Saul

To be fair to the caller she said he was more shaken up than hurt, although it was a stressful trip until I got there and completely understood the situation.

It wasn't my choice he wanted a twist and go. I would have prefered something with gears.

I thought you had people to do that for you now.

No mate, they are all embracing.

I had the call the morning that no parent wants. It went: "Are you Cody's dad, he has just fallen off his scooter". Luckily it was low speed and apart from some scrapes he is fine, if pretty shaken up. He managed to drop the scooter right outside of our Doctors so by the time we got there the Doc had checked him over and gave him the all clear. My Mrs and I drove to pick him up and I rode the scooter home for him. To be fair to him he did say that he would have picked the bike up and rode it home but witnesses saw everything and took over, shepherding him into the Dr's and calling me. For which I thanked them profusely. He is 18 and pretty inexperienced, even though I have talked to him and tried to advise, but at that age they just don't listen. I bought him a new jacket, helmet and gloves as what he was wearing before offered no protection, the jacket and gloves saved him today. He still argues the toss over wearing boots, even though he has a nice bit of road rash on his foot today. The scooter is okay too, it road fine the 4 miles home from the scene of the fall. A couple more scrapes on the bodywork and a damaged mirror are the extent of the damage. The pics below were taken the day I bought it for him, not quite so nice now.

Ok that is interesting, I am part of a Jack Russell forum and that what was I thinking of with the comment in terms of appropriate place. He is a Jack Russell cross Border Terrier, but luckily for me he has a border terrier temperament, much calmer and less serial killer than a Jack Russell. I have had 4 JRT's over the years before him and he is the best behaved by quite a margin.

I see what you have done there, very creative

Character he has in spades. I could gush about him all day, my best bud I won't as this isn't the place.

It's a very cool place. I have always loved it up in those woods. If people want to see it I will post some more pictures of the place. I am torn really because when we were kids you could spend hours up there having adventures and never see a soul. Now it's more like a leisure park. It is being opened up and looked after so that is a good thing but it does get crowded in the summer. It feels like our secret place has been taken away which is daft really. Many good memories and tails to tell about that place.

Out for a walk around my home Town with the Ginger Fella. Well not really around the town but along the outskirts along a canal path. We also walked past the old railway yard. The red brick building you can see was part of the old railway sheds where the Locos were kept. Originally the was a massive turntable where locos were spun around and either sent back on their axis or into one of the sheds. The reason I point that out as it was the place that Rev Awdry saw that inspired him to write the tails of Thomas the Tank engine. Shame they are just industrial units now, but I do remember the turntable and engines when I was a kid. So at a real stretch you could say I grew up near Sodor. I followed the canal path right up through St Blazey to Ponts Mill woods and the Luxulyan Valley. A fantastic place absolutely littered with old abandoned industry, which is being slowly turned into a massive sort of park. When I was a kid is was just forgotten and overgrown and a great place for adventures on a dirt bike. Not permitted to do that now but it is a great place to go and spend a few hours. There is very much more to it that we covered today. We both did 8.5k and got absolutely soaked but it was a good walk.

They did in the 1970's too, Liberal use of the cane when I was in school.

Ain't that the truth, I left school with no qualifications whatsoever, they kicked me out two months before the exams. Not saying it was undeserved but even so I was only 16 and didn't know my ass from my elbow after 5 years in their charge. Twas the 1970's of course. I did go back to education in my 20's and got my BSc, not that it made much difference to my life really. It did get the thick moniker off my shoulder though. Not woe is me or complaining just observing they way things were and still are to a certain extent.

Flat Earthers eclipse

Saw this the other day, made me smile.

Well deprearetly dragging this post back on topic I Hugged the Himalayan today. I don't think it is to much of an eyesore as the matt black blends in. I am not worried about it getting clogged up as I have no plans of taking the Himalayan off road any further than a muddy car park. I will probably go to a more road biased tyre when the time comes.

Well it is for me anyway, no more work until next Friday 23:00

Twas Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08DRF7TY3/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I do like my parts

Cool car, I do like an old Beamer

Think of the cleaning frenzy that would prevoke.

Going to experiment with raising the gearing a little. I am planning a TEC cam in the future but thought I would try the higher gearing first to see how the bike copes.

Well I gave it some thought and after cleaning a load of crap off the rear shock for the 3rd or 4th time I have decided to go Hugger before the salt arrives. A nice man from Parcel force brought me a box of goodies.

Possible but not the hardest thing in the world to swop back to Halogen. Did my first commute and back last night 32 miles there and 32 miles back all in the dark, mixture of lanes B roads and dual carriageway. The LED gives a real appreciable improvement on low beam, much better pool of light in front of the bike. Gives much more confidence especially on the lanes. The high beam is better but not drastically so, an improvement but not the same as the low beam. All in all I am pretty pleased with the results for £32, plus I have a spare LED H4 and the original Halogen H4 as well. It was busy going to work and I had no flashes of protest from oncoming traffic so do not think I am dazzling anyone. See how I get one tonight.

Wow what a stunning place.

Do you know what hit me most there, the joint graves were two men were buried together. I naively asked why, the answer was they could not work out which body parts belonged to which man although they knew there were two and sometimes their identity. That really hit home to me. We went to Tyne Cott as a Cornish Choir as there are many men from the Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry buried there.

Norway was the one country I didn't get to. I would love to go there. I remember going out for a Saturday night in Helsinki and spending £100 which in 1987 was a lot to spunk on a night out.