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A little dryer, and NOT on a weekend during hunting season I would too. You really don't want to be in the woods here on a hunting weekend, doubly so in the afternoon when they've all consumed copious amounts of wine at lunch. I just saw on the news this evening that another one got shot today. Not dead but in ICU at the moment.

great pics Pedro. As ever.

it's got to be an improvement on my previous steed, right?

I know they will, but I've never been one to get overly concerned about what other people think, at least insofar as it concerns me.

I managed to grab a week of work right at the tail end of the season, went to try and statrt sorting through stuff at Mother in law's house but just spent a couple of days eating and drinking with friends... The weather has been shitty all week but cleared a little on saturday so I quickly planned an afternoons loop on Kurviger, transferred it to the phone, posted a message to some mates to see who else was up for 3hrs of dodging "Les Chasseurs" on the backroads of northern Burgundy and, as I expected, they all had some dodgy excuse for not joining me... The loop I had planned was towards the north north west with it's farthest point somewhere south west of sens. The cloud cover was patchy and temps were around 8 or 9c (46 -48 f for those still living in the third world...) but there was a clearly difined South West / North east weather front moving south across the region during the afternoon. I got my thermal pants out of the cupboard and got properly togged up before leaving, but added the top box at the last minutes cos I didn't think I'd be able to stand the thermal liner in my jacket for vey long. I hit the weather front between Joigny and Courtenay, It was a clearly defined line of cloud, at ground level, like a wall and boy was I glad of my thermals then! I even had the heated grips on full for a while and it was clear that in some of the dells and dips the verges still had last nights frost on them which hadn't thawed from the previous night. Added to the carpet of fallen leaves of varying thickness,the frosty patches made for some "interesting" moments in a number of places... I managed to find a couple of clear patches where I could stop in the sun. even managed to find a hunters cabin, but they were out all over the place so I wasn't about to break in for a look. ( there've already managed to kill at least 3 people so far, one of whom was driving a car along a nearby road...along with numerous cats, dogs etc) Was out for about 3 hrs in all, Stopped at the BMW dealers on the way home cos my 12 v socket plug crapped out and I knew BMW uses the same sockets. Nice place, but they won't work on anything but a BMW, even just to fit tyres for example. They were happy to take my money for a 12vplug though. Got home in tame to shower and change befor going out to eat at a friends house. A free feed is always a good end to the day

Hope you got over the desire to stay inside. good pics too.

loking at that chopped wood and is that a wee table out front where you parked, I'd suggest the place is less abandoned than you think., good pics though.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but take a lok around you mate! Have you seen the folk in here?! No one normally constituted would put up with it... .

Siri just ignores me. I've tried but it doesn't react to my voice. probably just as well cos I struggle managing myself, let alone a virtuel assistant

Yeah but to be fair, you're unstable, Pete's just bizarre. around 8 to 10 c here this afternoon so I'm going riding.

I can only really speak for the part of France I live in. France is a big place and the locals, along with their Brit immigrants, differ vastly from one area to another. This part of france has it's fair share of Brit immigrants, but most of them work, rather than retiring here. Very locally the brits work on the hotel boats on the canals or in the tourist industry. on a wider scale the brits in Burgundy tend to work in the wine industry or tourism. as I understand it the Brits on the south coast are more in line with those who emigrate to the costas, wanting to retire to guaranteed sunshine though maybe not as dodgy as Pete describes in Spain, @Tango ? The Lot and Dordogne regions are allegedly heaving with brit expats ( the Dordogne has been since the middle ages and the last crusades) but I believe mostly retirees again. You then have the mountains and the ski resorts which are full of your younger brit seasonal workers during the ski season, but as dopeheaded and mindless as most of them are, they don't have the scammer reputation. I think the spanish costas attract a certain type of Brit. A hangover from the days of el cheapo package holidays, freddie laker flights and an allegedly easily corruptible police force. All of which will attract a certain type of person. The now ageing brtit expat population will again attract a certain type of brit scammer, or bring out the scammer in a certain type of person... vicious circle. As the ageing Brit expats status and income is fragelised by Brexit or whatever, they will become more suscetble to the scammers, which in turn will attract more scammers... etc...ect

WTF is a "pacified e mail?" when it's at home ( along with it's Nigerian billionaire's sons)

“rules are for the obeyance of fools, and the guidance of wise men”. Harry Day ( or possibly Douglas Bader).

or possibly " nice Jugs!",

We should all vote for this one just to piss Pete off!

That would win hands down if only the sign clearly said NO MOTORCYCLES

I am who I am. no more, no less. I now know the name I was born under, but nothing else changes. I had always imagined that I was probably the unwanted offspring of a polish sailor and a cheap whore ( which is why I have always laughed at notions of being British cos I was born british) I was born IN britain, but that is all.) There is no record of who my biological father was or what nationality he may have been, though it's faily obvious he must have been northern european, or caucasion at least. I am, and always have been content just being me. As for abandoning a child , who am I to judge? guessing based solely by the name of my biological mother, the year and place of birth I imagine she was a young girl, unmarried, abandoned by her boyfriend the minute he discovered she was pregnant. maybe her choice was the lesser of two evils, or maybe she was coked up to the eyeballs and needed desperately to get back on the street. Who knows?

no top box, but a cb radio, a first aid kit, a gun holder and th etank lights up. That's gotta be worth something right?

not surprised really, that probably goes back to the inquisition... wait for it...

Look @boboneleg, no topbox!

You want a nice top box you do

sad but true...

Well done to you both, I've been her nearly 29 years but I was young free and single back then so only had me to worry about and had a job here that I came out to.

You should'nt have to renounce british citizenship Pete, you request Spanish, though some countries ( the us I believe amongs others) do require yuo to renounce other citizenships. In France there is a distinction between becoming "naturalised" in which case you renounce original citizenship and become French and aquiring citizenship, which implies you become a french citizen but don't renounce other previous citizenships. this is a longer and more convoluted process I believe, as this is what I am doing and wil, eventually have dual citizenship. this will mean that for the french authorities I will be French with all that that implies and in the UK I will be British with all that that implies, you cannot, in any circumstances play one off against the other.

Not the same problematic Bob, I'm married to a frog so the dossier is a bit different ( I have to provide between 4 and 10 years woth of "proof of common life" ie that we actually live together, on top of all the rest) and so far my problem has been needing a full and unabridged birth certificate. I was adopted at 4 months old prior to 1976, so requre councelling with a duly accredited adoption councellor and psychologist before i am allowed access to the information on that document. I now have found a way around having to go back to the UK for that councelling and have been supplied with the name of my biological mother ( so I'm actually biologically not who I claim to be at all). I now need to send of for a copy of the full birth certificate, once I get that I can send it away for translation. This has been a blocking point for me for about 3 years now...