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Going to be 32 degrees and sunny here tomorrow according to the Met's graph of lies. I've lowered my screen a tad in readiness for tomorrow's journeys. I shall still take my waterproofs cos they is lying bastards at the Met Office.

A knot will sort all of them.

I didn't even know they had Butlins in Spain??

Trying out my new intercom thingie that i had just fitted to my crash hat and I had youtube running on my phone. Because I have listened to the Lime in the Coconut song last time this came up instead by the same bloke. Jigging round the kitchen with my crash helmet on, love it.

I feel your pain about unreliable bikes. I've had to replace a headlight bulb on the Yamaha already and it's only done 19,000 miles. Friday afternoon build I reckon.

I recall you saying that the ST10 weighed too much and the BMW would be lighter, but I didn't think the weight advantage was because it wouldn't be with you most of the time. Is this what BMW mean about a low centre of gravity?

Congratulations, it's your WORK Jubilee this year then. What you need is a little job that gets you up in the morning, out in the fresh air but isn't too taxing.

He's a just dancing man Kathleen. This is exactly how a lot of the Irish roadworkers speak, they have a way with the words. When I asked one of them what their new supervisor was like he replied, 'Well I'll tell you. He's a grand fella..... but I wouldn't want to pay for his breakfast!' This was his polite way of saying he was signing off on the wages fairly but was also a fat bastard.

That's eerie, I know the Save The George Tavern campaign and it is nowhere near where they roll the cheese. It's a very old pub in Stepney that everyone seems to want to pull down and the landlady is forever fighting them off. https://thegeorgetavern.london/shop/save-the-george-tavern-white-t-shirt

Get the spill kit ready for its return.

That's your modern lean police budgets for you, they're keeping the jam sandwiches going for as long as they can.

I had never heard it before a few days ago despite it having a date of 1972. We were packing up at about midnight after a celebration on Friday night in a friends back garden and it just came on the sound system. Everyone was humming to it as we went back and forth carrying plates, glasses and uneaten food, it's now a memory song that will always remind me of that event. It can go along 'Battleship Chains' which makes me think of drinking whisky on a hot summers night and shining my torch at urinating Hells Angels before the torch was snatched off me by my mates to stop me getting a kicking.

Yes. The first time the shop dog hasn't tried to attack me as I left. The haIry beast seems trained to only go for you after you have paid, never before. I reckon they trained it by waving a shop receipt in front of it, then giving it a good kicking straight afterwards.

I had to nip to Suffolk during my Monday lunch hour to pick up a bike bag from a shop there and I saw no tractors being ravished or even being bought dinner. So I think this may be an isolated incident.

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/01/surma-centre-portraits-o/ Funny how they nearly all mention the stronger smell of the flowers.

Not a joke as such, but I watched this a few days ago and it slowly dawned on me that this is Roman Road market, about 30 yards from my last office. You'll believe a car can fly. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2697201/Video-Shocking-road-rage-moment-motorist-drives-car-blocking-in.html?mwv_rm=rta

Can't wait. I've signed up for rickets and advanced fire-grate blacking and I have the grandkids enrolled for the workhouse, I understand you have to get their names down whilst they are still little or you have no chance. I haven't seen any downside to Brexit that has affected me personally yet, well none that haven't been the result of another country being petty minded and that won't last forever.

I agree, my childhood memories of the 70s are of a landscape that hadn't changed much from films I saw made in the 40s and 50s. Corner shops, barbers, pubs and butchers were definitely the same apart from the decimalised prices. It all started changing in the late 80s and seems to be accelerating.