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Just walked past the footy ground and a ball came over the big fence. Windy as fuck
Tried to kick it back. Oops.

It weighed like summat Stanley Matthews played with. Hurt me foot in flipflops

And bloody howling wind. Failed 4 times

So walked 100 yards and kicked it over a gate

Did a lot more learning, the instructor is not particularly kind to a person with an actual registered disability and I was nearly sick in the class room!!

Gonna have an early night and get up early to do some revision cos my head is still not totally unspinning!

weeksy wrote: Tue Aug 13, 2024 9:59 am IMG-20240813-WA0001 by steveweeks59, on Flickr

Oops.

Wasn't even on my head at the time

I spoke to Bell Helmets who said "Send it back and we'll send you a new one". They wanted to have a look to see what/why it broke.

As much as i like the helmet, i'm not sure I massively trust it now, so not sure i even want a new one. Likely option is to get it back and sell it on.

weeksy wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 2:18 pm

weeksy wrote: Tue Aug 13, 2024 9:59 am IMG-20240813-WA0001 by steveweeks59, on Flickr

Oops.

Wasn't even on my head at the time

I spoke to Bell Helmets who said "Send it back and we'll send you a new one". They wanted to have a look to see what/why it broke.

As much as i like the helmet, i'm not sure I massively trust it now, so not sure i even want a new one. Likely option is to get it back and sell it on.

Spoken like a Yorkshiteman

After getting a message from the Steam Packet that tonight's boat from Liverpool won't sail due to yet another storm on top of all the chaos that's gone on this week I've rearranged my annual visit to the Isle of Man & now I'm going over in a fortnight,hopefully the rain will have temporarily stopped by then.No extra charges & better sailing times,got to look on the brightside,just need the weather now

A week ago a friend went in for a boob o/h.Today I ran her back to BH* for a check up. When she was leaving the Dr gave her the old implants, she's not sure what to do with them.


* Beverly Hills, not Boob House.

Haven't done as much revision as I'd planned this weekend, but at least I got to chat with some friends, so definitely less stressed!! LOL

But, getting up extra early tomorrow to try and do a quick bit of revision then before heading to the school for 5.45 to do a bit of a test from 6am and then do some driving of an actual bus before lunch Woohooo


Sooo, really early night tonight, then an early finish tomorrow so will have the whole afternoon to do more revision for the test on Tuesday morning (that's a written test that I am slightly more confident about. I think!! LOL)

Night night

weeksy wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 5:39 pm

Noggin wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 5:23 pm oh, and I'm learning (and probably forgetting) a lot of new words, outside the transport course

One of the guys decided I needed to be set up with another guy. All in good humour to start with. The comments coincided with a conversation about female English tourists/seasonaires and how they get pissed and pick a Frenchie to shag. (He isn't wrong, the young seasonaires do do that. I've never been a young seasonaire!)

So, was a funny conversation to start with, but one guy dragged it out all lunchtime, break, at the end of the day and even mentioned it in the class!!!! Even told me that it'll be fine if I just close my eyes


Guessing I'll be avoiding them all tomorrow (well, one in particular!) until they change the topic of conversation

Do you know how to say "stop being a cunt" in French?

ta gueule or one of my favourites, j'en ai ras de cul

Added a drag chute to the F350....

Bit of filling, bit of sanding, bit of painting, to fix a previous bodge of a kitchen wall where when removing the skirting a large panel behind the radiator fell out.

Then a couple of coats of black satin metal paint on the kitchen radiator, then a rub down with wet and dry to get rid of all the runs, then another couple of coats. I might refit it tomorrow it it doesn't look total dog shit when it's dry.

Have you seen how much black radiators cost... not that I could find one 900x700 anyway?

Trip to Screwfix to purchase/replace the fill valve in the downstairs bog.

Transferred a load more stuff from the old shed to the new shed, prior to deciding what to do with said stuff.

Anyone need a dental plaster grinder?

I got to school a smidge early (we were told that the day starts at 6am and we should be 15 mins early, so I was there at 5.30! ). But, gates locked, no one around Some others arrived about 15 mins later, but the teacher arrived at 5.50



Then, when we went to start the day in the bus, the battery was flat!! So the start of day learning some manoeuvres didn't happen remotely on time

Anyway, we did a very short bit of manoeuvring, including reversing around some markers


THEN - they actually let the FUF out on the road in a BUS!! (TBF, they don't know about the FUF!!). All went pretty well for a first time in a long bus. And considering the last time I drove a slightly shorter bus (the Bristol LHS) was over 30 years ago, I'm pretty happy with the day Well apart from the stupid early start!! LOL

I had some visitors. I'm not sure who but they used a couple of mugs and washed them up. I wasn't in at the time.

