yen_powell

The first bloke I sat next to at my current job in 1986,he was later our chief exec, wrote a song called ACAB. Not my cup of tea, but I would never tell him that, he's still a big fucker.

I only got home a few hours ago, still wading through ginger bike updates.

I've only been gone a few days and you've decided to change bikes. I'm still wading through all the posts, so not sure what the three strikes are yet.

I voted for that one just because it has a bush growing out of the throttle grip. That's class that is.

Noooo, not the monkey pox???

Love this if I'm driving.

Pockets are for:- Heart Pills Inhaler Spare truss Indigestion tablets Hay fever tablets The Observer Book of Polish insults Emergency Brasso bottle Emergency buffing cloth Spare emergency Brasso bottle Spare emergency buffing cloth Name and address written down in case he forgets who he is French Lesson cards for distribution around local phone booths (cash in hand) Bag of Werthers Originals (Grandad size extra large) Normal glasses Reading glasses Bi Focal glasses Spare reading glasses Teabag shop loyalty card with nearly all spaces stamped Castrol Oils loyalty card BMW Glee club membership card

I'm going on my boat trip on Sunday, the one to see the WW2 forts. A delightful trip on a summer's day or four and a half hours of chucking my guts up, who can tell? I visited Strange Dave last night. He has a new part time job. He shoots rabbits, squirrels and rats for pest control. His gun sight has a video function, so I got treated to many rodent deaths, they don't know when to give up when shot, I'll say that for them. One of his regular jobs is a warehouse full of old loaves of bread which gets chopped up to go into animal feed. The piles are swarming with rats at night, he said it's nearly made him turn vegetarian as the bread must be full of rats' piss. I watched the gunsight films of mass slaughter, all the rats have glowing eyes in the night scope.

By the time they finish swapping out parts as they find more problems you will only have that top box left of the original bike. Henceforth your bike shall be known as TRIGGER'S BIKE. The terrible thing is, the top box is Italian.

What are the chances of it pouring oil all over the garage floor, maybe we can narrow the manufacturer down?

Yamaha 700 or a Honda Africa Twin.

Going to be 32 degrees and sunny here tomorrow according to the Met's graph of lies. I've lowered my screen a tad in readiness for tomorrow's journeys. I shall still take my waterproofs cos they is lying bastards at the Met Office.

A knot will sort all of them.

I didn't even know they had Butlins in Spain??

Trying out my new intercom thingie that i had just fitted to my crash hat and I had youtube running on my phone. Because I have listened to the Lime in the Coconut song last time this came up instead by the same bloke. Jigging round the kitchen with my crash helmet on, love it.

I feel your pain about unreliable bikes. I've had to replace a headlight bulb on the Yamaha already and it's only done 19,000 miles. Friday afternoon build I reckon.

I recall you saying that the ST10 weighed too much and the BMW would be lighter, but I didn't think the weight advantage was because it wouldn't be with you most of the time. Is this what BMW mean about a low centre of gravity?

Congratulations, it's your WORK Jubilee this year then. What you need is a little job that gets you up in the morning, out in the fresh air but isn't too taxing.

He's a just dancing man Kathleen. This is exactly how a lot of the Irish roadworkers speak, they have a way with the words. When I asked one of them what their new supervisor was like he replied, 'Well I'll tell you. He's a grand fella..... but I wouldn't want to pay for his breakfast!' This was his polite way of saying he was signing off on the wages fairly but was also a fat bastard.

That's eerie, I know the Save The George Tavern campaign and it is nowhere near where they roll the cheese. It's a very old pub in Stepney that everyone seems to want to pull down and the landlady is forever fighting them off. https://thegeorgetavern.london/shop/save-the-george-tavern-white-t-shirt