Lancs Lad
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Similar but not bad enough to be tied down...all had it to some degree and loads of folk I know .nah ... been RAF again
Never known such long spells of flu crap.
I'm three weeks of feeling crap now
Never known such long spells of flu crap.
I'm three weeks of feeling crap now
diggerjones
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Yeah I've been crap for a week or soSimilar but not bad enough to be tied down...all had it to some degree and loads of folk I know .
Never known such long spells of flu crap.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
at least the same ...Noro for a week, end of Nov. -- kids had Chickypox for 3 weeks in Dec. -- managed to avoid that somehow, but didn't feel right - then had bloody noro, week before crimbo - AGAINSimilar but not bad enough to be tied down...all had it to some degree and loads of folk I know .
Never known such long spells of flu crap.
-- had recovered enough to enjoy a turkey dinner Sunday ... Plymouth contingent arrived Monday, coughing and spluttering and have kept them at a long arm's length, but've filled the bloody house with foreign poxy germs ... have had the shakes and sweats for 3 days now .. and I mean THE SHAKES uncontrollably cold shivers -- then bang sweating like pig for hours .... sat here now with it running down my forehead and back ... having soaked the bed last night, I'd hoped i'd sweated it out of me - didn't surface 'til gone 4 this afters .. nice shower and damn me, running off me again ..waiting for the shakes to kick in again ... did wonder if I'd got covid again but testing -ve -- have had a banging head ache for several days too ... dunno WTF this is, but it can ferkenauft as soon as it likes ... not happy
TiltyShaun
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That is a good old fashioned dose of flu!! Keep hydrated and wait for it to pass.at least the same ...Noro for a week, end of Nov. -- kids had Chickypox for 3 weeks in Dec. -- managed to avoid that somehow, but didn't feel right - then had bloody noro, week before crimbo - AGAIN
Speedy recovery!!
TiltyShaun
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The boss has said with medicine it should clear up a week. Naturally it will take 7 days!!!
Advised to take some Vit C and Vit D.
Advised to take some Vit C and Vit D.
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OBL
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We’ve all had it over the last couple of months...
first Winter everyones acting normal? Maybe it wouldn’t spread as much if our immune systems hadn’t had a two year holiday? Who knows.
I don’t know many that haven’t been grim recently.
get well soon
first Winter everyones acting normal? Maybe it wouldn’t spread as much if our immune systems hadn’t had a two year holiday? Who knows.
I don’t know many that haven’t been grim recently.
get well soon
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
cheers guys ... I'd assumed proper flu was a fair bet ... only tested after being nagged senseless ... didn't think it was covid, as still have taste and smell fully functional ... no snots though??
the Plymouth contingent came here after 5 days with Josh's wife's 7 brothers/sisters and all their bloody kids, plus God knows how many other relatives, all in close quarters.... and they seem to have forgotten how to GAF
Poor ol' Vicki's spent most of it on her own, having tested +ve Crimbo Eve
Even though I've kept as away as possible (as they always bring summat) I still got to breathe
feeling a little more normal after surfacing about 12.30 -- Pam kept me awake 'til gone four SNORING for Wales -- and I was staying there this morning, having eventually gotten to sleep ... not popular, especially when I informed her of why, but fk it .. have had a titsful of the current zoo-scape ... they've all burgered off out somewhere and has taken me two hours to tidy and hoover the house, back to some level of normality ... a greater degree of 'respect' is required for Chez Druid than it gets
... I'd assumed proper flu was a fair bet ... only tested after being nagged senseless ... didn't think it was covid, as still have taste and smell fully functional ... no snots though?? the Plymouth contingent came here after 5 days with Josh's wife's 7 brothers/sisters and all their bloody kids, plus God knows how many other relatives, all in close quarters
.... and they seem to have forgotten how to GAF Poor ol' Vicki's spent most of it on her own, having tested +ve Crimbo Eve
Even though I've kept as away as possible (as they always bring summat) I still got to breathe
feeling a little more normal after surfacing about 12.30 -- Pam kept me awake 'til gone four SNORING for Wales -- and I was staying there this morning, having eventually gotten to sleep ... not popular, especially when I informed her of why, but fk it .. have had a titsful of the current zoo-scape ... they've all burgered off out somewhere and has taken me two hours to tidy and hoover the house, back to some level of normality ... a greater degree of 'respect' is required for Chez Druid than it gets
diggerjones
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Thinking about cranes, does anyone remember cranes going around pubs with people doing bungee jumps.
