, including me, seem to have of “taking a foot of the damn gas!”

Just eaten a tin in 20 mins.
Perhaps that should be the last one for a while!

Guns don’t kill people, people kill people
Constitutional rights . . . . . Etc etc etc