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A you can imagine Fowey and Polruan being either side of the same river has always had a bit of banter between them. To us on the righteous side we view them as Polly Roosters from Little Russia that the sun never touches before mid day. Anyway day off not raining so time for a bimble. First I caught the Bodinnick car ferry across the river. Fecking £3.70 one way. If you look up to the left you can see the latest Omaze raffle house. I think the whole town has bought a ticket for that. Apparently worth 4.5 million. If I win it will be sold quick smart. After 4.5 miles down single track lanes with grass and slippery shit in the middle I got to Polruan. It’s a beautiful little village that I have spent a lot of time in over the years. I was the Postie there in the 1990’s and the Mrs and I ran the Lugger Pub the for a short time. This is the other pub ran by a team mate from my old rugby club. After mooching around for a chat I headed off for Liskeard

This thread has confirmed I am on the right place amongst you old fellas, I actually managed to have a fall yesterday according to my bloody nagging Apple Watch. I went to a funeral of an old mate down at Golant, the wake was in the pub, only had a coke. Anyway when I had to go I went out through the front patio garden area and down some slate steps, I slipped and never touched the last four. Stiff as fuck today with my left arm and hand turning some interesting colours, but it was ok nobody saw as I haven't had any mocking texts yet. I had to stop the Apple Watch dialling 999 and confirm that I had a fall and I was ok. . Of course my loving family laughed when I told them.

did we ever have one ..... i never seen a pic of @Slowlycatchymonkey in a nurses uniform...

My ex father in law had a double hernia and had the mesh treatments, worked a treat for him. They would only do one side at a time, so he had to go in twice. I recall ringing him on his mobile when he was working and was still waiting for a date for the first operation. He sounded a bit breathless and it turned out I had rung him when he was half way up some stairs dragging a cast iron bath tub up them. Tough bugger he is.

I wanted to go to Liskeard to have a look at the Chequered Flag which was once a Cafe but is now a workshop as well that does a few bike sales as well. Bloody waste of time that was the Cafe was closed and the bikes were rough as. I spoke to the chap but he was pretty disinterested and more focused on assembling a Chinky AJS 125. They did have a tidy BMW R75/6 that I liked the look of but the rest was either crap or just not my thing.

I have an image of you surviving on fags, fry ups and wank socks. You’re not helping me out by adding a bag of icing sugar into the mix

Wot are you lot like?!! I’m afraid once you’re a nurse you’re always a nurse, the damage is permanent

Sherbet dip dab , get in .

ahhhh, Nope. that's the major drawback ( no there's a good pseudonym) with our house is that it's fucking tiny, so unless we come into some money and sort out the studio in the courtyard, anybody coming here will have to find accomodation. For those with a van, there's a pikey camp about a mile down the river....

I see that the Polly Roosters like you as well as they have that cannon aimed right at you lot

They said it was finishing end of March last year then they changed it to not accepting new applications. Then they said it was finishing end of September but end of September at the last minute they said they had decided to extend it to some unknown date so when they recently announced it would finish 21st March I didn’t believe them. Tbh it’s pissed me off. The door closing on that part of my life was a happy one and for a while they relentlessly kept on about rejoining the permanent register. So it’s celebration time at last. Whoop whoop.

Do you need a zimmer frame? Pete can help if you do, he has a few spare

Not too bad thanks Pete. Not pissing quite as much blood this morning!

They are w*knees of the highest order. I saw some eye watering stuff when I worked there and I caught the twats out when they supposedly serviced my Honda. I was a twat to buy it from them , I should have known better. That’s why I went 40 miles to Cirencester when I bought my Yamaha.

I like a bar of Bournville myself and its better for a diabetic but it don't half bung me up

Pete cover your eyes, theres a wet bike image ahead. Now with expensive but lovely looking heated grips and optimate SAE. The control button is integrated into the grip so no bastid ugly box on the bars. Good ay.

I laughed at that but when you think about it if that plug had come out while riding you engine would be fucked and worse you could have binned it properly with the oil running all over the rear tyre bloody wankers stuff like that is basic stuff i wonder if they would have held their hands up if it had happened

Today Mr Slowly kindly took the BSA to Clevedon to get heated grips fitted. He was surprised how good it is and now wants one but get this (and you lot will LOVE this) when he got it out of the garage there was oil on the floor The mechanic said I can tell you what that is… “it’s a BSA” Anyway another Fowlups triumph they hadn’t done the drain plug up properly, idiots.

depends what doc you get and what mood he's in...

