S-Westerly
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I truly hate this and do wonder if in the long run it will have been worth the destruction we have visited on ourselves. Its the way we have just put up with it that amazes me (including myself here).
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Done. Don't hold your breath though as anything approaching common sense out of hmg is reaching.
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Got to be Indonesia if you want the real deal although you can get a decent one in Singapore.
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Deep-fried baby squid,drunken prawns and satay. Lots and lots of satay.
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Favourite summer dish - steak tartar with a decent salad.
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Bought my bike for cash but still had to use dealer for first two years for warranty. My model hasn't had any recalls but others have and certainly for first owner they are quite good at contacting folks.
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Son is 34 so a bit ahead of yours. He's also a brilliant cook so an invite to dinner is never refused! Bugger runs marathons too so is not as rotund as me. Pre-Covid was training for Triathlon (loon). Grandaughter was in fine fettle and great fun. Youngest Grandson has just discovered he has hands. Not sure what they're for yet.
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Steak is from local butcher and wine was prezzie from my son. Good boy. Steak without copious juices ie blood is just shoe leather
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Probably, sigh.
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My wife has the cycle shorts thing. I don't as even when I do 30 miles I'll take the discomfort over looking like a hot air balloon perched on a bike.
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Nope, I like my steaks the way I like 'em. If I rub them with anything it's a dab of Tewkesbury Mustard. Pan fried I'll go with the olive oil but this beast is going in the oven.
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Actually with a thick t-bone I cook it in the oven rather than on a grill or in a pan. This makes it more medium rare rather than the "blued" version I'd have a sirloin etc.
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Today we are support bubbling so get to see my two youngest grandchildren. Then for dinner tonight I have a 900 g t-bone which will be cooked rare with a bottle of good red wine to wash it down. Its also not raining which is a plus!
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I ride a push bike myself. However I don't wear lycra nor do I ride hell for leather down narrow sunken lanes used by pedestrians and dog walkers and scream imprecations at them as I pass. I'm tolerant up to a point.......
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The mere thought of donning lycra is enough to make me nauseous. We get a lot of the MAMILS round here as they huff and puff up the lane to do their manly deeds up in the woods. What really pisses me off is when they come hurtling down the lane which is a 20 mph limit and very narrow. They go well fast and they're bloody silent. As a result they're dangerous. The dogs (on leads) go mental.
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Perry's the manufacturer of lifebuoys outsourced their manufacturing to China. For the first year or two things went well and quality control was good. After a while the Chinese manufacturer decided to cut costs without telling Perry. Soon after they were having epic fails to the extent the MCA put an M-Notice out about them being not fit for use. Perry's reputation took a big hit even though they shifted manufactur again.
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Dear God. I can see why they'd be banned! All our circuit testing is done with meters and it's forbidden to work on a live circuit. Locked out / tagged out.
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Accorfing to my Cobrra its made in Czech Republic, not China. Its a couple of years old so no idea if they have changed. Given the Chinese disgraceful track record in theft of property rights it could be a good rip-off.
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Ireland used to be bad for that and probably still is- folks stopping on a narrow lane to have an interminable chat with someone else, oblivious to any other traffic.
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My admittedly small exposure to dead bodies would make me think there's not much market for a photo of a dead person. For family you'd want to remember them at their best not a corpse. Certainly wouldn't be anything I'd want for me or mine.
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The re-cycling of graveyards is also (apparently) why old churches are often lower than the surrounding graveyard. Centuries of dead people accumulating ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
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Interesting but why? I'd not have thought they'd hazard the water?
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Returned to the beer. Worst weekend's sport I can remember for years. Totally crap. Too cold and icy to burn off some rage on the bike so will have to make do with hot toddies. Not the best weekend ever plus lockdown.
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It's other hideous idiosyncrasy was if a lump of clay got jammed in the throttle cable the only way to stop it was to switch off the ignition.
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Our first car was absolutely vile. It was a pass on from my mother in law when the retired. A Volvo 66 and it was awful. I wrote it off on the old Liverpool Dock Road when it skidded on diesel into a container wagon. Best thing that ever happened to it. Course I had to explain this to my wife who was more attached to it than I was. She always has had a thing for lost causes.
