S-Westerly

I don't think the poet laureate (whoever that might be) needs to worry too much about competition at least from the would be poets on here!

Good to see you back and still with a decent bike. Facebook? Each to their own I guess.

Would be helpful if you said what type of bike it was.

So what did you buy then? Another motorcycle is being very coy!

Old properties and there are a lot in this country, are virtually impossible to bring up to C without spending loads. If it's listed at all then it's even worse as there's a lot of stuff you can't do anyway. Relatively new stuff can be just as bad or worse if it's built with cheap and shoddy materials. Mine is B and was built in 2017. I will not be doing anything "green" to improve it as the costs are not too high with little return.

WW2 is really Normandy certainly for D-Day and it's aftermath. Then there's the routes that ended at Arnhem or the Bulge. WW1 is Northern France and Belgium. I have Ypres and the Menin Gate on my bucket list as apparently my grandfather's brother is on it.

The Greens will get you one way or another.

When I went to Munich a couple of years ago went from Calais to near Metz. Started off avoiding the motorway but the innumerable villages with low speed limits and cameras everywhere meant that after 2 hours I'd barely made 100 km and still had 300 or so to go. Hello autoroutes! It's interesting to see, especially the WW1 sites but it's not really practical in a day imo unless you get the autoroutes. Also when I did it the day turned out to be the hottest of the year and the Ducati I had then at slow speeds in hot weather was like sitting on a lit stove.

See that it took the jury only an hour to acquit him of all charges. The CPS needs f**king with a fork as it should never have gone to court in the first place. Both the scrotes had rap sheets as long as your arm and need to be locked up for years.

Thought the inventor was Barnes Wallace but I'm probably confused.

Yep that's pretty hideous. Bet it's made in China but who in their right mind would even design something that vile. Cuckoo clocks are bad enough but that thing? Jeez.

Richa do some really good winter gloves. I've a pair of their Arctic gloves which have the bonus of goretex so stay dry. Not cheap at £115 but nowhere near the most expensive. SBS sell them i think.

One of the things I like being at sea for. Zero light pollution and in the southern hemisphere particularly much less high altitude haze due to there being much less landmass down there. Sometimes when it's really clear and there's no moon there are so many stars visible in the Milky Way it's almost like a white cloud.

I only steer with counter steering unless I'm going really slow. Only way so far as I know.

Absolutely - look where you want to go. If you look at the hedge get that's where you'll end up.

Coming up to good evening out here. Had a quick ride out to ship at least which was interesting given the swell. Felt like a stone being skipped across a river.

Me. 60 miles from home, 30 miles from Heathrow- did you pick up your passport? Uh no? Missed flight so now on the overnight one and no jolly in Dubai. Idiot.

Now that one I really like!

Has anybody heard from Mississippi Bullfrog? He had his birthday, his mother went into hospital and he got quite ill. I hope he's OK!

Either balls or a complete lack of sanity!

Don't mind to be honest as I still enjoy work. Also at least the weather will be warm. Planning on staying away until May possibly even June if I can but it'll probably be May.

Took it to son-in-law's for putting to bed for 3 months or so. Flying out to Dubai on Wednesday morning, hey ho.

Yesterday was really good weather but I was recovering from Friday night over indulgence. This morning and the rest of he day is horrible. Blowing a gale and pissing down. Worse than last Friday actually.

Might rethink my bucket list Great Atlantic Way. Looks like Ireland is even worse than us which is saying something.

I'd rather just break the arms of the scrotes but that's just me.