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Teignmouth and Torquay so far. Wish i had brought my swimmers now... that water was stunning !!

People who follow culinary rules are daft. They restrict creative cooking and none of the brilliant fusion dishes would exist if everyone slavishly followed rules. If it taste good eat it. Then again if youre going to start putting the cream on the scone before the jam then youre a proper weirdo. Your address will be forwarded to the popo. Good job Aaaaaargh, what is wrong with you?

In Madeira I had Scabbard fish for dinner one evening. It came with rice and salad I think, not too sure because I was too shocked that they slap a banana on top of the fish!

It was and a bit of drizzle bit didnt dampen our spirits. Its been an awesome day

Route today plus a few more pics. Oh and knob off @Buckster

with onions and tomato sauce + chips

My late brother-in-law didn't like tomatoes, but loved pizza. We pointed out the the sauce had tomatoes in it, but apparently they're a different type of tomato!

First van reports and now a pair of filthy pikey scum with bikes on a trailer for fucks sake!

looking good @Six30

That's you fecked then, no lucky bag for you this month

Stupid assed kid....

More like the English spent their earlier lives grafting whereas the Welsh spent it sat on the sofa watching Twp Turpin and masturbating

Llangiwg Church star trails, around 500 images put together in a video to make a timelapse

Meat and not the kind your usually gagging on

Heading daaaan saaath today. The plan is to park van at Dawlish and then we can have a mooch on the bikes. While we are here though we are picking up the NC23 CBR400RR which @oldgrump has very kindly got running tickety boo for me. We are also going to call in to Gosport to visit Andys dad. Not sure how this is all going to happen but we are here now in Dawlish at the campsite. Heres a pic of our set up we took at the services. And hopefully a video..... I will upload more as we go Video is short. Dont know why as i recorded longer than that.

Not bike related but AutoCAD, I never thought I'd prefer it to my drawing board, blue pencil, Rotring ink pen, scalpel, set squares, chalk powder, swishy brush, stencils, compasses, french curves, trammels, scale rules, Letraset, masking tape, magic tape and all the other stuff needed, but it's definitely a labour saver.....until you get a power cut or the server has a turn of course. I must scan my joke Polo Mint Prototype drawing I made and post it up (with notes such as "one in 10,000 mints to be sucked to destruction for testing purposes")

Hey Yen This video has the planes in I was on about Funny, typical old school East End Brits, three piece suits on the beach sunbathing LOL

This is the almost same place as the youtube clip I posted of those nutters riding the Broomway last week, it certainly isn't golden sand, more a sort of sludge.

Easy trails only on that but there’s plenty of that stuff around here and frankly my days of attempting difficult terrain are well and truly over. I used to ride a XR650L around the Peak District and the thought of doing it now fills me with horror.

I like the way it says Andy Hatley (HUSBAND) , so you can remind yourself who he is

Yeh......you tell him! If you were on a gay Harley he'd be grovelling to you!

Some bloke with a drone

Think i might have shared this before makes me laugh every time Turn the sound up, sorry @Clive no good for you don't waste your time clicking on it

You'd impress us more if you'd said Beaver was involved!

I tend to agree but i work with a lad that will have brown sauce on his Sunday dinner as well as the gravy

That’s why they cook them …

I went to The Globe Theatre on the south bank in London and watched Taming of the Shrew. It was much easier to follow what was going on watching it rather than reading it, I hated the stuff at school. This actually made me laugh, even when I hadn't a clue what they were talking about at times. I quite fancied the Shrew, she later turned up on TV as Marcus's mother in Plebs and playing a middle aged Barbara Windsor. The best bit about The Globe is even though I had paid the extra and got a seat, I was able to wander down and stand in front of the stage in the poor peoples' area any time I fancied. This was how I missed the knob joke in the wedding scene as it happened whilst I was walking behind some pillars and I couldn't work out what everyone was pointing at. Oh and if it rains you get wet! They work jet aircraft into the dialogue if necessary.

My ex Father in Law in Pwll Trap/St Clears must be knocking 80 plus and is still plumbing and building a few days a week for work, plus whatever he does at home. I should point out that he is of sound English stock (well almost, he's a Brummie), he's showing the locals how to do it. Allan The Gas as he's known locally is unstoppable.

After a bit of searching on Google Maps and Google Earth I found an old abandoned country house that I'd never visited. It wasn't too far away either, which was great because it was bloody cold. The building itself was part house and part cave.......so no telling how many rooms were actually built into the hillside. The main construction was in pretty good order, but all access points had been secured. Though I was able to get some shots through the broken windows. And after checking the house out I found another construction behind it.....and more caves! First off......a short vid! Now onto the house.......Bit of a rough track to get to it as well! There'll be some beak cleaning going on tomorrow for sure! As you can see, it's in pretty decent order! A few shots through broken windows! It's not the same when you can't get in......cos you don't get the buzz of walking into the unknown! Then it was round the side and onto the hill that it was built into! And you can see the building that was behind it...... ......so it was clamber down the bank to access it! Where you could see the cave built into the hillside! Once again, all secured! Then back onto the bike and away! As you can see, there's no van there! And no riding buddies to hold my hand either! It's as real as it gets! You Casuals could learn a lot from this you know!

Hows your currency doing the dollar is doomed, $230 worth of lead it takes to sink now? FFS! Thats unreal it used to be almost free to sink.

