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Yorick wrote: Sun Nov 19, 2023 10:07 pm Buzzing like fuck about this short trip.
Mega amazing

Needed a nightcap so listening to Pink Floyd.

Setting the controls heart for the soul of the sun

You'll get it or you won't

More relaxing than 'Careful With That Axe Eugene'.

Looking for the car V5C so I can update the address. Found the bike, did the license, but the car one is AWOL at the moment. It is somewhere safe I am sure!! With the spare keys as well, so that really does need to be found. Boxes and boxes to search through... And I've been up since 5am to sort a funeral I am taking next week.

the_priest wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 8:54 am Looking for the car V5C so I can update the address. Found the bike, did the license, but the car one is AWOL at the moment. It is somewhere safe I am sure!! With the spare keys as well, so that really does need to be found. Boxes and boxes to search through... And I've been up since 5am to sort a funeral I am taking next week.

do it online.....

David wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 7:43 pm

the_priest wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 8:54 am Looking for the car V5C so I can update the address. Found the bike, did the license, but the car one is AWOL at the moment. It is somewhere safe I am sure!! With the spare keys as well, so that really does need to be found. Boxes and boxes to search through... And I've been up since 5am to sort a funeral I am taking next week.

do it online.....

The Funeral?

Oh, the change of address. You still need the document number off the V5 to do it online.

KungFooBob wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 7:45 pm

David wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 7:43 pm

the_priest wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 8:54 am Looking for the car V5C so I can update the address. Found the bike, did the license, but the car one is AWOL at the moment. It is somewhere safe I am sure!! With the spare keys as well, so that really does need to be found. Boxes and boxes to search through... And I've been up since 5am to sort a funeral I am taking next week.

do it online.....

The Funeral?

Oh, the change of address. You still need the document number off the V5 to do it online.

I've found the V5C! Remembered that I had packed it in my suitcase for a trip to Brugge. So that is now sorted. A funeral, for the family I did a wedding for last year. Pastoral care in different ways.

Sat in my office at the front of the house, watching the guy over the road with his leaf blower.

Every day he blows all of the leaves from his driveway and front garden out in to the road, only for the wind and traffic to whip them up and blow back in again. For the year we've lived here, he's done it continually - will he ever learn?

v8-powered wrote: Fri Nov 24, 2023 2:22 pm Sat in my office at the front of the house, watching the guy over the road with his leaf blower.

Every day he blows all of the leaves from his driveway and front garden out in to the road, only for the wind and traffic to whip them up and blow back in again. For the year we've lived here, he's done it continually - will he ever learn?

Listening to the 'Friday Symphony' of the brrrpbrrrrpbrrrpbrrrp of the next door blowing leaves. Every Friday they pay this 'gardener' and all day long he blows leaves. He's currently in the woodland behind us, blowing leaves. Where he blows them to I don't know but suspect he blows them into heaps to make sure he's got something to blow the following week.

Shortly, I'll start cooking the Friday roast chicken dinner, which is his cue to come and brrrrpbrrrrrpbrrrrp as close to the kitchen door as he can. He has a practice run when we have a bite to eat at lunch time. I would dearly love to give the medical profession a test case of how to remove a petrol powered leaf blower from a 'gardeners' anus.

v8-powered wrote: Fri Nov 24, 2023 2:22 pm Sat in my office at the front of the house, watching the guy over the road with his leaf blower.

Every day he blows all of the leaves from his driveway and front garden out in to the road, only for the wind and traffic to whip them up and blow back in again. For the year we've lived here, he's done it continually - will he ever learn?

I get paid to do the same thing. I have said its a waste of time just bin it but many a person does not own a tree and the council now only pick the garden bins up monthly and soon to charge. Folk are saying fuck um as its not my leaves.

Felix wrote: Fri Nov 24, 2023 4:18 pm

v8-powered wrote: Fri Nov 24, 2023 2:22 pm Sat in my office at the front of the house, watching the guy over the road with his leaf blower.

Every day he blows all of the leaves from his driveway and front garden out in to the road, only for the wind and traffic to whip them up and blow back in again. For the year we've lived here, he's done it continually - will he ever learn?

