-
Welcome to Stafford Forum. Please or sign-up and start posting!
Mundane facts about your day...
- Thread starter Jonah
- Start date
- Status
BobClay
Well-Known Forumite
Got the new Motorbike today, been like a kid with a new toy. Excellent weather for it as well
(At the risk of repeating myself....)
Marlon Brando, eat yer heart out.
Thehooperman
Well-Known Forumite
Got the new Motorbike today, been like a kid with a new toy. Excellent weather for it as well
What did you get?
Trumpet
Well-Known Forumite
Had a great night there a couple of years ago. Brilliant band on in the pub.Spent the day wandering along the West Devon coast and had lunch here at Hartland Quay.
View attachment 6988
Several of the buildings are having a makeover to make them look a lot older for filming of Rebecca, hope they remember to move the lifting platforms out of shot when they start filming
View attachment 6990
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Zero SR/F.
staffordjas
Well-Known Forumite
When son got the keys, he phoned up and had me on that the solicitor wouldn't release the keys til next week now..... I was getting my shoes on to drive down to Worcester , march in the office and have her by the neck.....good job he quickly told me he was joking before I turned my phone off and jumped in the carYou could always go out and shoot the f*****s !
Of course the lawyers have really got you by the balls then.
The game is rigged.
(An old saying we used to have at sea: “Life’s a bastard, and then yer die ! “ )
Pleased to say he got the keys the last minute yesterday before the estate agents closed (thanks to son ringing them and getting them involved as well yesterday! ) Luckily no chain , house was empty and son is first time buyer.
I've now got a nice tidy house again after two car loads have gone.
Can't believe it's really his own really nice house after all the shit holes he's lived in since starting uni. All his own, no sharing (except for when me & hubby go down ...)
Came back with a car piled high with the gardening rubbish today.....spent 6 hours today in his garden while he was at work ...found the missing line post hiding behind a tree that had sprung up. Shouldn't have bothered putting makeup on, ended up with panda eyes sweating sawing branches. Started chucking it down with rain, so bunged it all in the car while I carried on attacking the (already spotless) house. Which gave all the creepy crawlies time to go exploring ...
Drove home with all sorts of creatures crawling and flying around the car after escaping the bags.
Had a scare on the way home. Stopped off in a petrol station out in the sticks later tonight to fill up. Bloke walks up to my car as I was getting out, and asked for a lift to the next island as his car had run out of petrol and was parked up on the road by the island (He had a petrol can, but when he put it on the bin it sounded empty
). Told him he could walk it or to ask someone else, but he wouldn't go away. I went to pay (making sure my car was locked at all times) and he still kept lingering outside my car. Lone female cashier said he'd been hanging around the past 15 minutes and she was scared herself as he seemed a nutter. I ran out and jumped in my car when another motorist arrived and the bloke was distracted by them. Was feeling a bit guilty thinking maybe he was genuine, but driving past where he said his car was......no parked up car in sight 
And can't quite believe it...4 fantastic motorway journeys in a row, even the M6/M5 junction moved well each time. Thought of the forum tonight at that junction as the radio played 'segs and drugs & rock & roll'
Last edited:
staffordjas
Well-Known Forumite
I met the next door neighbour today. Mentioned that he'd be having a housewarming, but he's not normally noisy (errrrm... ) so it'll be a one off (errrrrrrm.....)
Was told she works long hours , it's a quiet area which she needs for her to sleep....ooo-eeerrrr . Maybe need that mini bus of formurites in attendance , I'v e offered to be his bouncer on the door (with a supply of cider on tap) but sounds like I need backup
Trumpet
Well-Known Forumite
What sort of range are they quoting?
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
I'm on a plane
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
160 miles. I reckon 140 is probably realistic in give and take riding. The way I was riding yesterday the range was about 100 miles.
Thehooperman
Well-Known Forumite
I must admit that is one of the best looking electric bikes out at the moment.
I attended an IET presentation on electric motorbikes several years ago and it was really interesting in terms of the differences between electric bike racing and conventional bike racing such as the marshalls having to wear extra thick rubber gloves, weight distribution, the possibility that the bikes still had torque when they'd been dropped, etc.
The presenter went on to explain two guys had hitched rides, boats, flights from Japan to get their home made electric bike to the IoM and finished third whilst the professional US superbike teams kept grounding their bikes because they thought the circuit was flat like a short race circuit
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Don't think I'd like to be a spectator at an electric bike race. There'd be no fun without the sound and smell of i/c.I must admit that is one of the best looking electric bikes out at the moment.
I attended an IET presentation on electric motorbikes several years ago and it was really interesting in terms of the differences between electric bike racing and conventional bike racing such as the marshalls having to wear extra thick rubber gloves, weight distribution, the possibility that the bikes still had torque when they'd been dropped, etc.
The presenter went on to explain two guys had hitched rides, boats, flights from Japan to get their home made electric bike to the IoM and finished third whilst the professional US superbike teams kept grounding their bikes because they thought the circuit was flat like a short race circuit
Thehooperman
Well-Known Forumite
Hartland Quay, fabulous place. There used to be a harbour there in days gone by, although getting even a small vessel in and out must have had its bowel moving moments.
I hadn't heard of it before and only picked it from my road atlas because I hadn't been to that side of Devon.
Headed to Bude first and then had a long walk on the beach at Sandymouth before going to Hartland and back via Appledore.
BobClay
Well-Known Forumite
You probably passed through my village, Kilkhampton. (Usually a traffic jam due to parked vehicles.) When the tide is out Sandymouth down to Bude is a cracking walk. When I first came down here I lived out in the wilds next to the satellite station. Often walked into Bude down the coastal path for a few pints on a warm summer day.
Walking back was a bit more difficult …
Walking back was a bit more difficult …
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
I have heard it said that there is a vestigial population of the native Blue Pig in that area...Walking back was a bit more difficult …
Cue
Well-Known Forumite
Oooo.
Don't have much interest in riding something with two wheels instead of four, but if I were that'd be my ride for sure.
I assume it doesn't have a noisemaker (as I understand it, the noise is partially for your own safety on a bike?) or anything as legally we aren't allowed them I believe? Us electric folk have to saunter about all silent-like and sneak up on our prey.
Also that's a damn good range fit into what is quite a small vehicle.
staffordjas
Well-Known Forumite
Expecting a call that something has gone horribly wrong with son moving stuff tonight. Seems he couldn't wait for girlfriends dad to help with his van on Monday....sent a photo of his Corsa with the back seats down and attempting to get the double bed in for it's 3 mile journey
- Status