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Yearly reminder to myself.

"was it that shit last time on the road bike ? It can't have been that bad.."

IMG_20241125_110430 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

Yup, it's fucking awful, they're horrendous things !!!!

Just had my first ever Greggs vegan sausage roll.
My my!
Either their social economics gurus are a bit spesh or there's fuck all sausage in the full fat version
Also sat in Sainsbury's car park wd-ing all my rear light connectors/bulbs after yesterday's dowsing (all my rear light connectors are open to the elements)

Redid the highway code - will know by Friday if I passed


I'm staying the night in Chambéry and my favourite instructor came to have coffee with me for an hour or so after school finished. Turns out I might be his favourite student, so that's cool

weeksy wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 12:03 pm Yearly reminder to myself.

"was it that shit last time on the road bike ? It can't have been that bad.."

IMG_20241125_110430 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

Yup, it's fucking awful, they're horrendous things !!!!

That is most definitely a B.S.O. rather than a bicycle !

Grabbed a pot of homemade beef keema out of the freezer for lunch this morning.

Or so I thought. It was actually cottage pie filling.

Still, nice enough.

Sorted out one of the front springs on the SAAB.
Didn't even need a compressor to remove the top mount.....which may have explained it's desire to try and turn right all the time!
Probably get the other one done this weekend, when I'm sure spring compressors will be required for removal.
Drives a lot smoother now as well!

Yesterday I stress ate!! I was a bit productive in that I made a load of soups for the freezer (only two flavours) and did some cross stitch - but way too much eating of chocolate/sweet stuff

I've been messaging various friends to go meet for coffee because sitting home alone is so NOT helping the stress!!! But no one is responding positively! (Don't think they realise quite how shit it is sitting waiting for the result! After three months of being around people, I'm now on my own and it is not a good time for that!!!)

Anyway - today I've made a LOT of chicken balls for chinese. Finished up the batter as I had a spare onion and made onion rings! Just having a pause to digest the 'tested' chicken balls!! They do really need a second fry but still tasted pretty damn good!!

Planning to do sweet and sour sauce to put in jars ready for when I have the chicken balls!!

Happy moment was that my favourite instructor called to see if I had my results yet He's much less 'chatty' than me by text (I know, not exactly difficult) so sometimes I wonder if he's as interested as I am! But then he calls about things like that and makes me laugh n stuff too. Really good to have chatted to someone today, specially when that someone is him

I bought one of those insulating kits for the inside of the garage up and over door. I spent a couple of hours doing that,before going to a few plumber's merchants to try for O rings for the kitchen tap spout. None of the outlets were remotely interested (we don't carry tap spares,mate) so I raided my own collection of O rings,which I ought to have done in the first place. Sorted for now,but I'm not overly confident it'll last long. I see new taps in my future.

It's Turkey Day here, so off to the boozer later for a blow-out feast.

I’ve had surgery on my noggin which means I can’t wear a crash helmet for a week or two which is a bit of a pisser as I can’t go out riding with my lad, was planning taking him for a bit of greenlaning

So instead I will be getting my motorcycle kicks vicariously through you lot more than usual.

Gregor wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 5:46 pm
So instead I will be getting my motorcycle kicks vicariously through you lot more than usual.

Is there another forum I've not been told about?

weeksy wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 5:47 pm

Gregor wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 5:46 pm
So instead I will be getting my motorcycle kicks vicariously through you lot more than usual.

Is there another forum I've not been told about?

OK Skub then

Noggin, that’s a lot of balls

Today, Team Manager meeting, so full English breakfast at Whilton Marina cafe which was really nice, 4 hours in the meeting where many important decisions weren’t made, then pub. Had a couple as we were all driving, then went onto coffee.
Home, collect shopping, now about to have pate and toast with salad as I’m not massively hungry, or I wasnt until I saw Noggers balls!
Mick.

Got home to find the wife has put the Xmas decorations up, well some if them anyway!
Ho Ho Ho!

Have been discovering just how sensitive the smoke alarms are at the daughter's gaffe.
Hound is distinctly unimpressed!

636mick wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 7:02 pm Noggin, that’s a lot of balls

Today, Team Manager meeting, so full English breakfast at Whilton Marina cafe which was really nice, 4 hours in the meeting where many important decisions weren’t made, then pub. Had a couple as we were all driving, then went onto coffee.
Home, collect shopping, now about to have pate and toast with salad as I’m not massively hungry, or I wasnt until I saw Noggers balls!
Mick.

LOL It is! Best thing is that I freeze them after the first fry and then take out what I want and airfry them for the second fry. I make the s&s sauce and store that in small jars so I have enough for chicken balls and rice!!

This morning I got up at 5.15am to go walk up a mountain!! Mainly cos I'd not been able to meet anyone to celebrate my pass so I thought, fuck it, I'll go walk up a mountain and have a genepi at the top to celebrate.


Didn't realise that there was no moon
Didn't realise just how icy the pistes are!!!

Turns out I walked for about 45 mins, did 2.09kms and 199m in altitude. And it didn't feel that hard!! I did stop and look at the stars quite a lot because they were so beautiful, so it took longer than 45 mins! But it seems that Strava now takes out the time that you aren't moving (it didn't used to !!). But the lack of the moonlight did make walking up on on not particularly flat and very icy piste a bit interesting!! LOL

Worth it though -

These first three are in the dark, using the night mode. So my view looked nothing like this!!!! But the photos are pretty awesome!!








Much more real as the sun came up a bit!!






Me toasting the universe and my passing the highway code with a shot of genepi!!




Skiing back down on the rough and exceptionally icy piste was 'interesting' - a lot of side slipping involved! (Intentional, not me falling over!!)

Got £934 I wasn’t expecting and my wife got her blue light card though, but we can’t go out and celebrate cos the selfish moo has shingles!

Taipan wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 12:14 pm Got £934 I wasn’t expecting and my wife got her blue light card though, but we can’t go out and celebrate cos the selfish moo has shingles!

Check everything you buy against the BLC, some great savings and some not so good. Holidays, cruises and most travel stuff can be cheaper along with all insurance, plus sky tv, do t forget eating out, lots of money to be saved there too.
There’s a BLC Facebook group, lots of moaners but some useful tips there.
Mick

636mick wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 12:22 pm

Taipan wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 12:14 pm Got £934 I wasn’t expecting and my wife got her blue light card though, but we can’t go out and celebrate cos the selfish moo has shingles!

Check everything you buy against the BLC, some great savings and some not so good. Holidays, cruises and most travel stuff can be cheaper along with all insurance, plus sky tv, do t forget eating out, lots of money to be saved there too.
There’s a BLC Facebook group, lots of moaners but some useful tips there.
Mick

Cheers Mick. Going to hopefully use it in Le Shuttle for the Taipans on Tour summer holiday!