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nice pics Grassshopper! total lockdown here now and as I'm furloughed from work there'll be no ridng at all untill further notice. I did walk the 300yds to the bakery and back for bread this morning but that is going to get stale pretty fast... ( ) I am allowed to go food shopping and from monday pick the kids up from school but them being twins and too big to fit in the panniers, that ain't going to be by bike...unless one of them gets ill... hmmm, I wonder...?

Had a great Halloween ride today through the forest to a little lake called Dragon Lake ??

It's not the content of the photo Bob.......it's the quality of it. It's blurred and pixelated.........like he's taken it on a Polaroid Swinger from the 1960's.

He's got nothing to worry about, he is a religious extremist. But worse than that he's a feckin bus driver now ?

Well it's in! I think he's going to look for a better one! Has @Buckster seen this shit?

Poor devil, I hope it recovers well.

So my job as a temporary veterinarian assistant saw me holding down a dog as he had his butt checked, he didn’t like it one bit as one can assume. But I used the technique I use when I need to hold Costa in the vet and it worked a treat. But today we had a cat with serious skin problems in need of a skin scratch sample and a blood sample. To my horror I was told that I would probably be holding it down, but @Sofiamanaged to do all of it with minimal fuss and I had to do nothing except hold a little bit of cotton to stop the blood after the sample was taken. I was scared shitless through the entire thing and I swear he could see the terror in my eyes when he looked at me while I was holding his paw and was evaluating how many more seconds he would give me before tearing my face to shreds. All was ok and I managed to not be mauled, but this is a very unhappy cat:

Here is a picture of Bobo and his best friend.

What? I don't take any pics from a distance, can't be arsed to walk that far...

I did try to find dry puddles but they were all wet even the trails were like streams

Below freezing this morning, kinda nice after lunch, went for a spin, i think Sean is 11 now this place hasnt been open since CornHolio showed up..

Well, what a way to start November......A quiet, sunny Sunday in autumn with brilliant corners and scenery that makes you go....damn ?

Wow, that can be interesting work. I volunteered for awhile at a vet / animal shelter and saw some really crazy stuff. I was lucky most of the time but once had a freaked out cat get loose, it ran into a shower room for the dogs and the floor was wet, the cat turned, I slipped and it ripped me to shreds before heading out the door and down the next hallway. ?

So do I Michelle! Typical ungentlemanly behaviour from @MooN to take your gig!

Photo looks nice. ? .....sigh.... I do miss seeing my Bagheera up there though.....have to get some kick'n photos this month. ?

I fail to understand how you can still be surprised at my mindboggling ineptitude with all things computerised... it's not like I haven't always been a complete arse at it.

If you're just a 'point and shoot' type of person (like me), then a good phone camera is better. You don't need a DSLR nowadays.

I find it annoying to carry a big camera, on and off the bike, completely gave up on them in favour of my phone that is now always held onto the handlebar. But I’m not one to really be into photography, I understand a proper camera makes sense for someone who actually enjoys shooting pictures. I had all my Morocco pictures in two separate hard drives, both failed which caused me great sadness because I thought I would never get to see them again. Eventually my brother managed to save them from one of the drives, and I now carry them both in a cloud and a memory card at the same time.

Not at all, I have been in car crashes in which I wasn’t half as terrified and nervous as today

It's not camera advice I need, it's money for a decent f'kin camera... I'd like a decent DSLR for Christmas if you're feeling generous... I also just discovered that I have somehow managed to loose a load of picturs...they're on here, some are on fessedebouc but they ain't anywhere I can find them on the poota. ?

Sorry, photos starting from the 26th October until the 30th November. I’ll adjust the dates and start voting polls from now on on the end of the month.

Have Buck find a pic on the internet of a bike and just use that.

Hang on, I see lots of grapes which make wine and I see a motorcycle, what's not too like

I took one today at a distance......just in case I ever won it. That's highly unlikely of course.....unless everybody flounces and I'm the only one left.

I drove a bus once, scaring the chit out of 60 back seat "drivers" was a blast.

Apparently there are thousands of Ingurlish claiming that they are Irish just lately

It's that dodgy over in Welshland, they have even had to stop charging people to get in.......

Why do you think I live just over the border, I'm only just in England. Although my accent will never pass for Welsh

VIEWER WARNING High Rain Content & Visible Muddy Puddles On the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia it is very likely to rain ? for days at a time in the autumn. So you tend to get used to playing in the rain. I have come to love riding through the rainforest in the rain, with the low clouds and the mist hanging in the forest, it's magical. ?? On this ride we just putter about in the forest and stop by Phare Lake to enjoy the view. ?

Peeing down with rain here all week and locked down so not allowed out. when the rain stopped for a few hours this afternoon i went out for the sake of my sanity, usual route past Miriam's bench again but in the opposite direction, water was a bit deeper this time

And I still don't know one end of a screwdriver from another Chris! We'll never change!

I borrowed a DSLR from a friend a while back and really enjoyed using it and got some stunning photos with a little bit of pre planning and thought. But don't worry, I won't be getting one anytime soon. I do agree with Pedro's comment about the pain in the arse of hauling around a big camera and my current one just fits in my pocket. I use the phone for navigation and it winds me up having to get it out from it's mount every time I want to take a pic, so I still prefer using the camera. I might look at a higher res compact over the next few months though, or maybe some post production software so's I can tweak the pics on the putor.

Right, in that case I'm bunking off work on wednesday to get a ride in

I used to take care of a feral cat who lived in the boatyard, id warn the vet and the staff when we went. Open the cage slowly and! I just dint mention he was the nicest feral cat you ever met. lol

Replaced! Hopefully @MooN will ask @Buckster for camera advice.......in case he wins it again!

They are great, but I hate having them on when it’s not raining. Visibility just isn’t the same.

Wife had a salad and some spicy grilled shrimp with a bowl of green chile stew....

Beef blue corn enchiladas and a few Tecates for dinner tonight. No green chile this time- went with red instead...

Yup, hes got a winner pic, from October...LOL ?

How dare you that's one of the best things about the UK proper bacon here mate

Today's breakfast; egg burrito with green chile and taters with a side of bacon (real bacon. not that greasy slab of crap UK bacon)....

It must be like permanently walking round with your ass hanging out of your trousers! It has to be the toughest gig in the world being English though.......because whatever country you visit you know they all fucking hate you. And then when you're back in England all the English hate each other! Bob drew the short straw there for sure......even The Leg is made more welcome in places than he is.

I'm sure deep down, considering the amount of time he spends in Wales and all the friends he's got there, he must be fucking gutted he was born on the wrong side of the bridge! I know I'd be fucking gutted if I'd been!

I was going to say yes but then i thought about Bob and thought not all, then i thought about the amount of time he spends in Wales on his bike he's practically welsh so then i thought yes again

I've been doing 'sober for october' this month , it's for a good cause , so on Sunday I'll be having a glass of wine with dinner to ease my way back in. https://www.gosober.org.uk/users/bob-chapman I already have some supplies for the following weekend

Spending the weekend assisting Ericeira’s favourite vet, today helping a lost puppy