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Tried them too and they were the best of the ones I have tried but still had a habit of falling out and the three became two etc.

Pretty well what I am seeing around here. Was in Stroud market yesterday and it was pretty busy although most folks were masked up but social distancing just wasn't happening really. All the coffee shops were doing takeaway and folks drinking them in groups. Police were around and never seemed to bother anyone. Doesn't bother me at all.

As I said I've tried most of the disposable ones on the market including ones we use at work. Anything I stick in my ears so far has a tendency to fall out even when wearing a helmet. At work I just use over the ear muffs which work although they get horribly sweaty in the tropics. Hence my going for moulded custom jobs with filters which if I want can be connected to my phone. Supposed to block 31db of noise.

The side stand is powder coated and is actually OK apart from the actual floor plate which gets dragged over the ground etc. The centre stand isn't oem and although bought from Germany I suspect was assembled a bit further east. With hindsight I should have powder coated it before I fitted it but a coat of hammerite black does the job every 6 months or so. No real corrosion yet just surface bloom occasionally.

It's actually a hare and after jointing and boning out we will have the saddle tonight, soup from the bones and offal and a pie with the meat from the haunches.

Sunday dinner as it was:

Painted (again) the side stand and centre stand which really seem to suffer from salt and grit which given their location is no real surprise.

I tried these and they didn't work for me, sadly.

I've tried umpteen different types of disposable ones as well as the auritech reusable. They all worked to a degree but they all have a tendency to work their way out over a ride and sometimes quite quickly meaning I have to stop etc. As I have ear issues anyway I'm trying to protect the hearing I have left. So I've just had moulds taken of my ears almost two weeks ago and am waiting the end product. I'm getting them from Ultimate and I hope they'll be what I'm expecting. One other thing - I never ride without ear protection these days as I have significant hearing damage partly from biking but also from industrial noises and firearms in my youth.

Went for a walk today and lock down is looking increasingly like a busted flush. We walked from home up to Haresfield Beacon which is a well know viewpoint over the Severn Valley and on a clear day like today you can see Steep Holm in the Bristol Channel. The car park was jammed, there were cars all down the side of the road and many folks who I'm guessing were not single households. Not much sign of social distancing either. We were last that way about 3 weeks ago in snow and we saw maybe 5 people in total.

We had Gurnard fillets with a couple of jumbo crevettes and half a dozen palourde clams.

Well I performed my essential travel going the longish way round. Achieved my objectives and enjoyed sunshine and dry roads! Saw quite a few other bikers out and about as well. Doubtless all on essential journeys.

There's an idea. I could borrow my daughter's from Barnard Castle. It worked for Dom after all!

If I'm in North America I stock up on one of their heavy duty insect repellents as if they work on Texas mosquitoes or Canadian black flies which make Scotch midges look like insect wimps they'll work on them. Probably mean any children I might have may have two heads but as I'm well past the age of producing offspring I don't really care.

Absolutely so. The fish will not be cooked though that I'll be doing myself and what exactly it will be depends on what the fish monger has.

Well tomorrow I am out on the bike as I'm legitimately part of my son's support network and need to drop something off to his place west of Bristol. A46 will do to start. Then I need to pick up some fish on the way home so will cross the bridge to Wales just to trail my coat then up the A 48 to Westbury and then home via Gloucester. Legitimately as far as I'm concerned.

Unfortunately lakes or lochs even tend to by definition have low boggy areas around them even the ones on high ground. When we used to take the boat up the west coast we used to anchor offshore a bit to be sure we were midge free. More than one beach bbq was hastily abandoned due to the little horrors. As for the Crinan canal the bast*rds got us there. Really, really hate them.

Those damned bitey things! Used to fish hill lochs up there - walk in, walk out and camp by the Loch side. Great until the wind dropped and then the little f**kers would be out in their millions. Totally take the fun out of life.

OD'd on Netflix have we? My lockdown vice is PC games doing which I have wasted days of my life. Saddo that I am.

Welcome back. Never rode an MT09 but had a test ride on the GT900 once. Decent bike and I believe performance wise the MT09 is way better?

Even in the smaller towns the moped riders have been riding like mad nutters on speed for ever. The legality or otherwise of it doesn't seem to matter.

Yep, I've got the tinnitus as well. Though I never have burst an eardrum. I've regularly had my ears syringed / vacuumed without any issues but the amount of gunk that emerges is amazing.

Bought it as well as the other raffle ticket for new Triumph.

I've tried all these and to a degree it works. However apparently my ear canals are odd so they've a kind of kink in them that stops wax from doing what it should do and also causes it to get jammed up. It also prevents me from scuba diving. Any depth more than about 4 metres I cannot clear my ears.

Tried it, repeatedly. Apart from making a horrid mess on my collars or pillow it didn't have any effect at all. I had mine vacuumed last week after a week of olive oiling and what came out was about 1 cm3 from each ear of a tarry glop. Took a lot of hot water irrigating first as well.