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Got out this morning on Miss USA , I was looking forward to see how she would run after deleting the side stand switch. I rode up the A46 towards Stroud and gave it soome beans when it was clear, smooth acceleration all the way up to 80mph so all good there. Later I took it down the rough Fosseway section with the whoops and again it was fine, no coughing, bamging or cutting out. On reflection I think that switch had been going bad for over a year but I was mis-diagnosing it as a carb problem, anyway all good now My destination at Stroud was Capels Mill, a fascinating place and well worth a visit.

He booked himself on a Caribbean cruise and proceeded to have the time of his life, that is, until the ship sank. He soon found himself on an island with no other people, no supplies, nothing, only bananas and coconuts. After about four months, he is lying on the beach one day when the most gorgeous woman he has ever seen rows up to the shore. In disbelief, he asks, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?" She replies, "I rowed over from the other side of the island where I landed when my fishing boat sank." "Amazing," he notes. "You were really lucky to have a row boat wash up with you." "Oh, this ole thing?" explains the woman. " I made the boat out of some raw material I found on the island. The oars were whittled from gum tree branches. I wove the bottom from palm tree branches, and the sides and stern came from an Eucalyptus tree." "But, where did you get the tools?" "Oh, that was no problem," replied the woman. " On the south side of the island, a very unusual stratum of alluvial rock is exposed. I found that if I fired it to a certain temperature in a volcanic vent I found just down island, it melted into ductile iron and I used that to make tools and used the tools to make the hardware." The guy is stunned. "Let's row over to my place," she says "and I'll give you a tour." So, after a short time of rowing, she soon docks the boat at a small hand built wharf. As the man looks to shore, he nearly falls off the boat. Before him is a long stone walk leading to a cabin and tree house. While the woman ties up the rowboat with an expertly woven hemp rope, the man can only stare ahead, dumb struck. As they walk into the house, she says casually, It's not much, but I call it home. Please sit down." "Would you like a drink?" "No! No thank you," the man blurts out, still dazed. "I can't take another drop of coconut juice." "Oh, it's not coconut juice," winks the woman. "I have a still. How would you like a Jack Daniels neat?" Trying to hide his continued amazement, the man accepts, and they sit down on her couch to talk. After they exchange their individual survival stories, the woman announces, "I'm going to slip into something more comfortable. Would you like to take a shower and shave? There's a razor in the bathroom cabinet upstairs." No longer questioning anything, the man goes upstairs into the bathroom. There, in the cabinet is a razor made from a piece of tortoise bone. Two shells honed to a hollow ground edge are fastened on to its end inside a swivel mechanism. "This woman is amazing," he muses. "What's next?" When he returns, she greets him wearing nothing but a bandana around her blonde locks and some small flowers on tiny vines, each strategically positioned. She smelled faintly of coconut oil. She then beckons for him to sit down next to her. "Tell me," she begins suggestively, slithering closer to him, "We've both been out here for many months. You must have been lonely. When was the last time you had a really good ride?" She stares into his eyes. He can't believe what he's hearing. "You mean..." he swallows excitedly as tears start to form in his eyes, "You've built a Motorcycle?”

You posted this elsewhere yesterday you senile ginger twat.

Now even you lot can look cool.

There are no gravel traps that I can think of between Bristol and Weston so perhaps @Slowlycatchymonkey didn't think it was worth taking her camera

Drop in temp and more water to fall in different forms here. Like Chris said we also need it. Been wanting to sort a new cam belt on my sharan for the last few months, today could be the day. If it starts to rain I can cover it up and use Mandi car as she's away again till Friday.

The place just isn't the same without @Slowlycatchymonkey

You joke! Where would he be going in the dark, bingo?

Pile of shite. Didn't she say she was mad busy?

I know......and we didn't get a response! So I'm trying again! Do you think a second verse would help?

Is he obsessing about my posts again? I bet he is. Funny isn't it how he rushes to post every time I do. fortunately he's blocked so I don't get to see his sparkling contribution. A joke. obviously, as he is such a bore. And btw.. I booked the tunnel today. so I'm in a remarkably good mood.

What you make of this no-show @Six30? I think we have to conclude that she's Flounced with the B.S.A! Time for Springsteen again! Wobbled down to a dull cunts town The first fall I took was when I hit the ground Fucking Beeza has been broke too much Cos you spend half your life just starting it up Flounced with the B.S.A I have Flounced with the B.S.A

didn't you know Pete is sola powered, when it gets dark he shuts down

I was thinking that. what happened this weekend ? Have you ridden your Honda in the dark yet? I took mine to work Friday night, bloody impressed with the headlight.

