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It's that dodgy over in Welshland, they have even had to stop charging people to get in.......

No, the Edwardian underground toilet photos are on photobucket I think or possibly lost somewhere on one of your old sites, No way was I paying the stupid amount of money Photobucket wanted to access them. There is talk of turning the old toilets into something trendy right now. I lost my key to the locks in our office move in March to our luxury new office. This was specially built for us and we will be leaving it in a few weeks so they can sell the building. I wasn't being clever really, I found one exactly the same whilst having a wee on a green lane a few years ago and managed to google it on some weird website. It was the door and the concrete entrance that looked the same. With the brick built thing, I did wonder if it was a blasting shelter, do they mine coal with explosives ever on opencast or is it too fragile to do it that way?

I think that's a Royal Observer Corps bunker. For men dressed in khaki to live in and test the atmosphere every day for radioactivity after a nuclear strike and send the results to the authorities so they could see what was spreading where and plan accordingly.

Ooooh, Boris has made it a certainty that the shops will be rammed between now and Wednesday night. Thank god I always keep a large amount of big roll and powdered milk in stock. At least when i go to my meeting on Monday in the pissing rain and I can tell them they'll have to wait for what they want cos we are locked down until the start of December at least.

Well there has to be some upside to the long commute.

I see a bloke in the paper has formed a limited company and put all his extended family down as employees. He says he is going to have a non paid work related meeting on Christmas day where food will be provided so he can have more than 6 people there legally.

In the UK have found that I always average 50mph and the longer the distance the more likely it is spot on. I may ride faster but the various stops or traffic problems always bring it down to 50. Going in to work is different, I usually do the 50 mile trip in 45 minutes going in (average 66mph??), that's because it is a relatively uncluttered ride with no embuggerances. Coming home it usually takes an hour because of filtering through 5 or 6 miles of traffic before hitting the motorway, so back to the 50mph average again.

Remember Pete.....In the life of a man, there is a time to ride.....and there is a time to wax your bike...... GAME ON! Unfortunately I never have the time for the second one.

CZ/Jawa 1 Honda 7 Suzuki 2 Kawasaki 3 Yamaha 4

Perhaps it's an orange bike and the owner wanted a colour matched chain.

Maybe they matches the cheap Oxford Hot grips I bought a while back, all instructions in Polish! Luckily they had pictures as well. I sold them to a friend after realising I needed a pair slightly longer, they have English instructions as well.

You got the bar end bolt out??????

Smelling salts for Pete!

At least this time one couldn't splash petrol in the eyes of the other when filling up. I think that happened at least twice on the first programme, once was before they had even set off.

Pete, I'm a big fan of the right mouse click. When I want to answer a post I right click on the reply or quote button and open it in a new window. But on this site that just opens a replica of the page I am on. I have to reply with a normal mouse click which post my reply sending me to the last post then go back to the page I was on which a minute ago was 2 pages from the end.

Picture 1, washing the dust off. Picture 2, I cannot for the life of me remember who the bloke in the yellow coat is, but I promised him mud and mud he got. He never came out with me again.

I've been tier two-d apparently, along with most of Essex. I don't feel any different? Can I pop to Suffolk just up the road or will a rosy cheeked bobby jump out and arrest me? Only my crash bars have arrived at the shop and I has to go and get them.

As I have said before, I take no chances, I get off and push the bike round any sharp looking corners. You can't be too careful.

This is a picture of the one I hired in a foreign land to show Pete what they look like in the rain and the dark. Rain is like a sort of moisture falling from the sky Pete, it's not nice! The headlights aren't all that!! I nearly ran over a few joggers who liked to run in the dark before it got super hot. Bloody idiots..... Uga Uga.

I'll have to have a look when I am next that way.

Bob's piccies of Old Sarum has made me want to revisit Maiden Castle. I saw a picture of it in a Ladybird book when I was a little kid and promised myself that when I had my own transport I would visit it. My first ever bike camping trip, I stayed somewhere in Dorset and early (very bloody early) next morning I packed up my tent and headed off to Maiden Castle. I parked my bike on the side stand in a sort of chalky/gravelly car park and as I walked away from it it did a wobble and over it went, my first official dropped bike. After picking it up I wandered in and out of the ramparts, had the place to myself, it is enormous!! I need to go back, maybe in spring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_Castle,_Dorset

Rub mud over the scratches to hide them.

I think that's leaking......

When we had some of our bikes on display at some county show that bike was there with it's huge round headlight. I made a giant tax disc, laminated it and stuck it onto the round lens when he wasn't looking.