Leaderboard

“I suggest, your Honour, that the defendant Mr @XTreme, knew exactly what he was doing when he plied his grandchildren with foodstuffs containing very high amounts of e-numbers”………..you fucking legend

It’s a bit wet out and about

Naturally, it was part of my approved school syllabus

Bike looks fresh out of a van eh, not a drop of dirty or moisture to be seen So you met up with six so he could show you the ropes?

I see you're well versed in legal proceedings Ray?

In the middle of a Province that spoke a different language, Quebec. It was different, I did ok with the language, but accidentally ordered too many apple pies.... Not the worst thing that could have happen....

Our flying visit to the UK earlier last week actually went without a hitch! Well, apart from having to get out of bed at 03:30 on boxing day! But it was a bit hectic! But..........when did beer go over £5 a pint?! A pint of bitter in Cambridge was £5.35 and a bottle of Sharpe's Atlantic was £5.65 in the Premier Inn at Stansted! Then we had friends from the village over for dinner yesterday evening, which went pretty well, but they didn't leave until a bit after 2am. So, after tidying up and loading the dishwasher, we didn't get to bed until 3am! Consequently nothing much got done today! Looking forward to a rest next week!

Could have gone to the gym and worked out with @XTreme's latest clients, but decided to head up to the local for lunch. This place is 60 miles from nowhere .... Beautiful day for it...

naah, they'd just tell me to stop eating anything that has any taste of flavour and only eat stuff that tastes like shit, looks like shit and has no gustative value makeing meal times a simple refulling excercise by removing all and any concept of pleasure.

Proper job, Bob. I could fancy one of those, but Honda France have decided that they're not going to sell the Rally here! Twats!

Why would anybody need positive acknowledgement from the twats on here?

Just as crappy on the inside as the out Cool copper topped bar though ...

'Twas fun at work today, everyone back fom a few days off over Christmas to start the year with a whole new IT system new database, new system and I think new servers, so no one knows how any of it is supposed to work, As a cost cutting excercise, our part of the building is now running from a generator cos the fuel cost is less than the electricity cost, but it kept shutting down so we were struggling to learn and use a whole new computer system with reppetitive power outages. Luckily my putor and main screen are on an inverter thingy but that only really allows you time to shut down properly rather than loose anything you haven't saved... The director had had one good idea though, and that was to tell all our clients that we weren't open till tomorrow so at least we weren't trying to deal with that at the same time. The genny problem turned out to be that the phases were unequally loaded so once that got rewired more closely to how it should be the power supply settled down, and to my amazement the ney IT system, or at least the part that concerns me, seems to me far more intuitive and user friendly than the old one so, all good in the end.

Someone altered Andrew Tates Wikipedia page

Twat

bike still looks ok though

Zzzak enjoying his day off.

Happy New Year everyone. I hope 2023 is a good year for you, well balanced with a healthy amount of smiles and adventures.

Breakfast this morning ..................

http://www.deltamics.com/

Do they take fat SOG's? no point showing this lot if they don't

Yeah, he's a photoshop pussy.

A total lack of positive acknowledgment for the excellent photography and superb off road ride reports could do it

Don't you need a justifiable reason for flouncing though?

Flounced

Still no sign of @Sir Fallsalot?

I will post a baggy containing some of my shit to Dundee today. Oh deep joy.

Don't worry Michelle I wouldn't wish that on anyone it didn't look much fun

5 quid a pint arrived around the stortford area around 3 or 4 years ago I think

I’ve a feeling that’s the last place @Grasshopper would want to spend New Years Eve or any other night

Yep......make a thread with some predictions for 2023 and let's review them at the end of the year! This is your Nostradamus moment!

Hoping to get the bike out on Friday for a run. Weather finally seems to be on the turn.

I did make it through and so glad to get out of Quebec, didn't like it very much at all..... But on the other hand, I have only been in New Brunswick a few hours and I love it. I have heard music a few times already, met some nice people, seen some lovely scenery, enjoyed the highways.....love it here!

