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She was a great reader. She used to say she was taught to read at home before going to school and won a prize, a copy of Alice Through The Looking Glass, for some reading or writing feat at infants school. One of the things kept from my parents' house was a ratty old home made book case. I was all set to chuck it (it needs small wedges under the front to make it stand upright). Then I found a few old diaries where my mum had written out old stories and memories. When she was little my nan and grandad divorced and she said the best present her dad ever got her was building her a book case for her paperback books.

Saliva is shorting my keyboard.

What kind of knob jockey would buy a Himalayan when they could get one of these? Oh yeah…….

Listening to a radio yesterday and the Electric car mob not happy … because of all the revenue the government is going to lose when petrol and diesel is no more they need to get this from somewhere else so …. They are on about charging electric cars per mile who saw this coming

Someone pass the chocolate.

When life gives you lemons... Make lemon merengue pie! My new flatmate suggested I should do something with the big box of lemons a customer gave me, so I asked her what she liked made with lemons, and she said Lemon Merengue Pie, with real lemon curd! Immediately I looked for a recipe to attempt this delight I have never made before, none of its components actually! Decided to go with a recipe from Jamie Oliver and proceeded to do it in reverse order of the proper protocol as I normally do and also like normal, I got lucky and the curd set well and the pastry came out good and the Italian merengue was just about perfect! Very much helped by the eggs from another customer that gives me lots of them from her very well cared for chickens!! May all these Northern Europeans coming here in search of "The Good Life" find me and give me their produce!! The whole thing has been a journey of discovery for me and to finish it off had to use a kitchen lighter to try to burn the tips of the merengue, so really not the prettiest of results... We haven't tried it yet, will be super excited when we do, because this things has been 2 days in the making!! More pictures tomorrow of the unveiling and eating!! Sorry @Pedro for hijacking your thread, specially when you are not here and are not going to eat any of this!!

Say what you will butt....internal combustion doesnt do this move well... ...

Said no woman ever.

That's realistic as far as I'm concerned!

Managing people who do mining and making sure they don't do stupid shit. Which is apparently important but difficult...

However, there's a point to be made regarding public health about moving car pollution away from crowded places and into electricity production locations. I agree with what you're saying, though.

I'm not against electric vehicles per se, but the electricity has to come from somewhere and, unless it's from renewable sources, it's not as green as is being suggested.

That's a load of bollocks

The French are demanding a sworn statement where you declare you are symptom free plus fully vaccinated. And they are happy to view the nhs app for proof. We are using the tunnel so these checks are done by French officials on the UK side of the channel. And that’s it. We are passing through France, Belgium and Luxembourg and stopping for an overnight in Germany on the Saturday. Then down to Austria on the Sunday. There are no restrictions in force for campsites in Germany, Austria and France. I haven’t checked Italy or Slovenia yet.. but it’s unlikely and we probably won’t camp there anyway. This is likely to be my last year touring as a UK citizen as I’m getting a new EU passport for next year.

We are very clever when it comes to killing each other.

Too awesome! Thanks mate! Woa it's real, I'm in print. Unbelievable.

You all might want to brush up on how these work.

The number of people that get totally switched off reading by school is shameful. Terrible system more akin to dog obedience training than teaching the joys of learning. Nevermind some egomaniacal expert/politician will be along shortly to insist on another ill conceived change.. and people will just go along with it Just as well your mum was paying attention wasn't it.

I love how they 'test' these dirt bikes in bone dry conditions. They need to see how they'd get on in some of the shite we ride in What you say @Sir Fallsalot

I gather Muggins , i mean @XTreme is paying the rent .... just tell the bitch , its all going in your name so she is responsible .

they're probably in California, so can't blame them for that really

thing is you can still pollute .... if you pay to do so its all good its just a multi million pound money making scam , if they really dont to pollute cites , just ban cars completely , sorted . did i say that twat of a mayor of London is a cunt .

