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Bonjooar six trente. I see you already met most of the inmates ?

more likely portugese if he's in Brazil surely? any hoo, welcome in KK Fhoto. ?

I don't have any ex wives, I haven't finished the first one yet... ?

you guys are all so high tech. I have this in the shed i could hqve used that before leaving but the Renault garege and their compressor is only about 4km away and I needed fuel anyway so it was just less hassle... untill I discovered they decided that providing that service for their clients was no longer financially viable for them. wankers!

Hi @Tango. Ignore Buckster, we all do... I'm in France, and have been for 28 yrs, but I'm a long way north from you In Auxerre. I also ride a tiger 800 xc. give us a shout if you want any info.

? French citizenship doesn't cost anything. it's getting the bloody necessary paperwork that costs. original birth cerificates of both parents, and mine obviously, £35 each from the registrar general in London. Language evaluation certificate 150 odd € + the nearest test centres are over an hours drive away, endless papers of proof of employ, proof of residence, proof of identity, + marriege certificates + kids birth certificates + proof of joint living bask as far as possible or 10 years, etc,etc,etc, all foreign paperwork to be accompanied by a translation by an accredited translator (€€€€) + photo's +...+...+...

French citizenship is definately now on the cards. i was waiting to see aht happened with Brexshit. I have the dossier ready to go and now just need to find the funds ( official translations and language exams all cost money.) about 1000€ should do it, but I ain't got that available just now.

this is fucking curiuoser and curiouser. this seems to be the govts latest plan to move curfew to 18H00 who the fuck have the Cote d'or depertement ( 21) given blow jobs to?

yeah, i just realised that though I can live and work in France, the rest of the EU is now closed to me as a potential live/ work zone.

Nor here,

I just noticed somebody stole my sidestand! Bastids! ?

What the eye don't see, the heart don't grieve over...

what he said. like the pics though.

great pics Pedro, as ever. No coffee shops or restaurants are open here at all so no chance of stopping for a coffee. I'd have to do a Bob and take a flask and find a bench... ?

yup, going down that gravel / dirt road was stupid. I didn't realise it untill I was about a km in but yeah. I got away with it.

the first of Fred's in the snow is the canine loveglobes, and mine arent the right format anyway.

oooh, oooh, I got some more, not very "adventure" though

looks like you're about to get labradored.

muddy track from today. no blue skies here.

that is a stunningly sharp pic! me likey ?

it's getting to me. Weather's shit : 4 deg c and 10/10th cloud cover. blustery wind and threatening rain or sleet. It was something of a struggle to work up the energy to get all the clobber on neccessary to go for a ride. I did manage to persuade myself. I wanted to check the tyre pressures as I was certain they were down a bit having sat unused for so long nad with the recent temperature changes since I last checked so first stop was the nearest air line at the main renault dealers and petrol station. Nope, they've removed the air line and put a notice up saying " renault quick service centre does not check tyre pressures" okaaaay... fuck you then, I only ever filled up here cos they had free air. A couple of km's furter out of twn is a Total station with petrol ( thank you) and free air. Tyres were effectively 200 and 300 g light front and rear. Should be 25 front and 29 rear... that's Kilos per square metre. felt much better after that. No plan but took some back roads, that petered out and became gravel roads which I think I've been on before and thought that it was a through road, picking up tarmac again further on, so I risked it, gingerly though as these tyres are not off road tyres and not ideal on wet mud. a couple of km further along I realised that if I drop it im going to fuck my knee and / or shoulder lifting it. Answer: Don't drop it then... found tarmac again after 5 km or so riding down another lane I thought I saw something incongruous... WTF ? that looks like a giant rubiks cube... I kid you not! down some unpaved road theres this... thing... which I can only imagine has been put there for the benefit of trail walkers as it's at the jucntion of a couple of blazed trails I thought only the US was into outsize roadsize furniture... there's this huge rubix cube, an enormous chair, some outsize oldfashioned bycicles and farm implements, a giant chess set and a perch for storks to nest on... under the chair is a picnic table with a box of board games and some holly on the table with a sign saying " help yourself" I played an opening move on the ches board, and left. back up the muddy lane It soon became obvious that @XTreme is a bad influence and I found myself here, doing the cleaning thing before riding home. No leaf blower to dry it with though! only 50 or so km's and I will admit to having the heated grips on.

now THAT will be recoreded, deformed and repeated out of context! ?

" Blessed be the cracked, for it is they who let in the light"

just so's I can say I participated. Only pic of the month.

bloody right. anybody who got stuck since the beginning of the pandemic ( with the exception of truck drivers who had no choice) can find sympathy in the dictionary somewhere between "shit" and " Syphillis" . All you were sked to do was stay at home in front of the telly and drink beer and yuou weren't even capable of that? then fuck you Mate, you're part of the problem.