Slowlycatchymonkey

I’m not much for quoting other people but I always think of this Charles Bukowski one when I hear the dim but loud being given air time- “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

Had a read up, there seems to be quite some progression ride wise between the hypermotard iterations. If Six is buying the one I spied it looks like a corker and the write up makes it sound like a right royal blast. Looking forward to hearing about what its like. Assuming it gets out of the back of the van.

Just read in the papers that Tesco is offering lorry drivers a £1000 signing up fee if they sign with them before September. Theyre that desperate.

That looks like a lot of fun. Nice one.

Yeh I saw thats why its time for you to step up and stop Covid spreading.

A govt minister has said today- Britons considering a trip abroad this summer should be aware that “things may change” in terms of the rules for travel, a government minister has warned. Kit Malthouse was speaking amid speculation that popular destinations with rising Covid-19 infections like Italy, Spain and Greece could be added to the “amber plus” list requiring self-isolation on return to England - while restrictions on travel from France could be eased as fears about the Beta variant of coronavirus decline. For countries on the larger “amber list” - including most of Europe - vaccinated Britons are not required to go into quarantine on return, with the exception of France which is classed “amber plus”, meaning even those with two jabs must self-isolate for 10 days. Arrivals from “red list” countries - including India and Brazil - must spend 10 days in a quarantine hotel in England. Glad Ive not paid to add luggage to my flight in September @XTreme could u keep Spain off the red list, cheers.

Or everything.

I do, otherwise I have to do some actual work.

Get fishing emails n calls from these sort of know nuffin morons selling business solutions all the time, 30 seconds in you know it took them several years to learn how to tie their own shoelaces and then bought velcro daps anyway. Successful people dont have time to flog that tuppenny ha’penny crap, theyre too busy persuing the endless goal of empire expansion and worshipping the money gods. Id say you have good ground for disowning them.

I once couldn’t walk for three days due to a very heavy handed epidural. I couldn’t understand on day two (when the opiates were really not suppressing the appetite any longer) why I was just so bloody hungry and why there was no food. Eventually very starved I dared ring the bedside bell to be told food is served down there… when couldn’t friggin walk! They then transferred my care back to a much maligned hospital that treated me so nicely, kindness and food and dignity. Never forgot the difference hospitality makes to recovery. You can work with the finest minds and the best medical people and compromise a persons recovery with the basic silly things.

The 9T doesnt and the Bandit (should it be well enuf to ever need its chain cleaning again ) has been lowered so the centre stand that was a pig before is impossible now.

Cheers

Post us a link?

How much was it @Six30?

Definitely in for rises but its the hospitalisation and death rate they have their eye on and whatever happens this summer is nothing compared to what’s going to happen a few weeks after the schools go back and the weather becomes inclement Fingers crossed nothing truly vaccine resistant has turned up by then. I have my suspicions everyone will have moved onto the “just get your booster and live with it” school of thought by then, the economy will certainly be asking for that and the psychopaths in charge here were thinking that right from the start.

That sadly that is inevitable, its just a question of time. As I explained to my mother on the phone today who is reluctant to celebrate her 70th birthday tomorrow this is as safe as its going to be for a while, the more time that passes the further away from the original strain the variations get and the more risky things become until a tweaked vaccine is administered so she may as well enjoy this bit of freedom while its here because a coronavirus wearing a different crown our immune systems doesnt recognise is in the post. Everyone also overlooks that children and schools are breeding grounds for all virus’ and no children are vaccinated so the virus has free access to these mixing vials…

Theyre not gone until Sept/Oct but they’ve been used bikes only for a while now so wouldnt have one. Know what you mean about Dick Lovett, awful people. Going to take the 9T to Cardiff rather than deal with Dicks again.

Hehehehe

I had a sit on one and really liked it. A 50’s space rocket look, surprisingly very light to pick up off its stand and better looking in real life. Unfortunately you need to have a space travel income to get one. The guy I camped next to took it for a test ride and went back the next day to look into buying one, he was completely sold after test riding it which surprised me a bit him being a KTM riding off road riding nut. Has a reverse gear though so its staying on my list

I thought the same thing yesterday

Problem with shift work is you need childcare from between 6.30am and 10pm (assuming you can get to work in 30 mins or under) which no one covers. Stick compulsory internal nightshift rotation into the mix and unless you have a partner who can be there and get the kids up n start getting them ready for the next day at the child minders you’re screwed. Then they wonder why they can’t get nurses (who enter into it at child bearing age) to stay in the NHS- they make it f’in impossible! I stayed because my boss bent the rules, reduced and changed my hours (so I could get there and back in time) and I moved to an area that had no night shifts. Just me and one other nurse on the entire ward had children. Then they decided to move everyone to 12 hour shifts (my area was one of the very few that was exempted) and that finished of almost everyone with children. The trust is one of the largest employers in the country’ with over 6,000 employee’s and yet they don’t have a clue.

@Richzx6r how no mortgage at the moment? Can you stay no mortgage?

That’s the plan, to go back to the days when the majority of people are dead within two years of retiring. The guy in charge of raising retirement ages retired early with a fat golden handshake....

Child care costs against a crippling mortgage is fun maths isn’t it Babies are lovely n all but the weights that they come with are no laugh.

Is it even viable for her to go back what with sky high childcare costs n all that? When I asked about childcare at the hospital trust I worked for they said “it’s £50 per day per child, you do get a discount on the second child so it would be £75 a day but we don’t have any places available” I said I can’t afford that on nurses pay to which they replied “Well it’s not for you then is it” ?!?! That was over 15 years ago so maybe things have improved, can’t imagine their prices now. They then ran advertising on the radio for trained staff (cos they were desperate) stating they had childcare facilities factually correct but bullshit cos anyone lower than Consultant level couldn’t afford it! So hoping you have amenable relatives?