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v8-powered wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 11:31 am Just had my booster jab - Moderna but apparently renamed Spikycunt or similar...?

Good luck. I still feel like a bag of shit after having mine on Friday

Last night really. Kew Gardens Christmas Lights. Rather spiffing to be honest! 2 1/2 hours wandering through the place, not too crowded but doing a lateral flow test later today.... just to be sure. Very expensive drinks/food, par for the course in that neck of the woods (get it?).

MrLongbeard wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 11:46 am

v8-powered wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 11:31 am Just had my booster jab - Moderna but apparently renamed Spikycunt or similar...?

Good luck. I still feel like a bag of shit after having mine on Friday

Arm aches like buggery today, far more than did with the AZ jabs.....

Turned electricity off and turned it back on again a bit later, now on the train to go to a warm bed.

Yesterday I emptied the storage under the bed (double bed, three and a half foot - or more! - off the floor!!) so I could sort stuff and make space for things I've stored elsewhere that need to be moved. Given the size of the apartment, the only place to put stuff was ON the bed, sooooo, had to finish it before I could go to bed!! LOL

I succeeded and have more space - to fill!!

Also spent a few hours at a friend's house because he was waiting for an orange engineer to come and sort out an internet connection. Second appointment, second no show (I was only there to translate if necessary)

Gutted for him because he's got bad tinnitus and uses noise to help - but there's virtually no signal at his place, hence the need for internet!!

Today I'm refilling the space under the bed with stuff from other places!! Then physio then home for sleep early!! LOL

Just dropped the Beta off at the shop I bought it from. The ITV (MOT) is due and they are super strict. I've had mate's bikes fail on silly things. Need to be 100% standard and perfect.
So easier to give the shop €100 and they get the job done.

Got a pal coming from France Saturday so hope it's sorted in time to take him out for enduro ride.

Yorick wrote: Thu Dec 02, 2021 9:41 am Just dropped the Beta off at the shop I bought it from. The ITV (MOT) is due and they are super strict. I've had mate's bikes fail on silly things. Need to be 100% standard and perfect.
So easier to give the shop €100 and they get the job done.

Got a pal coming from France Saturday so hope it's sorted in time to take him out for enduro ride.

Here it's proper weird as they have no MOT equivalent for bikes And French bikers are proper kicking up a fuss that there might be one being brought it.

I suspect the angst is because they wouldn't be able to modify in the same way, but the only French bike I've ridden 100% needed an MOT!! LOL

Been told I have to attend a 'Diversity and Inclusion Learnfest'. WTF is a 'Learnfest'? If it's a seminar or presentation, call it as much. Perhaps they're thinking it adds a certain sheen of frivolity and fun to the whole thing....

Anyway, I'm thinking of telling them that I identify as somebody who has done it already, though clearly I'm not.

gremlin wrote: Thu Dec 02, 2021 10:48 am Been told I have to attend a 'Diversity and Inclusion Learnfest'. WTF is a 'Learnfest'? If it's a seminar or presentation, call it as much. Perhaps they're thinking it adds a certain sheen of frivolity and fun to the whole thing....

Anyway, I'm thinking of telling them that I identify as somebody who has done it already, though clearly I'm not.

When I worked at McAfee we were asked to attend a brown bag meeting. It's a U.S. thing while you all chat while eating lunch. I refused to go as hate listening to folk talk with a gob full of food. Others did the same. Never asked again

Today I became a fully qualified central heating engineer..........or at least I got our boiler working again.
Wife was threatening.to leave and stop in a hotel.
The fuel pump relay wasn't kicking in, so off to our local chauffagerie, €33 for a bloody coil!
Slot it in and.......nada. Fuckstix!!!!!!
Pull the control relay off the front, look at it in an old fashioned way, shake it by my ear in a very engineer like manner.
Pull the front off it, check the contacts, rien.
Place it gently back in place with the cover off and manually operate the slider, and we get a solenoid like click, followed by that satisfying "WHHHUUUUUUMMMMMPPHHHHHHHHHHHH" of a boiler igniting.

Painting.

FML.

Yorick wrote: Thu Dec 02, 2021 10:52 am

gremlin wrote: Thu Dec 02, 2021 10:48 am Been told I have to attend a 'Diversity and Inclusion Learnfest'. WTF is a 'Learnfest'? If it's a seminar or presentation, call it as much. Perhaps they're thinking it adds a certain sheen of frivolity and fun to the whole thing....

