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    Just been out to my local park, well actually I started on some side roads to the town centre, got lost, thought I had found a new place and then discovered it was in fact the far end of my local park that I'd never been to before.
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    Yes, public footpath near me that I hadn't tried before, I think part of the return loop was bridleway, but that was a concrete road. If you look at the county maps for the mid 1700s some of the footpaths are shown in the same way as roads that are now carriageway so I suspect some just stopped having cart use and there was no evidence when they started categorising them in the 50s and 60s.
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    Not legally and it has stiles you have to climb over, but no one would say anything if you took a bicycle through although technically a no no. Starts at the side of someone's garden here.
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    I never touch the stuff, goes straight to my hips.
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    I might have posted this before, but I can't be arsed to check
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    This picture has it all, moggies, plants, a dodgy scooter and a bit of medieval artillery ammunition. One of my holiday snaps when you could still go on holiday.
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    Old sayings.

    yen_powell replied to Tym's topic in GENERAL CHAT

    Face like a bag of spanners. I wouldn't like to pay for their breakfast (about a large person) Go and throw a few fucks into them (telling someone off) Blood and guts (the red and cream colour of a particular company's railway carriages) Up and down like a whore's drawers (about uneven paving) No two pounds of him hanging straight (an ungainly chap)
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    Bloody hell, it looks like Blackgang Chine before it fell off the edge of the Isle of Wight into the sea.
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    Old sayings.

    yen_powell replied to Tym's topic in GENERAL CHAT

    My son has an official work document that is many many pages long and consists of nothing but Iranian insults. Most have to do with sex or people's mothers. At the top it asks for people to update the document if they hear any new ones.
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    Old sayings.

    yen_powell replied to Tym's topic in GENERAL CHAT

    "Come on, shit or get off the pot", when you are taking too long to do something.
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    Old sayings.

    yen_powell replied to Tym's topic in GENERAL CHAT

    Well I put that into google and I am none the wiser! Wanted, wanted, potatoes with eels
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    Old sayings.

    yen_powell replied to Tym's topic in GENERAL CHAT

    It's easy, you don't need a licence, training or any sort of certificate. You have more trouble trying to adopt a dog from Battersea Dogs' Home than knocking out a sprog.
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    Old sayings.

    yen_powell replied to Tym's topic in GENERAL CHAT

    My son used to say, 'Dad, I can't sleep'. I would reply, 'If you can't sleep then you don't have to', then as his face lit up, ' BUT you have to lay there with your eyes closed all night'.
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    Old sayings.

    yen_powell replied to Tym's topic in GENERAL CHAT

    'What's for dinner Mum?' 'Shit and sugar Sandwich.' 'Why Dad?' 'Cos 'y's a crooked letter.'
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    This cemetery was next to my old office, a shortcut to Bow Common Lane, if you didn't get lost in the middle or run over by a Police Horse from the nearby stables being exercised. Amy Winehouse used a bit of it for a video once. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/07/13/at-bow-cemetery/ https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/19/the-beginning-of-spring/
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    I did wonder.
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    About 10 years ago there was a sudden spate of manhole and other metal covers being stolen along with people risking life and limb cutting live cable alongside railways, scrap prices were good enough to take anything it seemed. Our own highway inspectors would remain unseen for most of the month with a mass sighting of them on the day overtime and mileage sheets had to be put in. They all usually parked down the same back street and one winter day they all drove home in the dark without realising every single gulley cover in the road was missing. We use hinged covers now, even our road signs are composite rather than alloy. The worst thing was when a cast plate with names of fallen on a war memorial got pinched. I think the local scrap dealers clubbed together and paid for a new one.
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    You monopeds are always claiming that!
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    I thought if I went on my push bike via my nearest footpaths and bridleways I would gain access to some lovely narrow country lanes with no cars on them as well as some of the green lanes I used to ride my motorbike on. After two footpaths, a bridleway and another footpath I gave up due to the severe clagginess I found and rode back home. Here is a close up of my bike showing some nature on it.
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    My best was £60/£80 a year for my Africa Twins, then the Varadero. That was for third party fire and theft, 20k miles a year, commuting, ride other bikes 3rd party only and business use (for my job, not delivering pizzas etc) But when I bought a new Versys it went back up to the £250 mark until I lowered the value by using it a lot when I got it back down to the £100 mark. Another new bike has put it back to that range again. I swap back and forth between fully comprehensive and TPFT depending which is cheaper. I believe I have 38 years no claims bonus at the moment, but no company has allowed more than 9 years and when I started riding the most you could have was 3 years with the companies I was insured with. It's the road tax that hurts now, nearly a hundred quid a year for something that doesn't wear the road out or cause congestion!
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    They refused to go to the doctors. Stumpery? Well it was just a label next to a lot of tree stumps all piled about higgledy piggledy, I think for what eventually grows on them, usually ferns and flowery things I reckon. Wikipedia says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stumpery
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    Some of my colleagues have found plague victims. The last batch was multiple hundreds of people at the Royal Mint site and all work had to stop whilst the archaeologists go and do their stuff. This is the first batch below, my colleagues found more in 2003ish https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/collections/other-collection-databases-and-libraries/centre-human-bioarchaeology/osteological-database/medieval-cemeteries/east-smithfield-black-death-medieval
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    It was today, that is how it is usually. Last few months it was rammed though with lockdowners, but back to normal now. I found a whole new park today that I had never seen before, in my own town, walked past the small gate lots of times over the last 20 years and only noticed the small sign today for the first time. Walked through the little gate into a paradise of peace and quiet with some winos sitting under a thatch roof band stand in the centre, even they were chirpy and wished me a good afternoon. They have a......'stumpery'! I'll take a camera next time I'm out.
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    Just now in the local park.
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