Gay

Like Leonardo Da Vinci https://www.openculture.com/2017/11/why-did-leonardo-da-vinci-write-backwards-a-look-into-the-ultimate-renaissance-mans-mirror-writing.html

I’m Irish by birth though not by upbringing.

Probably not now, he's been conditioned out of it over the years, but it used to make me laugh when he'd done it because he couldn't see it until it was pointed out to him!

Can he still do that at will, write both ways? That is a cool skill!

A good and valid point @Pedro. My mum was moaning to me on the phone the other night about the proposal to extend the London ULEZ out to near where she lives.........and she doesn't even drive! I remember working in and around Central London years back and breathing in all that diesel soot all day. We had Medical Diagnostic instruments in several London Hospitals and they all needed the optics cleaning much more frequently than those located in rural locations. Even in climate controlled laboratories the optics would get a fine grey film on them, which had to be cleaned off for the instrument to work correctly.

This sint fun trust me.

What about in the European side? No policies regarding brits? I ask because I find it funny that everyone I hear always talks about what the UK demands of people going back instead of what Europe demands of people coming over.

Really, I’ve looked everywhere around the engine and hidden places for a dead bird or something like that, and there’s none, there’s no ants around the bike, but still they keep popping up … What the fuck, is there a hidden ant colony on my bike? Stay tuned… I sprayed ant killer on the center stand, but that might just make them not want to leave

Go and visit the DBM’s , I’m sure they offer you an ‘arrangement’

no they move quite slowly... i crease me up sometimes.

main problem is the amount of tax on the bloody stuff and as it's all percentage based, the higher the price the more money the govt makes out of it. I dunno how true this is but I read lest week that if a litre of petrol is 2€ then 1€60 of that is govt tax...

At the moment other countries still want their version of the PLF filled out before they'll let you in so you would have to do the French version to get on the chunnel/ferry to France. By June hopefully more will have dropped the requirement. Its the PLF to get into the UK thats been dropped. So you won't have any hassle getting back in. That might seem minor but the return journey is more stressful if you if you dont have access to a printer and are relying on finding things on your phone which tech being what it is always lets you down when there's a massive queue and you need it most On my first return (when all restrictions were in place) I had used the government website to get proof of vaccination QR codes but then for the return journey I needed to use the app which involved facial scanning and passports pics. I then got an email saying thankyou for your application it can take up to 48hrs to varify your account. My flight was only 24 hours away, that wasn't much of a laugh! So yer hopefully all heading in the right direction.

I missed this. From the govt website- “From 4am Friday 18 March, all COVID-19 travel restrictions will be lifted, including the passenger locator form (PLF) for arrivals into UK, as well as all tests for passengers who do not qualify as vaccinated. This change, therefore, removes the need for unvaccinated passengers to take a pre-departure test and a day 2 post arrival test.“ Whoop whoop one less bit of shitty covid related paperwork to fill in

Can you picture what 50 ants say to each other when they're traveling at 130kmh on a motorway?

Have to add, our daughters husband who is 38, he too can't drive, or put up curtain rails, fit a toilet seat, wire a plug, and the tit is forever falling off his mountain bike.

It is the same with my son, he is nearly 41, never had a licence, and has never shown any interest in driving. My daughter, total opposite, took driving lessons and took her driving test as soon as she possibly could.

My wife held a provisional licence for 1 year, rode her little Yamaha Passola 50cc for 1 week, till a lorry forced her into a roadside ditch, never rode again, and she has never attempted to drive a car........call me Parker.

Better still, if you want to really punish Russians then make it so that the only bikes for sale there are Kawasakis, except the pretty 900 retro one.

Russians when every maker stop sending bikes: “ok, we can cope” Russians when BMW, the most cold hearted car and motorcycle company announces there are no more GSs to Russia: “shit got real, let’s” put Putin down! Meanwhile, Ducati:”well, if no other (ironically Berliner or Austrian) makers are selling bikes there, let’s just increase prices and announce our trust in diplomacy