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having spent yesterday ( saturday) hibernating, i spent all morning failing miserably to unblock the bath outflow pipe AGAIN! we'll have to call a plumber monday cos my shoulders just aren't up working in the neccessary positions. I was pissed off about that so I pissed off... for a ride. only a couple of hours but I have managed to find the limit of comvort of my winter gloves with heated grips but without bar muffs. 3 degrees c, cos that's all it was and my fingers got bloody cold. no pics cos I would have droped the camera and I really didn't want to stop anyway, but the route went like this

There are various art installations dotted about, plus a few bouys and anchory/sailory stuff.

The stairs go on for ever, despite it being a short lighthouse. There is a max number of people warning on them as they are not that strong.

We are going out on the bikes just as soon as he's finished watching the 18 footers sailing on t.v. dont know where yet....

In the car today. Tucked away in Blackwall is Trinity Bouy Wharf. Today it was cold and empty. After a Mini Fat Boy, (a breakfast consisting of pancakes, syrup, fried egg, sausage, bacon, hashbrown and a mug of tea) in the old American diner I saw that the lighthouse was open so popped up to take some pics. The dark blue grandad estate car is mine, known as Moby Dick due to its length and slow speed.

Grim is the word here. The birthplace of West Ham United and they built some early iron and steel battleships here. I was just visiting a short length of footway outside. When the developer removed his hoarding around their new town houses for me to start building a new footway I discovered they had constructed their own private drainage system on the public highway and there were wooden lids scattered about for all the manholes. I told the contractor to put the new kerbs in, chuck down and compact some type 1 and to then put temporary black top over it to make it safe then to leave the site. I called the developer and told them I was stopping work pending an investigation into the potentially illegal works. Just wanted to see how far the contractor had got, seems the black top isn't done yet.

Didnt take pics im shit at this. Went to start campervan which lives on a farm about 4 mile away. Then went for sunday lunch at the best pub on earth. Then razzed round like a couple of children the long way home such fun leaving a young lad on a scrambler at the traffic lights on an old cbr and a scoot He saluted us when we turned off

Marvellous, not looking bad here at all but yesterday we arranged to meet up with younger son and family. Have to console myself knowing there's untold amounts of salt on the roads.

Happy Sunday 🏍 Woke up to an empty house, very strange feeling, so quiet and peaceful, wont last but Im revelling in it while it does!

tis, i actually done that in Mcdonalds the other day , couldn't see the number on the ticket properly .... bad lighting of course

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHRRRGGGG..... road lice!

Its a motorhome really.

Soooo true

Wasn't out for long.....cold and windy! .

Reached saturation point on talking about covid Pete. Ill come back to the thread for a celebration when they finally drop all the restrictions which a certain foppy haired flip flopping charlatan says he’s going to bring forward from the 23rd March

What you say @Buckster?

He has his bike on his whatsapp pic. You may know exactly what it is, they all look the same to me. He's not supposed to ride a bike after a very serious spinal operation about 10 years ago. He had old injuries from his horse rolling on him when he was in the Royal Horse Artillery, plus various bike crash injuries on top. He says this one bike gives him a riding position that doesn't aggravate his spine surgery.

The background to this was, the stag do organiser (future brother in law to the groom) was wandering around collecting money for the strippers to tie the groom to the chair for various reasons. It backfired on him and it was him instead who ended up tied to the chair minus his lower garments. I still see him, we used to trail ride together, went out for a road ride this recent summer, he was fully trousered though, riding on his KTM 'Bigthing' (not sure of the model).

He doesnt need encourgement in that department.

Beat that @Six30.

I had to cut a friend free, a stripper had tied him to a chair and no one could get the knots undone. I remembered someone had sold me a penknife earlier that day at work. I found it and freed him. The next thing I recall is the barmaid putting a blue catering plaster on my bleeding finger to stop me leaking over the buffet.

No, that heaven on earth!

Why? Do you give lessons?

I played squash until about 2 years ago, so that buggered my knees up, but I find that walking really helps them. Walking has far less impact on the knees than jogging or running. Cycling has even less impact on them.

I think I've mentioned this website before. A new article every day, he does repeat himself occasionally. 90% of them are fascinating, stories of ordinary people with extraordinary lives that no one knows about until they tell you. I've been to visit some of the places he mentions, others I already know about due to working in the area and being nosy. Just some examples to start with A place I am going to soon, hidden behind Kings Cross and St Pancras Station, just to see The Hardy Tree and the inspiration for the red London telephone box. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/06/10/at-st-pancras-old-churchyard-x/ Find out who actually makes ballet shoes, you'll be surprised. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/11/the-point-shoe-makers-of-hackney-x/ The story of where a famous saying comes from https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/31/the-foundling-of-shoreditch-x/ I might put a few more on here at a later date as I find them again. Ones such as the transvestite of Bethnal Green and his/her electric cooker collection, The tramp so stylish he is paid to model neckerchiefs, a small shop that still has stock from the 1700s and supplies spares for the Queen's coronation and other coaches, the Bangladeshi mechanics who inhabit the hundreds of railway arches hidden away from view, the old mechanic who used to work on souping up the Krays AND the Flying Squad's cars at the same time in the 50s, the day to day life of the Raven Keeper at the Tower etc. .

no... im not fucking blind

No idea, but it looks like it moves if you can start the engine, same with the cyclist on the chain and the flappy winged character. I have the email address of the man who runs the place, I'll try and find out when the stuff is next going to run.

i bet it felt cool for those people up there

About average id say, every 17 seconds or so.

its very nice i must say.

Very nice!

You have a camper van? OMG, i love camper vans....

awesome

IHaven't the UK just decided to NOT exploit the Orkney oil fields because they can buy all they need in gas from Russia? What do they think Russia will do if the UK gets involved in trying to keep Rssia out of Ukraine? "Shut the tap comrade pipeline technician"

Spain offers to send fighter jets to Bulgaria as part of NATO plan to deter Russia Good call! Send in some lazy dagos to do fuck all......that'll stop Putin in his tracks!

No bike action today, but a bit of walking instead. It was sunny, but the wind was pretty keen!

No @Pedro....my wife's sister. We rarely venture into my sons home, his partner is a lazy cow.......we wipe our feet when we leave.

Do you ever wonder if you were Dirty Dick in a previous life Yen?

I´ll for sure be on the bike either today or tomorrow, maybe visit a couple more fortifications, who knows?

Bozo just said 'nobody told me' No 10 lockdown garden party was against the rules!

Except her feckin annoying personality

This is childish but so feckin funny ................

For new years day we had Parma ham on melon for starters.............. Then Canneloni........... and then Lamb with all the trimmings.............