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What have you done today thread?
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But certainty is an absurd one.
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I finished planting my English Yew hedge,made up to have got that finished before Spring.
It's also the first anniversary of my retirement so I've just ordered a new motorcycle.
Now I'm going to have a couple of beers to celebrate
It's also the first anniversary of my retirement so I've just ordered a new motorcycle.
Now I'm going to have a couple of beers to celebrate
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They used to make Suzuki SJs around the end of that timeframe, too.Count Steer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:00 pmBuilt (or assembled) in Spain sometime between 1961 and 1989 (I suspect they didn't change much in that time )
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Well, I'm blaming the afternoon alcohol - I got royally beaten at backgammon today!!! The afternoon she taught me we were fairly even, the next time I won about 4-1 (I think!)
Tonight - 6-2
Not playing again after alcohol
Now to see if I can remember cribbage (the rules I've been reading really aren't making a lot of sense yet!) ad then see how evenly matched we are on that !
Tonight - 6-2
Not playing again after alcohol
Now to see if I can remember cribbage (the rules I've been reading really aren't making a lot of sense yet!) ad then see how evenly matched we are on that !
Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
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Ski touring - again! But today I had a target, not just walk for an hour or whatever, I wanted to get to the top of the mountain.
The forecast was a bit snowy overnight but just cloudy/clearing by about 6am. Which was my start time.
Didn't actually start till 6.20, and it was too dark to see what the weather high up was doing, so off I went. Was just dark and seemed clear for a while, but as I got to the 30 minute mark, yuck! Walked into cloud and then realised that it was sort of snowing! Well, I think it was snowing - I'd layered up so much that I was quite warm and so any 'flakes' that landed on me melted! And it was too dark to see if it was snow!! LOL
Little bit of fresh snow -
Anyway, kept going BUT I did text a mate. Normally if the vis is good I leave it that I've told a couple of people the night before that I have the plan, and in good vis there's so little chance of anything going wrong on the walk up and I'd be easily spotted by the first pisteurs if it did on the way down (they are usually out and about around 7am). But this morning it didn't feel that good! I figured that Rich would be up as they run a chalet so it seemed sort of sensible to text him and let him know where I was. I just sent updates till I skied back and then sent one last one once I was back in Centre.
So, just after texting Rich, I really struggled to walk up a really steep bit. Not because I couldn't but cos my skis just kept slipping - which is the first time for me (happens sometimes if you go too steep, but I was crossing, not going straight up!!). Anyway - took my skis off to see if I could walk up with them a bit (stoopid idea!) and realised that there was packed snow under the skins No idea why that should happen and it's not happened before!! So I need to have a chat with another tourer sometime to find out if it was the weird conditions (really wasn't cold) or something I was doing!!
Really odd-
The view down as it got lighter -
Finally I got to see the top of the mountain I was aiming for -
But, a bit later, and a bit further up,
So I quit. Light was flat as hell and it was still quite cloudy in places, and since I actually have goggles this winter, I thought I'd change the lenses for the low light version so that I had a better chance of getting down safer!! Well sodding hell!! Ten minutes later I gave up. No way could I refit the low light lens, or the original lens So, just put my glasses on and had a very gentle (and slightly wobbly - cloud always makes me feel unbalanced!!) ski back to my mates cafe!!
When I got back down, it was partly clearing, but still cloud over the mountain I was aiming for!! (It's the easier of the two!!) Well, a bit of cloud, it's the one behind the trees to the right of the one that is clearly visible with no cloud on it!!!!
But, although I'm bloody knackered (didn't sleep well last night) I am quite pleased I made it as far as I did in those conditions. Here's hoping next week there will be some good weather mornings and I can try again
The forecast was a bit snowy overnight but just cloudy/clearing by about 6am. Which was my start time.
