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4 minutes ago, JRH said:

Just been to the opticians. That was an eye watering experience, or it will be when I have to pay for the new glasses and contacts 

 

 

Send your prescription to one of the many spectacle manufactures advertising on line and buy them there .. Julie has 2 excellent pairs of reading glasses, one sunglasses, and a pair of vari- focals from a company in Dinnington South Yorks for £33.80 ... not per pair .. all 3 .. 

I have a pair of vari-focals from ebay ... £8.99 ... if i break them so what ... 

Yes, made in China ... but so’s your iPhone ...

Super Chippy ... Hornsea , just by the start of the TPT ...

Portion of fish and chips, feeds 2 adults ...£3.80 .... read it and weep southerners ......

Fish mix up at our local chippie , the "Codfather" .... Tray of chips, fish, battered small sausage and either peas, beans or curry sauce in a separate container. £4.30 ... one of these feeds julie and I .. 2 of them is dinner for 2 adults and 3 children .... and its a great chippie .. We order and pay in advance and pick up at the arranged time ....

We used to live between St. Andrews and Dundee at Leuchars. The village chippie did half a pizza dipped in batter and deep fried .. after 3-4 pints of Heavy it tasted great ... but white pudding in batter was my favourite ...

7 minutes ago, skyrider said:

so that is a good sign that you will stick with it for a while 

Iv'e just been out to mine, taken the cover off (it lives outdoors) stroked it and put the cover back on ... help !!!

1ST bike MZ TS 125, 2nd bike MZ TS 125, 3rd bike MZ ETZ 300, 4th  bike .... Kawasaki ZZR 1100 .... !!!  Jesus H tap-dancing Christ !!!! 

With me the bike choice has always been the money available ...... Which is why tomorrow morning i'm off to work in Salisbury, from Sheffield, on the mighty 410 Himalayan ...

Mallory park, 5-6 years ago, Festival of 1000 Bikes. 

Big BMW Adventure bike firmly stuck in the mud, rear wheel up to its axle in mud ... his mate ... on a ZX10 ! riding round  taking the mick, the super wide tyre of the ZX10 preventing him sinking in the mud ...

We turned up in the Isuzu pick up truck and towed the BMW out .... 

7 minutes ago, ZX7R said:

 

Love your van - looks cracking!

Came with the alloys ... all the vans the dealer sells have them fitted .....

This my transit 9 seat mini bus .... when bought just over 12 months ago it was £15,000 with 15,000 miles on it .... low emission, saves money if in London.

And great for separating the 4 children on long trips ......

Takes about 5 minutes for 2 people to take all the seats out giving a lot of load space for just about any bike.

It's faultless .... 

On 09/01/2021 at 08:15, dynax said:

Once our bills are paid and the fridge is full whatever is left is fair game, if either of us wants or needs something and the money is there we just get it, obviously under the current conditions I need and want more

Thats pretty much how we used to be ... before, suddenly, without warning ..... we had 4 children ..... now the money just drains through the colander on a daily basis ...

Julie manages to carry 3 children and herself and the shopping about in hers ,,, dont get an auto !!!

Toyota Aygo manual .... get the oldest one you can for the least money ... their bomb proof ..

Get a Getz for pennies .....Totally reliable ... super cheap to run ....

1 hour ago, S-Westerly said:

Only if you ride in assless  chaps.

Theres a website for that .... i fact, quite a few .... alledgley ...

1 hour ago, onesea said:

Bloody hell someone should of told me you need a Adventure bike to go over there  

 

 Its tarmac .... MZ150 territory ....

I think there's a lot of macho Sh1t around adventure bikes ... the vast majority of them only go off road if they crash .. 

"Look at my big bike" syndrome  .... 

Though my little Himma never goes off road either but i don't dress and behave like i'm on the "Long Way Down " every time  i go to the shops ... 

Africa Twins are nice .... And the new Suzi 650 ...

8 minutes ago, skyrider said:

is it all coming back to you now 

Pretty much .... got a better deal 2nd time round ...... but there was always the offer to just accept the situation and enjoy .... but i wasn't mature enough to go down that road ... i was only 30 ............

Number 2 haircut .... works for boys and girls .... wear a helmet liner ... really freaks out people before you put the helmet on ..... Mines out of my Phantom F4J flying helmet ...lol ....

Ill post a pic ...

7 minutes ago, Fozzie said:

 

My girlfriend has been with me approaching 2 years, and we've agreed that if she moves in, she will pay half the mortgage and bills and keep finances separate. I'm not opposed to joint savings, and if we ever have kids I'm open to changing it to a joint account. But not a second before then I'm afraid. 

 

 

 She'll move in and you'll both have such amazing sex together you'll forget all about the finance thing ...... until it's too late and she's moving out with Lars the personal trainer .... .... Or!  Jenny, the red haired girl on horse back .... the bitch !!!!!!!

Sorry lost it there for a bit .....................

Love filtering ... it's just fun ... even when they overtake you 5 miles later ... it's still fun ...

Good test of spatial awareness ..... just don't fail the test ...

Sit next to it and talk about sailing boat hire in the Maldives ... and within a few hours the adverts on your laptop or device will be for .... Sailing Boat Hire in the Maldives .... It's even worse if you have a Mac Book ... start talking about cycle hire in Nepal and within minutes the adverts appear ... It's a game my grandson and I play ....

It's listening to everything you say ... day in , day out ....

My wifes retired so has no earned income and is not yet old enough for pensions to kick in ... I transfer a chunk of money to her account each pay day on the basis that the income is the income, i couldn't work the way i do without her support, so it's our income, not yours or mine.

My first car , Morris Minor , didn't have a heater fitted ... it was an extra .... ! in winter driving over Salisbury plain to Newquay i would have to stop now and again to scrape ice off the inside of the windows ... Or stop breathing ....

The Transit has heated screens front and rear ...

1 minute ago, fastbob said:

No . Horrible things .

Food straight from Beelzebub's Bottom ....

One of my very, very, tenuous claims to fame was a picture of me in cool shades and a black t-shirt in Back Street Heroes Mag ... on the front it said   "Death before Disco" 

on the back it said "Death before Pot Noodle" ..... 

How things have changed ......

OH, and just to clear a few things up ..

I also invented Moped Mayhem and Skateboards ....

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