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Attending a Tanker Safety Course at Warsash some time ago I stayed in a hotel in Cattesfield. This shared a carpark with a pub which was run by an old friend of mine. Long story short, I was woken up in the morning by the manager knocking on the door to ask whether I'd been disturbed during the night. I asked why, and he said that someone had walked into some terrified bloke's room, bollock naked, pissed in his bog, and walked out again. Going into my en suite I found my bath full of puke and a vague memory began to coalesce. I never stayed there again!

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I hope to return there some time. Which reminds me, I must resume my RR.

I have lived a sheltered life. ?

It all depends on when I’m let loose, and where will be available for travel. At the moment Norway is beckoning, subject to escape being early enough in the year. Would need to leave early in August if I’m to see the early aurora up north before heading for home. Middle of September last time and I could have been a couple of weeks earlier. If I go south, travelling back before the snow hits the alpine passes has time constraints. But I’m definitely going somewhere!

A friend has the original Shiver and although cleaning and washing aren’t in his skill set, it doesn’t explain how that bike rusts before your eyes. You know who I mean @Sir Fallsalot ?

Difficult one, that. ?

And boaters speeding in restricted areas. ?

And then there’s the twats on jet-skis.

Dodgy fuel? ??

2011 according to YouTube but the video could be older I suppose. Looks like I think I’m Tym now. This is what happens when you reach 66 @XTreme ?

Who remembers this?

No!!!

Hello Colin. ?

I envy you!

@Renegade has developed tightness into an art. Having retired I’m doing my best to emulate him. ?

Hi Bryn. ?

That's why I got the CCM. 130kg wet as opposed to the GS's 244kg + panniers etc. I doubt that I could lift it up now that I'm approaching my dotage.

He's busy looking at stars. Maybe now it's raining he might put in an appearance.

I hope that they have it firmly anchored!

Hell no. Born in Cardiff to parents from North Wales. Moved north when I was five, then back to Cardiff when I was eleven. So mainly Cardiff, but speak Gog Welsh.

Yes. There were several along the coast of Cardigan Bay as well. We used to play in the ones around us in Dyffryn Ardudwy, but the Ingurlisch used to come and shit and piss in them in the summer.

I know of some people who were there recently, so probably yes. There are several similar places in Wales. Denbigh springs to mind. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/abandoned-denbigh-insane-asylum Then there's Whitchurch hospital n in Cardiff, and Llwynypia hospitals recently empty but people get in there for photos. A guy that I worked with used to get into deserted bunkers, and disused ordinance depots and the like to explore and for photos.

This is a bit nearer for me; mental hospital and allegedly haunted. ? "The building, designed by Messrs Giles, Gough and Trollope of London followed the compact arrow plan and was built at a cost of £126,000. It was opened amid public ceremony on March 18, 1903, by the Rt. Hon. Lord Glanusk who said of it "everything has been done that human ingenuity could devise for the happiness and safety of the inmates, and under the blessing of God, for their speedy restoration to health." Like other contemporary institutions, the asylum was designed to be self-sufficient, and had its own private water, electricity, heating and sewerage systems as well as a considerable agricultural estate on which able-bodied patients worked to produce food for the hospital. As well as residential wards, the hospital had a large recreation and dining hall, kitchens, workshops "in which the patients [were] encouraged to spend their time profitably", a tailor, bakery, shoe-maker and printing shops as well as 8 acres of market gardens."