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    I have an MP4 you have to see but not sure how to get it here?
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    Don't worry, Pete will polish that out.
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    I have borrowed the occasional loud piped motorbike. They give me a headache after a while. Good for a quick trip, but not so fun for all day, especially if you have neighbours and do early starts.
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    Yes, much bigger in real life than I imagined when I got closer.
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    Just seen this on my back ups
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    No turds today, just coloured areas on plans for legal agreements. Later on I will imagine them as highly detailed plans and produce highway works estimates based on them which developers have to cough up in advance before they get their planning permission. It's legalised blackmail and very satisfying when you get money for the local streetscape from the people making loads of profit. This is the work we haven't been doing since January last year on paper because it's being taken over by another group, but so far they have done about 5 out of 50 or so that have come up. I've also been dealing with a hissy fit between a mason, his supervisor, an electrical contractor and a white lining contractor. I have reminded the liner I helped him out yesterday with technical advice, the electrical contractor that I've told them how to get off of parking tickets on many occasions and the mason's supervisor that I have to agree his invoices before they get paid and I can leave them for 28 days before even glancing at them. So now I'm getting a zebra crossing moved over the weekend/Monday when the school is shut and not when the little horrors are rushing about in all directions being horrible twats.
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    Lunch hour. You have to get away from the dopey email answering and drawing for a little while or go insane. Just been sent a load of consultant designed traffic calming work to make comments on after my last batch made them change everything. Now I can tear it apart with a refreshed hatred.
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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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