What have you done today thread?

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I'd been to a bike rally at the weekend in Belgium and, yesterday, rode up through The Netherlands to stay for four nights before going home. I was feeling quite chipper because I've managed to reach another birthday so have caught up with Skub again.
This is my bike. Not the pedal cycle. The. appartment owners put that there in case I wanted to use it.
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Bike Breaker wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 7:24 pm I'd been to a bike rally at the weekend in Belgium and, yesterday, rode up through The Netherlands to stay for four nights before going home. I was feeling quite chipper because I've managed to reach another birthday so have caught up with Skub again.
This is my bike. Not the pedal cycle. The. appartment owners put that there in case I wanted to use it.

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mangocrazy wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 6:26 pm I thought the sand on the Canaries was all black volcanic sand?
I think you're confusing it with the beaches along the north east coast of England that have sea coal mixed with the sand.
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Bike Breaker wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 7:33 pm
mangocrazy wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 6:26 pm I thought the sand on the Canaries was all black volcanic sand?
I think you're confusing it with the beaches along the north east coast of England that have sea coal mixed with the sand.
That'll be a 'no' from me...

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Got the car MOT’d then went to IKEA.

Went for 2 things, neither of which they had but of course we couldn’t just turn round and walk out….hell no. I consider myself lucky I just got off with 13 quid.
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Finished a 3-day business induction for a company I've worked for since 2019!
3 days of my life I'll never get back.
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Bought 16 solar panels and an inverter. Blagged enough old automotive hose to bodge a repair on one the intercooler hoses on the van.
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Bike Breaker wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 7:33 pm
mangocrazy wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 6:26 pm I thought the sand on the Canaries was all black volcanic sand?
I think you're confusing it with the beaches along the north east coast of England that have sea coal mixed with the sand.
Hallo BB....howsTed,and how are you......an AJS? Where is the LE?

Isn't Holland a lovely country....
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David wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 6:28 pm
Bike Breaker wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 7:33 pm
mangocrazy wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 6:26 pm I thought the sand on the Canaries was all black volcanic sand?
I think you're confusing it with the beaches along the north east coast of England that have sea coal mixed with the sand.
Hallo BB....howsTed,and how are you......an AJS? Where is the LE?

Isn't Holland a lovely country....
Is it a Model 8?

Why has it got Matchless tank badges?

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It's a Matchless G2CSR?
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v8-powered wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 5:50 pm Finished a 3-day business induction for a company I've worked for since 2019!
3 days of my life I'll never get back.
I once did a saturday job with the same firm for 18 months before having an induction. My induction was the last shift I ever did with them :D
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When I was Senior DBA for Parcelforce, they got a snotty new HR boss.

She called me in and said I didn't have a degree.

I said "I'm on call tonight for the Parcel Force database'

If I don't do it, you won't have a job tmrw.

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No biking today. Mrs.Skub and I spent the afternoon in the walled gardens in the grounds of Glenarm castle. A very pleasant day.
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Walmart: Food
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Today I have been mainly remembering why I gave up spannering on quads!
I have a dead-ish artic cat in the garage which has a plethora of sticky out bits to bang your head on whilst bent over working on the steering.
There have been many fucks uttered today!
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Relived my youth. Working under a jacked van in the street. At least it wasn't raining.
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Fishes lunch and vinho branco in Fuseta, now sleeping it off on an island beach further up the coast
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Launched a company with a website and everything 😀
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Docca wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 7:07 pm Launched a company with a website and everything 😀
You can't leave it at that!
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Bike Breaker wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 7:24 pm I'd been to a bike rally at the weekend in Belgium and, yesterday, rode up through The Netherlands to stay for four nights before going home. I was feeling quite chipper because I've managed to reach another birthday so have caught up with Skub again.
This is my bike. Not the pedal cycle. The. appartment owners put that there in case I wanted to use it.

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What was the Rally?? Never been to one in Belgium before. We used to go to the Kleppenjagers in Gemert Holland a lot but that never changed its format and started to get a tad shit what is a shame is this year (4th Oct) is the clubs 50th year
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cheb wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 5:11 pm Relived my youth. Working under a jacked van in the street. At least it wasn't raining.
My mate is a kerbside mechanic who does this almost daily. Just up the same street is a guy who was under a Landrover doing the same thing and the jack went. He how lives in a wheelchair. Remember kids, always use an Axle stand.

Or in my case blocks of railway sleepers :thumbup: