Clive

There was a long range (grainy) photo on the other forum......................but was it him?....who knows, only @Six30

And fun in the water?.

http://www.shirebrookmotorcycles.co.uk/ A busy place at times....it looks like the Open all Hours shop......without the veg.

Yes, a tyre for the scoot, and I will ride there on the scoot....only 1 (poor) bike shop in Mansfield, another a few miles away, but they are (in my opinion) a bit of a rip off place, top prices for everything they sell........where I go is a old fashioned cycle/motorcycle shop......reasonable prices, and if they ain't got it, 9 times out of 10 they will get it withing 2 days.

Off to order a new front tyre this morning......only a 15 mile round trip....

No heatwave for us....which is fine by me..............40c....nope, your welcome to it.

Putting my fleece on, it's a bit nippy at moment.

Hot aches!!..... remember suffering from them after hours sledging on the hill in the village. Did not suffer them again till around 1975 when riding back from 1st wife's in law's in Chester le Street.......was in March, set off in reasonable weather, but within 10 minute of riding the temp plunged, all the way back, sleet and snow, think my hands where cold and wet for most of the ride home......oh the pain.

Never happened to our house..............only had water to the kitchen sink. In the outside bog my dad kept a paraffin burner on low, or the water in the cistern and pan would freeze up if he did,not.......... glad it was a wooden lav seat.

There were some good times in the 60,s . My dad got his 1st car in 1963.....a huge Austin 16.....he looked after that car like my mum did the house. Every Sunday he would religiously wash it, and clean out the interior, then polish the seats, resulting in anyone sat in the back sliding from one side to the other on corners.....any corner, as the Austin 16 did not do fast in any shape of form. He was able to buy the car courtesy of my mum........she won...wait for it!!.... £500 at the local bingo hall........which would be equivalent to around £10,000 nowdays.....it also paid for her to visit her sister in America. That year I got everything I asked for at Christmas.

How did we survive!!....no central heating, the bog was outside. Continental quilts/duvets unheard of.....had so may blankets on the bed that it was nigh on impossible to turn over

Nowdays they close a school in summer if the boiler breaks down. Don't think our school closed once, I remember sitting in class with my Duffle coat on to keep warm, but we could walk/slide to school, no school run, cos very few people had a car!.

......2 inch of the white stuff here and the country grinds to a halt!. Most people here ain't got big 4x4,s. So sorry for my ungratefulness, but we will give it a miss.....don't want a re run of 1963.…......but thanks anyway.

It's a big county is Kent........................do you think it was originally called Cunt

Tropical.....never......paradise!....imposible!.

I used to deliver to a hotel in Leeds, and half the staff were from Spain....so a couple of hours drive and they could try the delights of Skeggy!......it's like Benidorm, without the good weather.....

Global warming!!!.....in the future the people from southern Europe may take their holiday up north to get away from the heat.

Well neither do we.....snow is getting a rare thing here, we had just 2 days of snow on the ground, it was gone by midday.

I have little knowledge of Poland, apart from a couple of Polish guys that worked at our place. Funny thing is, they said they found England cold during the winter....I thought it would be the other way round.

That's a reasonable time, better than 4pm

Think how we feel living in the UK rubbish weather all year! As we say, and it seem (most years) our summer consists of 3 hot days and a thunderstorm. I am waiting for a repeat of summer 1976 We have some warm/ hot weather forecast for the next few days....then back to wind and rain......just in time for the weekend.

I would be happy if it got dark here about the same time as it does where you are. When my wife was at work, she started work in the dark, and it was dark again when she finished......that would drive me daft.

I don't mind the cold, but I do not like it when it's dark at 4 or 5pm.

It will more than likely never happen that I will have to ride pillion......so I will vote no.

We zoomed in on Meteor from deep space.