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I wouldn't be able to cope with life if this was the weather we usually had, this shouldn't happen after brexit! I think this weather might be woke...

I’ve been called for jury service again, they have no concept of how much of a shit person I am.

Definitely. They fought against fascism and here it is again! Not just the UK, it's widespread and very worrying!

We stopped off there a couple of years back @MooN. We spent a couple of days there and didn't really scratch the surface of what's to see there. We stayed in an hotel right on Sword beach in Luc-sur-mer for a few nights. Apparently the hotel was the local Nazi headquarters during WW2. Recommend visiting Arromanches-les-Bains, where there's still remains of the floating docks that the Allies constructed in the days following D-Day. Very interesting.

TV reporter yesterday, interviewing people outside FC Porto's stadium before a match: Reporter, in Portuguese: Hello, would you mind ... Football fan: Pardon, on parle Français Reporter, switching to english: Oh you speak french, not even a little bit of english? Football fan: Oue, mais just un petit peut anglais. Reporter, in english: OK, were are you from then?

One of my relatives on my dad’s side (Great, Great Uncle Albert…..or something like that) was killed in November 1914 and has his name on the Menin Gate along with all the other soldiers that were never found. However, he’s also listed as being buried in White House Cemetery which is a bit odd so I’m going to pay a visit as soon as I get the chance. He was a drummer in the Coldstream Guards.

Picked up, Mot'd, and off to sunny old Blackpool with a brew at Lytham. I was absolutely terrified every time i stopped. An extra inch would be nice... oooh errr mrs. May have to invest in some Daytona boots but they are minging. Why do they take all the armour off womens bike gear and then charge a bloody fortune for it. Does make my blood boil. Anyhoo, no one died and i didnt drop it. The actual riding of it is awesome. Can't fault it but it is tall. Cant thank the hubster enough. Constantly reassuring me despite my panicking !!!

I had 2 uncles that were in the Royal Navy during WW2, they never really spoke about their experiences. I also met a number of older chaps who had served in various services during WW2 when I was doing my apprenticeship. Very few of them spoke about their experiences. There was a chap in one of the electrical wiring departments who was rumoured to have been in the Long Range Desert Group, but he never spoke about the war. He was a very quiet fellah, very softly spoken and not very tall, but there was something about him that no one ever tried to push him. His foreman was a right arse to everyone else, but tip toed around the old chap! So maybe there was something to the rumours.

Until our jury got dismissed it was very interesting, some of the police/autopsy photos were a bit graphic, but seeing all the other stuff like FB message's (that the accused thought they had deleted) between the accused that the police recovered was quite eye opening.

I spent the 1st week going into different courts, where a official just pulled peoples name cards out of a box,I did this every day Monday to Thursday, thought I had got away with it till my name was drawn out on the Friday. Told my boss at work that it was expected to be a 10 week (at the least) case, he said "Tell the court you can't do jury service because we are short staffed at work".... I said, you ring up and tell them.....

Well im in at metcalf farms now training for my heavy haulage job, got a week's training before we're let out of the stable on our own

A choir I used to sing for. You can just see my shiny head about 3 from the right in the middle row.

Old trick from the tax man here, advertise claiming rights against damage to your activity when you have no activity declared. Same thing happened during Covid, claim for 2 months shut down based on your invoicing average for the previous year, result is :

I have been to the Menin Gate and sang at the service. Every now and again they have guest bands or choirs take part in the service and that is what we did. Very moving experience. Also been to the Pax (Peace) Monument at Dixmude. The hotel we stayed in was there. I tell you what also effected me more that I thought it would was the monuments to the Empire troops that died above and to the side of the Menin gate. The European troops were named the Empire ones were not, just monuments for the individual regiments.. Different times different values I suppose.

how could they work that out, i dont even know that from week to week ... unless they looked at my accounts ,,,

brings it home to you doesn't it , we went there on our bikes few years back, Menin gate , where they do the ceremony every night as well , think its something like 55,000 solders.... from 1st world war with no known grave... very sobering and to be fair a bit emotional.

I can confirm there were Germans when we went.

Do it if you have the chance, like extra leave and quite interesting to. I did jury service and was selected in the late 80's, would do it again in a heartbeat. Early finish and free pub lunch every day seemed like a win to me. Mind you I was pretty young. I was disappointed it only went on for a week.

Yeh.....when you see gloomy skies and no sun it's fucking depressing.

I am ready for spring to arrive, just for the warmer weather and longer days.

First rule of avoiding investigations, don’t claim for shit even if you’re entitled to it.

Accounts?

looks nice , like the colors

Very nice.. enjoy the ride. 🏍

You (self employed) don't get paid for jury service, but can claim for expenses and loss of earning if your business is effected, up to £65 per day...

Does a side that loses want to go to where they lost

Just aswell I'd say

I have been called half a dozen times but never actually served.

Fucking hell..... how stupid

The accused parent said to the jury person...."your on my sons case ".....jury person just said "Yes".....that was enough to get us all dismissed for the case...

There's always one who can't keep their mouths shut eh

I did jury service about 12 years ago, on a murder case, we did 1 week of sitting in the jury selection waiting room, very boring, then 1 week on the trial, but the jury I was on were taken off the case because one of the jury (not me) spoke to one of the accused parents on the train going home...

Another week......and I can't wait to see the back of January and February!

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

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.

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.

Since the consensus seems to have Bob & I disqualified from this thread....maybe we'll just start our own Cyborg/Amputee thread.... Then "Mr. Perfect" who has all his digits, can Piss Off on his Hardley-Ableson

Amen my 2 are not twins, but at 16 and 18, fuck me they make my life complex.

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