old-timer

Just one. But make sure he/she is Polish. They are the best !

I'm not sure if it is because I live 'overseas, but the picture is not coming through...

Yup Still can't see you there though six Oh... But he's there all right...

♪ There's no donia like snowdonia... ♫ ♪

Oh wow. An in-house toilet... Chic...! (What an absolutely adorable cat BTW) .

"Of course it's safe to jump. You'll be landing in snow...".

At a biker meeting they were calling for more dry wood for the fire. Someone left, then came back saying that he found some. He threw it in the fire and we all had a really good laugh. And then I had a really cood cry when I realized whose "dry wood" it was... The fire went well though...

Or you could let someone with an (open) fireplace in the house have it. Tell them that they can take it for free if they remove it from you garden and process it elsewhere... Win-win...

OK, serious then... Years ago I bought a house where the garden was a true jungle. So we had to cut back almost everything that was green, which resulted in a huge pile of garden debris. We dug a big hole in the ground (about 1 by 2 meters and more than 1 meter deep and) and started a fire at the bottom. Not too big at first, and only when it burned really well we started to throw in small amounts of debris. Not too much at a time so as not to 'choke' the fire... It is important that the fire gets enough oxygen... When the burning was over, we left the ashes in the pit and just closed it with the dug out earth again. It seems to me that burning stuff in the drum burner might choke the fire if you stuff too much at a time. Looking at the pics of your garden, It reminds me a bit of our garden in those days. It looks like there is enough space to dig a hole to burn your pile... Imho, the problem is not getting the fire started, but keeping it alive... Burning garden stuff yourself in the garden is not allowed in NL anymore. Not even in drum burners. But in those days we would cut back the garden every 2, 3 years and burn the stuff as described. It just might be a better plan than sacrificing your precious ZX6R...

A ZX6R ?

Don't tell [mention]Richzx6r[/mention], but I also joined an international BMW F650 thumper forum (USA based). They are not as bad as the forum you mentioned, and there are members from all over the world, but it is all very serious. Technique mainly and a bit travel perhaps, but no real chat section. I must say though that the 'technicians' really know what they are talking about... And their advice is really helpful, so in that sense the forum lives up to expectations. But what I'd like in an international forum is a bit chit-chat with other 'species' sometimes. So yeah... I like to hang out here too and witness how the UK natives kill each other (verbally).

Phew...

You do... you do... Of course you do... but... It's just that I... well ahm... I... ahm... it's just that... ahm... Well you know ! See ?

Thanks for offering Stu, I know you can, you did so for Gin. And I don't want to seem unappreciative, but I'd better leave it as it is. Better to keep my nick's the same in all (biker) forums I'm a member of. Besides, if you would change my nick too, it could cause an avalanche of requests... But again, thanks... Huib.

When I first joined a biker forum some ten years ago, the majority of members were quite young and many had just started riding bikes as a hobby (only in sunny weather). Or they were men in their midlife-crisis who started riding after 45 orso, also as a hobby. Just a few daily users there though... Being not so young anymore and having had motorbikes for my daily commute (summer and winter, rain or shine) my whole life, I picked a name that would reflect my 'seniority' so to speak. But a bit humour and some selfmockery wouldn't hurt, hence Old-timer. I decided to put the hyphen in, so I would not be confused with classic cars or bikes... When I joined Facebook a while ago, I wanted to be called Old Timer there too. This name was not accepted though. Smart*ss Facebook told me that that could not be a "real people's name" so it was rejected. I then decided to change it in 'wouldbe ancient English': Auld Tymer. Facebook accepted, so that's my name in Facebook. I'd say 1-0 for Old-timer... I now regret that I did not think of that name before though. I like 'Auld Tymer' a lot, but it's hard (if not impossible) to have your name changed in forums. My real name is Huib Bos. Huib is short for Huibert (which is the Dutch version of the English, German, French Hubert). Bos is Dutch for woods or forest. Regards, Old-timer, aka Auld Tymer, Huib.

No...! Well, I'll be...! 51 years a driving license... 25 years a driving instructor certificate... ... and I just did not know ! Brilliant... Who is a nob now ? I ask you, WHO IS A NOB ???

Or counting my toes...

I fear that I am the nob, reading the whole stupid discussion... As if I don't have anything better to do on a tuesday evening... But there's hope for me still. I did not read the links...

This story reminds me of a case we had in NL some time ago. Nob of the day was to me the judge when he decided 'guilty'... A man stopped for a red traffic light. An ambulance came up from behind, 'screaming and flashing'. The good man made way by pulling up a few meters. That's when the camera 'got' him... In court, the judge told the man that he was not allowed to 'make way for an ambulance' if it meant violating some f...ng traffic rule. Better to let someone die then to jump a red light ?

I found a picture under a bit different name, but it looks like we're talking about the same bird... It could be a 'Muscovy duck' though the one in the picture is a different colour than the one in your picture. Still, the shape of the head (which looks like it's screwed on later) and the red area seem to point that way. From the info I found I understood that it is a native New Zeeland bird... PS. I'm not a bird watcher, but I do like a puzzle sometimes...