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I have had both as loaners, and I could find very little between them. Just sat lower on the Meteor, I just like the look of the Classic, especially with the Chrome tank. Doubt I would actually own one yet but I liked it nonetheless. Now if I could get a Honda SL350 like the green one in the video I would probably buy one.

Me too. RE are selling these hand over fist for 4K ish so no reason Honda wouldn't

I am sure it would, but nobody would buy a 20BHp 350 expecting to tear it up. But if they brought the SL and TT versions here as well, they look stunning.

They will sell in numbers if they come here, especially if they get the price right.

True, not that I would have bought one either but it looks like a marketing disaster to me.

Be worth asking BT if you have been switched to a digital service mate. May be nothing to do with it but worth asking.

Clive have you been switch to a digital phone line by any chance?, there has been a bit of a furore over BT switching people without their knowledge and there personal alarms not working.

My boy phoned me this morning: Boy "Can I kill the feathery Bastard" Me "Hang on Dear Boy what's happened" Anyway to cut to the chase, he got his McBreakfast, left it on the seat of his scoot and ran into Tesco to get a drink. By the time he came back a seagull had landed on his scoot got his Bap out of the bag and box and necked it, then shat on his seat. He was absolutely furious, its the angriest I have ever heard him . Christ if he had shown that temper in school he would never have been bullied and it would have saved me scud loads of meetings. I managed to calm him down and got him laughing in the end, whilst explaining that Gulls are protected and you absolutely cannot kill them while people are watching. Anyway he went in and told his boss the story, and the guy gave him another McBreakfast while laughing his tits off. I have got to say he has been at Maccys a month and they are good as gold with him. At one point I wondered if he would ever be able to hold down a job but these last few weeks have been a revelation. They know how to treat teenagers in the work place and keep them happy.

Just been out for a bimble. Blowing a bloody hoolie out there. The Hornet doesn’t like the wind and neither do I. Turned around and came back after 20 miles, no fun being blown all over the place. This is the one time I would rather have been on the heavy, slow and stable Himalayan. Anyway letting it cool down before putting it back under cover.

To be honest that is pretty much how I feel about camping. I could still do it but don't really want to. I am partial to beds and bathrooms.

Don't worry, it is worth my while.

I am working overnight 22nd, 24th, 25th then 29th, 31st and 1st. Off on all the other dates then back to my normal rota.

I hope you are going to get the Mrs to do the lifting. Don't want you opening up like a zipper.

I watched the first 4 episodes last night and I quite liked it. I remember the first series was on a submarine.

Very nice powerful bit of kit. I seriously thought about buying M3 Pro this year but chose to upgrade my phone instead. Maybe next year but if I’m honest the M1 is plenty for my needs and probably will be for years to come. Want and need are two very different things. Probably makes more sense to upgrade my Intel Mac Mini to an Apple silicon one first but again I don’t really need to. Problem I have is the females in the family squabbling over my cast offs and encouraging me to upgrade so they can have my current kit.

That is very possible with the heat.. If you want to find out which chip, click the apple in the top left hand corner of the screen, scroll down to About This Mac, should be the first option and it will tell you which chip,operating system and ram and other stuff. The M1 Macbook air came out in late 2020 so if yours predates that it will be intel and your wont have the potential 18 hour battery life. Should look something like this. Battery Medic doesn’t work well with the M1 but it is still accurate for battery life and my Air has 15 hours left on 92%. My Air is 3 years old now so it has deteriorated a little, max life I see now is around 16 hours, normally plenty to last a whole weekend at work without charging. Odie says Macs Rule.

Is it an intel chip one? The M1 and M2 Macbook Airs have a solid 10 - 18 hour battery life, which is pretty close to the best you can get.

Not sure, you would have to look into it.

I was reading something the other day and thought of you. One of the dog charities, Dogs Trust I think, was running a scheme for older dogs they can't rehome. The deal is you home the dog and they will pay all the costs including vets. Might be worth looking into mate.

The Darkness worked out we have been together 31 years this year. I could have murdered her and still been out of clink for 15 years by now. But you are right time speeds up when you get into your 30's

I remember reading Ricky Tomlinson's biography, I went right off him after that. In fact I never finished the book, after the chapter where he ran off with his step daughter, I thought what a prick and put it down.

You put some thought into that,

I'm browsing on my 14 year old Macbook Pro as I type this with Youtube running in the background perfectly. It will run Garageband and iMovie, given not the latest releases but still functional and not slowly at all. On a 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo. I have tried patching it to run the Big Sur which did slow it down but went back to El Capitan and all is back to normal and plenty quick enough. Horses for Courses. If I want more grunt I can use my 2020, fanless M1 Macbook Air running Sonoma which is blindingly quick on all but the most intensive tasks. In fact the only thing that does slow it down, and only a little, is rendering video in iMove, on battery power. Try that on a PC Laptop and the fans will be intrusive and munch through the battery in no time. My 2018 Mac Mini, now on Sonoma, has been running pretty much non stop since I bought it, as has my Mrs 2014 Mac Mini. No Mac will crawl at 5 years old, unless you make really excessive demands on it. Now I am not pretending to run any sort of commercial software and you will get possibly get more bang for buck in the PC arena but it won't have anywhere near the longevity. Now of course tax deductible is great but unless you build a PC with the top notch components (which I have done several times) it won't last as long as a Mac and even then you will be on the upgrade path. Some off the shelf HP isn't in the same ballpark, just in my humble opinion. Now I have admitted I am a geek when it comes to tech, and I am starting to even bore myself writing all this, and I have deleted half of it. Having said all of the above enjoy your new PC on the Tax Man.

Binge watched Halo season 1 last night, pretty good shoot um up Sci Fi. Surprisingly entertaining.