Yen stinks out the Isle of Wight!

[yen_powell]

I made it back from the Isle of Wight tranny run bike rally. Stan the Tran was magnificent as usual. The last band on Sunday night had people quietly distributing song lyrics set to the tune of 'Stand By Your Man' to sing to him and his wife as a surprise. STAND BY YOUR STAN was a musical masterpiece. He got a bit tearful, he has had 2 rallies cancelled by Covid etc and lots of trouble getting it going again this year. Apparently a light aircraft's wheels were only a few feet above my head as I drove into rally control which is next to a grass runway. Never heard it with my earplugs in and engine running.

I visited a monastery and sat in a church with orange windows on Saturday, the light inside was something else. The monastery and church were built by local bricklayers and builders using cheap Belgian bricks and it was bloody gorgeous inside. I didn't have the heart to whip out a camera as I sat inside quietly taking it all in. The grounds were really nice as well, not even an admission charge to wander around.

https://quarrabbey.org/monastery/vocation/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-monk/

 

 

 

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

35 minutes ago, yen_powell said:

I made it back from the Isle of Wight tranny run bike rally. Stan the Tran was magnificent as usual. The last band on Sunday night had people quietly distributing song lyrics set to the tune of 'Stand By Your Man' to sing to him and his wife as a surprise. STAND BY YOUR STAN was a musical masterpiece. He got a bit tearful, he has had 2 rallies cancelled by Covid etc and lots of trouble getting it going again this year. Apparently a light aircraft's wheels were only a few feet above my head as I drove into rally control which is next to a grass runway. Never heard it with my earplugs in and engine running.

I visited a monastery and sat in a church with orange windows on Saturday, the light inside was something else. The monastery and church were built by local bricklayers and builders using cheap Belgian bricks and it was bloody gorgeous inside. I didn't have the heart to whip out a camera as I sat inside quietly taking it all in. The grounds were really nice as well, not even an admission charge to wander around.

https://quarrabbey.org/monastery/vocation/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-monk/

 

 

 

Wow thats outstanding. I was staring at your pic thinking I don't understand what country is that from, its from some far flung clime but I can't pin it down at all. Thanks for the link that explains a lot. I might have to go to the Isle of Wight to see it for myself. What a monk!

[yen_powell]

Just now, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

Wow thats outstanding. I was staring at your pic thinking I don't understand what country is that from, its from some far flung clime but I can't pin it down at all. Thanks for the link that explains a lot. I might have to go to the Isle of Wight to see it for myself. What a monk!

Turns out I have been riding right past it every time I get off the ferry.

 

[XTreme]

This is some truly bizarre shit!

But at least we learned what became of Bruce!

[Buckster]

Just now, XTreme said:

This is some truly bizarre shit!

But at least we learned what became of Bruce!

That’s Bruce and Chucky’s bastard love child.

[boboneleg]

Brilliant @yen_powell, that's a rally with a difference

[Buckster]

2 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

Brilliant @yen_powell, that's a rally with a difference

I shudder to think what they would do with your peg leg at that event.

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

What are these jumbo leaves? Get your nature app out @boboneleg

[boboneleg]

Just now, Buckster said:

I shudder to think what they would do with your peg leg at that event.

It went dancing with some random dude at a NABD rally about 15 years ago 

[boboneleg]

3 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

What are these jumbo leaves? Get your nature app out @boboneleg

 

 

[yen_powell]

Quite a few years ago at the same rally I was in my tent boiling a kettle on my gas stove to make a cup of tea before going to sleep. I was kneeling down to do this in the porch of my tent as it wasn't very high. I happened to glance behind me and nearly leapt out of my skin. A bloke called Graham was sitting behind me, I had not even heard him come in. He was wearing a dress (his wife's he claimed), but also had a moustache and a pipe in his mouth. I was a bit weirded out by it all.

Anyway, on Friday night a bloke in a long leather coat with a beard came up to me and my friends and said hello. None of us knew who he was, despite his insistence that we knew him and him repeating his name over and over. It was the dress man. The addition of a beard had completely changed how he looked. He is the bloke wearing a monk's robe and glasses sat behind the inflatable doll in one of the pictures above. We made him put his hand over the beard and we all went, 'Oh yeah!!!!'

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

14 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

 

 

[Buckster]

13 hours ago, yen_powell said:

Quite a few years ago at the same rally I was in my tent boiling a kettle on my gas stove to make a cup of tea before going to sleep. I was kneeling down to do this in the porch of my tent as it wasn't very high. I happened to glance behind me and nearly leapt out of my skin. A bloke called Graham was sitting behind me, I had not even heard him come in. He was wearing a dress (his wife's he claimed), but also had a moustache and a pipe in his mouth. I was a bit weirded out by it all.

Anyway, on Friday night a bloke in a long leather coat with a beard came up to me and my friends and said hello. None of us knew who he was, despite his insistence that we knew him and him repeating his name over and over. It was the dress man. The addition of a beard had completely changed how he looked. He is the bloke wearing a monk's robe and glasses sat behind the inflatable doll in one of the pictures above. We made him put his hand over the beard and we all went, 'Oh yeah!!!!'

I hate it when that happens. 

[yen_powell]

More pictures from the weekend, the next post are a proper picture takers pics

This man had flashing eyebrows. Let me take a picture of your flashing eyebrows Superman, okay says he. Managed to get a pic in between flashes.

Cow with legs growing out of its chin.

Zoom in on the pic above and you can see a strip of blue and Portsmouth the other side of it.

The monks' garden where they grow their food.

Zoom in for all the baby ducks following mummy duck.

Behind the bar.

 

[yen_powell]

Credit to Steve Martin (not the film star)

 

Bloke on the left is Graham, the man who crept into my tent many years ago wearing a dress.

[Pedro]

27 minutes ago, yen_powell said:

Credit to Steve Martin (not the film star)

 

Bloke on the left is Graham, the man who crept into my tent many years ago wearing a dress.

Good lord, Ian!

[XTreme]

24 minutes ago, yen_powell said:

Credit to Steve Martin (not the film star)

 

Bloke on the left is Graham, the man who crept into my tent many years ago wearing a dress.

Very good Yen!

[yen_powell]

It's like this forum.....but in a big marquee.

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

My son appeared while I was looking at the pics and said is this basically a bunch of old dudes drinking far too much? Followed by Is it some sort of cult?

[XTreme]

12 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

My son appeared while I was looking at the pics and said is this basically a bunch of old dudes drinking far too much? Followed by Is it some sort of cult?

Satanic Ritual more like!

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

Looks like one of those leather and lace bdsm sub culture clubs.

[Sir Fallsalot]

1 hour ago, yen_powell said:

 

I know that couple its Wolfie and colleen living in Swansea  and i recognise a few more from other rally's 

[Catteeclan]

It's like a gay comic con.

[gymwitch]

Its bloody terrifying

[skyrider]

6 hours ago, gymwitch said:

Its bloody terrifying

yes stick with the dog and partridge and the warehouse