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15 quid for a fucking puncture.....

There were some big chunks of wood lying about showing the size of the some of the trees they had to cut down, my boot is for comparison ............. It was time for another coffee so I sat on a bench, it was great vista and very quiet which suited the surroundings................ Suitably refreshed I made an assault up the the tower, you can see why this castle was built here as from the top you get a 360 degree view of the surrounding countryside.......... It was a pleasant journey back home as well down some lovely back roads made all the better by the fact that I managed to dodge several big showers and arrived home dry

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, we're rich compared to how the kids of today will have it when they reach our ages. Some of the poor sods will be working until they're 85 the way things are going .

Im not convinced there wont be. It takes time for the effects to be felt. It has to start damaging the very basic needs of food, shelter, warmth (thats considered to be clothing btw) and safety. Once enough people are in debt because they cant keep up with the repayments, repossession start, homelessness increases, death by hypothermia goes up and enough ordinary working people are in the same shitty boat thats when the anger starts feeding off itself and expands to riot level. If the government doesn’t respond swiftly with measures that salve before that point (chuck a few crumbs in the way of the peasants) then I wouldnt be at all surprised if it turns into riot level anger. Its not just pensioners who cant afford this, its the majority of the country- many that’ll be lucky to see any pension at all and they know it so its all fuel into to fire. Sadly the government is aware that they only need to behave and throw some money about 1 year before an election (they literally save up for this point) and then the twats will vote for their team again regardless.

Its Bollox , every fucker is taking the piss, just went to get a puncture fixed on a car , always been a tenner , tried charging me £15 , ( best Romanian accent ) “prices gone up boss” ….. fuck off

When I was out last year near Arthur's Stone I thought I glimpsed a castle through the trees on my way there. I got back home and did some investigation and found out it was called Snodhill castle and had only recently been 'discovered' , I'm sure the locals always knew it was there but some bods had taken it upon themselves to reveal it to one and all. So as I couldn't go off camping I decided to go and have a look. My route took me past White Castle on the way and there is a 'White Road' near it (we call them white roads as that's how they appear on OS maps). I had tried to ride this previously from the castle end but was questioned by some walkers who told me it was a footpath. Today I rode it from the bottom end and as I suspected it is most likely not a footpath at all but a UCR (unclassified county road). You can clearly see the old tarmac surface in places but it seems that someone definitely doesn't want vehicles on it as I came across some cut down trees which had been conviniently left across the road Anyway, I carried on and stopped at White castle to have a coffee from my flask.......... The weatherman had got it wrong as it was supposed to be overcast but there was some glorious sunshine, here's the donkey basking in a rape seed field................ So after finishing my coffee and watching the Ravens flying about the castle I set off for Snodhill. It was a bit of a trek up to the castle and the sign at the bottom gave you some advice.................. I took the 'less slippery route ' as I wanted to actually get to the top. You can see that the trust has done a lot of work to reveal the castle on some very dodgy ground...............

It feckin amazes me as well Bob, it amazes me that Joe Public get taken in by their lies. It's one of the reasons I gave up being a union official years ago, you're rowing against the tide as nobody stands together. Divide and conquer politics still rule PS. sorry about the politics

My wife does not get full pension, but seem unable to find out why......she did have some time off work when she had our 2 kids, but not off work for long, and never been out of work. My attendance allowance made up for her shortfall, and if had not been for that one eyed Scotchman (Gordon Brown) my pit pension would have been alot more than I get now.

It’s definitely not good @Clive, we certainly got stitched up with our pension wives losing 6 years of original payments, bastard government wankers are all rolling in money while we struggle .

We will have to cut down somewhere.......scoot fine at the moment, taxed, insured and has a MOT till September, so if I don't use it it not a drain on finances. Car we need with my wife being semi disabled, pay the VED monthly same with the insurance, only use it when necessary, shopping or our once weekly trip to the inlaws.... But where can we cut back? That's million dollar question. Scottish Power want us to set up a DD for £150 per month , our past monthly bills were about £70 in winter, and only about £35 to £45 in the warmer months.. I suppose there are many in a worse situation than us.

