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Just preordered this magazine subscription- just to keep ahead of the curve as far as computer/tech goes. Bit of a wait but hey ho… something to look forward to.

Sneak preview of @Mawsley's upcoming Ride Report! What you reckon @Clive?

Wow, not sure I'd have the courage to just sell up and go. I too would be very grateful for a small view into your adventure. Best wishes to you both and hope it's everything and more than you expect.

It's Indian rust!

now sold thanks

I wish all the best, please keep us in the loop with your adventures

but that does not take much doing

@Grasshopper's Ride sounds a proper adventure , wish you and your other half all the best , lifes to short not to do stuff.

Enjoyed a beautiful sunrise this morning. There is something very fulfilling about starting your day with the sun.

On the way back, the only picture stop of the day

Maria’s 37th birthday on monday, I decided to celebrate with a visit to her favourite nice restaurant in the area, where we had her last four years ago. put my fashionable leather jacket for the ride and all Tournedos with pepper sauce

Stopping to call a restaurant and booking a table for lunch. Quite windy, too

Dixon was on the take for sure!

so whats going on here then tym...

hehehe yeh that'll be it a book thing you can't remember anything about Went out for a birthday lunch a couple of days ago and the discussion moved onto the latest television, most had seen the film Don't Look Up. Someone I always rated for their dry humour and reserved nature said he knows why social media is the current shallow shit show it is.. "its because of reading, go back 100 years there was one newspaper and that was it, now there's far more reading and thats what leads to the trouble" Oh dear, my sweet precious thing, you look good, you're a lot of fun but for gods sake only use your upper aperture for non talky stuff.

Last book I read was for O Level English Literature in 1970. Can't remember what it was though.....so it must have been some pompous, self indulgent bullshit.

It use to seem the same when I working, Monday to Friday ......weekend...shite.

Ignore the philistines @MooN so far they havent managed to contribute an actual book to the 'Book Club' thread.

Take my advise, this is how you want to row a canoe. pro tip: Nice dual density foam swivle seats from bass pro saves you and yourn best buddies coxis'ses.

Good luck and safe travels @Grasshopper's Ride that's going to be a hell of an experience when you get underway i do hope you check in here if you have time just to keep us updated looks like your canoe already has a name CLIPPER but a 16" prospector sounds like something you'd find in an Ann Summers catalog

This one's got your name written all over it @MooN What you say @Buckster?

Nice. We all like a bit of derring-do!

it rained all night here and still doesnt look that safe now

9c and dry here but i'm too hungover to go anywhere

Pyromainia your new calling? Warmer than sea swimming.

And it rained again early this morning! Just sick of this shit!

more a sign of climate change going insane...

Just home after dinner with the neighbors. They treat me well, I left the air conditioning on to keep the place warm for my return, but the dates are setting in and becoming heavy. Tomorrow I shall find a reason for a short ride somewhere, and spend the rest of the day just enjoying the quiet.

Mate of mine in Norwich sill navigates by cafes and pubs he was banned from in the late 70's cos he was a biker troublemaker

I sort of liked being a young outcast from society though. I hate being perceived as an old white haired grandfather!

Only place that bikers could go for food and drink in the 70,s around here was The White Post cafe, and only in the evening, or late at night. One other cafe near by, but that was slightly upmarket, sign on door "No bikes or scooters"

We haven't had as much rain as we need for the crops.....but when it has rained it's always been on the weekends! Like last Wednesday it was 22C and not a cloud in the sky, but I was working. Most of this Winter the problem has been the cold......some days temps didn't get above 4C in the day.

I seem to be having an existential crisis in my reading habits and in some odd spirit of escapism am re reading the books I read as a child which all seem to be pre war or inter war adventure stories. All a little bit "Jeeves and Wooster" but mostly very well written. I haven't got desperate enough to re read my old copies of " Jennings" or " Biggles" but I just finished John Buchan's "The thirty nine steps" and have now started "The riddle of the sands" by Erskine Childers.

Had a shit earlier... reached for the toilet paper , none left.... you know that silly woddle walk you have to to with your pants and trousers round your ankles to go get some .... well im nearly at Tesco's now

mil spec NBC kit. I seem to remember they used to call it " NBC = No Bloody Chance"