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Keep meaning to post some pictures up from April when we went to Whitby for the Goth weekend. I got up early and had a wander whilst it was quiet the first day. Captain Cook Pigeons at 6am

Message for Pete, Just seen that Episode 1 of The Prisoner is on today at 7pm (proper BST, not some iffy foreign time zone) on LEGEND FV:41 S:148 V:149 FS:137 BT:39 . Not sure if you can access that over there? I suspect they will run the whole series, they have been playing UFO at the same time of day up till now. Edit Didn't realise they had made a bad remake, this is the proper 60s one being shown.

How tall were they?

You can see the Police bike near the end, well the front few feet anyway. Looks like something slim and agile

Test rode my new tyres today at lunch time. Oooooh, so roundey roundey compared to the square ones taken off. Metzler Tourance NEXTs, same as the ones they replaced, which did a sterling 14,358 miles and were still legal if a little mishapen in profile.

Skills on both sides of this chase. If you get bored scroll to the end, you won't believe where the chase ends finally.

I think it's a sequel to the tv series Secret Army which Allo Allo was based on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Army_(TV_series)

Only if you want to put your face up against it.

Excellent. I am rewatching Hyperdrive on DVD. A brilliant comedy.

Rear tyre on and all wheels refitted. I am kerrrnackered now.

Rear tyre on. Zip ties didn't let me remove tyre from rim without levers, but it did go with just two levers and then it fell off suddenly, so definitely makes a difference. Turns out my zip ties were about 1/2 an inch too short so I had to join 2 together to get around tyre, so I will get some longer heavier duty ones for next time.

Just put a new front tyre on, rear will hopefully go on later when I have cooled down a bit. I tried putting zip ties on it to help with the change and for removing the tyre it worked a treat. I broke the bead both sides and then fed about 4 or 5 zip ties through between the bead and the wheel rim and tightened them up over about half the tyre before I got bored. Even just that much allowed me to just push the tyre off the rim without using any levers at all. So a totally lever less removal at least. Thought I'd try zip tying up the new tyre before putting it on the rim, but to be honest it seemed to make it impossible to even get started. In the end I chopped the zip ties, relubed it and pushed it on by hand, then used levers to finish it off. Going to try the zip ties on the rear later for removal as that is the bit I struggle with, getting the old tyre totally off the rim with only one pair of hands.

Thank you for the historical picture. What is this, bungee jump platform or something?

Can't be, my pants went with me into the show.

I went to the Tendring Country Show today and I was a bit late leaving. When I arrived I was parked in a sea of cars, this is my bike when I came out.

Are you sitting with your feet soaking whilst you cook?

I used to say that I would be happy when my insurance was less than my road tax. The only problem is I meant that the insurance would get lower as I got older, not that the road tax would go up so much.

They have a sex museum I believe.

Today I was at one site in Spitalfields first thing, the site with zilllions of yellow vested men wandering about all over the place whilst we try and do our work in the middle of them. I'm sure they're over manned. Saw an old hoist inside one of the buildings and took a picture of that. Apparently there is a better thing to photograph up on the 4th floor so I will try and get up there at some point. The developer mocks us using string and spirit levels when we set out our cross and longitudinal falls for future footway and carriageway as they have people who do nothing else but mark out spot levels to ensure everything is accurate. Architects have worked out everything and their levels must be followed. So far we have made them dig out a few tons of concrete that was left too high. Today I showed them 3 doorways that are either a foot too high or too low. They are now frantically working out how to fix this before we slap our pavement in. Later I went to the toilets in Petticoat Lane I photographed years ago and got the men carrying out waterproofing works to open up the gates so I could see how they look now. These are being turned into a trendy bar apparently! Finally I took a photograph into a building site on the Isle of Dogs and the traffic marshal (or Tellytubby as they are known) started shouting at me and putting his hand in front of my phone. What a knob. I told him to stop pissing about, I was standing outside on the road looking in and their site is on top of our road which we have to put back later this year.

Keep that truss buckled up tight, you don't want anything shifting!

I hope it's not the triple decker that has broken down?

Same location on today's Spitalfield Life.

As the woman in charge of the highway works at this place is leaving I have a 50/50 chance of inheriting the job so I will probably have to. The pipe trailing over the ground was going into a tanker, there is shite leaking into the place and it is being pumped out, so I'm not too keen to venture down there.