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But I'll bet your new mob made it worse before sending it on, vindictive bunch.

Revenge for Spanish Flu

That picture made me thing of the keyboard player in Sparks, your bike has glasses.

It's probably more than reported. I think some of the locals you mentioned only count as half each.

That's probably the bloke who knocked me off on one of the corners by riding straight into my back wheel a few laps later. Apart from eating a load of grit and mud from the speedway track as I slid along on my chest and face, the little finger on my left hand now has a bend in it, I think I broke it, it certainly hurt enough for a few weeks. A marshall had to get my seat back from the middle of the track.

The word sperm just leapt out of the page at me..........................which is a bit worrying! https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/17/the-metropolitan-machinists-company/

I was knocking out some parking signs on KeySIGN software and had to use the Sign and Sub plate function which lets you choose the upper sign, gives a choice of lower plates and that you can put on a backing board for neatness. Saw this upper sign as I was scrolling down and realised you can edit the lower part.

Con men have always been with us. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/11/billy-charleys-shadwell-shams-o/

I have got blue eyes, although I once had one blue eye and one black eye when a tyre lever decided it wanted to ping back and crack me one. Note the contact lens sitting off centre, my right eye always does that.

Just had my lunch and this is what I have to look at, the foot of a welsh hobbit.

This is how we convinced Charlie to get into this damp patch. He was a bit miffed when we didn't join him and went round another way. Legal byway that is!

I don't know why you were worried, you were going to wash the bike anyway when you got home. Now in my case I would have been cautious exactly the same as you were, but mainly because I would have to live with the resulting muck on the bike till the next decent rain shower cleaned it off.

I like his chicken.

I have re-read Excession by Iain M Banks for about the zillionth time last week. His 'Culture' sci fi books make me really wistful for a future I will never live to see. As far as I can tell, there are no two culture books about the same person or place. It's a crying shame he died so young a few years ago so there are no new books to read. Excession is my favourite book of his, followed by Consider Phlebas, Surface Detail and Matter and then the others who's name I can't remember. I live in fear that someone will make a film or tv series of one of the books and pox it all up. Edit, ship names in Culture books are something else. They choose their own (being AI entities) My favourite was the warships called 'I Said I've Got a Big Stick' , 'Lapsed Pacifist' and another called 'Frank Exchange of Views'. From wikipedia The asteroid 5099 Iainbanks was named after him shortly after his death.[58] On 23 January 2015, SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk named two of the firm's autonomous spaceport drone ships Just Read The Instructions and Of Course I Still Love You, after ships in Banks's novel The Player of Games.[59] Another, A Shortfall of Gravitas, began construction in 2018. This refers to the ship Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall, first mentioned in Look to Windward.

Yeah, but it was the way he posted it that made it funnier.

I don't know why, but I found myself singing YMCA in a welsh accent under my breath just now.

I had a bright yellow and blue jacket on with the council's name stamped all over it. The park visitors just assumed I was taking pictures for official purposes. The work pictures are boring. the only excitement today was when a Romanian road worker on a nearby colleague's site came and told me the sun was in his eyes and he had driven his digger into a cast iron lamp column and it had snapped off flush with the ground and was now laying on the floor. I arranged for an emergency disconnection with our street lighting bloke, told my colleague by phone what the twat had done. Then I told the upset Romanian he was in luck, I would pay for two new lamp columns, one of which he had just skilfully removed, so he wouldn't have to tell his boss what he had done and fill out reams of insurance forms.

https://mainlandlondon.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-chinese-pagoda-victoria-park.html Zee Germans got it, swines.

That's the Regents Canal, but the rough end. It runs through to Limehouse Basin and then the Thames via a lock gate.

I drove to work this morning. Usually when I get in a car whole swathes of the UK come to a grinding halt due to traffic gridlock, me, four wheels and the rest of the UK don't get on. But this morning, I managed to get the whole way in and the whole way back without too much of a hold up. Naturally this was too much good luck, so to balls it up, the work gang didn't turn up on time so I had 45 minutes to kill and I was next to Victoria Park. The sun was low and evil to drive into, but I like taking pictures when it is like that. There was even a girl sketching one of the views I photographed. I took a picture of her whilst she was being creative. https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/dogs-of-alcibiades-south

The one I hate is the one in the belly to stop clotting. Stings like a very stingy thing.

You need something bigger than a Lenor bottle unless you have mad skillz.