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Saw this on another forum. I keeps seeing references to bikes in vans here, if you're gonna carry the bike somewhere, do it like a big boy!

Doris is dead, taken so young. Not sure if I've put the link about this lady up before, but it seems she has recently passed away. Motorcycling connection with this one, when BMW riders really were dangerous and armed as well between 1939 and 1945. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/08/so-long-doris-halsall/

Just count yourself lucky it's electronically sent to you, you moaning sod. Not that long ago you would have had to get a plane to the UK and queue up in the Post Office with all the other old gits. I remember working out that Tuesdays and Thursdays was pension day in St Clears by the numbers of old twats performing unbelievable car stunts at 10mph and trying to kill or inconvenience me in their search for a big enough parking space near the post office/bank. They all had nearly new small Fords, travelled in married pairs and I suspect were retired English folk rather than local born.

Not bike related but AutoCAD, I never thought I'd prefer it to my drawing board, blue pencil, Rotring ink pen, scalpel, set squares, chalk powder, swishy brush, stencils, compasses, french curves, trammels, scale rules, Letraset, masking tape, magic tape and all the other stuff needed, but it's definitely a labour saver.....until you get a power cut or the server has a turn of course. I must scan my joke Polo Mint Prototype drawing I made and post it up (with notes such as "one in 10,000 mints to be sucked to destruction for testing purposes")

This is the almost same place as the youtube clip I posted of those nutters riding the Broomway last week, it certainly isn't golden sand, more a sort of sludge.

I enjoyed it, tasted like cod to me and I did eat the 'narna' to show willing in front of my young son. I looked it up to see how to spell Scabbard for my last post. I already knew it looked awful in the flesh after seeing one in the fish market in Funchal, looks only a mother could love and a face for radio etc. The health risks were new to me. Toxic metals is pretty standard for most fish these days, it's the parasites that are only removable by surgery if eaten undercooked is the one that frightened me. Despite having huge market value and a strong hold in the typical Southern European diet, several health risks are associated with consumption of the black scabbardish due to the presence of several toxic metals found within the fish, including lead, mercury, and cadmium. Even in very small quantities, these metals can be deadly to humans if consumed. However, according to standards set by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization, as long as the liver is not consumed, no real health risks exist in consuming the black scabbardish in moderation. The levels of toxic metals found in the fish were: Liver: between 2.37 mg/kg and 4.5 mg/kg of mercury found Skin: between 0.36 mg/kg and 0.59 mg/kg of mercury found 0.11 mg/kg of cadmium found Muscle: 0.9 mg/kg mercury found, 0.09 mg/kg maximum cadmium levels found In every sample, the lead found was less than 0.10 mg/kg.[15] Black scabbardfish are known hosts to Anisakis. Eating raw or undercooked black scabbardfish could result in a parasitic infection known as anisakiasis, and the only way this condition can be treated is by removal of the nematodes through endoscopy, or surgery.

I went to The Globe Theatre on the south bank in London and watched Taming of the Shrew. It was much easier to follow what was going on watching it rather than reading it, I hated the stuff at school. This actually made me laugh, even when I hadn't a clue what they were talking about at times. I quite fancied the Shrew, she later turned up on TV as Marcus's mother in Plebs and playing a middle aged Barbara Windsor. The best bit about The Globe is even though I had paid the extra and got a seat, I was able to wander down and stand in front of the stage in the poor peoples' area any time I fancied. This was how I missed the knob joke in the wedding scene as it happened whilst I was walking behind some pillars and I couldn't work out what everyone was pointing at. Oh and if it rains you get wet! They work jet aircraft into the dialogue if necessary.

My ex Father in Law in Pwll Trap/St Clears must be knocking 80 plus and is still plumbing and building a few days a week for work, plus whatever he does at home. I should point out that he is of sound English stock (well almost, he's a Brummie), he's showing the locals how to do it. Allan The Gas as he's known locally is unstoppable.

In Madeira I had Scabbard fish for dinner one evening. It came with rice and salad I think, not too sure because I was too shocked that they slap a banana on top of the fish!

The royal mail (Ye Posteman Patteth) amongst other things, read the first photo.

No, it was a tiny article in a local paper in 2007ish.

