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weeksy wrote: Fri May 24, 2024 5:12 pm

It looks like a no entry sign.

It's not surrounded by a red circle so it's only advisory.

Mussels wrote: Sat May 25, 2024 8:28 am

weeksy wrote: Fri May 24, 2024 5:12 pm

It looks like a no entry sign.

Probably is for the English!

Nice of them to match the colours to motorway signage too.

Had a lovely drive to Chelmsford to drop the step f-i-l off for his cataract operation. Looking forward to going to pick him up again. Sometimes I think i'll get rid of my car, but then I drive it and think nah, it stays!

Gave the F350 a detailing for this afternoons cruise-in over in Palmdirt.

Buffed out some minor paint damage on the left rear door.

Put all the "dog stuff" in the truck for today's outing, he travels with more stuff than I do...

Put a list together of everything needed for Monday's brake job on the SBH so once I start I don't have to keep going back in the garage for something I forgot. (assuming I didn't forget to put something on the list....)

Spiffy new SBH rotors:

I am home alone this evening, so I've just gone and bought myself a big ol' sirloin steak, the potato wedges are in the air fryer and the onions nicely browned. A poached egg will be placed on the cooked steak.

I'm currently finishing off the keg of Hawkstone lager in the PerfectDraft. It's going down very nicely.

Sat watching telly just now.

There's something scratting at the living room window.

We have a spiky bush thing that grows up the front of the house.

I assume it's a bird sat in the bush thing pecking at the window.

I pull the blinds back and I'm face to face with a grey squirrel.

Which is going ape shit because there's an Eddy cat sat at the bottom of the bush staring up at it.

I can't see the cat chasing the grey into the bush on the CCTV, I hope the fucker hasn't decided to move in.

KungFooBob wrote: Sat May 25, 2024 7:29 pm Sat watching telly just now.

There's something scratting at the living room window.

We have a spiky bush thing that grows up the front of the house.

I assume it's a bird sat in the bush thing pecking at the window.

I pull the blinds back and I'm face to face with a grey squirrel.

Which is going ape shit because there's an Eddy cat sat at the bottom of the bush staring up at it.

I can't see the cat chasing the grey into the bush on the CCTV, I hope the fucker hasn't decided to move in.

I'd rather have squirrels than cats. The neighbor just got two new cats...they're in the process of being conditioned to stay the fuck off the property with a garden hose that has a nozzle that can knock them off the wall from 30ft away.

Started the navigation module for my RYA skippers ticket - brain ache....

Wheelie/stunt practice with the lad

v8-powered wrote: Sat May 25, 2024 9:10 pm Started the navigation module for my RYA skippers ticket - brain ache....

Think that is what my neighbour is going through or just about to. He was a skipper not long ago but the company went tits up and dragged there heels to send him information needed to move to another job. Time passed and he lost his ticket so doing it all again.

Felix wrote: Sat May 25, 2024 10:10 pm

v8-powered wrote: Sat May 25, 2024 9:10 pm Started the navigation module for my RYA skippers ticket - brain ache....

Think that is what my neighbour is going through or just about to. He was a skipper not long ago but the company went tits up and dragged there heels to send him information needed to move to another job. Time passed and he lost his ticket so doing it all again.

I'm doing it for fun! Got to question my sanity now, I've only got a few weeks to finish it....

Samurai museum in Kanazawa.

Lots of extremely vicious swords and other weapons but one thing I found fascinating was this.

A candle lamp, held by a handle at the back. The really interesting bit is that the candle is mounted on wires that act as a gyroscope. So that no matter the angle of the body of the lamp the candle is always vertical.

There are holes near the handle so it can even be stood on end and it will still burn.

Finally got a bit of time to finish the shed today and installed the new solar light.

Set out late this morning but took a different route to my coffee stop! The other side of the valley, so awesome views back this way Then met a friend in Bourg and rode up to the Cormet de Roselend (not officially open yet I don't think!! )

That second part was tough. He said "I'll take it really steady cos the roads are really narrow and twisty" (they are, it's challenge and the CBF is not the ideal bike to do those roads on!!). Well FFS, if that's his 'taking it steady' . . . . . .

Halfway back down we stopped to admire a view and he said - see you down there? was very happy with that as no way was I going to try and keep up with him!! LOL LOL

Now home and sitting with a warm thingy on my shoulder cos it's a smidge grumpy!! (Not the shoulder per se as there's nothing in there to hurt, but the bit between shoulder joint and my next is proper grumpy!! LOL)

Mind you, it made the ride back up here more interesting - much better at getting the bike around the hairpins coming up here, but they are almost twice as wide as the ones we did to the Cormet!!

Moved spawn's unfitted kitchen back into the kitchen, cut a few hinge pockets on a replacement door and done a bit of tidying.

The plan WAS to get a start of the gelcoat repairs on the F350. However, the 20yo fracture in my wrist separated last night & stayed separated instead of going back together almost instantly like it usually does. So I'll be doing bugger all.

Decided to start the gelcoat repairs. Followed the instructions perfectly, an hour later & it still hasn't kicked off.
Bugger.

However, this is the Mojave Desert, so I'll leave it alone for a day.