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One of many bees enjoying the rosemary in my garden

Just preordered this magazine subscription- just to keep ahead of the curve as far as computer/tech goes. Bit of a wait but hey ho… something to look forward to.

Sneak preview of @Mawsley's upcoming Ride Report! What you reckon @Clive?

I always say to some of the boys in work if you lot had the cane a few times in school you wouldn't be the cocks you are now

God bless ya. My school was terrible. I will always remember when the lights went down for a slide show in a physics class some of the boys in my class were hawking up phlegm on to the ends of their (shatterproof) plastic rulers and twanging it across the room in the dark. Fucking animals some of them were. Similar stuff was going on all the time. Our music teacher could make a kid shit themselves in fear if he turned his attention on you, the bloke was a bloody midget mind you, which gives some idea of his personality when he could still dominate a room of the scum in my own class. He also taught Judo and Karate after school and had a reputation for battering anyone he thought was not paying attention. I came home one day in my first year after a music lesson where we all had to play the poxy recorder. If you don't put your thumb under the hole at the bottom properly you get a squealing noise. Someone out our 30 pupils was doing it so he made each person play the first few notes on our own so he could give the guilty one a slap. I was terrified because I think it was me, but couldn't tell properly with everyone else playing at the same time. I got my notes out okay which was a relief. I told my dad about a scary teacher called Mr Thacker and he laughed at me and said, "Do you mean Lionel?" My dad was one of the school caretakers during my first few years there.

Wow, not sure I'd have the courage to just sell up and go. I too would be very grateful for a small view into your adventure. Best wishes to you both and hope it's everything and more than you expect.

It's Indian rust!

You're clearly doing things right Nothing sadder than pristine dirt bike, really. ...at least that's what I'll tell myself when I bin it for the first time

It's a great weight off my mind.

I didn't want to point out a mistake in one of @yen_powell's threads, felt I´d be accused of being a twat, but sure am happy it´s gone

The honey I like the most is made by a farmer in my village, with a lot of rosemary pollen, I like to think some of his bees visit my plants.

Wow, I have some very similar photos @Pedro from when I got my first i-phone and I was experimenting with it..........

now sold thanks

I think of these as the chinooks of the bee world

I wish all the best, please keep us in the loop with your adventures

Do me a favour Pete, can you swap the O and U around in the thread title. I have spelt it incorrectly (I have a real blind spot with that word) and it is winding me up. I have made direction signs to the place and even then I had to check on a map and in a dictionary before sending the drawings off to the sign makers. This is the result of an English Comprehensive education at a rough school.

I expect some flunky is screwing on a gold plated toilet seat as I type.

but that does not take much doing

It is now obvious to me that the royal family read this forum, they are starting to use it as a sort of tourist guide for outings. So, a warning, no big ear jokes. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10472235/Kate-Middleton-Prince-Charles-Camilla-visit-Trinity-Buoy-Wharf.html

@Grasshopper's Ride sounds a proper adventure , wish you and your other half all the best , lifes to short not to do stuff.

That first scratch is easy to get but hard to accept, i spent yesterday blowing a large dent out of my exhaust and welding on a new mounting bracket on a bike that's 5 months old

Enjoyed a beautiful sunrise this morning. There is something very fulfilling about starting your day with the sun.

On the way back, the only picture stop of the day

Maria’s 37th birthday on monday, I decided to celebrate with a visit to her favourite nice restaurant in the area, where we had her last four years ago. put my fashionable leather jacket for the ride and all Tournedos with pepper sauce

Stopping to call a restaurant and booking a table for lunch. Quite windy, too

so whats going on here then tym...

It use to seem the same when I working, Monday to Friday ......weekend...shite.

Very nice, look how shiny and new it all is

it rained all night here and still doesnt look that safe now

9c and dry here but i'm too hungover to go anywhere

Pyromainia your new calling? Warmer than sea swimming.

And it rained again early this morning! Just sick of this shit!

more a sign of climate change going insane...

Just home after dinner with the neighbors. They treat me well, I left the air conditioning on to keep the place warm for my return, but the dates are setting in and becoming heavy. Tomorrow I shall find a reason for a short ride somewhere, and spend the rest of the day just enjoying the quiet.

Mate of mine in Norwich sill navigates by cafes and pubs he was banned from in the late 70's cos he was a biker troublemaker

I sort of liked being a young outcast from society though. I hate being perceived as an old white haired grandfather!

Only place that bikers could go for food and drink in the 70,s around here was The White Post cafe, and only in the evening, or late at night. One other cafe near by, but that was slightly upmarket, sign on door "No bikes or scooters"

We haven't had as much rain as we need for the crops.....but when it has rained it's always been on the weekends! Like last Wednesday it was 22C and not a cloud in the sky, but I was working. Most of this Winter the problem has been the cold......some days temps didn't get above 4C in the day.

I seem to be having an existential crisis in my reading habits and in some odd spirit of escapism am re reading the books I read as a child which all seem to be pre war or inter war adventure stories. All a little bit "Jeeves and Wooster" but mostly very well written. I haven't got desperate enough to re read my old copies of " Jennings" or " Biggles" but I just finished John Buchan's "The thirty nine steps" and have now started "The riddle of the sands" by Erskine Childers.