Might be meeting up with @Skippy on Sunday! Weather permitting of course......but the forecast is looking pretty good at the moment.

Best for whom? The bear gets lunch, you get away, seems to me 2 out of 3 isn't bad...

It’s a flounce or she’s back on the sauce …

All true but has gotten considerably worse post Covid.

Lazy twat.

Well just woke up from a pisser of a weekend at work. I work for the 111 out of hours Dr's service, anyway we normally have seven cars that run overnight with a clinician and driver in each to cover the county, and just about manage. Friday we had five cars Saturday and Sunday we had three cars, absolute nightmare, many people in need waiting hours longer than they should have and many not been seen at all. Absolute shit show. Poor service with staff run ragged.

Just about finished my cam belt, bloody soaked. Wasn't sposed to rain till about now.

Bit like a vampire in reverse

………….please don’t break my motorbike this time @XTreme …….actually, I could always bring the DR600S as that’s far too hard to be worried.

Haven't ridden in the dark since I left Britain in 2005 Saul. Too dangerous out where I live with wild boar and deer roaming around. A Dutch friend of mine hit a boar on his Varadero some years ago.......he was lying unconscious in the road overnight till a car came along the following morning. Air Ambulance job and taken 150kms to the main hospital in Granada......he was there for a month.

It's like the old joke about 2 guys walking through the savanna and they meet a hungry lion. One of the immediately reaches into his backpack and gets a pair of running shoes out and starts putting them on. The other guy says "you're wasting your time, you'll never outrun a lion!" He replies " I know that but, as long as I can run faster than you!"

No, I meant Weston-Super-Mud Dave. I go through Weston Village (Bath) quite a lot, it's only about 10 miles from me and is a good route to save passing through Bath itself.

Is that Weston Bath? Daughter stayed there while at uni, Manor rd if I remember right.

Well the mount has turned up, just waiting for the vibration damper now.

Well, the management answer would be lack of clinicians and drivers, which is true to a point, and there are reasons. But realistically they spunked a big chunk of our yearly budget on agency staff to look after sun burnt entitled Holibobs, so cut cars to save money over the quieter months. The truth is somewhere in the middle I suspect. The result is the same end of life patients waiting in distress plus many others often in pain not getting the care they need in a timely manner. I won’t go on because I could fill pages. Thank goodness I have choir and a bit of fun tonight so I can forget about it until next Friday.

Its not a shortage of cars. its a shortage of staff to man them. same everywhere. 13 years of the Tories. is all you need to know. if anything worked they've managed to break it.

Gary Rossington RIP!

Quiet day here today? Has everybody flounced?

Good morning

I stole a chicken in his memory.

Gary Rossington has died.....the last remaining Skynyrd original.

Another week starts.......what shit will this one bring?

ALRIGHT You feckin crazy minger losers. I’ve checked in but not posted, it’s been manic. I mean full scale loon level manic and it’s not over with for a month or so at least. And yet you twats are still in the back- and let’s be clear no credit for any of you past the very back of my mind so there’s a compliment and a half for people who I don’t know, haven’t met and will only be slightly annoyed if I shuffled off Anyhow, I’ll be back with my favourite company (oddballs like me) as soon as possible

Just his presence was enough to set the warning codes flashing up…….oh and he broke my jacket zip just by looking at it.

I was in the same postcode!

What did he do?

I am pretty sure she is just busy.

Looking at this place it seems that everybody has flounced!

I actually managed to get out for a couple of hours on the bike this afternoon. about 6 deg c out and cloudy but dry. There's a new southern bypass coming through here this year ( they've only been planning it fro the last 25 years...) so this view is abouut to dissapear, as is, I expect, the road i'm on. That wee yellow narker, just below the front wheel, is one of the boundary markers of the planned route. a little bit furter towards Auxerre on another very minr roadm paralell to the other. No yellow markers here yet, but this is pretty much where it's planned to pass.

True Romance , Tarantino film, a classic film , brilliant

Had another day on the bike today only took one photo as we were too busy riding Obligatory photo from Miriam's bench

Had an exciting day yesterday. Had the appointment with the anaesthetist, but typically he was running late. So Mandy had to phone the cardiologist to say that we were late. They rearranged my appointment to after lunch, so we popped to the supermarket to get some stuff for dinners and had some lunch there. Got to the cardiologist nice and early, but typically he was running late, so Mandy had to phone our GP to say that we were running late. They asked how late we were going to be, we said probably about 10 mins, so they said not to worry and just come along anyway, so we did. It all worked out in the end, but we both definitely needed a beer yesterday evening!