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bit late mate,

Had my jab yesterday evening. given me by a very pretty girl sappeur pompier. My arm's not fallen off yet I guess all is ok.

I am now on furlough for 3 weeks... again. Lockdown comes into force in theory saturday night, but in practice monday night so Tomorrow, if it's not too cold, riding ( 3 weeks worth in one day) sun Lyon and back to try and sort out what's going on with Bro in law's new wheelchair...

Bienvenu. whereabouts in France?

yeah, to go 10 km... or to work and back I suppose, seeing as schools shut I won't have to carry the animals

eeeeet bollox! we're locked down again. they are refusing to use that phrase but that's what it is. for 4 weeks. From Saturday night midnight: - allowed out with a 10km radius of your home address. Any further requires written justification of a valid reason ( work basically) -Schools shut, distance learning for a week and then 2 weeks easter holidays, then distance learning for a week and then, in theory, reopen. - no groups of more than 6 people I will find out tomorrow what happens re work as we were supposed to have our first clients 24th april and our base in the south had first clients this coming weekend., that is now not going to happen. having spent some time on google earth, I have figured out that there is a 100metre stretch of towpath along the river north of Auxerre where my 10km circle intersects with the circles of 5 other members of the bike club... looks like easter holidays is going to be picnicing canalside...?

oh I think that was a given already...

actually, fuck it, she's studying english I sent her your message lets see if she can translate it and figure it out ?

Thanks @Bruce I now have to try and translate all that into french . seriously though, thanks guys, I know little and understand even less about this sort of stuff so your help is invaluable. It's the age old problem of being an expert Bruce, friends will insist on asking your advice in your domain of expertise. You should do what I did and become an expert in sod all. I believe "Jack of all trades, master of none" is the saying that might apply, but at least I dont get hassled by people asking for advice.

That's the year I was born...

I have had this happen to one of our boats, numerous times... I just run up the canal and ask the upstream lock keeper to open a sluice... simples innit. ?

Hello techno wizards, a word in your shell likes if I may... Now you all know I'm a complete arse when it comes to all things pooterish and N0 1 daughter rang me thismorning throwing a wobbler cos her computer doesn't work and she needs a new one... Now I only bought her that one a year ago and nearly had to sell one of her siblings to pay for that so she ain't getting another one, which means I have to find the means to do something about the one she has. The place I bought it from will are willing to have a look and repair it but they obviously don't do that on site so have to send it away and it usually takes about 3 weeks, add in some covid complications and plan on a month... as they don't propose a loan to replace it during that time and N0 1 is a uni student working 95% from "home" via microsoft "teams" that brings us back to having to buy another one as a temporary replacement... I thought I'd ask you geeks, nerds, whatever you use as a collective noun, what you think the problem might be. i do understand that it's unlikely anyone is able to solution a bugging pootah without access to the bloody thing but you never know, it might be a known problem and fixable with a judicious tap from a sledgehammer in just the right place. ( one lives in hope) as I don't have the machine in front of me either ( it's in Dijon) I have tried to prise out of N0 1 exactly what happens. ( turns out that it's not actually totally fucked, and that she was maybe overreacting just a little bit (!) on the phone earlier. However. it's annoying , so: the machine is A Lenovo Idea Pad S340. 1year old, with an intel i-core 8th gen processor 500GO ( I presume that's the RAM?) and it says she's got 413GO free of the 475 available. it's running windows 10 with a microsoft office package supplied by the university. What happens is; on a fairly regular basis, on start up it doesnt connect to the internet and when she opens the "properties" it says "no intel card detected" ( I'm translating thid from the french by the way) and she has to restart it which usually works and the restart is normal. That's got to be a problem with the computor itself right? 2nd bug: if she closes the screen, rather than physically shutting down, it regularly freezes and refuses to re awaken when she re opens the screen, it thinks about it, she gets a "not responding message, then a blue screen and it goes into auto restart and restarts normally. ( I told here that I think this is just part of living with laptops, deal with it) 3rd bug: for the uni lessons and lectures they use microsoft "teams". it regularly freezes the keyboard and has to be closed and restarted which is lesson time lost and complicated to catch up with. ( I assume this is a problem with the app rather than the machine itself and told her to uninstall and reinstall the app) Q. Is it possible to uninstall a single app when it's supplied as part of a package? uninstalling and re installing the whole package is a multi hour job over her crappy internet connection. Any help, ideas, pointers, thoughts ( constructive) most welcome. but please dont tell eme to use apple, change OS, don't use microsoft.. etc etc cos all that is fine if you have the means, financial or intellectual... of which I have neither. @Bruce @XTreme @Buckster... anybody else who knows what their doing with this stuff ? ( I know you wont agree on any of it anyway so the more the merier... ta muchly

Hello and welcome

Hello, welcome in.

they are mostly, it's not holiday season yet and, in theory at least, the departments to the north, west and northeast are in lockdown so only locals around, even at the weekends, and no body plays the tourist in their own back yard... c'ept thee 'n' me Rogny Les Sept Ecluses is usually heaving with Paris-ites and foreign camping cars but today was only locals as far as I could make out. I also spend the vast majority of my time seeking out the quieter backroads, which may falsify somewhat the general impression ?

does it film 360 all the time and then you edit it, or does it turn, randomly or otherwise? It's certainly interesting but some of the angles are a bit odd, at one point it looks like you're riding sideways somehow, which I can see would bother some people. always good to play with different stuff though ?

The far west of the Yonne department., and the last of the cardinal points. Lovely spring day so after lunch, I took the thermal liners out of jacket and trousers, togged up and headed west to the D14 between Rogny Les Sept Ecluses and Fleury at 47:43'24"N, 02:50'56"E Still no leaves on the trees yet, but the hawthorn is flowering in the hedgerows and some of the smaller flowers are starting to appear nice little country cottage Due to the nice weather there were more people about than normal and Rogny Les Sept Ecluses being a popular historical landmark there were plenty cyclists, walkers, dog walkers, horse riders and even Bikers ( there was even some froggy twat on a harley complete with cut off full of badges, some fictional mc logo and rockers on the back along with a confederate flag... I know some people in the UK who would not have hesitated to tear a strip off a knob like that... I decided I couldn't deal with people and decided to just ride on and out to the very western edge of the departement 5 kilometres further on here I wouldn't want to have to ride this road after dark at the moment, the curned up earth along the verge by the bike is wild boar damage and it looks like there was half a herd of them somebody told me that wild boars eyes dont reflect light like a deer's do and they being black, you don't see them 'till you hit them and they weigh like 80 to 110kilos so you'd know if you hit one! I managed to grab a pic of the seven lock flight ( les sept écluses) at Rogny on the way back but as I didn't have my camera ( todays shots on I-phone only) it came out shitcos I was trying to avoid people so had to zoom in and had the sun in my eyes. I wanted a pic just so's I could make a cap joke about "Lockdown" but the pic is too crappy to support further ridicule. 150km all round and ended up at the jet wash for a hose down.

nice! there wer some strange camera angles in the vid though, how do you pilot that camera whilst riding?

@XTreme you mean you got DIRT on those tyres Pete... ? Good job! ?

today, still no leaves on the trees...