Just a bimble about this morning seeing as it was sunny. I popped down to Kelvedon to have a look at the packhorse bridge that I heard about years ago but had never actually seen. I had to wade through shit loads of nettles and general nature crap to even see a little bit of it! Then a general wander about went into the ancestral Powell village of Rowhedge which is usually empty to find it rammed with people watching some sort of rowing competition. By the time I'd stopped and got a camera out it was all over..

There's a red flag!

After searching Kursaal vids on the other thread this came up. If you wind back to the beginning before the music you get lots of aerial video of the pier and the Kursaal. The pier is still it's original length (1976 the film) before some twat sailed a ship though the middle of it. Only a mile long nowadays, I walked it a few months back, but got the train back to shore. A local told me that the people stranded in the cut off section after the accident weren't very happy at the time. On 30 June 1986, a 54.9-metre (180 ft) tanker named Kings Abbey crashed into the pier, severing a 21.3-metre (70 ft) gap from the new pierhead to the rest of the pier, destroying the boathouse used by the lifeboat service and causing major structural damage due to the destruction of iron piles and supporting girders. I hated Dr Feelgood after seeing them about three years running at the Kent Custom Show, but this one song I do like, regularly played in the garage or car.

On another bike site I go on it was a relatively regular complaint from new members that they were sick of all the pervy sites in the header/footer adverts when they browsed the site. It was then pointed out to them that they would be based on their own personal internet history.

I never ever went to the funfair there. However your comment made me search youtube for video of these planes. Worth watching the whole thing, but should start at some aircraft going around. Are these the ones that turned upside down? The bit that affected me most was the centrifuge thing where you stick to the walls (from 2:20 onwards), I used to come out of that fighting to hold on to my dinner at my own local fair.

From wikiwossname. I never noticed a Tesco Express. Decline and closure (1973–1986) The Kursaal as a whole had been in gradual decline since the early 1970s, with the outdoor amusements closing in 1973.[15] At the end of 1977 the decision was made to close the ballroom, with the main building finally succumbing in 1986. The outdoor amusement area was later redeveloped for housing. Main building reopening (1998) In 1998 the main Kursaal building was reopened after a multimillion-pound redevelopment by the Rowallan Group containing a bowling alley, a casino and other amusements.[15] The building originally contained a McDonald's, but the fastfood chain left in 2008.[18] The bowling alley closed permanently in 2019, and the casino closed permanently in 2020. This currently leaves only a Tesco Express store occupying part of this historic building.

Sunset in Southend on Sea this evening that looked very like a nuclear bomb going off over the Isle of Sheppey in one picture. Is the other disc above the nuclear explosion the moon?? Also The Kursaal, scene of crime for Doctor Feelgood, now sad and abandoned. I was about 4 feet from a seagull this evening, he was flying but due to the wind he was flying into, he was stationary right in front of me, a very odd feeling being eye to eye.

waving his left hand to reveal the missing index finger https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/04/maurice-evans-firework-collector-x/

My mate bought a Shad box that expanded. He was very proud of it. On the only three journeys I did with him with it fitted it did the following:- 1/ Couldn't unlock it for about 30 minutes after arrival at an event, when it did unlock it jammed on one side on the expansion part and then he couldn't lock it shut. Had to walk around with his jacket and lid. 2/ Riding behind him on the way back from somewhere in Sussex, I noticed the lid hadn't shut properly and was flapping up and down. I tried bibbing for half a mile but the deaf sod didn't hear that, so I overtook him pointing at his top box. He waved and went straight past me as I slowed down to stop in a convenient lay-by. Eventually he realised what I was hinting at and stopped somewhere dangerous to relock it. 3/ Same as number 1 only this time it only jammed for 10 minutes. Then the lid opened on the way home again and he had waterproof trousers hanging out the back flapping about. He still goes on about how marvellous it is that it can change sizes???

Yeah, absolutely, I line them with old pants as well, they flourish with a bit of manure.

I give them to friends who turn them into hanging baskets in the garden. I will get pictures next time they are in bloom. You have to take the lining out and drill a few small drain holes.

It does sound fine in the video. I recommend ear plugs just in case.

Well I wouldn't live there if I had a million and a half quid. This is the same bloke who I said lived next door to the Bishop of Stepney. Even he's taking a chance if he walks about at dusk.