They came to 2 of my village pubs with very small carparks
I never did it, wasn't pissed enough
They came to 2 of my village pubs with very small carparks
I never did it, wasn't pissed enough
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
oh aye ... have had a few folk try to hire my old 45 Grove for it, 'til I found out what they wanted it for ..... liability off the scale even with their so called cover - no thanks ...Thinking about cranes, does anyone remember cranes going around pubs with people doing bungee jumps.
They came to 2 of my village pubs with very small carparks
I never did it, wasn't pissed enough
Was in le Mans in '85 with a bunch of mates, one of whom was a bit of a case ... stood watching it going on - Mike turns to me and says "hold my beer a minute Gra" and he's gone ... five minutes later and 500FF later he's plummeting earthward, head first, wailing like a banshee, taking pix on the way down .... loon .... some good pix though
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Monkeybusiness
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I did it at the Yew Tree stone cold sober - I wouldn’t do it again ever…Thinking about cranes, does anyone remember cranes going around pubs with people doing bungee jumps.
They came to 2 of my village pubs with very small carparks
I never did it, wasn't pissed enough
Lancs Lad
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Yup always looked in in the hope of a snapped rope ...Thinking about cranes, does anyone remember cranes going around pubs with people doing bungee jumps.
They came to 2 of my village pubs with very small carparks
I never did it, wasn't pissed enough
What happened to it? Usual insurance stuff I guess or increased sense of self preservation
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
'nother funny from the same trip relating to 'mad Mike' ...
off the boat at 07.00 in Le Havre heading for Alençon and the Club de L'ouest offices there, to get tickets for the circuit -- cheaper than on the gate and a 'straight in' jobbie ...
I'm on the Zed thou., there's a 900 boxer, a Crossbow Guzzi Le Mans 850, a 1000 brick, GPz1000, a Laverda 750 SF2 and Mike on his VN500 Kawi custom, giving it death, keeping up
tickets secured, we retired to a bar for some well earned late brekky ...
finishing up chatting and Mike (who's been riding maybe 12-18 months) turns to us all and says (and I'll never forget it) ..
"tell me guys when should you use your front brakes? "
the table is now covered in spat out coffee and we're all looking at each other trying to decide if it's a wind up ...
or not,
but it'd explain a lot of the times he'd overshot the rest of us, as we scotched up.
Apart from Pete on the SF2, the other guys in the group had never met Mike before, they laughed, stood up and walked outside ...
Pete looked at me as if to say WTF??? and I just shrugged unknowingly ....
so the six of us are now stood around Mikes VN, examining what looked to be damned near pristine, virginal front discs and the most distressed rear disc you could imagine.
Nick on the Guzzi, famous for his NFG attitudes, looked at Mike and said
"you weren't ****ing kidding, were you mate?"
so after a few braking tips, etc. we all set off for the Carrefour just outside Le Mans for some weekend supplies, 'fore heading for our usual parking spot on the circuit, just up from the pit straight, by Dunlop ...
could always get in just about anywhere with the bikes and used to park along the fence line, chained to the uprights.
anyway.... 's about 35-ish miles to cover and we're bowling along on the undulating D338 ...
beautiful June day on a typical French tree lined road, up and down ...
'bout 3 miles out and the lead rider - can't recall who it was - crested the rise and is hard on the anchors, we all see it and start backing off and tucking in as we can .....
sea of traffic, crawling ... and we're running down the outside of it on the line, coming down from 'level flight'
think I was 3rd or 4th back and I can hear this howling noise behind me and the oncoming traffic in front of me is parting like the red sea, diving for the gravel verge ....
look over my left shoulder, just in time to see Mike coming past me speedway style, back tyre smoking, the two guys behind me, who he's already passed are pissing themselves laughing and trying to stay in control, I'd just about stopped and had a grandstand seat as he sailed past the guys in front of me, who'd also seen him coming and were diving for any gap they could make.