Does that mean we no longer have a forum nurse then

Those midgets are very demanding.

That's exactly why you've got a hernia now

So where exactly is the hernia? And no im not trolling.....this time

I've ordered one after reading this thread. I think I'm going to have to add crocodile clips to it when I get it. Removing battery cables is a pain on the ST12 and the fuse on the electrical socket on my bike will probably blow if I plug something like this in to it. I have been taking a foot pump away with me and it weighs a bit/takes up room, although I have the air cartridges with me, they are a pain to use and if you balls it up you are stuck.

Show some respect........That's his daughter in law you're talking about there.

Spain proper, this is Tarifa: This is not Spain but hasn't got the Portuguese oak trees or any strong Portuguese traits.

Chocolate bungs you up? Thats a new one. Sugars normally ferment, cause a build up of gas and stimulate stretch receptors so people go a bit quicker than usual. Yes yes I said stretch receptors. Have at it

Christ I hadn’t even thought about that, you’re right. I did think what the fuck does their pre sale check actually consist of if they don’t even check the nuts and bolts are tightened? There’s no way they’d hold their hands up. They melted some shit onto the exhaust so when I went to look at it I said you’re gonna have to get that off before I pick it up. They said I’d done it! Well you can imagine the rest of the conversation.

Got a bit of good news amongst the wall to wall misery......the government are giving all self employed who didn't earn €27K last year a €200 rebate! My accountant has applied for some of that!

Jealous,

Nah it breaks it up abit, need a change every now and then

research for when me and @busabeast go to petes place.

wont it look odd in there ... with all the naked men pics ?

There were two block houses either side of the river with a large chain running between then dating back to Elizabethan times. The first one obviously. The idea was to close the harbour to French raiders. The Polruan block house is still there but the Fowey one is long gone. The chain is still on the river bed or so a mate in the divers club told me. There is also a castle at the river mouth with gun emplacements. You would have gone to Polruan by ferry from Fowey. I used to ride it every day with my Mail when I did the post over there.

weather was more than dodgy this sunday, but having missed the chance to get out on saturday due to No1 daughter being at home, I was determined to get out despite the weather. It wasn't cold (12 deg C) but heavy cloud cover and a number of fronts moving east or north east. As soon as I'd fed the animals kids, I headed for a tiny hamlet I know on the canal cos it's very pretty and gave me a turning point about 1h30 south of here, just in the northern limits of the Morvan and in a wee hidden curve of the canal at the top of a 16 lock flight and just before the deep cut leading to the 3 tunnels at the summit. I didn't know if I'd make it that far due to the weather, but that was the aim. I took the smaller back roads all the way there dodging the rain showers, I had a mooch round when I ot there, 9 houses, 1 bloke fishing. stunningly pretty, but the light really didn't do it justice. Great place to spend a quiet week end on a boat after slogging up the 16 locks though. as I started back, there was a black storm front coming at me from the south west so I took a faster route northwards, outrunning it to Clamecy where there's a coffee/ bakery run by an arab bloke who is open 364 days a year ( only place in the area that I knew would be open on a sunday). I sat and had a coffee and a pair of 2pain au chocolat" whilst the rain aquall went through, gave it a 15 minute headstart and set of behind it. all told, about 185km, in under 3 hours riding, quite a high moving average for me From the bridge at Port Brulé looking south towards the tunnels ( odd unintended effect in the photo that seem sto have distorted the rear wheel...) looking North towards the lock flight and you can see the WHOLE village. the route went something like this:

re post it ...

Has that bit of water got a big wire going across it nearer the inlet from the sea , defence thing from the war i think it was... looks like a place we went to good few years back, remember going on the ferry like the one in pic

I couldn’t say mate I only went there years ago when it was the Pit Stop Cafe I only heard about the place having bikes last week. Most of what they had was dog rough and over priced. Not that friendly either. Wouldn’t surprise me if they were dodgy though just didn’t feel right there.

Yeh let’s get on moons case … would he be ok sleeping on his settee for a few days ?

Still there Bob......just discomfort and pulling when I walk or stand up. Thankfully I've always tried to keep those activities to a minimum.

I can be smoking a cigar in the picture just for you your friend.

I wasn't asked for some reason but these any good for you i could always photoshop them more brown if you like

I travel light and smell at night