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Weather's decent......

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However......we've got to sort out the flat that the Polish bitch fucked up!

So whether I get out is another matter.

What about you?

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1 hour ago, Buckster said:

Riding down south to ingurland to see my mother tomorrow.

Is she still in the North East Ian?

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47 minutes ago, Catteeclan said:

Just finished an Audi q5 cam belt in the garden, I'm bloody soaked now.

Jesus Dave, that sounds like a bundle of fun 

 

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3 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

Jesus Dave, that sounds like a bundle of fun 

 

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Not really that bad but the showers don't help. I gather we have them for most of the weekend too.
 

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9 hours ago, Marcel said:

have to get the tractor towed to a storage place in the am...

The Harley's totally fucked then?

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17 hours ago, Buckster said:

Aye.

How does 'aye' sound in a Kent accent ?  In fact come to think of it your accent must be bloody hard to fathom out with all the places you've lived.  Have you taken on the full jocko twang yet ?

 

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9 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

How does 'aye' sound in a Kent accent ?  In fact come to think of it your accent must be bloody hard to fathom out with all the places you've lived.  Have you taken on the full jocko twang yet ?

 

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I don't have an accent, everyone else has but not me.

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2 hours ago, Buckster said:

I don't have an accent, everyone else has but not me.

When we spoke many years ago you had a north east accent.

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32 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Durham I'd say!

Pink Panther country. Durham Durham, Durham Durham Durham Durham Durhammmmmm, dararrrrr, dadeddeydeedyo, dadee dadee dadee dadee dahhhhhh

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33 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Sun is shining......roads are dry!

So I'm off out!

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Make the most of it, you will get the bill for the flat damage later.

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2 hours ago, XTreme said:

Sun is shining......roads are dry!

So I'm off out!

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I'll tell the the DBM's that your on your way ..................

 

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4 minutes ago, busabeast said:

Good time then?

Went past your house, I was going to call in but it smelt of shite so I gave it a miss.

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Brother in law is going on a temporary transfer to a specialist centre in Hyeres tomorrow and needed some stuff dripping of for him in Lyon before he leaves. Wed planned to go and spend the afternoon with him sunday to take him his stuff. But, the cat escaped from the colditz courtyard on Thursday night, reappeared on friday in a bad way. Vet says she got bitten by a dog  so 4 stitches and convalescent. Didnt want to leave her alone all day

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Saturday so Mrs Moon stayed home & i decided to run down to Lyon and back by bike. 4.5h run south ( no motorway) getting there at 14:00. Sit around in the warm and dry taking the piss out of brother in law whilst a storm front goumes through from sw to ne and then a 3 h night blast up the autoroute home for 22hoo ish. 
 

Boy did i get that plan wrong! 
 

left here 09:00 having checked the weather radar and realised the storm front was moving faster then forcast and starting to rotate north. 
 

i stopped about an hour out to zdd a layer under my jacket cos the temps dropped 5°. Again an hour later for a quick slurp of coffee from my flask and a 2nd thermal layer. I was already on the northern edge of the storm fron and the rain was coming down steadily. 
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 I got a bit further south before finding a bus shelter to eat me sarnies in whilst watching alternately the rain and the weather radar. 
 It become very clear over half an hour that i was going to have to bail on the brother in law and rely on that age old tried and tested military strategy of” running away”.  The storm front was moving much faster than id thought and the main body was now right between me and Lyon. The weather radar shows the storm had reached the Rhone valley and stalled, curling north in an anticlockwise rotation, generating wind and lightning strikes along with heavy rainfall. 
 

i misread that completely! And rode home with my tail between my legs ( metaphorically. Though the rain eased as i got further north i definitely found the limits of ALL my rain gear well before i got home. I dont remember being so thoroughly soaked in years. 
 

i am decidedly too old for that shit. 
 

i’ pit brither in laws stuff in a box and sent it “chronoposte”.  
 

400 odd km round trip, 300of which in steady rain. 
 

on the plus side im not aching all over this morning, and the bike didnt miss a beat. 👍

 

 

 

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