Pedro

Is @Mawsleyon tv?

I am doing nothing but babysitting a brat of a dad. Beach will be overcrowded in the weekend, will try to resist drive there, no bike is a sad life.

No, it’s imported. It’s supermarket stuff

I´ve ridden a K1600B and to me that was a great bike, great engine, chassis at motorway speeds my GS (with 50% tires) wasn't really happy about in a wet autumn, heated seat, really comfy tourer that was! Plus it did wheelspins in third and fourth gears entering a wet motorway, that was proper fun! I've never ridden this one but after having sit on a naked one I can't see how it can be anything except a Harley wannabe

So, trying to keep my mum’s mind away from my dad perishing in a second grade hospital while covid mandates short daily visitations, I took to making or buying nice dinners, this is southern Portugal in the summertime Ham and cheese toast with local seasonal fruit, a classic Took her out to my favourite japanese restaurant, portuguese fresh fish presented by a master japanese chef! It was her first time ever in a japanese place and she loved it! The fried soft shell crabs had a part to play in howmuch dhe liked it, though, it’s almost a portuguese flavour a simple lunch, tomato and mozzarella salad with bread and peaches for dessert, summer means peaches and melons in Portugal My cooking, this is local clams a’la “bolhão pato”, basically clams sautéed in olive oil, garlic, fresh coriander and white wine, and served with the local bread Neighbour’s grilled chicken joint, really 50 meters away, cooks the tastiest small chicken in the Algarve. dad was still unsure and I was going to the bottom of Santa’s bag to fetch something tasty to eat! The local roaster serves chicken with their own lemon and garlic sauce, home made fries, and home made chopped and assembled salad as well, along wisome good value white wine it was delicious and cost a tenth of the sushi place Today’s lunch, southern Portuguese bread (toasted) with extra virgin low accidic olive oil, ground tomato and garlic paste, and Scottish smoked salmon slices, on a mounted toast with oregano, with a seasonal watermelon out of the refrigerator and cut into cold cubes as dessert

Messi just moved to Paris, though, in tears leavin Barcelona and in smiles arriving in Paris, there you go!

Funny, this Andrew thing isn’t even in the news here.

A book, Ian, there’s a book in there.

My guess is the instrctors needed someone to punish and laugh at?

Groups are silly, you go along with each other when nobody is having any fun.

@Tym, are you free diving somewhere where your feet can touch the ground?

Cold hearted!

You haven't really grasped what global warming is going to be like, have you? It means we'll have shit cold summers, warm winters with no rain, and you will have warmer whatever you have. Britain isn't really going to become a tropical paradise

@yen_powell, there might not be enough for a book but it sure is for a tv show, your own twist on faulty towers and black adder. Looking forward to the intelligence test!

Sunshine is essential for happiness, I think. Here, in winter you sometimes get two or three weeks constant rainy weather, by that time you start to see random people on the street looking properly sad. A lot of the portuguese that go to the Uk in search of better paid work, and there are quite a lot of them, really face depression during the winter time as it’s such a change from what they’re used to.

Agreed, but variety is the spice of life!

I have spent a week in Warsaw when my brother lived there, if you’re single there are other attractions…

My brother, and he’s a bigger guy than me, rode with one of our english roadracing enthusiast friends on the back of his gsxr1000 back in about 2015 doing a flat out crest induced wheelie in sixth gear on a bit of straight road near the nurburgring, I am not sure I would have enjoyed that!

First time ever on a bike for me was with a girlfriend riding a DT125R, I quite enjoyed it! After that I also was with a childhood friend on a CBR600 doing silly speeds on not politically correct places, I was a teenager back then. Now, I would get on the back of a bike for a short ride home or something like that, I wouldn't really enjoy it though, but wouldn't be afraid either. I really enjoyed touring with my girlfriend, although touring BMWs are quite better at carrying passengers than most other bikes.

And on a proper bike, too!

@Tym, make it a nice Jeep to go jeeping on, forget about that pikey caravan stuff.

That’s indeed correct

I once went on holiday and left my XR400 caked in mud on my parent’s garage. Every time they would brush against it walking past they’de get dirty and a little bit of dirt would drop to the nice floor, so dad called the local mechanic who owns a washing station to come and take it away for washing, the poor guy kicked and kicked for ages. Eventually gave up convinced I had a hidden switch installed. Eventually I came back, and hearing about this proceeded to start it on the third kick. Dad still thinks there’s a switch under the tank, where I fidget with the tickover speed before kicking it from cold.