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Hardly any Brits here Bob......thank fuck! So it would just be us drinking the stuff!

And in Cardiff!

I believe the criteria is where you were born......and where your was father born? My answers are Swansea and Swansea! Over to you Dave?

Down to 3 positives in the last 14 days now! But I still can't cross into Almeria to get my tea bags!

I've made a few adjustments and removed our unwanted guests!

Definitely all Hetzner.......their cheap and nasty services attract a certain kind of user. If they were specific blocks it would be easy enough......but they're not. I have processes in place to mitigate if it becomes a problem but we're a long way from that.

Fall down the steps you mean?

I've noticed over the past few days that we've had a lot more IP addresses visiting the site than normal. And I mean hundreds more showing in "Who's Online". After I did some traces it appears they all come from your-server.de. This is the standard default reverse-DNS entry for servers rented from Hetzner, so that domain name isn't anything to do with the scraping. Basically, It's the person renting that server that we need to identify. There's just too many IP's to blacklist and they're across too many different IP ranges to pin them down. And even if I blocked them (which would be a long job) they'd probably just switch to different IP's. I can't block all hetzner servers either cos I'd be blocking legitimate traffic as well. The numbers at present don't cause any problem other than wasting our bandwidth, but it's something that I'll need to monitor because I don't want it escalating into something like a DDoS attack. If you didn't understand any of that, let me summarise: Somebody has an unusual interest in this site. And when this sort of thing happens their intentions are never good. @Tym.......time to Lock'n'Load!

English are banned from entering Wales......so that avenue of pleasure has been closed for him.

My money's on Raoul.......he's got a nice Beemer as well I heard!

I don't do seriously rough roads Lionel......only slight undulations in the tarmac! Weather permitting of course!

Anakee?

What?

Do you think I'll need Tony the Tools to fit it for me?

I've put them on bikes for years Fred.......never had an issue. And every phone I've had has a two year guarantee and I replace them with a new one at the end of that period!

So am I right in thinking that you're offering to lend a hand Caroline?

Very true Caroline! That's why, even if I could afford to give up work, I wouldn't do it. I'm someone that always needs a challenge and something to focus on......so stopping work wouldn't be a good idea!

I I threw that one out there expecting @Buckster to jump on it first......but you beat him to the punch Rick!

I think if you once had that spark then riding will help keep it alive! But it can't give you the spark that you never actually had. As the saying goes....."Once a boring cunt.....always a boring cunt".

Well said Rick! Have you noticed how many guys around our age (I'm 66) are such miserable, boring fuckers? It's like the life force has been drained from them somehow......all they ever do is fucking moan. About everything! I look around and wonder WTF has happened to my generation?

You reckon that could be behind the mood of people generally? Because there have been or two situations here recently which I certainly wasn't expecting. Because it's been a year now for all of us whereby we've been restricted from doing what we normally do......in one way or another. The only bit that pissed me off was the first 9 weeks last year when I couldn't ride the bike. Apart from that period it's just been a minor inconvenience really. Having said that I spend 22 hours a day in the same room anyway......so my expectations aren't that high. What about you......are you losing your shit over Lockdown?

My 6.8 incher needs strong support! Can't have it flapping in the wind!