My day today was good, not only did I manage to get out on the bike for a couple of hours, but whilst out I saw a couple of things that really made me smile. The first was as I rode slowly through a very small village, I saw, almost out of the corner of my eye, a girl ( about 15 i'd guess) pusing a scooter out of her yard onto the street. It was obviously a very new scooter and she had a grin from ear to ear, which would clearly have been even bigger had her ears only been further apart. My imagination decided that she'd got the scooter for Christmas and apart from a quick whizz round the yard, this was her first time out alone on it andd she was off to see her mates in the next village. I remembered the first few miles on my first scooter and the joy at the sudden freedom and autonomy it brought at 16 years old. That made me smile. 2nd thing was ridng through Auxerre, nearly home, light failing fast into dusk, that time of day they call "Entre Chien et Loup" ( between dog and wolf) here. I heard him before I saw him, that bane of the French towns and cities, the Breeeeeeeeeeet, Breeeeeet, breet, breeeeeeeeeeeet, of a home tuned baffle-less 50cc 2-stroke moped, mostly black and dressed in black he was not easy to see as he had no headlight on either. The speed limit along the quays in auxerre is 20kph and he undertook me doing about 50 I guess. I caught him up as we left the town limits and the speed indicated increased to 70kph, which he could just about manage though God knows what rpm he was pulling to do so ( they're only legally allowed to do 50kph max,). I saw he had a number plate, but no rear light on. I overtook him and pointed to the front of his bike and to my eyes to tell him to switch his lights on ( easy mistake to make under street lights when your headlight is only about 6watts. I slowed to give way ath the roundabout and he pulled up alongside me asking mw what I meant, but I had a closer look at his machine I just laughed and said " I was trying to tell you to switch your lights on, but I now see you don'e even have any..." "Naah" he said " spoils the look, no lights no indicators, no mirrors" and off he went "Breeeeeeeeeeet, breet,Breeeeeeeeeet..." in a cloud of 2 stroke fumes and into the rapidly falling night, up the road towards Chablis. That made me smile.

I didn't get any pics of our Christmas day feed but My Sister dis us proud. We we're expecting a cold buffet and we'd brought cheese ( French , smelly) and wine ( White, St Bris, sauvignon and Red, St Bris, Cesar) but she surprised us with a massive tradional Christmas dinner. Ham in place of turkey but otherwise the full monty, sprouts, stuffing balls, bread sauce, pigs in blankets etc etc etc. I hadn't had a "Proper" Christmas dinner in 20 years so Best Christmas Present Ever! This was our new years trough, just the 4 of us ( No1 being still in Liverpool) we'd visited Bicester Village luxury designer outlet hell-hole on the 28th cos the twins wanted Vivienne Westwood Jewlery, which they got. On arriving home on the 29th we learned of Westwood's death. the twins wanted to do a Vivienne Westwood themed table : Then came the food. The "entrée" ( which I skipped and just had another drink) forgetting to take a pic till after the battle... A dozen "Escargots de Bourgone aux beurre d'ail" ( Snails in garlic butter sauce). Followed by Honey braised beef in a cider sauce with Gratin Dauphinoise, All washed down with a nice bottle of Chablis. Yule log from the local patisserie to finish but I was too pissed and busy eating to take a pic

That plate could almost be an English meal

@Sofia’s meatballs and mashed potatoes with spicy garlicky baby spinach. The meatballs had my moroccan spice mix, and love, which made them delicious. It was amazing, and I’m typing this with a happy belly as I finish the second portion. The red wine is a Castelares Reserva, which is currently my favourite red wine, bought for special occasions

Round 2

Mushroom ragu rigatoni, with an adequate amount of sauce…

I hope Exeter do a number on sarries

Managed 8k today but it was pissing down and slippery as . Managed to go over 4 times in the first 2k. Once so dramatically that one of my earbuds flew out and it took me 10 mins to find it. The Dear Boy saw it all as abuse and got pretty pissed off with me. Got home soaked and the only way to dry out was a hot shower. . We are both on the bed blanketed waiting for the rugby to start so he has forgiven me.

Get a little 'deth in your life .....

Going back to me yoot mon ............

Yesterday I drove back from Oxford to Auxerre. Today I am mostly recuperating from 5 days in the UK. ( is it me or have the roads all gone to shit rcently? )

Vaccine must be working then.

I so hope so