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Sofia’s asian glaze spare ribs Pork and half caramelised onions, heavy on the garlic marinade, northern Portuguese style

You got a cold you tart

Back to the north of Portugal and my parents’ place today. sunny and high temperatures but felt proper cold after 16:00

My wife's family come from Napoli , Milan will be like a walk in the park compared to Napoli

Started my diet/healthy eating today .., no butter on my bacon, egg , mushroom and tomatoe sauce sandwich . my body is a temple

I am working at Stratton Hospital in Bude tonight and thought it would be a great idea to take my bike and get my first ride of 2023 in. Not the smartest choice, nothing like doing 42 miles in the dark through thick fog to give you that wtf am I doing moment. Never made it above 40mph cause I couldn’t see a fecking thing. To be honest it would have been no better on 4 wheels but at least I would have had a heater and radio. At least it will be dry for the ride home tomorrow morning

Croatia just moved up into the Eurozone. Turkey, Hungary and the Czech's are each trying to mov up one notch, we haven't got time to deal with whingeing drama Queens as well... You wanted out, made the whole thing as difficult and petty as possible fro everyone, now you can FUCK OFF! sorry, but it needs saying.

First cycle ride of 2023, although I should be out on one tomorrow too, all being well. Blew some of the cobwebs away!

I've been to Milan with work a few times. The first time was for an international engineering meeting for the company I worked for at the time. It started well, with our International business director, who had flown in from the European headquarters in Geneva. He got a taxi from the airport to the hotel, paid the driver and got out and walked to the back of the taxi to get his cases out of the boot (trunk) and stood and watched the taxi drive off with his cases. When he told us all about it the local guys just shook their heads and said " rule number 1, get your cases out of the taxi before you pay the driver!" We had a great meal one evening at a swanky restaurant and after the meal the Italian guys insisted that we try a good number of the extremely expensive grappa that they had there. Then, after all this, a few of the local guys insisted on taking some of us on a sightseeing tour of the city, which included stopping at various junctions and calling some of the extremely attractive "ladies" over to ask the price. Then taking great delight in pointing out the "ladies" Adam's apple and deep voices! I think that this was by way of a warning to us foreigners! A great city, but you've got to have your wits about you there!

You are a heathen , you have less class than a woodlouse . How could you not be impressed with this sort of architecture ? it certainly looks better than the inside of a van

They are comfortable, handle well and equipped with everything. Unfortunately they are completely soulless.

Sausage fest rallys ?

Ban the twat .. he keeps doing it

Since Tym disappeared it's difficult not to notice you're sex obsessed. I'm not too sure if all that religious stuff isn't twisting your melon. If I was a crude person I'd say for fucks sake would you go and get yourself laid, if not for yourself then the good of humanity, you know Jesus wants you too... yes he does.

Hot stuff.

Gay

Is Pele dead then?

It's not Canada.

And you hunger for his sweet lovin.

I voted no too cos at least someone on here’s not completely stuck in the past

you and me both!

to much time alone in hotel rooms you mean

Mandis CBF1000 is a good bike but to bloody small for me. Engine's a peach. I'm with you on the big XT @Earache, so comfy to ride.

I voted No as I get sent a lot crap to view on there.

Gt Yarmouth. Not that there's much great about it.

or what the f**k is TIKTOK

Been there. It's certainly very impressive!

I used to get one of those on the side of my finger at school from all the bloody writing we had to do. I helped some children with their home work last year (6 and 11 years old), they had to log on and type it in!!!!!

Duh, that's what a gallery is in Italian , here ya go........... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galleria_Vittorio_Emanuele_II

You said gallery .. which is looking at paintings … I’m all for nice bit architecture

I'll take the pork please Pedro, I always find ribs a bit fussy .

7.. 8

Looks like we need another pol , @Buckster has jacked the mod gig https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFT4Cr8m/

I rode a few Wings belonging to mates in the 70's and 80's......I was always totally underwhelmed. In fact the first bike my missus ever saw me ride was a Wing.......I thought it might impress a 20 year old!

loved the moment:

Yeah yeah. I had friends like you at school.. Go on, go on, do it DO IT Always stood innocently to one side while a patsy copped the blame. Oh wait no that was me

@Slowlycatchymonkey

Moderator to isle 5 please, we got a member leaning towards politics

As per usual, up at 0300 and out the door. Wanna know what goes on in Omaha at 3:00 AM? Nuthin'! But it is about 30 degrees cooler,...

I was gonna buy it, but was a couple of bucks short on cash...

Walking back out through the parts dept was amazing too. Loads of pistons, cranks and other crap for vintage restorations.

"But where's all the cool shit?" I ask. "Down the the hall. through the parts bins and open the wooden door" comes the reply

So why did I even go to Iowa? Baxter's Cycle Shop in Marne, Iowa, that's why. "Your British Bike Superstore" I dunno about the "superstore" portion of their claim, but they have tons of cool shit. Mostly used, vintage and refurbished bikes...

I didn't get any pics of our Christmas day feed but My Sister dis us proud. We we're expecting a cold buffet and we'd brought cheese ( French , smelly) and wine ( White, St Bris, sauvignon and Red, St Bris, Cesar) but she surprised us with a massive tradional Christmas dinner. Ham in place of turkey but otherwise the full monty, sprouts, stuffing balls, bread sauce, pigs in blankets etc etc etc. I hadn't had a "Proper" Christmas dinner in 20 years so Best Christmas Present Ever! This was our new years trough, just the 4 of us ( No1 being still in Liverpool) we'd visited Bicester Village luxury designer outlet hell-hole on the 28th cos the twins wanted Vivienne Westwood Jewlery, which they got. On arriving home on the 29th we learned of Westwood's death. the twins wanted to do a Vivienne Westwood themed table : Then came the food. The "entrée" ( which I skipped and just had another drink) forgetting to take a pic till after the battle... A dozen "Escargots de Bourgone aux beurre d'ail" ( Snails in garlic butter sauce). Followed by Honey braised beef in a cider sauce with Gratin Dauphinoise, All washed down with a nice bottle of Chablis. Yule log from the local patisserie to finish but I was too pissed and busy eating to take a pic

Breakfast this morning ..................

Meanwhile in Canada, this is how our moose deal with people who get in their way….