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tool box made by me many years ago as a trainee. and last summer I made some new shutters for the front of the house

Sod old school farmyards. They are GRIM. Everything in the house never escapes the faint smell of animal shit. Sod your vehicle sliding around in a gate entrance covered in detritus, sod knowing your car stinks (even though you can no linger smell it) cos you have to carry shit covered wellies in your car to cover the eventuality you’re gonna have to get out and lug a bale of straw back to put in the mud. Yep don’t miss that. Long live hard standing n best of all concrete.. VIVA CONCRETE

Better cockney’s than Welsh Twats with their stupid accent… boyo

I'm back from Albox......miserable Brit ghetto! Shops were full of fucking Cockneys......you can hear their gobs going a mile away. Probably looking for Jellied Eels and all that other shit those subhumans eat! If @Skippy had been there they all could have had a right old knees up!

Brunch stop at Quatford , proper bikers cafe

Been out with the Dear Boy this morning. Normal loop for me but murky misty out there so I tried to take some different shots for a changeI always fancied this house as it is the old Trenant farmhouse and barn conversion. Lovely about half a mile from the main road but in your own little Vally. This muddy set of steps has always been called Jacobs Ladder which I suppose is a reference to the hymn of the same nameA couple of interested faces this morning looking warm a cosy on a chilly morning I always enjoy that the Saint’s Way goes right through the middle of Tregaminion farm. Proper old school farmyard. We stopped and had a mooch around the tiny Tregaminion Church. It’s gonna be beautiful there soon when the Snowdrops and Daffodils show their heads. We then walked past the gate house/lodge to Menabilly House. We disturbed a few pheasants but on the hen stayed to stare at us. Then on to our old stomping ground of Polridmouth beach the Dear Boys happy place and home. 8k in total and it was good to be out again after 8 days of unwanted rest.

Back from the MOT station got to say the road back still hasn't improved from last year

Should have mentioned that - the house was torn down as the property it was on was sold. The guy just wanted to save a bit of the house as a memory of his childhood and grandmother.

Ha ha you daft twat……….my old man’s a dustman etc etc etc

Coffee stop at Ledbury

@XTreme

But you've got your superior genetics to help you...

To round the day off I've just spent £100 on batteries, one for the marmite wagon as its needing to be charged regular now and i find out the place i bought it from fitted the wrong cheap Chinese crap battery, the other one for the Beta as it seemed to lack oomph last time i was out, the guy tested it and confirmed my suspicion it has lost is oomph i opted for a 7ah battery instead of the 4ah that's fitted, quite a noticeable difference in weight between the two even though they are the same physical size

Cornwall is very much like Wales in many ways. Only everything here is pretty close to the sea, so most of us have webbed feet out of necessity

calm down lads

My German buddy has just put his order in for a new Yamaha T Max 560cc..............€14,500. !!

I'm off work today mainly to try and sort my pension out but first i have to take the XR for an MOT and its fecking raining never mind it will give me a chance to try the ex RAF goretex jacket i bought before Christmas

And the weather's looking reasonable here! Haven't full recovered from the flu, but after being sidelined for 8 weeks I will be out! What about you?

What you need is a nice boxer engine to take the hit instead of your luggage thus saving you money on … oh wait…

I think you are a bot and don’t really go anywhere. Any day now you’ll start advertising luggage straps or chinese plastic fairing kits.

van action happening in may ...

poor bugger.

I just couldn't be arsed to click the happy emoji

I have actually managed to find a left side original triumph side case for my bike on "le bon coin" ( French classified ads site) for 100€. The bloke sent it and I picked it up this evening, winner! I can just swop the lid off that one onto mine, cos all the key and locking mechanism is in the box part, not the lid and Ill be back fully operational again AND have luggage parts as spares for the next time I drop it, or it a fence post, or whatever...

think i got a cold on its way ..

Having the whole weekend off. Going to try n recharge my batteries so hopefully lazing about. If Sunday’s forecast is true and its 10 degrees n dry then a ride out feels overdue

2F / -17C here today. Think I'll stay in.

Lionel should have got the Mod gig!

1 hour and 38 minutes on the phone i was busting for a piss towards the end it was close LOL but all sorted now

Waterproofed by a coating of brylcreem.

Bloody pension helpline is a joke been waiting in a que for the last hour, they said there was a 25 minute que so still lying twats

Worked in the morning, felt like trying to row against the tide, and uphill Fuck this, I'm going to take my leather jacket for lunch at the hills.

Shit! I've got to go to Albox this morning!

I went out for lunch on the bike, it was a bit chilly up there on the hills, around 13ºC.

Ah you see the marvellousness of this thread new tables and a superb make do bodge in just two posts. Brilliant.

Hope he appreciates your hard work!

Looks lovely and what a nice project. Cant help but wonder whats holding up his Grandmothers 140yr old houses floor now though

Not for me dude that link is Zzac's territory. The pension age is going up but will only affect the younger generation i just escaped it, the wife didn't though and i go by more reliable sources

That must be the same storm that we had here 2 days ago - working it's way east

I think he just used it externally

And I thought Wales was bad for rain!

What have you got to sort out with your pension Fred, lots of scammers about now

And you will get to number 3 in the queue and they will cut you off.

Jesus Christ, it's all gooey mud!

Sunny at times here, very mild (13c) but damn windy...

I've got an old school budget gas stove with no electric spark makers to ignite the gas. I also have an old gas lighter with no gas in it, the long kind you use to light fireplaces and BBQs.

Last night i discovered the battery tyre pump i have has a duff battery, I used it to pump the XR rear tyre up a few PSI and ran the battery flat even though it said it was 100% charged before i started, so put it on charge overnight but it wont switch on anymore even though it's showing 100% charged. So tonight i stripped it down removed the battery soldered on a length of cable (off the old tv i changed a month ago) to the battery wires and now its a plug in 12v pump, not sure if it will last as the original battery was 7.4v but everything works for now the digital display and pressure cut off setting even the little LED just need a fag lighter plug to finish it off now

Seems to be a bit better thanks. Still got a hacking cough but temperature is normal and I don’t need to lie on the sofa all day feeling sorry for myself. It’s a scientific fact that man-flu is real and totally debilitating. Women just get the ordinary version which frankly is no more than mildly inconvenient. Are you on the mend Pete? I’m back to the UK on Monday for a week to see my old man and try and sort out some admin for him. If you’re feeling better in a couple of weeks time I’ll take a ride up and we can catch up over a coffee and slag off everybody on here just like last time.