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yen_powell

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  1. I stayed at a pub within walking distance of the place, got there the evening before and rode home the next day in the late afternoon. The pub provided binoculars in the room, which was a bit weird.
  2. You make all these property developer websites, do you not do any for contract killers, mates rates and all that?
  3. I reckon you can't get them anymore due to a court case somewhere in the world by a kid with a dent in his forehead. Oddly both my infants and junior school were all white boards with drywipe pens and modern desks, it was like going back in time at senior school, blackboards, chalk and old desks with inkwells.
  4. Call me Empty as per my post above is the 3rd in the series.
  5. Ours looked like this, hardwood I think, very solid, none of your girly pine.
  6. 01 595 6979. That phone number would have stopped being ours around 1977 but I still remember it. On the other hand I have had the same mobile phone number at work since 2003 and I still have to look it up if anyone asks for it, same with my current bike registration and that is 2 years old now.
  7. Luckily, I'm already there, his comrades are dying all the time in the last few chapters, the Brits have introduced new aircraft that now have a fighting chance, I'm up to 1917, he can't last much longer himself now. Oddly, no mention of Snoopy yet????
  8. When I see Pete's mange picture, this is what I imagine the rest of him looks like.
  9. The flying blackboard rubber was a common thing, but only in senior school for me. It's quite a lump of wood if it catches you right, I only ever saw it bounce of walls though, never saw anyone brained. Chalk was more often the missile of choice as the teachers knew there was less chance of getting the sack if it struck any one.
  10. I'm reading RICHTHOFFEN THE RED NIGHT OF THE AIR written in 1935, quite good, only halfway through though, CALL ME EMPTY by S P Muir, a London despatch rider of the 80s memoir and BLACK CAMELOT by Duncan Kyle at the moment. The red baron book is good. I have learnt he started off as a cavalry officer and fought in Russia on horse as well as in the trenches on foot before becoming an observer in a 2 man plane. Becoming a pilot was not really his plan at the start of the war. In fact being an observer usually meant you weren't allowed to learn to fly as they were considered more valuable than the actual pilots and harder to replace.
  11. Bit of teacher violence. My junior school head teacher was an utter arsehole, once saw him punch the boy next to me in the stomach during morning assembly for not singing loudly enough. My singing volume increased dramatically in that very instant so maybe he was a good teacher after all.....He also had the habit of picking his nose and flicking the result. If you mention his name on FB pages with ex pupils they all mention that without prompting so he must have always done it. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/18/the-mind-keeps-the-score/
  12. Needs updating, apparently the latest east end thing is stabbing other parents with a screw driver whilst waiting to pick up the kids from infants school. Next parents' evening should be interesting.
  13. They wear a better quality of shroud and wood.
  14. Because we nearly let the gas board dig some more stiffs up very close to the same location we all had to have a lesson from the museum of London on why the bodies were so important and why we could go to prison if we fuck up again. The grave yard around the old monastery and Christ Church (St Katherine's Hospital, hence 'Spitalfield name nowadays) contains people over a very long time period, but more importantly the very poor corpses all the way up to the very rich corpses, so analysis can teach a lot more about life in the past than just looking at one particular group of people. The ones still to be looked at are under a large protective concrete slab, so that in the future when even better methods of analysis are available they can be exhumed and studied in even more detail.
  15. Good one today, stored bodies from crypt of Christ Church (plus gold false teeth) https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/17/dr-margaret-clegg-keeper-of-human-remains-x/
  16. I saw it when out and about at an antique place. I liked the fact every pane of glass had something different going on.
  17. WHAT???? Oh shitbiscuits, I've cleared trophy space on the mantle piece and everything.
  18. Loobman was a 'put oil on when you want it' rather than a certain number of drips per minute like a Scottoiler when I had one. I had one for a short while because they were cheap. If my chain was dry when I wheeled the bike out of the garage in the morning I would hit the trigger on the oil and then ride off. If anything happens to delay you however, you get a small puddle of oil instead. You also have to have the oil bottle above the feed to the sprocket and the pipe running downward. Sounds easy unless you fit the thing on a centre stand and don't allow for the swing arm rising with your weight on the bike...... I gave it up not because of the oil part, but for the same reason I gave up on Scottoilers. The feed to the sprocket always get knocked, bent, twisted etc when removing the wheel, pushing the bike backwards or adjusting the chain. The small bottle with pointy nozzle that came with it was ideal for just running oil onto the inside run of my chains whilst turning the wheel by hand or engine/1st gear.
  19. I could have put my Norfolk speed camera photo back in the spring I suppose, but I was too embarrassed at the low speed reading.
  20. I'm neither one way nor the other. I can't even remember the question at the top after reading through the answers.
  21. yen_powell

    Helmet

    I'm on my 3rd Caberg Tourmax right now, I like them because they have a peak that I can tip my head a little forward to use as a sunshield when riding into low sunshine and the good peripheral vision it provides through the wide visor slot. The peak is also good at up to 3 figure speeds, doesn't try to tear your head off like my off road helmet does. Before that I had 2 flip front Cabergs, can't recall the model, had them because they were the first lid I saw with an internal sun visor. Had a Bell full face once but only because the training place I was working at did a huge discount on them for instructors (still got a Bell off road that is 20 years old now, kept cos I like the look of it, just realised it's in my signature picture here). Had a couple of Shoeis, I liked those. My first lid was a Kangol, my second as well I think.
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