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The royal mail (Ye Posteman Patteth) amongst other things, read the first photo.

No, it was a tiny article in a local paper in 2007ish.

Just a bimble about this morning seeing as it was sunny. I popped down to Kelvedon to have a look at the packhorse bridge that I heard about years ago but had never actually seen. I had to wade through shit loads of nettles and general nature crap to even see a little bit of it! Then a general wander about went into the ancestral Powell village of Rowhedge which is usually empty to find it rammed with people watching some sort of rowing competition. By the time I'd stopped and got a camera out it was all over..

After searching Kursaal vids on the other thread this came up. If you wind back to the beginning before the music you get lots of aerial video of the pier and the Kursaal. The pier is still it's original length (1976 the film) before some twat sailed a ship though the middle of it. Only a mile long nowadays, I walked it a few months back, but got the train back to shore. A local told me that the people stranded in the cut off section after the accident weren't very happy at the time. On 30 June 1986, a 54.9-metre (180 ft) tanker named Kings Abbey crashed into the pier, severing a 21.3-metre (70 ft) gap from the new pierhead to the rest of the pier, destroying the boathouse used by the lifeboat service and causing major structural damage due to the destruction of iron piles and supporting girders. I hated Dr Feelgood after seeing them about three years running at the Kent Custom Show, but this one song I do like, regularly played in the garage or car.

On another bike site I go on it was a relatively regular complaint from new members that they were sick of all the pervy sites in the header/footer adverts when they browsed the site. It was then pointed out to them that they would be based on their own personal internet history.

waving his left hand to reveal the missing index finger https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/04/maurice-evans-firework-collector-x/

My mate bought a Shad box that expanded. He was very proud of it. On the only three journeys I did with him with it fitted it did the following:- 1/ Couldn't unlock it for about 30 minutes after arrival at an event, when it did unlock it jammed on one side on the expansion part and then he couldn't lock it shut. Had to walk around with his jacket and lid. 2/ Riding behind him on the way back from somewhere in Sussex, I noticed the lid hadn't shut properly and was flapping up and down. I tried bibbing for half a mile but the deaf sod didn't hear that, so I overtook him pointing at his top box. He waved and went straight past me as I slowed down to stop in a convenient lay-by. Eventually he realised what I was hinting at and stopped somewhere dangerous to relock it. 3/ Same as number 1 only this time it only jammed for 10 minutes. Then the lid opened on the way home again and he had waterproof trousers hanging out the back flapping about. He still goes on about how marvellous it is that it can change sizes???

Yeah, absolutely, I line them with old pants as well, they flourish with a bit of manure.

I give them to friends who turn them into hanging baskets in the garden. I will get pictures next time they are in bloom. You have to take the lining out and drill a few small drain holes.

It does sound fine in the video. I recommend ear plugs just in case.

Well I wouldn't live there if I had a million and a half quid. This is the same bloke who I said lived next door to the Bishop of Stepney. Even he's taking a chance if he walks about at dusk.

You'll be fine Pete, I've seen the pictures of 'young you', you'd avoid all contact if you saw him mooching about grunting and dribbling.

I mentioned in my stories about someone I know who bought a derelict house and did it up. He bought it for about 350k and added an extension to the basement and a mansard roof to get an extra floor. I did some of the plans for him, the last one was a retrospective planning permission because he had built a little bit too high on the roof part. I just looked it up to see how much he sold it for. Jesus, the inside wasn't like that when he bought it, it looked like Ebeneezer Scrooge's weekend place I should point out, it is still in a dodgy area but London prices are silly. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=88282162&sale=88422162&country=england

That's cos it was bloody dangerous, especially when you stopped but couldn't put your feet down because the flares on your jeans got caught round a pedal.

Found it, best joke I think I ever heard as a child.

The story about Shuggie the wrestler is better, but this is also quite good.

Looking at the maps I screen shot, they seem a lot further out than that shows the path to be. Those squares on the map are 1000 metres wide so they should be about 300m from the shore. At times I can't even see the shoreline and that is from the bikers head height isn't it. That's the 100 yard dash at school three times, not that far.

Riding the Broomway Byway. Frankly this video filled me with terror. I've ridden on Foulness island which connects at one end and you wouldn't get me anywhere near the sea parts of the byway. Worth watching the whole thing as they get a bit stuck near the end. These bloke are very brave/silly. For the foreigners and non locals, the Broomway is a vehicular right of way that runs in the sea (some people think it is of Roman origin). It used to be marked by vertical stakes or brooms. It also used to be the only way onto Foulness island until the British Army built a bridge. Lots of people died walking home from the pub either getting stuck, lost or caught by the tide. Foulness is now an artillery testing ground, they fire out to sea, so apart from the danger of getting stuck in the sands, there could be unexploded munitions out there. I saw a large amount of dredged bombs, missiles, shells, rockety type things where the track joins Foulness, they were all chained to stop them getting washed out again. I was told that a few Bedford lorries have been lost over the years there before the bridge got finished. People live on Foulness to farm it, but to get on there as Joe Public we had to make an appointment and bring ID and passports to get past the army and civilian guards. The people in the video are entering the track from the open end.

Better stamps and bank notes. I still shudder when I remember the old Irish bank notes before they got the Euro. Full of blokes who looked like extras out of Lord of the Rings.

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/31/a-dead-man-in-clerkenwell-s/

I change mine when the thing starts to move at speed because the inside has got looser or if the visor is badly scratched. The price of visors/pinlock etc makes it easier to get a new lid by the time they get older. My previous crash hat lasted from about 2015 til 2020, I reckon that's about 60-80,000 miles worth. That was a little loose and had a scratched visor so I bought the same one again. I probably drop them quite a few times because I'm clumsy, but I'm wearing it to keep my head warm and dry, my eyes from watering and to avoid a ticket from the Old Bill, not for protection as such unless it's from flies, wasps and birds which is usually what hits my head at speed.