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Insured both cars on a Multicar policy with Admiral for £565 (£365 for the SL and £200 for the Aygo)... which is about £100 cheaper than the cheapest I could find two separate policies.

The renewal with LV was £900 (last year is was £600), they wanted £600 for the SL alone!!!

Trinity765 wrote: Thu Sep 02, 2021 7:35 am Picked up my bike yesterday. I'm off to Wales tomorrow, back Wednesday so have booked it back in for Thursday

No time to clean it before I go so it still has Pembery track day weekend dirt on it I asked them when the last oil/filter change was and despite all the work they've carried out on it this year (clutch, alternator gasket, cams/cam basket, cam tensioner all at different times) they said February when it was serviced grrrrr. So I'll be doing that as soon as it's back.

I'd have guessed that the clutch at least would require you to drain the oil from the engine (not necessarily though)...nice of them to put the old stuff back in

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Thu Sep 02, 2021 8:47 am I'd have guessed that the clutch at least would require you to drain the oil from the engine (not necessarily though)...nice of them to put the old stuff back in

They'll have layed it over on an old matress.

Not today, but last night- went to see John Bishop on stage, I've previously thought he's alright but never been a particular fan of his, but he was brilliant, haven't laughed that much for a long time- the other two comics (Nathan Caton and one other who's name currently escapes me ) were really good too, a great night

I had a run out today,it wasn't the best ever.

Yesterday was great weather,but life prevented me from taking a spin,so I set off early today.

It was dry,then damp,bloody cold at times and patchy mizzle,plus some vehicle had dropped stuff on the road,which caused a front and rear momentary loss of traction. Fair woke me up.

There'll be better days.

I’m day 9 into 21 day quarantine in Hong Kong, so mind numbingly depressing!!! Thank god for Netflix

Went to work - the Golden Child has gone to the End of The Road with my brother .
Noticed the NC needs a new front tyre.
We are off to Bath for a weekend tomorrow .

r1flyguy wrote: Thu Sep 02, 2021 7:08 pm I’m day 9 into 21 day quarantine in Hong Kong, so mind numbingly depressing!!! Thank god for Netflix

Jeez thought Japan was bad enough at 14 .

asmethurst99 wrote: Thu Sep 02, 2021 7:10 pm

r1flyguy wrote: Thu Sep 02, 2021 7:08 pm I’m day 9 into 21 day quarantine in Hong Kong, so mind numbingly depressing!!! Thank god for Netflix

Jeez thought Japan was bad enough at 14 .

It was 14 up until 20th August then changed the policy, my vaccinations were under the HKG system with promise of better quarantine procedures….. it’s just got worse !!!!

Just had the most amazing dog walk. The missus is off to UK next week for 3 weeks, so was thinking of things to do

Anyway, my best man Al, started chatting via Whatsapp to say he's off to Tenerife next week with his family and asked how far away we are as he wants to meet up

Straight away a pal pulled over on his Guzzi and we started chatting. I said I was free for a while and he agreed on a day trip to Fuerteventura with the gang.

Then he dropped the bombshell. He has to go over to Gran Canaria the week after to test ride a a new bike and wants me and the boys to tag along for a few days

GC is very close to Tenerife so easy to meet up with Al

That was an insane 5 minutes

Gonna be a busy boy

I've cooked more stuff. Not with courgettes today!! But the chocolate and courgettes brownies from yesterday are way nicer than they deserve to be with courgette as a big part of the ingredients!! LOL

I need to practice my ratatouille. My physio was saying how amazing Ratatouille is so I came home and had some of mine for tea - gotta be doing something wrong!! LOL Oh, he did say there should be augergines in it They weren't in the recipe!! LOL

I've tidied and sorted some stuff. Trying to sort a load of medical stuff into the right folders!! LOL I love the system here in general but it's a smidge paperwork heavy - and you are supposed to take the relevant paperwork to each different medical person you see!! I have girl stuff, knee stuff, shoulder stuff, surgeon stuff (crosses over with shoulder stuff, but not all the same), rehab stuff and a blood tests file (that has to be taken for various different RDVs!! LOL). I'm bloody brilliant at sorting paperwork for other people/sorting offices into a sensible working setup. Totally rubbish at doing my own stuff!! I guess that the time to sort it out really isn't when my brain is melting and rolling around in my head being useless, but the pile of papers was annoying me!! LOL

The desk next to mine belongs to a chap from Hong Kong, he took up the visa offer the UK government have for HK nationals to come live here.

He works for our parent company (who are HK based).

Over the last few weeks we been quizzing him about life in HK and what he finds different.

He says that the UK is pretty much the same as HK, the street signs look the same, post boxes, they even have fish and chips shops (I suppose it was a UK colony for a long time).

But this morning he comes to me with half a packet of crumpets.

"My wife bought be these, but they taste awful"

I've just told him that they should really be toasted before eating.

He's been eating them dry and untoasted. Yuk!

No more leaky chimney!

KungFooBob wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 8:52 am The desk next to mine belongs to a chap from Hong Kong, he took up the visa offer the UK government have for HK nationals to come live here.

He works for our parent company (who are HK based).

Over the last few weeks we been quizzing him about life in HK and what he finds different.

He says that the UK is pretty much the same as HK, the street signs look the same, post boxes, they even have fish and chips shops (I suppose it was a UK colony for a long time).

Do they eat a lot of fried chicken's feet in Barnsley?
Are parent company is also HK, I've never heard anyone from HK say that the UK is anything like HK - though our HK visitors love UK Chinese restaurants.

MingtheMerciless wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 1:58 pm 038CD035-158E-4CFF-B65D-AD2C22B0863D.jpeg

No more leaky chimney!

Nice drop wire poked through the tiles

Sitting here remembering part of a conversation yesterday with the physio. When we were talking about food he said that his dad used to work for an F1 team and when they went to Silverstone, they all went up to the canteen type thing (maybe buffet?!)

Anyway, apparently his dad was horrified to be offered Potato Skins!!

I could only see Antoine's eyes but the horror was on his face too!! LOL

He said - you know, potatoes are good without skins, or with skins. WHY would take the skins off and serve them on their own??



I didn't have an answer, but I laughed a LOT - and I'm still giggling!! LOL

Noggin wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 4:59 pm
He said - you know, potatoes are good without skins, or with skins. WHY would take the skins off and serve them on their own??

We were on a week long hike in France and, at one of the mountain overnights, they served raclette (*shudder* - ski resort comedy food). The baked spuds had the skins on and we calmly ate 'em skin and all while the French meticulously peeled them. One of the kids just sat goggle eyed at these spud-skin-eating barbarians. I think he forgot to eat he was absolutely transfixed.

Count Steer wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 5:12 pm the French meticulously peeled them. One of the kids just sat goggle eyed at these spud-skin-eating barbarians.

My favourite bit from Mock the Week, 'Things you would never hear in France'. "An ziz beet of ze animal we do not eat, we throw eet away!"

A Frenchman will eat anything, as long as he knows what it is. An Englishman will eat anything, as long as he doesn't.

Horse wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 5:35 pm

Count Steer wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 5:12 pm the French meticulously peeled them. One of the kids just sat goggle eyed at these spud-skin-eating barbarians.

My favourite bit from Mock the Week, 'Things you would never hear in France'. "An ziz beet of ze animal we do not eat, we throw eet away!"

We eat all the oooerrrr stuff in the UK too. We just call it......sausages.