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I love this thread! Thanks everyone for the pics This is Tully, she is deaf and much cuter when asleep than when awake

Touche my good sir, you have also reminded me to update my location! We tend to go to Falmouth in Cornwall at least once a year to camp and we're heading to swannage soon camping too, so will have a look about

This a great thread [mention]Saddlebags[/mention] and I have been talking about putting in anchors at ours, so cheers [mention]elizabethf[/mention] and all those who've contributed! Very helpful

Ohh I forgot to look yesterday lunch! I will def check it out today I'm in awe of nat geo type photographers.

Yeah this sums up my views on it all pretty well. If people ask me I say I'm agnostic in the sense that I fully admit I am human, with all the limitations of a human and therefore I am not big headed enough to think I have the answers to any of that stuff. You do you, I'll bimble along in my lane, don't yell at me and we're all good! My mums has her beliefs, I wouldn't say that she's religious because it's not like she believes in the man in the sky who sent his only son... Blah Blah. But she does believe in putting good into the world wherever possible, of helping your fellow man and that if there is something after death she only hopes her loved ones are happy / comfortable / at peace. I think she raised me right with some of these ideas, not sure all of them stuck, but I find myself wanting to put a little more happiness and help into the world if I can, but not because I'm being judged on every action by the big beardy in the sky. Bill and Teds " Be excellent to each other" Sans, I cannot imagine what you've been through, I only hope you're doing as well as you can be now x

He's so sweet! I loved his fancy dress at last years rally

[mention]Grumpy Old Git[/mention] Can we have some of Dillon please?

For me the politician fall back that makes my blood boil over, even if like them, is when they start a sentence with "Look..." ESPECIALLY if this is in reply to a question when they then meander around a non-answer Management speak - who in God's good name invents this stuff? Our current enraging phrase is " meeting our customer's satisfaction quotient". WTF is that supposed to mean? Bearing in mind I'm on a sodding oil tanker shifting about 150,000 tonnes of thick black shit around the world how am I supposed to keep a customer satisfied? Managers who bandy about terms like 5s / Kaizen / LEAN and have no idea what any of it means, they just know they went to a conference and it was talked about like a massive deal. Actually, having a management that constantly has new buzzwords each quarter because that's the new leading-age, company saving method that's sure to do the trick this time! One month of those terms being used constantly while people are confused AF, one month of shoddy implementation and mass loss of productivity as everyone scrabbles to adapt to this new system, one month of starting to run some-what normally before it all starts again Jeez am I grateful I never heard this one before this thread! For me, I'm aware it's completely irrational, but I was always brought up with the phrase "Fair play" and then moved to a part of the country where they just say "Fair..." Much like when someone with OCD who's stopped from finishing their routine, I almost reflexively reply "..play" after a suitable pause, because waiting for them to finish the expression themselves is agonisng for me.

Well that's just absolute nightmare fuel! Thanks, I hate it.

There are so many gorgeous pets! [mention]Marino[/mention], I wanna give Gizmo the biggest cuddle, I love Alsatians. Never a truer sentence! My mum used to have a rescue african grey, who I did love but it was temperamental little git and would be asking for head scritches one moment and then trying to rip your finger off the next. I have many tiny scars from that tiny ball of fury. Ooh pics of the ferrets too please! I would love some but partners too worried about their smell.

This needs to be a thread doesnt it? Start it!

I can't wait to click that when I'm not at work Tiggie

There's nothing wrong with those cats - it's their owners that need neutering. Aye, I think while you were replying I edited mine

More than happy to arrange for them to send them to you instead How do I sign up for "Daily Pet Pics" ?

But... Their cats are very cute! I was also going to comment on each dog pic in this thread but they're all awesome ( [mention]Six30[/mention], that coat pattern is Amazing! So gorgeous) This is a little my feeling on people who go OTT on their kid, posting constantly to FB and the like with new drool pics. A few pics here and there or you kids / pets is cute and I like hearing about, but expecting everyone around you to appreciate it constantly, is a bit much. Though I still don't think I feel as strongly on any of this as Mark does

As we've just moved, I looked up our local MP and their vote history to get an idea of our area. He's consistently reduced funding to local councils, reduce their autonomy etc etc. I'm pretty sure one of our cars needing to go back in the garage is purely from some of the pot holes in local roads, they look more like meteor craters! Not this last summer, one before, we went to France on the bikes for two weeks and the main grumbles when we got off the ferry were the road surface being Awful and middle lane drivers

I'll get you a cider this year Rennie, best way to show thank I think

[mention]Hoggs[/mention] has had a word with them for you

Wait a minute! Is your cat called Bob? Does this mean your username refers to the fact that that Unit of a cat can also move at considerable speed?! Apart from funny comments, that picture is super cute and I'd want to give him a big cuddle

Brilliant News! Well done

Woop! You're just in time for the season

That was not my intention, even slightly, I was hoping my first line was sincere enough for how much this must suck. OP, I know it doesn't help but I once spent a whole afternoon cleaning my bike, putting new handlebars and bar ends on, only to be woken at half 4 the following morning by two scuzzbags trying to walk my bike up the road and into a local park. Thanks to the Birmingham police, who were awesome, 45 mins later the bike was wheeled back to me, however the gits had bashed in the bar ends when they'd ditched the bike as well as snapping the clutch lever and bending the brake one. The irony of this was not lost and me and my mates had a good giggle that evening at how ridiculous it was... My comment was meant more as incredulity of the... willfulness ? (if that's even the right word) of scumbags. As I said, the kind of person who wandering along the street decides to steal a particularly awkward part off a bike, not even like Throttled said about stealing bits for a dare (like unscrewing a mirror or scratching the seat) is just something that anyone with morals wouldn't do.

So it's taken me a few days to catch up on forum antics.. and I don't know how I missed this thread! Firstly, although it's additional stress and responsibility, I hope you're having a lovely time and enjoying the sights and sun! Secondly, when I saw your posts in the good morning chat, my incorrect assumption was that you were taking a holiday with a long lost Son, who you had previously not had contact with were now getting to know one another in a heartwarming bonding experience. It's a weird experience to completely change the way in which you view a series of diary entries with the updated context!

I'm sorry, I know how much this must suck for you and I do really hope you can get it fixed soon... But the idea of someone wandering along and thinking "oooh, you know what? I do need a replacement lever.." Then crawling on the floor to dismantle your bike is so ridiculous, that it keeps making me laugh each time I see the title of your post pop up

God Damned Neil, how are we meant to NOT make jokes with that kind of set up!?