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Happy October Everyone This time of year works well for me. I can get up early enough for sunrises and I’m still awake for the sunsets!

I haven't been here since my son was small. All I recall is that the fish and chip shop was famous for its quality and we had been told to try it if we ever went there. Unfortunately the rest of East Anglia also wanted some. The queue was hundreds of yards long, it actually crossed side streets. Once we had queued for 45 minutes, I was all for giving up, but my other half insisted that we keep going. Eventually we got inside and bought our fish and chips. I'll give them their due, they had customers stretching to the next county but they had not put their prices up or taken on extra staff, they just got on with it like they were unpopular. Once we had our hard won food we walked through the alley to the beach to eat them. That was when I discovered that people would come up to you and offer to buy them off you for double the normal cost rather then join the queue. I refused a few offers and scoffed the lot.

I took a picture of a front door just off the beach because I noticed they were ready for a flood. The Martello tower was surprise, I never saw that last time I was there.

Taken today, whilst being rugged and individual (no one wanted to come with me either).

NOW, this is a benchmark on one end of the Moot Hall. Used when measuring levels/surveying. The Ordnance Survey used to place them on public buildings, bridges, retaining walls, police stations, anywhere they thought was unlikely to change. I put a 50p in it for some of the pictures, that is how we used to use them. You extend your measuring staff and place the foot of it on the sticking out coin. The height of the bench mark will be shown on the large scale OS plan, or you can get it from a reference book. Your telescope is set up on a tripod somewhere close by and it is carefully levelled using the two bubbles and two adjusters. Because it is level now, wherever you look the cross hairs will point at stuff at the same height above sea level. By reading the number on the measuring staff and adding it to the benchmark height you get the height of your telescope. Now where ever you put the staff on the ground, you look through the telescope and read the measurement where the cross hairs are, to the nearest millimetre. Subtract the height of the telescope from the reading on the staff and you have the ground level. The last picture is a sign in a built in seat at the other end of the Moot Hall.

The Moot Hall. If you absolutely need to have a moot, then this is the place to have one. You can moot away and no one will think badly of you, as long as you clean up after yourself. Model boating lake according to the map and looks like one man is about to have a go. He'd be better of just having a moot instead. B

I wanted to go and get some pics of the Lac des Settons which is one of the feeder reservoirs for the canal which they've completely drained for the ten yearly inspection of the dam, but the weather is crap. I might try tomorrow but doesn't look much better.

He misses the mass shower at the end of a game

Remember these fucking awful things? If you wanted to feel any heat you'd end up getting burnt! What haven't you got now?

Most of you seem incapable of stepping up to the plate and delivering Ride Reports of a standard befitting an elite establishment like this. You need to understand that a couple of pics of you languishing in a tent in a fucking field are not exactly the stuff that dreams are made of! It doesn't put bums on seats and it doesn't attract new members! But this sort of shit does....... Great conditions.......temps early 20's! All rural location, and I can confirm that no other bike I've had is better suited to this type of stuff than the CB. Abandoned cave houses built into the hillside. As much as I love abandoned shit I draw the line if it involves walking or climbing. This one's interesting......built into a vertical rock face. View across the valley.... You blowhards can only dream of doing shit like this....... Now doesn't all this inspire you Casuals to get off your fucking asses?

…..a house to put stuff in

Cos you're a fucking smelly cunt that's why!

They do tht Stateside its nothing but dead hookers everywhere.

50p gas meter , my dad painted ours red and told me it was a money box

I was asked to do a 3D drawing of a street a few years ago by the woman in charge of us at the time. I reminded her that although she promised to refund me my money if I paid for it and did a course in my own time back in 2004, she had gone back on her word when I asked for the repayment. I said seeing as I had paid for the course and done it in my own time she would have to pay me as a consultant if she wanted it done. She changed her mind.

Waiting for your Ride Report now Marcel......do you have it handy?

Fuck......Yen will be getting a Harley next! What you make of this @Six30?

Fear not the day this time of year its at night that evil roams, trick or treat!

No one wanted to go with him?

Those downpipes look dirty, there that should give you something to do for the next few hours

Read it and weep!

yeah but this is rance Tym, there's just so much more class here, it'll be all sunken villages and romantic lost churches.... or mud and dead sheep

Ian's reminents are passing through today, great name for a storm that was a complete asshole.

You'd be very fucking hungry if you were married to an Italian and you didn't like tomatoes , just saying .......................

He only does 'mange'

Now THAT is a good photograph. Not just the dog, all those trees with the mist and sunlight between them. Pet of the Month picture, (not Pete of the Month picture).

Lol, they're my boots. The sun was shining in through the garage door this morning to emphasise the fact that I need to clean them

I can't stand tomatoes but the fried bread is a winner

It's outdated now, they have devices that pick up a point, tell you how high it is and you code it so it can be converted into an AutoCAD drawing, the measuring staff is replaced by a stick with a prism on top. I still use the old fashioned method myself on small jobs if required. All I need is a 'boy' with a bit of sense to hold the measuring staff vertically in the right place. You'd be amazed at how difficult some youngsters find that. They slouch, or lean in a particular direction or start looking at their phone instead of paying attention. I pay outside companies to do the big surveys now. We had our own in house bloke, but he either never had anyone to help him (minimum 2 man job), his batteries would pack up, or he wouldn't go out in the rain. He now works for me as a CAD draughtsman instead until he retires.

Like you I haven't been there for a good few years, unlike you I've never got to the chippy bar, can never wait that long.

I don't listen to or read the news much but the one time i did last week i caught that they found human remains and may be Keith Bennetts but not sure yet

Its raining so i spent money on AmaZon, got a 500w pure sine wave inverter on a scratch and dent sale for Woody, and yellow flicker lights for the top.

Might still be working on the dam, i'll ask next week if i remember i'm meeting one of the engineers that was in control of the work there Tuesday

No one has the bottle to come with me is the reality of it Yen!

You'll need to come out with me to these places Bob,,,,,,then you'd understand.

So tell me, what part of this debacle actually involves 'Rugged Individualism'

If you live in rance then presumably I live in pain?

I love the look and idea of fried bread. I enjoy eating the fried bread, but oddly I feel bad half way through eating the fried bread, sort of guilty. Nothing else fried does the same to me for some weird reason. Didn't used to like tomatoes when I was younger, gradually came around to fresh ones by my mid 20s, and now I like baked tomatoes as well. Tastes have definitely changed for quite a few things as I got older.

I voted for @yen_powell because he´s one of the forum´s best contributers, a cool guy with a cool bike, and someone on their bike waving to the camera is always a nice picture. My picture was better though, how come you don't like a sandy trail through a pine forest with a high clearance GS and blue skies is beyond me

I'm Popeye the sailor man, I lives in a caravan, There's a hole in the middle, through which I piddle, I'm Popeye the sailor man. At least that was how we sang it in the school playground.

Burry Port Lighthouse

I’m on coast again and plan to do some 4x4 backroad adventuring today. Looking for some lakes to paddle and maybe some cool camp spots as we have a few weeks before we settle down for the winter. Woke up to a beautiful sunrise which was a lovely start to the day. Have a fun weekend everyone.

You have rain gutters on that behemoth