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With the fifth horseman of the apocalypse here ( mother in law) I’m having to run the bloody heating 24/7 and the log burner all day. She’s always bloody cold. I didn’t look at the meter for the first 6 weeks but the utility company have kindly emailed me to tell me my direct debit which used to cover the gas and power is now woefully behind. By the time she clears off I will probably have been able to buy another bike with the heat Ive wasted warming the place up.

I get paid for looking at the ones in Bournemouth. They are just as shit as any others tho.

I was in Bournemouth today, looking at a couple of roofs, but the weather was ok. Always lots of morons crawling along in Dorset. We have a live in carer arriving tomorrow for MiL as she appears to be deteriorating. The chances of her going back to the US seem to be receding :(. This has been a pretty shit month.

Bloody hell, I’m a rank amateur compared to some of you lot I’m a bit curious how you can get points without even having a licence?

6, they all come off later this year which I’m looking forward to.

I have a few points on my licence so 240 for both is a miracle.

Went through one of the comparison sites originally, can’t recall which one but the policy is with Principal Insurance. Not a company I’d come across before but then there are loads I’ve never heard of on the comparison sites. just checked my emails and their number is 03300241358. That’s the renewals dept but I’m sure they could help.

When I bought my MT09 eighteen months ago the insurance cost was around £850. I did discuss putting it on a multi bike policy with my Indian when it renewed last year but they made it so complicated and turned out just as expensive and I didn’t bother. They recently emailed me with the renewal cost for the Indian and then 10 mins later with a quote on the Yamaha, which isn’t due until Sept. I called them to ask why the second quote and after some prevarication they came back to admit they had dropped a bollock and we’re about to renew both on a multi bike and cancel the existing Yamaha policy without my instructions and if I hadn’t called it would have just gone through automatically. They then offered to go with the multi bike for both, total cost just over £240 fully comp. The Indian alone was £450 last year. I didn’t question anything, just paid there and then. Confirmation arrived by email 15 mins later which a carefully checked for errors, all ok, yay!

My wife is fit as a butchers dog, if I had to put more than 20p on which one of us would be a dribbling vegetable first I’d be backing me.

Aren’t you a little ray of sunshine

She certainly isn’t short of opinions. I have to keep reminding myself that a lot of this is her dementia talking, but it’s bloody hard. Our new dog has been a joy throughout this living purgatory, I think he’s the only think keeping us sane.

I doubt she would want to. She views this country as some sort of third world state. On being discharged from hospital she asked if we could arrange for her to see some proper doctors, apparently those who treated her inc the nursing staff ( who were brilliant), weren’t qualified as they came from all sorts of weird countries.

Can’t get this out of my head

My worse nightmare She only has right to be here for 3 months, currently in month 2. On day 91 im going to be straight on to immigration to dob her in.

I’ve always wondered why copper slip works if anyone can explain it?

I know how you feel. I have MiL here at the moment. She was due to fly home on 2nd Jan but couldn’t as we had to call the ambulance at 2 am on the 1st as she was haemorrhaging blood from umpteen gastric ulcers caused by the meds she was taking. Her dementia has got three times worse, she’s partly incontinent and a full time job for 2 of us to look after. The hospital won’t certify her as fit to fly until the end of the month. I cannot bloody wait, tho my ski trip is screwed Every day feels like it’s 48 hrs long….

It’s pretty much the only sport I’m good at. As I only have a finite number of years left before I’m too decrepit to enjoy it I’m taking every opportunity. The place I go to has empty slopes so you can really hammer along. That said I did bust one of my vertebra 2 years ago, I carried on skiing and didn’t know I’d done it until I went for an MRI for something else a couple of months later only to be asked by the consultant if I’d been in a car crash recently. I’m rebooked for end of feb to get my back done.

I was supposed to have my spine op tomorrow but it’s been canceled . Too many people with flu and RVS or some such thingy. On a positive note that does mean I can go skiing at the end of the month which I thought I would miss.

The meter is the responsibility of the utility provider, as is the connection between the intake head and the meter. The box/ housing is your responsibility as can be the back board. If the utility provider is telling you different they are a bunch of lying shysters.

Ordered thanks, you only need this stuff once in a blue moon but when you need it you need it … and it’s bloody annoying when you haven't got it.

I don’t have any left hand drill bits but that’s a good shout, I’ll get a set. Cheers.

Possibly the most inappropriately named tool ever. They never bloody work. Tried to extract a mangled screw this afternoon ( not on a bike), half an hr buggering about with the extractor in the end gave up and drilled it and wound it out with mole grips. Has anyone ever actually successfully extracted anything with an easy out, if so what brand did you use? Maybe mine are just shit.

It’s snowing! It’s really chucking it down! Prob a couple of inches so far, tho it feels quite wet so might turn to rain at some point. New doggie thinks it’s great, can’t bloody get him inside, racing around in it like he’s had a triple espresso and a dose of speed.

If I’d have known it would annoy people I’d have posted photos of it ages ago …

My poor 125 had gone through a string of owners and L plates. Someone had fitted shitty after market levers, the clutch basket was knackered and it juddered on letting the clutch out, the back caliper was draggy, it had been dropped at least once … but amazingly it still had the OEM can. I enjoyed it despite 12hp having to drag my 100kg about in slow motion…