Anyway, I'm thinking of telling them that I identify as somebody who has done it already, though clearly I'm not.

When I worked at McAfee we were asked to attend a brown bag meeting. It's a U.S. thing while you all chat while eating lunch. I refused to go as hate listening to folk talk with a gob full of food. Others did the same. Never asked again

Ours are online every 3 years- I have very vague memories of doing it

Confirmation of training on Monday - how to be a transfer driver! Hope I've been doing it right!!

Went to the physio. I've never 'played' Rock, Paper, Scissors before. He didn't know this. Not sure how it started but the physio exercises ended up being versions of RPS (arm in different positions). All I kept hearing was 'damn' cos apparently I was winning. After we'd finished those exercises, with great hilarity on my part (no idea why it was so funny to play RPS whilst doing physio, but it really was), I had to tell him that I had never 'played' (done?) RPS before and had no idea how I'd won so convincingly!! LOL Was very very funny!

Then a quick trip to shops then coffee with a friend. She kidnapped me from outside the supermarket cafe and we went to the Cornish Pasty and Cake shop instead, so Steff could meet Jess that runs it. Then the friend that drove me to physio and on to town picked me up from there!

I did do more sorting in the apartment this morning and now have to get up really early to finish it as a girl friend is coming for coffee after she's dropped the kids at school!!


Two awesome things of the day -

my new boss has confirmed that he'll pay the parking for the minibus (kinda knew he would, but was worrying me till he confirmed)

& a friend has offered to buy my lift pass for me till I have some wages - till then it looked like I'd only be able to go touring till some time in January, half don't mind that but it's been a winter and a half since we've been able to ski properly, so it was looking a bit miserable when I didn't think I'd have a lift pass


Sitting here looking at loads of snow and it's still falling. Might get Jen to make snow angels with me before I make her coffee in the morning!!!

Beer festival in Hackney- it was just enough hic

Taipan wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 2:36 pm Fitted the Panamericana grill to my Merc. Very nice.
Watched a film and am about to watch another. Cant do much else as I'm stuck in whilst they fit the kitchen.

KFB if you do go this route, you'll notice some don't have mesh behind the slats. It makes the rad a bit vulnerable. Rather than bin the grill for another mesh backed one, I looked at adding mesh to it. As soon as I started looking into it I found "its a thing". Cheap enough to sort with the mesh costing c£10, but probably easier if you find and pay a few quid more for a mesh backed one. Either way, the Panamerican grilll looks lush!

I think I prefer the standard R231 grille. The Pan America looks better on the facelift R231, but I think my pre-facelift R231 looks good with the standard front end.

Took some takeawya coffee (from home!) to the snow front to meet a friend - it was barely drinkable by the time she got there cos she was a bit late!! My plan to do snow angels was put on hold cos I'd got too cold standing around (I have photos from the last few years that show the improvement in the range of movement of my right arm, so need to do one every start of season! LOL)

Currently around -13 out there. And sunny! more snow forecast thought so that's fab!!

Just waiting for the sun to come up enough to make the snow front look amazing, then off to take some photos, go sort out the garage a bit then back home for a serious warm!! (Might leave the oil-filled radiator on whilst I'm out. I keep the actual rad turned down low otherwise it's too hot in here, and now the twisty thing seems seized, so I can't turn it up )

Probably over a foot of snow on the wall outside my place, so things are looking better for sure!!

These are the 'views' I wanted to post yesterday when Imgbb was having it's 'moment'!! Bloody love where I live!!!














Today there is full on proper snow!!! Soooooo happy. We've all been getting a bit nervous as the resort opens a week today and we didn't have much snow! But we do now




When we measured earlier it was approx 50cm of snow on the wall by me. And a friend who is about 5' 8" did a bit of touring and the snow was mid thigh just above resort!

It's been snowing constantly since we measured this, so I fully expect them to start pisting tonight so I might get out touring in the week

Fantastic enduro ride. I felt good and I've magically got the forks working perfectly.
Had fish butty at our fave beach restaurant. Guy at next table asked where we'd been and pointed to the steep path we'd just came down. About 1,000 ft descent. He looked impressed.

I couldn't quite place his accent, but when we left, he said he liked my Husqvarna shirt
He said "Ve are Svedish"