Slowlycatchymonkey

Well that’s a difficult one to know or answer. There are folk on tmbf I like a lot and things about the place I enjoy like the restoration stuff, the pics posted of people working on their bikes and in the past I’ve been given advice thats been priceless so I’m treading very carefully on this one!

Handing over words for someone else to get their rocks off isn’t your job but Id put my money on a dignified silence against that type of wind up merchant. If it was possible to do a word count then Corbyn and Abbott would appear many many times under the name of .... well it begins with six and ends in 30

Yep Europe with the exception of Portugal is on the amber list. You should not travel there for leisure and must isolate for 10 days on return, have a negative covid test before departing and pay for 2 pcr tests while away which are anywhere between £50-120 each. But they expect most of Europe to go green by the end of June.

Send us a sliice?

Brilliant. Thanks for posting this even though it means I have to go on facebook and find out how to follow someone?! Got tickets for Overlander but dunno if im gonna be here cos its also the Eiffel trip date. She sounds like a character and a half! What a find, someone like that turning up is like finding buried treasure!

Another excellent vid. You really do walk the walk. Reeeespect

Enjoy em while it lasts. They’ve recently announced some research results showing domestic fires and stoves account for 40% of the large particulate air pollution even though only 7% of households burn fuel that way I love a good fire (who doesnt?) but its starting to look like we’re gonna be next on the naughty step.

Without a doubt.

Yep I feel your pain

That sounds much like my dear old pops. Except eventually he landed in a place where his knowledge of the law and backing of other workers left the employers scared of him. To the extent they begged him to pick any full time educational course, degree, masters, whatever he liked and they’d bank roll it- just please sod off He refused it so they tried to buy him out! He refused that too but did eventually end up retiring ten years early with absurd bonuses though cos in the end the offers equated to enormous freedom and who in their right mind would turn that down?! Just sometimes being a complete pain int the arse pays Skilled savagery is a sight to beholden.

The only destination on the approved list (‘the green list’) that is both familiar and feasible for most is Portugal. Other listed destinations are too far away or not familiar places to the average Brit. Any other country requires us to quarantine on return so not a goer if you have a limited holiday allowance per year.

Sounds an amazing read. Can’t find it in English though, does it have a different title?

@MooN Can you suggest making the piss taking sticky throwing mechanic redundant (it would be a legitimate redundancy if your doing his role) and taking on an apprentice who can do the heavy lifting? If its not a sustainable position for you you need to make him fix things or get out while you’re in reasonable health. Aside from that, it sucks mate, no one wants to be taken advantage of or lose their health for the sake of someone else’s purse

Brrrr that looks moving... and utterly incomprehensible to anyone not fluent in french Read an article in the paper yesterday by an 84yr old man who’s worked for the guardian newspaper his entire life and recently the man in charge of the archives sent him ads from 1938 placed by German and Austrian people advertising their children with things like “Kind home wanted for educated well behaved son. He is fluent in German and English, please can you help” He was one of those adverts, he’d heard thats what his parents and many others had done in desperation to save their children but never seen it. So he set about finding others from the ads. It was incredibly moving, they all responded with the same shock he’d had at being faced with what their parents had to do to save their children. The Guardian was seen at the time as an intellectual and sympathetic paper and ended up with dedicated pages helping to rehome children with on knock effect saving many of the parents too (the foster parents found paid work for the parents and that was an official way out of Germany). Then the kinder transport scheme went into action and the UK took in and placed 10,000 children. Quite amazing and completely horrifying.

One syllable, well done. Arsehole, thats two....

The Falkland Islands are also up for holiday grabs so theres some serious competition for Portugal... not

Are you sure, motorcycle is a 4 syllable word

He has a habit

@Grasshopper's Ride I love this thread cos I love a good book THANKYOU. @skyrider reads a lot of mobike books so he’ll have some good ones to offer up That @XTreme is a ride Ill never forget. Riding through the mud at night with the Himalayan’s less than brilliant headlight was an experience you dont forget Only 12 made it to the end (not including Steph) two slid off the side the mountain four had broken bones and the others spirits were crushed after 3 days of that stuff. Jeavons book is excellent, the honesty and rawness of her early drug addiction is worth a read on its own. Currently reading Hunter S Thompsons Hells Angels. Some of its brilliantly observed and compelling reading other parts are like wading through treacle. Next up on my list is Nathan Millward’s Long Way Home.

Crikey I wouldnt survive! I really wanna go to the TT but it seems to get booked up waaaay ahead of time and be very expensive for a week away.

Hope the brick unlaying involves a sledge hammer.

Bjeezus please tell me that pics been photoshopped!

Oops soz got a bit of a hangover Fixed it now.