I get paid to do the same thing. I have said its a waste of time just bin it but many a person does not own a tree and the council now only pick the garden bins up monthly and soon to charge. Folk are saying fuck um as its not my leaves.

When you use your blower, do you feel the need to keep blipping the throttle? (Quite understand it on a bike of course ).

Count Steer wrote: Fri Nov 24, 2023 4:54 pm

Felix wrote: Fri Nov 24, 2023 4:18 pm

v8-powered wrote: Fri Nov 24, 2023 2:22 pm Sat in my office at the front of the house, watching the guy over the road with his leaf blower.

Every day he blows all of the leaves from his driveway and front garden out in to the road, only for the wind and traffic to whip them up and blow back in again. For the year we've lived here, he's done it continually - will he ever learn?

I get paid to do the same thing. I have said its a waste of time just bin it but many a person does not own a tree and the council now only pick the garden bins up monthly and soon to charge. Folk are saying fuck um as its not my leaves.

When you use your blower, do you feel the need to keep blipping the throttle? (Quite understand it on a bike of course ).

Its a giving. When you get them into the corner if you go full on blowing you and up sending some back where they came from. Blip into the corner and use the tick over puff for added neatness and just as you bend down with the big hands (Bits of ply) to pick them up a gust of wind hits.

Felix wrote: Fri Nov 24, 2023 4:59 pm

Count Steer wrote: Fri Nov 24, 2023 4:54 pm

Felix wrote: Fri Nov 24, 2023 4:18 pm

I get paid to do the same thing. I have said its a waste of time just bin it but many a person does not own a tree and the council now only pick the garden bins up monthly and soon to charge. Folk are saying fuck um as its not my leaves.

When you use your blower, do you feel the need to keep blipping the throttle? (Quite understand it on a bike of course ).

Its a giving. When you get them into the corner if you go full on blowing you and up sending some back where they came from. Blip into the corner and use the tick over puff for added neatness and just as you bend down with the big hands (Bits of ply) to pick them up a gust of wind hits.

I'm sure you know what you wrote means something. I haven't quite worked what it is. It's reminiscent of the 'beat generation'. 'I blew the leaves. Blip. Then tick over. Puff. Bend with big hands. It was time for me to drive on. Bits of ply. It's a giving'. After all these years we find Jack Kerouac is alive and well and blowing leaves in Scotland.

(Yeah, I know what big hands are ).

Jack who

Just tinkering and tidying the garage.

Just brought in a couple of beers from the beer fridge.
Felt shit all day so messing here is lightening my head a bit

I'm literally watching paint dry!

Yorick wrote: Fri Nov 24, 2023 9:17 pm Just tinkering and tidying the garage.

Just brought in a couple of beers from the beer fridge.
Felt shit all day so messing here is lightening my head a bit

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Jump on your bicycle and pedal down to Flintstones for a jar.

Taipan wrote: Sat Nov 25, 2023 2:50 pm

Yorick wrote: Fri Nov 24, 2023 9:17 pm Just tinkering and tidying the garage.

Just brought in a couple of beers from the beer fridge.
Felt shit all day so messing here is lightening my head a bit

20231124_205711.jpg

Jump on your bicycle and pedal down to Flintstones for a jar.

That's one bar I never go in.

Just helped my son build his Ikea Malm Chest of Drawers. Did part of it with him and then let him get on with it. All done and looking good and he is happy as he "did it". Then put up the blackout blind in the kitchen as it faces the church as the net curtains don't afford enough privacy.

Had a two hour walk in the Shorne Country Wood this morning with the wife and dog. Really beautiful weather, crisp and clear.

About to cook a light dinner so that we have something warm to eat.

Had a few beers in the sun in town.
Now sat down to watch the footy.

Retirement is tough

Cooking. It's 'Tuna Surprise'. The surprise is usually what ingredient have I forgotten but I think I've nailed it again.

(It's a baked pasta thing with an 'arrabiata sauce', fusilli pasta, tuna, mozzarella on top..grilled a bit and lots of steamed brocolli).

Daughters hubby just promoted to W01, AIR CORPS, HAPPY BLOODY CHRISTMAS!