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A little rough play with Costa, followed by chilling with a glass of wine outside don’t know if I’ll ride on the weekend, but I will for sure go on a few days on the bike not long from now, maybe next weekend.

This’ll do

Waiting for a ferry right now, heading off the Coast again with Mom in the backseat. Heading North again! Will be a fun day of driving mountain roads! Have a great weekend everyone.

Indian banquet and cocktails this evening. Doing Lamb Bhuna, King Prawn Korma, Aloo Gobi (the cauliflower and potato version), Bhaji rice, Poppadoms with chutney, raita n red onion and peshwari naans. Although I confess I’m not making the naans. Long Island Iced Tea for the crowd (G&T for me) and Screaming Orgasm for after. The cocktail that is

….ok, I’m actually excited for you, the GoPro10 is a lot of fun. I have enjoyed mine. Just a side note, 2.7k is still great footage and a lot less on storage space compared to 4K. The linear setting is also nice, unless you like to make things look a bit wide and slightly distorted, which could be your thing….

Found this today, it’s called Coral Fungus….very interesting

Sounds kind of iffy, dude. Be safe. By safe, I mean take protection. By protection, I hope you know what I mean. It's not knee pads, well, not just knee pads....

While I was waiting for Costa to have a good sniff and make up his mind about having a poop or not, I took a couple of pictures dedicated to @yen_powell, of my local cemitery on a dewy night. The crossed bones above the gates have always seemed kind of weird to me.

Looks like we are having a good weekend weather wise not sure what i'm doing yet might be at a bike do Saturday night and sleep in the marmite wagon again got to see what the missus wants to do as i don't care either way Back in Rhyl and Prestatyn next week with work fucking place is full of scousers on holiday

Not the tank leaking, petrol pipe perished, new pipe and clips fitted.....all good now.

Maybe @Grasshopper's Ride can lend a hand?

Though I am reporting that I rode somewhere 160 miles on my scooter to Southampton I had fitted my helmet with a Bluetooth thingy so I could listen to music and hear my satnat, fuck that, the ear pieces were a little snug at first, after an hour it felt like someone was crushing my head Still a ride with some pain is still tons better than driving Spoiled for choice of beds, here's the only pics I took

He has had it from brand new, he does ride it, but not very often as he has slight mobility issues, he calls it his baby....and he definitely does not need the money.

I suppose I should have a look at this thing then.

You drive the short bus now? Say hi to Bruce for me.

Website to finish tomorrow but hopefully get out for a ride at some point.

I may going to have a look at a friend's (well sort of a friend) Cruiser, A Yamaha I think it is....he says its pissing petrol from somewhere near the rear of the tank, but he can't find where the leak is.

So, this is one of the most delicious summery things you can have in Portugal. It's very similar to what they do in Italy except I prefer our version with coriander instead of parsley and no pasta. You can get fresh safe local clams in most Algarve markets, and these are delicious. They go from 10 to 15€/kilo in low season to a quick 25 to 35€ in high season, seasons change overnight apparently which annoys me deeply. Regardless, clams feed by filtration and get contaminated with whatever toxins are around at the time they're caught, this demands that they're caught when they should and where it's safe, which is why sometimes foreign smaller clams from vietnam or other places are safer, you're sacrificing a little flavor for safety though, plus they're way cheaper, usually less than half price. After getting your clams home you'll let them rest for a few hours in sea water, a good quality market will provide you with 5 or 10lt of sea water no problem, this is important because you will let them rest and breathe in that water to let out all the sand they're carrying inside. If you can't get sea water, use tap water and salt it, make it taste like the ocean and you should be ok, if it's got too little salt or too much you'll kill the clams and they're no good. It's important they get plenty of water though, I like to buy them after lunch and leave them be in cold water until dinner(add a couple of ice cubes if you're in a proper hot place). After a while inside the water, pick out the ones that are closed because they're dead. Before cooking drain out and rinse under the tap, if any are left open after rinsing, take them out because they're dead. Get a few garlic cloves, easily 5 to 8 nice fat fresh ones, smash them and slice them. I like to add half the garlic smashed and sliced, and half just smashed but almost whole. Get a fresh coriander bunch, and finely shop the stalks, and roughly shop the leaves. A lot of olive oil to cover the bottom of a pan and while cold put the garlic and coriander in. Resist adding butter, this is meant to taste like the ocean. Start at low to medium heat and simmer everything, before the garlic turns golden (you want cooked but soft fragrant white garlic) add the clams and close the lid. Let heat build for a moment, like a minute or so, and add a couple of glasses of nice room temperature white wine. Give it a few twirls and close the lid between them, it'll cook quickly, uncover and serve as soon as all clams are open. Don't let the clams cook a lot after they're open, they will become overcooked and rubbery shit. Serve with a nice quality heavy bread, Algarve and Alentejo bread is amazing for this, but a nice white sourdough ought to be nice. Toast it golden as you'll use it to soak up the delicious garlicky sauce. This is where you can use butter if you want to, by toasting the bread already buttered, it'll be more decadent, but give it a try without butter first, I promise it's delicious. Squeeze a little bit of lemon over right before eating, if you like, I do. For wine, you want a nice mineral citric sharp white for a classy meal. You can go rose if you want to have a lighter meal or are british, but don't cook with the rose. Top picture is Algarve clams, bigger and rougher, second picture is Vietnamese clams, smaller and smoother but way cheaper. Both delicious.

