Saul

I wish that were an option but as always in life it's complicated. The girl in question circulated photoshopped nude photos with my daughters face on them. Police have dealt with it. This vile child was not in my daughters school at the time (6 months ago) although she knew her, but is starting there this week, after being expelled from most schools in the area. That's why my daughter lost it. There is more to it but for my daughter's sake it is best not to share to much. To be fair my daughters school didn't know but does now. I am not happy for my daughter to go to another school, this is rural Cornwall and schools are spread out. Next two nearest options are 7 miles away and not somewhere I would be happy for her to go. We can see her current school from the window. So our best option is to get things sorted there.

Test was a mix of town, country and Dual carriageway driving.

No I don't think they can fail you. I know one of our drivers has been removed from driving for driving like a tit repeatedly. Trackers on the cars do tell all.

Finished my night shift and got home yesterday to be greeted by my 18 year old son telling me my youngest has gone out, Mrs was at work. Normally not an issue as she is 15 and trustworthy. The problem is that she has been quite horribly bullied at school, and I decided to keep her home until we have had a formal minuted interview with the school. She initially said she never wanted to go there again but over the weekend she has changed her mind said she did want to go in. I said no on text when she asked yesterday morning and that we will stick to what we had put in place. Anyway her response was to run away before I got home from work, after an hour or so I alerted the Police and hit the socials as she made herself uncontactable. Fast forward to 5 pm when she was found after walking 7 miles along the cliff path to another local village. She kicking off and refusing to come home, I rushed there and talked her down and now she is home. Twas a stressful day. Until two weeks ago she was happy with life but thanks to some vile child and the extremes of teenage hormones things are very different. I am hopefully on top of it and we are off to see the Docs later. I know there is lots I haven't said but I just wanted to say that the local Police were fantastic as was the response of my local community. We are very lucky,

Just an update, I passed with flying colours, and the sneeky fooker put me in the DSG car. Apparently we are moving to Kodiaks in the new year and they are all going to be DSG,s don't mind really I quite like an auto.

Shame, I think you would be a good Mod. I won't nominate anyone as I haven't been here long enough to sus who is and who isn't unhinged. I will say that being a Mod is a thankless task, from bitter personal experience. Good luck to anyone who takes it on.

Fair enough, I am just to much of a cheapskate to pay somebody to do what I can do myself. Mind you after putting a clutch in my van a couple of years ago I swore I would never do that again so perhaps I am changing with age.

£400, I bought it for £700 it cost me £70 to register it and the first years tax. So I was on the road for fpr £770 plus £65 for insurance. Also 110 mpg, it was bloody cheap transport.

Torque wrenches are supposed to used to make sure something is tight enough, not as extra leverage.

I think a torque wrench should be on your Christmas list

I thought you would have more confidence in your assembly skills than that

I just remembered it had a bloody talking alarm on it as well. It came with two remotes and if you set the alarm it would loudly announce in a very heavy chinese accent that the 'Alarm Armed' or the "Alarm Deactivated'. Needless to say I never used that in public but it made my kids hoot with laughter.

No, that was actually the very first ride, it came in a box and after I had assembled it and registered it that was the first ride. The rest of the time I wore my Postie gear and waterproofs as I used it for work., but funnily enough I never took any photos of that. I will say that the little Suikida's condition after 12,000 miles in my hands was a good advert for ACF 50. I was paranoid about it rusting so drunched it in ACF 50 after every wash. I know that probably cost more than the bloody bike but I have a little OCD about dirty bikes, no matter how crap they are.

As far as I know a DEV is what we know as a blue light card. I have had a little insight into it as one of our current drivers is a retired police driving instructor who taught the DEV and pursuit driving. Very interesting guy, I know him well as he sings in the same choir as me. I would love to be a fly on the wall when my manager gives him the driving assessment.

Twas, luckily it cracked going over a pothole so I bought a standard CG125 one to replace it. £12 from ebay.

Funnily enough there were two other guys in my sorting office with identical bikes same colour and everything, but one was badged a Yamasaki and the other a Hongdu. When they were all parked next to each other they were almost identical apart from the badges. I still have a new Yamasaki seat for it up the shed that my mate gave me.

Well there is a bit of background to that for me. Before I had that little Sukida I had three BMW 1000cc. but we had recently got our first 2 kids and money was tight so the BMW's had to go. Of course I still had my riding gear when I bought the Sukida to commute on, thats why I had all the gear and puny wheels. I still have that suit but the trousers are a bit on the tight side now. The Jacket still fits and the boots are up the shed somewhere.

See it looks different as this pic was taken to sell it in 2014.

It never felt that small really, but looking at the picture I can see your point. It was okay to commute on as I only worked 7 miles away and it was all 30 and 40 mph speed limits between my place and the sorting office where I was based. Like I said before I used it for 3 years and apart from one of the indicators falling to pieces and the headlamp cracking it was completely reliable if very slow. 9 BHP doesn't give many thrills.

Found some more pics of my last commuter bike. Riding that is one way to make a RE feel powerful

No mate we only respond to Urgent and routine home visits. The sort of thing as GP would deal with during normal hours. Also even though we drive the same Skoda Scouts the UK paramedics and emergency service use we are not licensed to break any traffic laws or pressurise other drivers to get out of the way. Also on top of that none of us has a current blue light card.

Not at walking pace at least

Okay

My line manager, who will be asking me to covers shifts before the weekend. Actually all joking aside I get on with him really well, couldn't wish for a better boss. The next in line above him used to work with me at Royal Mail and outside of work is a mate.

Well not really, just my yearly works appraisal, which includes a driving assessment. I will piss it, and the appraisal will give me a chance to get a few works issues off my chest. Always makes me laugh as we are out of hours drivers and predominantly drive in the dark but the assessments are done in the day time. Half the wind broken old codgers I work with can't see their hand in front of their face once the sun goes down.