S-Westerly
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At sea I sky watch often because there's usually no light pollution once you are offshore. The southern hemisphere is best as there's a lot less dust in the upper atmosphere so it gets clearer skies. A friend tried photography but it doesn't really work as the constant vibration and movement doesn't work well with long exposures.
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We use British Gas and find them reasonable but then our previous supplier was Scottish Power and they are truly dire. The most useless, thieving bast*rds you could ever hope to deal with.
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Middlesbrough isn't a place on my bucket list of destinations. Bit of a hell hole as I remember.
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Egyptian sunset and Suez Canal. Quite a boring day but at least we are now in the cold, wet and windy Mediterranean. Can't say I'm loving it!
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Must have been run by my wife. She keeps the house at 17. Our heating bills are not high.
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Lexus too. It's in a binnacle above the dash board at least on my wife's car.
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My daughter was at MacDill AFB in Florida for a year. She says much the same. Not a fan of California Highway Patrol. bast*rds did me for speeding and I got fined almost $600.
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Has she contacted the lawyers yet?
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Not really. My brother lives in Houston and my niece in Seattle. Houston is a bit weird and by our standards Texas definitely is. Settle and Washington State are great although Seattle is a bit hipster heavy for my liking. Back to the original subject American cops are generally scary bast*rds.
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My son in law is an armed cop in the Met and his opinion of the management let alone Khan is lower than whale shit. He doesn't swagger around and has never yet drawn a weapon in anger. He's one of the better ones and has the scars to prove it.
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Bottom = southern end. Top = north end. Whole thing= dusty, hot hell hole.
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Ouch! Reason cats shouldn't be allowed in houses. My cousin's always climb on to my lap, purr for about 5 minutes and then stab their claws into my leg. Evil little shits.
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About to get stinking hot where I am, bottom of the Red Sea. On our way to Europe where I'll be freezing my nuts off with the rest of you.
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I suspect the Met might not quite see eye to eye on this.
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With you on autoroutes. When I went to Munich last year my original plan was to avoid autoroutes altogether but northern France isn't that scenic and the many villages make for ludicrous speed limits. After it took me 2 hours to do barely 100 km and I still had 400 to go it was back on the autoroutes for a thrash. The next day was an early start but no motorway and interesting roads through the Vosges and the Black Forest.
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Nothing wrong with Ducati but be warned if you are looking at a Multistrada they aren't particularly light. Well over 200 kg fueled up and that's without panniers. Quite big bikes to manhandle around. Great bikes to ride though and mines been trouble free since I bought it new in 2018.
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When we were first married our rented flat had no central heating (1980) and on one really cold winter we'd get frost like that on the inside of our bedroom window. We were tougher then!
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Lot to be said for hydraulic clutches. Wish I had one!
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Sadly the Air Balloon is soon to be no more. Being demolished so they can improve the junction.
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My wife reckoned there was more snow in Gloucestershire than she found after she'd driven up to Northumberland on Wednesday.
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Sun rise in Straits of Hormuz.
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Quite chilly today. 18 C with a breeze putting a lot of dust in the air from neighbouring deserts.
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I never open them and they are automatically put into my spam folder. I just scroll down the list, make sure there's nothing in there which isn't spam and then click on delete all. Very occasionally if there's one that appeals to my perverse sense of humour I may open it in the spam folder just to see what tripe they are trying on.
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I ride all year round and on days when I get to choose to ride enjoy it; but why is it when I have to get somewhere and the bike is the only option is the weather always, always, utterly horrible? Monsoons, gales, snow, freezing cold or if I'm really lucky all of the above.
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Yesterday I had 10 missed deliveries apparently which given where I am is physically impossible I just deleted. Boils my pee though as I have limited Internet access when I'm away and having it clogged with spam is really irritating.