Cleaned the roof of my camper and got stuck up there! Climbed over the fixed awning to get on the toof but when I tried to get back over the ladder kept moving. Fortunately my son was in the garden so he moved the ladder for me.

Went to visit a mate in one of those shitty 'care' homes.

Noggin wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 5:23 pm oh, and I'm learning (and probably forgetting) a lot of new words, outside the transport course

One of the guys decided I needed to be set up with another guy. All in good humour to start with. The comments coincided with a conversation about female English tourists/seasonaires and how they get pissed and pick a Frenchie to shag. (He isn't wrong, the young seasonaires do do that. I've never been a young seasonaire!)

Similar to living in Cornwall, except it's fresh meat showing up every week from March through September. One place I lived had a running score scratched on a beach cave wall that was used for shenanigans.

The data: 11000 steps, 53 'floors', 150 intensity minutes, 2000 kcal burned.

The facts: Had a really nice walk, it was sunny, had a packed lunch.

I forgot - I was called Insolent!

By the driving instructor!! Although as he was kind of chatting me up around calling me insolent, I reckon he wasn't serious!


Going right on a very small roundabout (we did a lot of bigger ones as the route was on and around the trading estate the school is on) and I wasn't giving the inside enough room to avoid the kerb (which had big blocks on it to stop people cutting the corner I guess).

Rather than saying anything, he was waving his hand in the direction he wanted me to go, but between looking at the mirrors, the road and generally stressing, I couldn't work out which way the hand was circling! LOL

So once through I said "it's easier if you can say left or right (in French obviously) as I can't work out from the hand signals what you want me to do!" This came after he was talking to me through some other roundabouts/situations and I wouldn't converse cos, well, concentrating!! (He did bring up that women are supposed to be able to multi task and it's the men that aren't supposed to be able to do two things at once!! - just before another roundabout, so I didn't get into that past saying "let me concentrate on the first lesson and next time I'll talk more"!!)


He was laughing when he said I was insolent. I couldn't work out what he meant to start with as it sounded like insult and I was sure I hadn't actually insulted him! But he and one of the other trainees did the translation!

Although, now I've translated it as I'm writing this, it's actually more like cheeky

insolente (fr) = insolent, sassy, cheeky, bold (eng)


Sounds like me, right?

ZRX61 wrote: Mon Aug 26, 2024 8:35 pm

Noggin wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 5:23 pm oh, and I'm learning (and probably forgetting) a lot of new words, outside the transport course

One of the guys decided I needed to be set up with another guy. All in good humour to start with. The comments coincided with a conversation about female English tourists/seasonaires and how they get pissed and pick a Frenchie to shag. (He isn't wrong, the young seasonaires do do that. I've never been a young seasonaire!)

Similar to living in Cornwall, except it's fresh meat showing up every week from March through September. One place I lived had a running score scratched on a beach cave wall that was used for shenanigans.

TBF, he was probably including the tourists!!

I've seen a 'tree' written out showing what seasonaires have slept with each other - it's scary and totally proves why clamidya (and probably other nasties) spread so fast in winter, once they are all over the 'shy' stage! Only surprising thing is that there aren't more pregnancies!!

Noggin wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2024 5:51 am

ZRX61 wrote: Mon Aug 26, 2024 8:35 pm

Noggin wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 5:23 pm oh, and I'm learning (and probably forgetting) a lot of new words, outside the transport course

One of the guys decided I needed to be set up with another guy. All in good humour to start with. The comments coincided with a conversation about female English tourists/seasonaires and how they get pissed and pick a Frenchie to shag. (He isn't wrong, the young seasonaires do do that. I've never been a young seasonaire!)

Similar to living in Cornwall, except it's fresh meat showing up every week from March through September. One place I lived had a running score scratched on a beach cave wall that was used for shenanigans.

TBF, he was probably including the tourists!!

I've seen a 'tree' written out showing what seasonaires have slept with each other - it's scary and totally proves why clamidya (and probably other nasties) spread so fast in winter, once they are all over the 'shy' stage! Only surprising thing is that there aren't more pregnancies!!

I think I've just come up with a pitch to the TV companies. A soap (working title 'Schuss'...everything goes downhill fast ). An everyday story of skiing folk. A bit like Eldorado - with snow.