Didn't actually start till 6.20, and it was too dark to see what the weather high up was doing, so off I went. Was just dark and seemed clear for a while, but as I got to the 30 minute mark, yuck! Walked into cloud and then realised that it was sort of snowing! Well, I think it was snowing - I'd layered up so much that I was quite warm and so any 'flakes' that landed on me melted! And it was too dark to see if it was snow!! LOL
Little bit of fresh snow -
Anyway, kept going BUT I did text a mate. Normally if the vis is good I leave it that I've told a couple of people the night before that I have the plan, and in good vis there's so little chance of anything going wrong on the walk up and I'd be easily spotted by the first pisteurs if it did on the way down (they are usually out and about around 7am). But this morning it didn't feel that good! I figured that Rich would be up as they run a chalet so it seemed sort of sensible to text him and let him know where I was. I just sent updates till I skied back and then sent one last one once I was back in Centre.
So, just after texting Rich, I really struggled to walk up a really steep bit. Not because I couldn't but cos my skis just kept slipping - which is the first time for me (happens sometimes if you go too steep, but I was crossing, not going straight up!!). Anyway - took my skis off to see if I could walk up with them a bit (stoopid idea!) and realised that there was packed snow under the skins No idea why that should happen and it's not happened before!! So I need to have a chat with another tourer sometime to find out if it was the weird conditions (really wasn't cold) or something I was doing!!
Really odd-
The view down as it got lighter -
Finally I got to see the top of the mountain I was aiming for -
But, a bit later, and a bit further up,
So I quit. Light was flat as hell and it was still quite cloudy in places, and since I actually have goggles this winter, I thought I'd change the lenses for the low light version so that I had a better chance of getting down safer!! Well sodding hell!! Ten minutes later I gave up. No way could I refit the low light lens, or the original lens So, just put my glasses on and had a very gentle (and slightly wobbly - cloud always makes me feel unbalanced!!) ski back to my mates cafe!!
When I got back down, it was partly clearing, but still cloud over the mountain I was aiming for!! (It's the easier of the two!!) Well, a bit of cloud, it's the one behind the trees to the right of the one that is clearly visible with no cloud on it!!!!
But, although I'm bloody knackered (didn't sleep well last night) I am quite pleased I made it as far as I did in those conditions. Here's hoping next week there will be some good weather mornings and I can try again
Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
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Booked the Tiger in for a service and first MOT for next week. Just realised that it should be my first day back working.
Didn't plan that particularly well did I? Might have to see if I can be signed off for another week.
Edit- although given the amount of blood that I'm still passing when I go for a slash, I'm not counting it as swinging the lead. The bog looks like a slasher B movie every time I go for a wee.
Didn't plan that particularly well did I? Might have to see if I can be signed off for another week.
Edit- although given the amount of blood that I'm still passing when I go for a slash, I'm not counting it as swinging the lead. The bog looks like a slasher B movie every time I go for a wee.
All aboard the Peckham Pigeon! All aboard!
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Put one of my old CCTV cameras up in the garage...
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Didn't do any last year and the year before it went to the MoT station and back iirc.
Tbf none of them have done more than a couple of hundred miles in the last couple of years.
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So why do you even have them?KungFooBob wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:58 pmDidn't do any last year and the year before it went to the MoT station and back iirc.
Tbf none of them have done more than a couple of hundred miles in the last couple of years.
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Gives him something to view with his CCTVGreenman wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:02 pmSo why do you even have them?KungFooBob wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:58 pmDidn't do any last year and the year before it went to the MoT station and back iirc.
Tbf none of them have done more than a couple of hundred miles in the last couple of years.
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Maybe he leaves the garage door open in the hope someone will steal them...Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:07 pmGives him something to view with his CCTVGreenman wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:02 pmSo why do you even have them?KungFooBob wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:58 pm
Didn't do any last year and the year before it went to the MoT station and back iirc.
Tbf none of them have done more than a couple of hundred miles in the last couple of years.
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There's quite wide walk way down the middle, the camera just doesn't show it.
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I'd just put them back after changing the CCTV cameras under the eaves... hence freeing up an older camera for the garage
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Asked for a £5k raise, a £5k bonus and an extra 5 days annual leave.
I reckon I've got a snowballs chance in hell, but if you don't chance your arm you never know.
I reckon I've got a snowballs chance in hell, but if you don't chance your arm you never know.
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Decent pic from the camera.
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That's after the image size has been reduced so it can be attached to the forum. The original is pretty good. The new cameras have twice the resolution.
Works pretty well in the dark too.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/qCspkrNidUGs9tGy5