Mike eventually came to a halt straddling the white line -- broadside ...
thank God we were in France ..
nice wide roads and drivers who knew when to get the fook out o' the way....
must've been a good ten minutes, sat in the middle of the road, 'fore we were all composed enough to carry on, pull over to the side and take the piss out of Mike, who was a gibbering wreck just about ... his first words were
" **** me, that was a close one "
CLOSE!! ..
close didn't even come near to describing one of the funniest near misses (or things) I've ever seen the black mark on the road was a couple of hundred yards long and he never touched a single thing, lucky sod
Although i know he wasn't, he looked pretty well composed and in control as he passed me ... almost stylish
I do know he learnt to use his front brakes a hell of a lot more after that
off the boat at 07.00 in Le Havre heading for Alençon and the Club de L'ouest offices there, to get tickets for the circuit -- cheaper than on the gate and a 'straight in' jobbie ...
I'm on the Zed thou., there's a 900 boxer, a Crossbow Guzzi Le Mans 850, a 1000 brick, GPz1000, a Laverda 750 SF2 and Mike on his VN500 Kawi custom, giving it death, keeping up
tickets secured, we retired to a bar for some well earned late brekky ...
finishing up chatting and Mike (who's been riding maybe 12-18 months) turns to us all and says (and I'll never forget it)
.."tell me guys when should you use your front brakes? "
the table is now covered in spat out coffee and we're all looking at each other trying to decide if it's a wind up ...
or not,
but it'd explain a lot of the times he'd overshot the rest of us, as we scotched up.
Apart from Pete on the SF2, the other guys in the group had never met Mike before, they laughed, stood up and walked outside ...
Pete looked at me as if to say WTF??? and I just shrugged unknowingly ....
so the six of us are now stood around Mikes VN, examining what looked to be damned near pristine, virginal front discs and the most distressed rear disc you could imagine.
Nick on the Guzzi, famous for his NFG attitudes, looked at Mike and said
"you weren't ****ing kidding, were you mate?"
so after a few braking tips, etc.
we all set off for the Carrefour just outside Le Mans for some weekend supplies, 'fore heading for our usual parking spot on the circuit, just up from the pit straight, by Dunlop ...could always get in just about anywhere with the bikes and used to park along the fence line, chained to the uprights.
anyway.... 's about 35-ish miles to cover and we're bowling along on the undulating D338 ...
beautiful June day on a typical French tree lined road, up and down ...
'bout 3 miles out and the lead rider - can't recall who it was - crested the rise and is hard on the anchors, we all see it and start backing off and tucking in as we can .....
sea of traffic, crawling ...
and we're running down the outside of it on the line, coming down from 'level flight' think I was 3rd or 4th back and I can hear this howling noise behind me and the oncoming traffic in front of me is parting like the red sea, diving for the gravel verge ....
look over my left shoulder, just in time to see Mike coming past me speedway style, back tyre smoking, the two guys behind me, who he's already passed are pissing themselves laughing and trying to stay in control, I'd just about stopped and had a grandstand seat as he sailed past the guys in front of me, who'd also seen him coming and were diving for any gap they could make.
Mike eventually came to a halt straddling the white line -- broadside ...
thank God we were in France ..
nice wide roads and drivers who knew when to get the fook out o' the way....
must've been a good ten minutes, sat in the middle of the road, 'fore we were all composed enough to carry on, pull over to the side and take the piss out of Mike, who was a gibbering wreck just about
... his first words were" **** me, that was a close one "
CLOSE!! ..
close didn't even come near to describing one of the funniest near misses (or things) I've ever seen
the black mark on the road was a couple of hundred yards long and he never touched a single thing, lucky sodAlthough i know he wasn't, he looked pretty well composed and in control as he passed me ... almost stylish
I do know he learnt to use his front brakes a hell of a lot more after that
Lancs Lad
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Oh for a helmet cam'nother funny from the same trip relating to 'mad Mike' ...
off the boat at 07.00 in Le Havre heading for Alençon and the Club de L'ouest offices there, to get tickets for the circuit -- cheaper than on the gate and a 'straight in' jobbie ...