Weather's decent enough here.....at last! However......I've got a shitload of work to do to grab as much dosh in as fast as possible because of my boy getting here in 9 days! And we've still got to get loads of shit for them from the shops. Hopefully I'll be able to get out for an hour Sunday! I hope! What about you lot?

can we move all this into the Politics thread i started .... lets have some order on here ... ORDER ORDER !!

I agree Bob. one of the things i think is going to hit this generation the most is when they realise what they think is essential is just luxury , There's lads i work with that pay £50 a month for mobile phones that they think they must have, great when they live with their parents their in for a real shock when they eventually get to the real world, i remember when i first moved in with the wife (girlfriend then) i went through a stage of choosing to put fuel in the bike to get to work instead of buying an electric token for the meter towards the end of the week

Well said.

I did not vote for it, so I can't complain, so iam told.

Think back 30 years to the Poll Tax riots......why aren't we seeing civil disobedience on the streets by now?

I’ve been doing that for years @Tym.

Glad the scoots safe for the moment. How much does insurance tax and MOT for it cost? I’m guessing it’s not overpowered so is in the lower tax band? When you take into account that the bastards in charge of us can claim £5,480 in expenses for utility bills for their own homes and have no clue about what freezing is like it’s hard not to be savage we’re literally paying their bills as well as their wages. When peoples reservoirs and credit lines have completely dried up if they don’t respond it’s going to get nasty. Hope your wife can squeeze some money from somewhere

Has i have (I think ) said before, my father in law told me about 1980 to buy a ticket to somewhere/anywhere out of this country........ I should have heeded his advice.

Become a viking, rape pillage and steal for a living.

I think they were hoping Covid would do that........just where do they think the average pensioner is going to find this extra money from for gas, electric, food, petrol and council tax rises.....wife is still crunching the numbers.

Our generation has been thrown overboard Clive......they'd be happy to kill us all off!

She should yeh , greedy cunts

That's fecking clever in my book

Yes, it wasn't too bad Pete , there was a bit of coughing and spluttering but the surroundings were really encouraging

A photo from my piss stop on the way back to the Hotel Last night

BMW should make a modern copy using a GS with the big twin motor 2wd sidecar whoo hoo hold my beer.

Does it have a doohickey........................... asking for a friend

row your boat

Tym said his ammo is worth a fortune.

I saw a bit an interview of Jacob Rees Mogg being "interviewed" by Nick Ferrari on LBC during the week and he was spouting all sorts of bollocks, completely unchallenged by the "interviewer"! People hear a cunt with a plummy voice coming out with this shit and accept it as fact! Serf mentality!

We are a roll over and let em shaft us society now.........people complain about things, stamp their feet, then carry on in the same old way.

Checkmate then Bob! They've voted to lose all their rights and be incarcerated there for ever! But they knew what they were voting for.

My mum isn't on the full state pension, so she gets a little bit of pension credit, but she's worried about the cost of everything rising. My brother had to give up work to care for his missus, as she's got a form of alzheimers, but he don't get a lot of money from the state, so he's struggling too. It's hard to see how people on lower incomes will survive! The country has been run into the ground, but people will still vote for the shysters. There seems to be no appreciation of Cause and Effect with the general public! Why so many vote against their own best interests bewilders me!

Yeah my wife will only get a small pension, plus with all the alterations to the scheme mine won’t be a full one either, I worked mine out before I finished work on the old pension but now that has gone down.

You know, I think back to 2005 when we got out, and realise that we really dodged the bullet. Don't get me wrong.......we've never regretted leaving. But looking at the position we'd now be in if we hadn't, it makes us think how lucky we were to get away. Cos now, nobody but the ultra rich are going to get away.

Absolutely......it's a disgrace that the people lower than you on the social scale are making a couple of quid. Meanwhile, while you lot focus on them this is what's really going on...... And they're both US residents paying no tax here!

That sucks Clive. I thought you were already careful with your dosh, what else can you do?

Yeh a bit, trying to sort out our finances now that everything seems to have rocketed up in price.......made a big dent in our income.....having to rethink things for the future.

You sound down Clive?

Same old.....same old.

Im shopping for seat covers for the 325e.