Mussels wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 1:38 pm
I have a Lidl inflatable kayak and I wouldn't recommend it. As Yambo said they get blown around easily, the are fiddly to inflate and assemble on site, they don't cope well with heavier adults and you'll probably want to buy decent paddles.
It was fun for a couple of afternoons on the beach but I just don't bother with it any more.
Ta mate, appreciated the thoughts. I will do some googling I think. I read a comment that inflatables don’t glide like a conventional canoe or kayak, which is worth knowing.
Mick
Didn’t have one at all last year because I was retiring this year and thought we’d have the big ‘retirement holiday’ earlier this year. Well we all know how that went down.
Anyway my big retirement holiday has turned out to be a week in a cottage at Fort William. You gotta laugh.
Schlepped by to Harley Street on the train and tube, not knowing what the parking situation was like, only to walk past two nigh-empty bike bays right next to the imaging place I had the appointment with. Notwithstanding a twenty minute wait in the waiting room, the entire process took about 10 minutes, then out again, tube and train home. The round trip was 3.5 hours, including the stop for a mediocre coffee and cinnamon bun. Hot and stuffy on public transport with the mask malarkey, so not much fun. The only saving grace was that both train and tube were very quiet.
gremlin wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:38 pm
Schlepped by to Harley Street on the train and tube, not knowing what the parking situation was like, only to walk past two nigh-empty bike bays right next to the imaging place I had the appointment with. Notwithstanding a twenty minute wait in the waiting room, the entire process took about 10 minutes, then out again, tube and train home. The round trip was 3.5 hours, including the stop for a mediocre coffee and cinnamon bun. Hot and stuffy on public transport with the mask malarkey, so not much fun. The only saving grace was that both train and tube were very quiet.
cheb wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 1:24 pm
It sounds like it wasn't working anyway.
There are two BMI hospitals within a 10 minute drive from my house. Sod's Law dictates that my wisdom tooth starts giving me grief during lockdown. Even now most of the hospitals aren't doing extractions for some reason, so I've had to go up west for a 3D scan of the tooth and next Friday go up to the London Clinic to have it swiped out. That'll be a nice journey home on the train*.
*I have a cabbie mate who I was relating this tale of woe to and he offered to drop me off and pick me up, which I thought was lovely of him. I then told him the date, he checked his diary and told me that although I was one of his best mates and loved me dearly, he loved the golf day and 19th hole piss up, which coincided with that day, even more.
As well as a pressure washer with a defective capacitor. Diagnosed by opening it up and spinning the motor by stump when powered up. Capacitor now on order.
Yorick wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:17 pm
Had a drive up to Orzola for lunch then to the lovely doggy beach. Was gonna get some nice scenic shots for you lot, but only got this one. Sorry
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You're rating pretty high on the creepy old man scale
Yorick wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:17 pm
Had a drive up to Orzola for lunch then to the lovely doggy beach. Was gonna get some nice scenic shots for you lot, but only got this one. Sorry
20200915_154220.jpg
You're rating pretty high on the creepy old man scale
Yorick wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:17 pm
Had a drive up to Orzola for lunch then to the lovely doggy beach. Was gonna get some nice scenic shots for you lot, but only got this one. Sorry
20200915_154220.jpg
You're rating pretty high on the creepy old man scale
Happened to make a comment to the Gremlinette that she was 'filling out in the face a little'.
Making this comment to a pre-menstrual teenage girl is, apparently, not the best of ideas if you want to avoid tears and being in the 'Dad Dog-House'.....
gremlin wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 11:00 am
Happened to make a comment to the Gremlinette that she was 'filling out in the face a little'.
Making this comment to a pre-menstrual teenage girl is, apparently, not the best of ideas if you want to avoid tears and being in the 'Dad Dog-House'.....
Bloody hell Gremlin!!!!
Never never comment on physical shape to a girl until she's old enough to answer back without getting upset!!!
Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
gremlin wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 11:00 am
Happened to make a comment to the Gremlinette that she was 'filling out in the face a little'.
Making this comment to a pre-menstrual teenage girl is, apparently, not the best of ideas if you want to avoid tears and being in the 'Dad Dog-House'.....
gremlin wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 11:00 am
Happened to make a comment to the Gremlinette that she was 'filling out in the face a little'.
Making this comment to a pre-menstrual teenage girl is, apparently, not the best of ideas if you want to avoid tears and being in the 'Dad Dog-House'.....
That is serious lapse of judgement. In my house, with my sixteen year old hormally charged daughter, it is better to just douse myself in petrol and set myself alight. In the long run it is less painful, less damage to both her esteem and so on and my wife would just feed me through a mincer with no anaesthetic any how....
oooohhh. I cringed reading that.
Proverbs 17:9
One who forgives an affront fosters friendship, but one who dwells on disputes will alienate a friend.
gremlin wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 11:00 am
Happened to make a comment to the Gremlinette that she was 'filling out in the face a little'.
Making this comment to a pre-menstrual teenage girl is, apparently, not the best of ideas if you want to avoid tears and being in the 'Dad Dog-House'.....
Bloody hell Gremlin!!!!
Never never comment on physical shape to a girl until she's old enough to answer back without getting upset!!!
Back on track, I took wife to work, then collected my ordination friend to take her to the station for her retreat (ordained on Saturday in Southwark Cathedral) then back home to take daugher to college and then back to strip, clean and regrease the lower dogbone suspension bits. This afternoon is take cassock to the seamstress for a slight adjustment to the hem, and then collect wife and take her and daughter to town, then I go and do evening prayer and funeral preparations with a family. Evening sees me take bike out to meet my Spiritual director for the first time face to face in six months. A long day, but a good one.
Proverbs 17:9
One who forgives an affront fosters friendship, but one who dwells on disputes will alienate a friend.
gremlin wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 11:00 am
Happened to make a comment to the Gremlinette that she was 'filling out in the face a little'.
Making this comment to a pre-menstrual teenage girl is, apparently, not the best of ideas if you want to avoid tears and being in the 'Dad Dog-House'.....
Took the dB killers out the ZH2's Akrapovic, that was a bit of a mission to get to them and required a manly rivet gun to redo the stainless rivets.
Then it was the "easy" job of fitting the crash bungs. Apart from the springy steel frame moving slightly as the first bolt came out resulting in a block and frame misalignment.....happy days. Sorted out by putting a trolley jack under the engine and a block of wood under the gene cover and then pulling down on the bar which allowed everything to line up and the bolt to go in without chewing the thread in the block. The three other bolts were all fine.
Still, all done now and sounding great, pleasant burble on tick over (as in noisy but not like a Lancaster bomber was landing on your house which the pipes on the KTM sounded like).
"Of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?"
"My dear Doctor, they're all true."
"Even the lies?"
"Especially the lies."
