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ZRX61 wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 9:33 pm Successfully killed previously mentioned rocks & paper.... and a big fucking Stink Bug (beetle) at a range of about 4ft. Left a small trench where he'd been, not a trace of his carcass..



Discovered some body armor someone had shot to shit. Bullets didn't penetrate, but the deformation of the bullet stopping stuff would have basically pulped your rib cage

I'm still shooting low & left...Then changed the part of my finger pad that touched the trigger & rattled off some head shots.



Spent a few minutes with the rake...




it's a losing battle.

What happens to all the shell casings at such places?

Count Steer wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 9:46 pm Reminds me. Walked passed a small shopfront today, in a town centre. The place was vacant but there was, oddly, a scooter of some sort in there.

More interestingly, right by the window, on the shop floor was a male stag beetle on its back struggling to right itself. It was hooge!

Never seen one up close before. Unfortunately I couldn't get in to help it get feet side down.

Just wait until you're hooning along at night & one of the fuckers hits your visor (you knew they could fly... right?)

Taipan wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 9:49 pm What happens to all the shell casings at such places?

They stay right there. Sometimes people will clean up their own brass if they're shooting something spendy & want to reload it.

derek badger wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 7:27 pm Realised why my father put labels on all his boxes, drawers and tins in his workshop. Getting old means you fucking forget where you've put things when you're a hoarder...

Be very glad he did! Mine didn't .

Bought some cheese.

Been to a funeral, first of the year

gremlin wrote: Thu Jun 05, 2025 8:49 am Bought some cheese.
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Conad the bardairyman......

David wrote: Thu Jun 05, 2025 12:23 pm

gremlin wrote: Thu Jun 05, 2025 8:49 am Bought some cheese.
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Conad the bardairyman......

Or 'Gonad' according to my travelling companions.

Drove into my Boss' car in the carpark.

Its fine, annual reviews ain't for ages.

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Thu Jun 05, 2025 4:56 pm Drove into my Boss' car in the carpark.

Its fine, annual reviews ain't for ages.

Oh no!

It happens to the best of us; I scraped one of the Prii the other day.

I blame him at least a bit . I was reversing into a space and he opened his rear door (dunno why he was on the back seat) right Infront (behind?) of me.

Got new tires on the Explorer ST, then ran it through the local hand wash place to spiff it up. It's riding MUCH better, was getting a tad squirrely before.

Did a service line this morning, last time I did it I did the afternoon one (and hour or so longer) and by the end my arm was stupidly painful . BUT, today, yes, I had a couple of 'grumps' from it but overall it's survived quite well

Didn't take lunch and had a couple of bits of fruit at the stops, so was pretty starving by the time I finished and had been dreaming of a roast chicken - only cos the girl that has the coffee/bar/bakery in the last village before the mountain road has started selling roast chicken at weekend !!! Then I realised that she closes earlyy-ish for 'lunch' !!

Awesomely she closes at 13:30, so I just got there in time I've now got her number so that if I feel the need for a ridiculously expensive roast chicken, I can message her to keep me one (and stay open for a for mins longer if I'm running late !!! ). Such a lovely girl, need to have a go at baking in the oven in the place this weekend to see if I can do cakes to share !!!

Today I realised that for the first time in over 30 years I'm bikeless! Well, technically I do own one, but I dont have one here to ride!

Noggin wrote: Sat Jun 07, 2025 1:08 pm Didn't take lunch and had a couple of bits of fruit at the stops, so was pretty starving by the time I finished and had been dreaming of a roast chicken - only cos the girl that has the coffee/bar/bakery in the last village before the mountain road has started selling roast chicken at weekend !!! Then I realised that she closes earlyy-ish for 'lunch' !!

Lemme see now. A retail outlet whose income is derived from serving people food when they are hungry,closes at lunchtime?

House work and an out off hours emergency vet trip as doggy 3 has an ulcer on her eye. Wallet is now in financial ITU. but doggy is looking happier already.

Skub wrote: Sat Jun 07, 2025 2:15 pm

Noggin wrote: Sat Jun 07, 2025 1:08 pm Didn't take lunch and had a couple of bits of fruit at the stops, so was pretty starving by the time I finished and had been dreaming of a roast chicken - only cos the girl that has the coffee/bar/bakery in the last village before the mountain road has started selling roast chicken at weekend !!! Then I realised that she closes earlyy-ish for 'lunch' !!

Lemme see now. A retail outlet whose income is derived from serving people food when they are hungry,closes at lunchtime?

Yup. She her main income is drinks and coffee; there's a bakery to the side of the cafe/bar that does take away sarnies, quiche etc (hot chicken on weekends !) . So, you can get to the place to buy what you need to take home to eat !!

Worse though - the bakery in resort closes before 1pm - I mean seriously !!! A huge resort with tourists all over and the bakery that sells so much more than bread is not open for them all at lunchtime!! And I've been caught out a lot by that too (It's not open at all in the interseason )

Not a practice I remotely understand in general, but seems very common !! ( I kind of understand Isobel cos she's a one person place and open as a bar in the evening, so she needs a break at some point !! but the actual bakery closing for lunch ? Weird !! )

Today I've been shocked to the core.

Out on the dirt bikes we sat outside our fave caff on far side of the island for our usual fish butties.

Irish lad on next table picked up we were English and started chatting.

Short version....

Turns out he's in a mess coz his 4 year old kid was stabbed 100 times by a crazy woman in London 18 months ago.

He's just found out that she won't stand trial as she's so distraught over the child death. He was in pieces.

Just when we thought it couldn't get any worse, it was his ex partner and boy's mother who did it.

Evel woman. Fark

And his ex has been ringing his new g/f who's now also freaking out.

I don't get all the news over but guess some of you might have seen this?

And as I typed that, this song was playing on the radio.
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Spiffed the F350, including the engine bay which was looking a bit dusty.