Despite the temps being a little bit milder....... ......I won't be leaving the house. Got to try and build a site as well.....but that's not going to be easy given the fucking state I'm in. So what are you lot doing?

I never implied it wasn't good. It's great, if you're 10 You're supposed to be a man's man, tall dude, cigars and whisky and a big Harley, and you're eating your burgers with children's bread? Do you stop that lovely big red Harley and chew on gummy bears on breaks, too?

I can get it why someone doesn't sell a bike like that, unless he needs the money. It's something he treasures.

His bike is a 22 years old XV1600 Wildstar....which he hardly rides, but he won't sell it he says. His his wife has a 2001 VT750dc., that she has not used for several years, which he is thinking of selling, his wife has given him permission to sell it.

Looks like i'm out on the bike tomorrow now got a man I've never met picking me up in a van in the morning and taking me up country for some riding

So there’s a step in the middle of the room then?

He seems to have a new venture selling sperm with Tym as his business partner...................

Getting a tat on a foot must be the highlight of waking up from being very very drunk.

You need a nice big bowl of cuttlefish eggs and spaniel brains, that will sort you right out. If you lucky you will get the cooked version as well.

Making me feel like puking again.

Don't know if you have them in Spain since you live in the mediterranean, but one of my favourite things to eat in the Algarve is "Conquilhas", it's a sort of tiny clam that's about the size of a big bean, don't know what they're called in english or castellano. Seen as more of a poor people's shellfish, hey're cheaper to buy but delicious when cooked the same way. You'll get a proper summery meal for way less money than rare expensive clams. This is what they look like. I prefer to buy complete prawns when I do get them. They're easy to clean and you get a better assurance that they're fresh, also the skins and stuff like that are what really flavors your final dish.

I phoned Heart FM today, to enter their mystery prize competition. The presenter answered and said, "Congratulations on being our first caller, all you need to do is answer the following question correctly, to win our Mystery Grand Star Prize.” "That Fantastic!" I called out in delight. "Feel Confident?" the presenter asked, "It's a Geography Question." "Well, I've got a degree in Geography from University," I proudly replied, "and I've taught Geography to A level students for the last 5 years" "Ok then, to win our grand prize of 2 VIP tickets to a Tory leadership hustings and to meet the two leadership candidates afterwards for afternoon tea, what is the capital of France?" "Bracknell", I replied.

Blatently pinched form other forums but with a twist. A photo you took today but it doesn't necessarily have to have a bike, it can be anything you like as long as it was today. So @XTreme , your Mange is not allowed in here................

Pedro thinks tiger bread is for children and retards, let’s find out.

I think its great Pedro, its a little vibey on the footrests but pretty smooth at constant throttle and will sit at 55mph on the road, does around 40mpg and can i just fill up at the pump without messing about with oil. Probably do about 150 to 200 miles before the low level light comes on for the two stroke oil but i just refill after every ride. I don't like the maintenance schedule but its a two stroke and to be expected on the plus side its easy to rebuild and i don't like oil pump as its electronic and scares me as it looks so fragile would have prefered a mechanical pump like the old DT's had years ago i carry a small bottle of oil as an emergency measure if the pump did fail, lots of people go back to premix but that defeats the reason i bought the bike being oil injected was the only reason considered buying it

I love white bread cant beat a fresh thick slice toasted and covered in real butter unfortunately for me its no good for diabetics

Perhaps not but @Six30 reckons he's got a huge bag of Haribos

No it's not, but you made me go look again

Its a mirror, now i know that's going to fuck with your mind

In the time between posting that and now I've checked the Beta over oiled the chain topped up the two stroke oil and changed the front and rear pads might have had another ride in them but didn't want to take the chance as i don't know how far we'll go tomorrow

I always wanted to ride a big Harley, this is going to be great!

They're idiots, do a marketing thing, tell client how AC in the winter works for both heating up while keeping glass nice and clear. Windows will clear twice as fast with AC.

Scaled back.

The intestine on one of the razor clam was sooo bulbous even Geremy Clarkson would have had second thoughts

What you say Bruce?

Hero 10 Black, I have gone for the dual battery charger and two enduro batteries as well.

What are you getting? You havnt said if its a 10 or a refurbished 3plus from the repo department.

Dady seagull doing a flyby as i got close to his rock.