I like the look of this lightly modified Benelli Leocino 500; tail tidy, headlamp grill, adventure tyres and a scrambler style front mudguard. Job done 🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍

Just count yourself lucky it's electronically sent to you, you moaning sod. Not that long ago you would have had to get a plane to the UK and queue up in the Post Office with all the other old gits. I remember working out that Tuesdays and Thursdays was pension day in St Clears by the numbers of old twats performing unbelievable car stunts at 10mph and trying to kill or inconvenience me in their search for a big enough parking space near the post office/bank. They all had nearly new small Fords, travelled in married pairs and I suspect were retired English folk rather than local born.

My plastic handlebar cruise control thingie....hated it with a passion at first but i wouldn't be without it now.

I thing "badger" must have very different connotations here...

you fucking idiots... Badgers parade yesterday, been busy

Teignmouth is a lovely place, also there are loads of great trails just outside the village

I enjoyed it, tasted like cod to me and I did eat the 'narna' to show willing in front of my young son. I looked it up to see how to spell Scabbard for my last post. I already knew it looked awful in the flesh after seeing one in the fish market in Funchal, looks only a mother could love and a face for radio etc. The health risks were new to me. Toxic metals is pretty standard for most fish these days, it's the parasites that are only removable by surgery if eaten undercooked is the one that frightened me. Despite having huge market value and a strong hold in the typical Southern European diet, several health risks are associated with consumption of the black scabbardish due to the presence of several toxic metals found within the fish, including lead, mercury, and cadmium. Even in very small quantities, these metals can be deadly to humans if consumed. However, according to standards set by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization, as long as the liver is not consumed, no real health risks exist in consuming the black scabbardish in moderation. The levels of toxic metals found in the fish were: Liver: between 2.37 mg/kg and 4.5 mg/kg of mercury found Skin: between 0.36 mg/kg and 0.59 mg/kg of mercury found 0.11 mg/kg of cadmium found Muscle: 0.9 mg/kg mercury found, 0.09 mg/kg maximum cadmium levels found In every sample, the lead found was less than 0.10 mg/kg.[15] Black scabbardfish are known hosts to Anisakis. Eating raw or undercooked black scabbardfish could result in a parasitic infection known as anisakiasis, and the only way this condition can be treated is by removal of the nematodes through endoscopy, or surgery.

I remember back 50 years ago when I was learning to ride on my Vespa, and my enthusiasm outweighed my ability and experience! So I kept binning it. And my worry was that I'd still be doing that 50 years later! You know....like I'd still be completely inept and not know WTF I was doing. But now I don't have to worry.......cos you're doing it for me Dave!

Real men eat cheeseburgers.

WTF do you like?

No it had tomatoes in it i cant stand them but for some reason i like tomato ketchup

Ahh but i like spaghetti but with tomato ketchup on it

try it with chips Pedro you might be suitably impressed

A short wander around WWT Llanelli, it was cut short cos my fekin' back was killing me Anyway, some duck and stuff, oddly for November in Wales there were Bees, Butterflies and Dragonflys as well as Lilly flowers Green Plover aka Peewit aka Lapwing Carrion Crow - Corvus Corone Female Tufted Duck Male and Female Gadwall Young Mute Swan Common Darter Oakmoss - Evernia prunastri Speckled Wood Buttefly Male Gadwall Lilly flower Common Darter - Sympetrum striolatum Arty Farty Grassy Arty Farty Leaves Aty Farty Wetland Grassy Arty Farty Bullrush - Typha angustifolia Female Greenfinch - too many lost to bumble foot Arty Farty Wetland shot Fekin Tufted Ducks everywhere (Coot in the background)

no afraid not but its a coastal town there used to be a steam packet ferry running from there to the isle of man but not for a long time a few years ago they tried to reinstate it but it didn't happen and the fishing industry is in the decline there too not many fishing boats left but plenty of caffee's and a large indoor market

Went out for a drink to Porto, haven't done that in ages on a saturday night but a friend was staying overnight there while bringing his new car from Germany to Lisbon and me and my brother had to look at the amazing new set of wheels. This turned into a later night than I was expecting so it was a struggle to leave the house by 9:30 or 10, I was set on taking the long scenic route to my home instead of the motorway, and I did. A short 30 or 40 minutes on the motorway to get going and then off in search of twisty roads. I took few pictures at first, it was too cold for me to feel like stopping and taking the warm gloves off and go for the phone which was inside my jacket. First stop was for lunch at a small rural cafe on the N2, Portugal's longest road A bowl of hot vegetable soup to warm up, it hit the spot before a pork sandwich Two other customers showed up for a taste of my sandwich Not a bad view, the whole time I was there I think only two bikes passed, and two cars both arriving to the cafe, very quiet for a sunny sunday. I think both the MotoGP and the cold morning stopped people from getting out. Better for me! A while later, a brief stop for a picture stopped over a dam Later still, stopped by Portugal's geodetic center, in Vila D'El Rei On some of the smaller parts of the N2, stopped for a short walk on the Penedo Furado viewpoint. I was going south and it warmed up a little in the afternoon, suddenly no more cold. Back on the road And no more pictures, sun was starting to go down so pressed on home, perfect winter weather today!

@Grasshopper's Ride thinks this one is creepy......