What have you done today thread?

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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sun May 21, 2023 2:11 pm
One old boy, and there's always IME, insisted on telling me all the things incorrect with the bike :lol:.
I can't wait for that to happen with the JAPton. :D

My Dad once saw this happen at a show: some know-it-all was berating the owner of an old BSA about its inauthenticity. The owner took great pleasure in telling him "Well, that's the way it was when i bought it new in 1956 and all I've done is ride it!" :D
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Similarly...i always hit them with "it's been in the family 50 years and has a six figure milage, it's not a show queen I bought and restored" :lol:
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Played golf this morning and I’m gubbed. Was planning on doing some mechanical stuff at work afterwards but couldn’t be arsed, just headed home.

Going to watch the bikes and grab a pizza.
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5 hour enduro. Absolutely fantastic. Found some new bits
Nearly collapsed when I got off bike.
Stripped off and straight in pool :D

Cracked a cold "un. :)
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Started trommeling a compost heap, the place should look tidier soon.
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Took Tam to look at some houses - she wasn’t entirely negative so watch this space for tales of errant estate agents etc.
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Spent another 5 hrs jetwashing the patio, all done now thankfully!
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Went to my friend's shop in the valley for the second day in a row :o :D

It's great cos every time I go down I see friends that I haven't seen in ages (they don't often come up here as Les Arcs is the nearest!!)

My French mate in mad. Not only has he done two days of fairly serious downhill biking through the forest to the valley, followed by a fair few kms (into a head wind both days :o ) to town, he's given me the spare key to his car (a little Suzuki Jimny that only has two seats!!) so I can use it whenever he's working without having to catch up with him first!!! :o :o :o (EDIT: it's probably 'only' about 25 and a bit kms down to Bourg, but I'd guess it's hard work through the forest, even downhill :shock: :shock: )

Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate it. But, we haven't known each other that long and the only connection is liking the same cafes and both living in resort all year round! :lol: :lol: :lol:


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Went up in the air with a friend of mine for a few hours, landed for a cuppa then came back. Makes me feel like renewing my PPL, but the reason I let it lapse was that it was a total waste of money to begin with :D
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Back from a weekend ride to Grange over Sands staying overnight at the Cumbria Grand Hotel.

Nice run of about 400 miles and good weather.

I’ve never in my life seen as many bikes on the roads as I saw on Saturday down there. Packs of them everywhere.

The last run out for the GS as it’s getting picked up on Tuesday, having been a delay in the delivery of its replacement.
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That's south of Shap, there's dragons down there.

And you'll never get off the Strathmore mailing list, I've tried numerous times in various ways and they still send me brochures every month or so.
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Scotsrich wrote: Sun May 21, 2023 8:54 pm The last run out for the GS as it’s getting picked up on Tuesday, having been a delay in the delivery of its replacement.
Which is??
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Took step daughter and partner down the borders to see her wedding venue. Big posh hoose to get wellie'd on for three nights :lol:


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Went riding, no issues except forgetting that I'm "not supposed to ride like that" after the recent surgery.
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ZRX61 wrote: Mon May 22, 2023 12:53 am Went riding, no issues except forgetting that I'm "not supposed to ride like that" after the recent surgery.
Habits are hard to break sometimes.
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ZRX61 wrote: Mon May 22, 2023 12:53 am Went riding, no issues except forgetting that I'm "not supposed to ride like that" after the recent surgery.
Yeah, I 'forgot' that I hadn't ridden more than a dozen times in five years last autumn. Luckily didn't end in tears!!!
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Done my usual Monday wander through my favourite bit of green and pleasant etc.

Sat on a bench on an area of heath having an early bit of nosebag and watched and listened to a skylark as it lifted off from the heather and pootled around overhead. Marv. Just needed a bit of Vaughan Williams 'Lark Ascending' as incidental music and it would have been all a bit Attenborough-ish. :D

Someone pedalled by that is a dead ringer for Charlie Boorman too.
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I have driven to the airport (Lands End), flown to the Scillies, and am now sat in a pub waiting for the tide to come in so I can get a boat onwards to Bryher.
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Cousin Jack wrote: Mon May 22, 2023 1:39 pm I have driven to the airport (Lands End), flown to the Scillies, and am now sat in a pub waiting for the tide to come in so I can get a boat onwards to Bryher.
I've had a pint in the hotel at Lands End :obscene-drinkingcheers:
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Cousin Jack wrote: Mon May 22, 2023 1:39 pm I have driven to the airport (Lands End), flown to the Scillies, and am now sat in a pub waiting for the tide to come in so I can get a boat onwards to Bryher.
Was it, by any chance, a female pilot for your flight?
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