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What I could really do with is you popping round to explain that to my employers. they don't seem capable of comprehending that either they find me an office job, or I will shortly suffer catastrophic and definitive mechanical rupture ( back, shoulders, knees or hips). I have now requested, in writing, twice, a meeting with them to discuss possible solutions. I'm still waiting.

Christ, that's nearly a month for x ray results! this year I have had , cardiac scan, thoracic x-ray, shoulder scan, shoulder x ray and echography of right hand. ALL results available to me and copied to my GP within 48hrs ( the thoracic and cardiec stuff was via the ICU so normal, the rest was 24hrs except for the shoulder x ray which was 48, the hand ecography results took 15 minutes... I know the french system is faaaaaar from perfect but it sounds like the NHS in the UK has given up the struggle!

fucking idiots, you don't moor a boat on a slip. God lazy journalists boil my piss! I don't expect them to know what they're talking about, but when you don't know you go and fucking ask someone who does. wankers all of them. rant over.

they don't seem to us e doppler much here, preferring satelite images. I found this, which is shite

full of (k)nits constantly needling each other ...

the RNLI ( UK Lifeboats) on the south coast used to say something similar about the french SNSM ( French Lifeboats)?

like I said Bob, I read it somewhere... can't remember where but probably on tinternet so not a relieble source by any stretch

clear skies here, not very warm though

yeah, for the moment. I read somewhere thet in the UK you can be fined 3000£ for leaving the country ( or returning?) but that tourists from other countries could come and go from the UK as they please.... WTF ? similar story from Spain?

or getting ome shots of him out on his bike will mean he's been testing acid.... fukmine, imagine Buck on acid ? ?

looks like sweet F A this weekend, still restricted to a 10km radius, kids at home and Madame is working all weekend. Can I be arsed to start the "nd pair of shutters for the front of the house? The suspense is killing me...

The trans sibierien, Vladivostok - Moscow has been my dream trip since I was about 6. originally wanted to do the train ride but once I got riding I've wanted to do it by bike. The dream is not dead, but it gets a litle less likely with each passing season and then I came across some aussi dude who rode it as part of Sydney to London, alone, at 70 something and the lights go back on... more realistically, I have a fully planned route for a trip visiting all the capital cities of the schengen area. 21 cities 30 days 10900km +/- 3500€ budget 'soon as I can sell a child or 2 ... ?

Oh, it's a cup holder! I have the same on mine but have always used it as an ash tray...

I think that if it was likely to cost 30€ there would be less trouble...

"raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock"

You'll be impressed to hear that I have done sweet F.A. today. slapped a coat of varnish on the other side of the shutters so I can put them back together tomorrow. went for a stroll with the kids and took the bottles to the bottle bank. Ho Hum...already bored with Lockdown 3

where's "MA" the US I guess?

South west, not a region I know... I'm in Burgundy.

I just discovered that this is actually FAR older an attributed to Marcus Aurelius ( and probably has a quite different meaning taken in context) "neque hoc metueris, ne vivere aliquando desinas, sed ne nunquam naturae convenienter vivere incipias" " it is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never begenning to live"

In France no MOT for motorcycles (yet) MOT for cars every 2 years and you have to have one les than 6 months old to sell a car. Commercial light vehicles ( like our works vans, not HGV's it's every year, but overy other year it's just a pollution check not a full control. Cost for a car is about 80€ currently.

that's why Pete moved there...

Thank you, one of the last pieces I made during my year of training.

always have been... despite my busy schedule for the weekend I found time to take part in the demo ride organised by the FFMC ( French FEM affiliated motorcycle action group) protesting against the proposed legislation imposing a "Control Technique" ( french equivqlent of the MOT) for motorcycles, and this despite numerous independant and even govt sponsored studies concluding that: "no evidence can be found of a link between mechanical failure and motorcycle accidents" " No other european country where such testing exists can demonstrate any corrolation between the testing being implemented and and a reduction in the number of accidents imvolving motorcycles" " technical or mechanical failure is a demonstrable cause in les than 0,3% of motorcycles accidents in France" and so on and so forth. The main mouving force behind the attempt at implementing this new legislation is a millionaire businessman whose name is... DEKRA which just hqppens to be the same name as the largest chaine of MOT testing stations in the country ( the potential market is possibly worth 5 billion euros)... so yes, the french are revolting in the way they are best known for, despite covid Regs, and despite shit weather. about 250 bikes held a protest ride around the 3 DEKRA testing stations this afternoon. It may well be a waste of time, but similar demos have been held all over france this week end and with general elections looming, who knows.

This weekend I will be mostly: making shutters: I had 3 quotes to have our downstairs shutters replaced, 2 pairs 1m50 x 1m ish and one triple shutter 2m20 x 1m50 ish all 3 quotes were over 3000€ ! That's just taking the piss so seeing as I have 3 weeks of furlough to deal with and the weather should be good enough to work outside I thought I'd have a go myself. Though I've never made any shutters, I did originally train as a marine carpenter / boat builder. I had to clean nearly 20 years of cobwebs off this before I could start Having no power tools other than a cordless drill, I bought pre sawn planks for about 100€, ( doing one to stqrt with and see how it turns out) a box of screws, and a couple of thicker planks for the cross members, took the measures from the existing shuters and set to. dismantled them this morning for a 1st coat of varnish tomorrow. just then need to reassemble, 2 more coats varnish and fit to the existing hinges. total cost around 130€ per window.