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First walk up to the Gribbin Daymark this year. Doesn’t come across on camera but it’s a proper lung buster to get up there. Some stunning skies up there. The views towards Rame Head and Plymouth.

Snowblowing since 6am....15cm and rain on top of that...the handblowers couldn't cut through the ice..got a few calls to clear some yards..

Just got my ancestry results back , I’m full English

Long gone. He finished the whole thing by lunchtime on day 2.

The Finns in particular have always been very conscious of their neighbour to the east. They still have national service and for such a small country they have a very capable military. Once you have done your military service you are rotated back through the system every so often for refresher training. Finland is one of my favourite places to visit, but for bloody Brexit I would have happily retired there.

I hope not, but look at Finland and Sweden, they are making no bones about getting ready for possible conflict. The UK, I dunno, doubt it. Mind you we do have the football Gammons Send in the Gammons.

I've been following this chanel to keep up with the Dakar, it's in italian and features a few of the italian Malle Moto participants, with on board and interviews by one participant. It's great content, there's Cezare, racing with a Kove, who is just pure cool class and has just slept by his bike in the dunes on the middle of the Empty Quarter stage. Can't recommend it enough.

What @Six30 does behind the keyboard is his business.... in other words, Ask me if I give a sh*t.

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And we all thought you'd sold the harley

Sweet views there....

Stunning stuff. Used to love the hard climbs but older now.

At least yours isn't a sh1t top box

Up early for an 8k walk to the Day Mark and back. Then out on the Hornet and back for the rugby at 1pm. Gonna chill out in front of the telly and maybe get a nap for work tonight.

Had a quick look at the scoot, I think the fuel injection relay ain't working, wife cannot hear it clicking, see if I can bodge a Halfrauds relay on it sometime soon.

Top Box! Top Man! Class!

Ruined it

It might surprise you to know that I actually went to see about joining the RAF after I got my O Level results in 1970. I really wanted to fly planes, but they told me I'd have to get my A Levels first. Then I'd go in at a higher level and be on an Officer training path. And eventually, if selected, I could get on the flight training program. So reluctantly I went back to school to do A Levels, but after 6 months of that monotonous shit the frustration of wanting a bike and having no dosh really got to me! So I left and the rest is history. By a strange coincidence in 1978, the wife wanted to join the RAF as a Military Police dog handler. But her mother put the kybosh on it and made her go to work at WH Smith.

Cloudy, 3c here, all I will be doing today is going out to get some bread. Tried to start the scoot earlier....... points deducted for a refusal.

16C and blue skies today.......and it's 6 weeks of being sidelined! But the clock is ticking and I hope to be back before the end of the month! Though knowing my luck the weather will be hell on earth by then.

When I joined the RN a big part of the basic training was the Russian threat. It was drummed into us continuously, that was late 70’s

They said they were willing to die for Brexit after all.

You do realise that picture is now in @Six30’s wank bank, don’t you?

no .. shes going to a rave.

Twat

Ive started taking Shilajit capsules. Im definitely sleeping better.

I’d love to spend a few days seeing the Normandy beaches, it’s on my list of things to do, though prob not by bike as the boss will want to take the dog. if I had my way looking at the Somme battlefields and commonwealth memorials would be a mandatory part of the school curriculum. Too many kids today have no idea what their great grandparents went through and the utter futility of European wars.

Is Busa there?

That looks cracking @Saul , I'd love to have a go at that but I fear 8k might be a bit too much for me

The Finns are a serious outfit in terms of Winter warfare.

Things have changed so much since the WWII era......so I doubt we'd ever see a mass mobilisation and invasion like that again. Now it's just press a few buttons.

In the 60's we entered the Cold War era.......so I think many us expected something to go off. And in the 70's these things were broadcast.....

Makes you wonder doesn’t it. I look at the Ukrainian’s because that’s exactly what they are doing now. I admire them. Would our youth do it today, I don’t know. Some would, there are some great kids out there. But also some very spoilt and entitled individuals. I think our generation would have as we were brought up on tales of WW2 and films, war toys, war comics and the like. Duty and service. I like to think I would have but that’s easy to say when there was Little jeopardy to my generation.

I think it is how their generation dealt with PTSD and the like. Just shut it away. I know my Maternal Grandfather was a damaged individual. Horrible old git if I am honest. He was in the navy, sunk twice and ended up a POW held by the Japs. I could tell you tales of what he was like and the damage he caused in my mother’s family but there is no point really. He was damaged and never really got over what happened to him. My paternal grandfather was a different kettle of fish, a lovely old chap. He served in both wars and in all 3 services. Started as a boy soldier at 16 as a kitchen porter then cook in the army during WW1 was transferred to the RFC (which became the RAF). When he was demobbed he joined the Merchant Navy between the wars then transferred to the Wavy Navy in WW2. I since found out quite a bit about both of them and what they did. Interesting to me.

One of my grandads was considered too old when WWII started so he stayed at home and carried on working at the Gas Board. However, after Dunkirk and leading up to D Day they were desperate for anyone fit enough to fight and he always kept himself really fit………..so, one Friday night after work he comes home later than normal and says to my Gran “well that’s it Lou, I’m off soon”………”off where”, she says……..”I’ve signed up to fight”. She wasn’t best pleased. A week or so later he went off for training and pretty soon found himself fighting across Holland, Belgium and parts of France. Like most he didn’t tell many stories according to my dad. Those that he did mention were pretty horrific by all accounts. He had two younger brothers who joined up when the war started. One went to France and was captured, spent some time in a PoW camp but escaped twice, the second time he made it to Italy and was taken in by a farmer who fed him, let him work on his farm and made sure he was out of the way when the Germans came around. Apparently he had a fling with the farmers daughter and stayed there until the war ended………made his way back to England only to find his wife had re-married as he’d been proclaimed missing, presumed dead! The second of the the two younger brothers went to the far east to fight, got captured and was made to work on the Burma Railway. He survived that and came home at the end of the war but was as skinny as a rake, could never seem to put on any weight and had a very short fuse……no wonder!

Look at that tarmac , Spanish roads make ours in UK look like f*cking goat tracks

South east of Lorca on a proper twisty road that has been resurfaced very recently. No traffic and it’s grippy as fuck!

This is Bobs reply to this lol

I heard he did it by car, bike, and truck! Simultaneously!

To be fair Bob it’s newly surfaced and not all Spanish roads are this great but generally they’re a whole lot better than the UK.

Proper coal fire, could almost feel the heat from the photo.

Our neighbour did that, pissed as a fart, went down a flight of concrete stairs, fucked his whole leg and pelvis so bad that they took his whole leg off.

Soz should I say gay or twat to pique your interest?