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Well 7 am... On the cool side.

Pockets are for:- Heart Pills Inhaler Spare truss Indigestion tablets Hay fever tablets The Observer Book of Polish insults Emergency Brasso bottle Emergency buffing cloth Spare emergency Brasso bottle Spare emergency buffing cloth Name and address written down in case he forgets who he is French Lesson cards for distribution around local phone booths (cash in hand) Bag of Werthers Originals (Grandad size extra large) Normal glasses Reading glasses Bi Focal glasses Spare reading glasses Teabag shop loyalty card with nearly all spaces stamped Castrol Oils loyalty card BMW Glee club membership card

I went down to Seron in Almeria today.......first proper run I've had on this bike. Were there problems with it? Read through to the end and I'll tell you. A bit of background: This station existed in the Spanish municipality of Serón, in the province of Almería, belonging to the now defunct Almanzora railway. Historically, the station had a certain importance due to the existence of a reserve of locomotives and its functions as an ore loading point. Its facilities were operational from 1894 up to 1984, when the line was permanently closed. In recent years it's been restored with much of the original railway infrastructure still maintained, while the main building itself is now a restaurant, along with additional buildings for childrens' activities. As regards the bike.....it didn't miss a beat! No oil leaks and no ABS warning light! Seems to be sorted as far as I can tell......fucking gutted aren't you now?

From my sett laying detail drawing, including my rogue dog turd I try and pop in most drawings.

Good thing i dint write that story up......my story...I;ve never shot at anything that wasnt shooting back. Just saying.

I’m not holding my breath, you only go 10 miles from home (weather permitting) of course

In total I suppose they add up to approx 40-45 kms. Some were closed for refurbishment and there were others I could have ridden. looks like it’s another soaking tomorrow 🌧

Just sent the rest of my bread back, turns out I had enough

I'm going on my boat trip on Sunday, the one to see the WW2 forts. A delightful trip on a summer's day or four and a half hours of chucking my guts up, who can tell? I visited Strange Dave last night. He has a new part time job. He shoots rabbits, squirrels and rats for pest control. His gun sight has a video function, so I got treated to many rodent deaths, they don't know when to give up when shot, I'll say that for them. One of his regular jobs is a warehouse full of old loaves of bread which gets chopped up to go into animal feed. The piles are swarming with rats at night, he said it's nearly made him turn vegetarian as the bread must be full of rats' piss. I watched the gunsight films of mass slaughter, all the rats have glowing eyes in the night scope.

So today was what you might call an adventure. I’ve been looking forward to riding the pave (cobbled) roads for three years now and they didn’t disappoint. The weather however was something else, when it rains in France it feckin rains, none of this namby pamby stuff. I’m sat in an Irish bar in Compiegne now having a couple of pints of Guinness

Just pulled over for the night... Its to dam hot.. Over 30 c... Few pics from the morning.. Met Pete along the way he was just standing there with a pole up his ass..

That reminded me of a story an old friend of mine told me, when he was an apprentice he used to have marmite on toast for breakfast in work everyday but somebody else was helping themselves to his marmite and when complained they all took the piss out of him, so he got pissed off one day and picked up all the dead flies he could find in the cabin and mushed them up in his jar of marmite the marmite was getting used and he kept up the moaning about it so whoever it was would still think it was funny and would carry on using it

Ahh, the IKEA home assembly road kit!

and...the num,ber one reason for pockets? Pocket pool of course, oi why are texans always happy? Long thumbs.

You forgot dago midget sex club membership card

I'll model it for you when I get it!

Your fine then , right on the border of Dorset. watch out for the women with 6 fingers

I gave him a call earlier, a lot will depend on the weather but he’s also busy. Hopefully I may be able to meet him at work sometime around lunchtime tomorrow

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Nice 1 Pete.... Wish I had your writing skills...

Not if your buddies are going to be there.

Love this if I'm driving.

Did you get bummed?

Got back from feeding the baby seagulls, when i got to the beach there were 20 women doing yoga poses, how kind to see those butts like that thank you. Bobs in France he doesnt need pics of this kinda chit.

It's a shame you didn't get the Vario topbox with the bike. It's very cool because it folds smaller like the sidecases do, so it doesn't look as monstrous as that thing you carry around

Yeh.....early 2020 on the Strom!

Nice place, I think you posted another ride there a long time ago now? It's such a waste when buildings with so much character just go unused and decay, even if it's for restaurants it's good they have life in them.

It's a Via Verde Dave......green way. Cycling is allowed on there and you can ride through all the former stations on the line.

BMWs are never soreted dint you knwo..just spaces between services...lol

There's still time . I guess you're not allowed to ride the track now, cycle maybe?

Is that on one hand or both?

Fancy riding that road now I seen it. Excellent Bob.

Refurbishment of cobblestone roads… that’s so first world compared to Portugal!

will do thanks for the warning

Where in Wiltshire? I need to put out a scroate alert

Has it got enough external pockets?

I can feel a Ride report coming on for tomorrow!

Your confusing me with some one with money …. this is a freebie clive .. get in

you only live once , do what you can while you can .

Mrs cousin owns a pub in Wiltshire , mother in law coming with us …. cousin said I can put bike in her garage , so while they are doing what ever I’m out on bike …

So last weekend I headed to Llangollen with 600 of my fellow HDRCGB members for the International rally. It was a 552 mile round trip a lot of which was done on the M6 due to weather on travel days. On the camping days the sun blazed and much beer was imbibed. Met some old friends and made some new ones, used my new tent and had a great relaxing weekend.

Broccoli with almost caramelized garlic, and free range eggs from down the street, great eggs: My version of what you call a plowman's lunch Some great olives, good tomatoes and amazing olive oil, and a southern portuguese salad turns into something great Sofia's lamb ragu, frozen and gifted to me. I used it on some fusilli instead of the pie it was meant to Simple and old school rustic, onion and tuna pasta, extra creamy from the jumping I'm perfecting with my italian pan

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