I'm on the Zed thou., there's a 900 boxer, a Crossbow Guzzi Le Mans 850, a 1000 brick, GPz1000, a Laverda 750 SF2 and Mike on his VN500 Kawi custom, giving it death, keeping up
tickets secured, we retired to a bar for some well earned late brekky ...
finishing up chatting and Mike (who's been riding maybe 12-18 months) turns to us all and says (and I'll never forget it)
"tell me guys when should you use your front brakes? "
the table is now covered in spat out coffee and we're all looking at each other trying to decide if it's a wind up ...
or not,
but it'd explain a lot of the times he'd overshot the rest of us, as we scotched up.
Apart from Pete on the SF2, the other guys in the group had never met Mike before, they laughed, stood up and walked outside ...
Pete looked at me as if to say WTF??? and I just shrugged unknowingly ....
so the six of us are now stood around Mikes VN, examining what looked to be damned near pristine, virginal front discs and the most distressed rear disc you could imagine.
Nick on the Guzzi, famous for his NFG attitudes, looked at Mike and said
"you weren't ****ing kidding, were you mate?"
so after a few braking tips, etc.
could always get in just about anywhere with the bikes and used to park along the fence line, chained to the uprights.
anyway.... 's about 35-ish miles to cover and we're bowling along on the undulating D338 ...
beautiful June day on a typical French tree lined road, up and down ...
'bout 3 miles out and the lead rider - can't recall who it was - crested the rise and is hard on the anchors, we all see it and start backing off and tucking in as we can .....
sea of traffic, crawling ...
think I was 3rd or 4th back and I can hear this howling noise behind me and the oncoming traffic in front of me is parting like the red sea, diving for the gravel verge ....
look over my left shoulder, just in time to see Mike coming past me speedway style, back tyre smoking, the two guys behind me, who he's already passed are pissing themselves laughing and trying to stay in control, I'd just about stopped and had a grandstand seat as he sailed past the guys in front of me, who'd also seen him coming and were diving for any gap they could make.
Mike eventually came to a halt straddling the white line -- broadside ...
thank God we were in France ..
nice wide roads and drivers who knew when to get the fook out o' the way....
must've been a good ten minutes, sat in the middle of the road, 'fore we were all composed enough to carry on, pull over to the side and take the piss out of Mike, who was a gibbering wreck just about
" **** me, that was a close one "
CLOSE!! ..
close didn't even come near to describing one of the funniest near misses (or things) I've ever seen
Although i know he wasn't, he looked pretty well composed and in control as he passed me ... almost stylish
I do know he learnt to use his front brakes a hell of a lot more after that
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
PMSL!
... having been to the top of my 45's boom in a man basket ('bout 147ft IIRC) and although the height doesn't bother me ........ you'd have to ****in' throw me out, unconscious 104ft of main, 34ft of swing away ext. and the boom root was 9ft off the floor ... 'kin long way up/down, depending on where you were stood
I'd guess a mixture of both LL and increased costs for suitable machinesYup always looked in in the hope of a snapped rope ...
What happened to it? Usual insurance stuff I guess or increased sense of self preservation
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diggerjones
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Where was the yew tree.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
many's the time I've wished we'd had footage of it ... the car drivers on my right and left were all wetting themselves laughing as they crawled past .. one truck driver was absolutely howling and banging his steering wheel as he came towards me ... funniest bloody thing I've ever seenOh for a helmet cam
.. or a lot of them too ..... I'd have paid good money to have seen Mike's face
M
Monkeybusiness
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Bunbury - used to be the Crewe Arms back in the day.
diggerjones
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That was it.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
some great pix from a job Alun Griffiths has been doing in Wales
Canal Navvy
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They must spend a fortune on that crane ......loved seeing it here with Griffiths on the Cotswold Canal last Christmas/new year 
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