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Looks like it'll be Sunday for me......which is my preferred day anyway. Next week don't look too clever so I'd better make the most of it!

When's the Hornet coming?

Back from Baza! I went into Juan Cortes.......while the wife went into the supermarket. Incredibly I actually managed to get a can of WD40 chain cleaner in the hardware store! Ask in a bike shop and they look at you daft!

I think it's more likely her Royal Oilfield has fucked up!

Your van?

We gotta see somebody give him a twatting!

He's off again @Six30

Actually tomorrow it's me go Baza! The wife wants to buy another shelving unit for her plants!

I think with these things that they're on borrowed time after a couple of years.....seems to be the battery that starts failing first. My Samsung A71 is over 3 years old and it doesn't hold it's charge like it used to.......I read that the fast charging processes tend to diminish the battery sooner.

Just pulled the trigger on a new phone! (if you remember, I dropped my Samsung two weeks ago) All I use a phone for is business communications, taking photos, and occasionally directions. I don't play games or stream movies etc. But I must have a large screen cos my eyesight is not as good as it was! This thing is 5G capable, it's got 8GB RAM, 256GB storage, a 6.7" screen, and the camera is 100 MP! Reviews are all very positive so it's a no-brainer! Now I know some dipshit is going to start about it being Chinese.......but they're basically all Chinese under the hood! Honor is part of Huawei (and I used their phones for years) so I'm pretty confident it'll be a lot of phone for not a lot of money. If Huawei hadn't got their collars felt for spying they'd probably have a huge chunk of the market now, cos their stuff outperforms Samsungs costing twice as much.

Shows who's on the PED's doesn't it?

National Holiday today in Spain......has no bearing on what I do though cos the Internet never shuts down!

Terrorism?

Our sympathies Ian!

Lot of bike for the money!

Hornet?

Nice shots Bob.......you still thinking of switching?

So that's not the case then?

Sometime in the future yes! Though not on the scale that you're probably doing now of course. The problem with being self employed here is the cost......about €4K a year. And that's before you do any business and start actually paying Tax and VAT! It's not means assessed......so if you earn €10K a year or €100K a year you pay the same. And that right there is the reason why Spain has such a massive black economy......because entrepreneurship is actually penalised.

Yeh.....he should have gone for it really. That's why we made the move when w did, it was a big risk but at least we wouldn't be looking back in later years and thinking "What if?" In our case it worked out OK.......but for a lot of people it doesn't.

You could get there for a tenner then I think?

It wasn't easy coming here when we did! If I'd sold a house in London we'd have come here with a fucking wad. Unfortunately, selling a house in Llandrindod Wells doesn't carry the same financial clout. However, we now look back and realise it was the best thing we ever did when we hear of the predicament many Pensioners are now in back there. As it stands now, our boy in NL has made a fantastic life for himself (he earns huge money) and at last the one in Madrid has finally got his shit together. We just pray that Fatty doesn't deliberately fuck it up so she can go back to Poland! As for us, I'll keep working.....but I'm fine with that. I'd go crazy doing nothing. And in 5 more years the wife can retire with a small Pension from Spain. Both our healthcare is free then, so I'll keep working but only under the radar using an Internet banking service like Revolut to store the dosh. Got it all planned!