spent most of the day clearing up my flooded workshop & finding things i'd forgotten i had
just got back from bassets pole where i had a nice chat with cg & looked at the few non standard bikes, & classics that turned up, studiously avoided looking at all the boring plastics too so not a bad day after a poor start
Yesterday (I wasn't on to post it then) I went to a 'consultation' the Housing association / council/ developers were holding for the residents re: proposed demolition of our homes.
I may as well have stayed at home cos I didn't get any new info or a definite date for the demolition!
I saw the proposed plans, and photographs/artist's impression, for the new-build flats.
None of it relevant to me as I won't be moving into them, I am hoping to get a house with my own garden, none of this communal cr*p that I have now.
One of the developers was telling me what was going where, etc, and mentioned it would be enclosed and private area with pass keys to entry gates bla bla then he said and we're not sure what we're putting here so I said 'how about a drying room?, if the flats are as small as new builds usually are they won't have room in the flats for drying washing' I was pretty surprised they hadn't thought of it themselves. Think I'll ask for a job at their planning department, I may just get a definite answer on a demo' date lol
Seriously tho I'm close to pulling my hair out now cos it's been 2 years since I first heard my home was up for demolition and I'm still being told exactly the same as I was then
If they take much longer they won't need to demolish it, it will have FALLEN DOWN
This is for yesterday as all the sunshine tired me out so i had an early night
Sunbathing most of the day , then after tea
went to scarcliff bike night
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Today i spent the morning on here
this afternoon i cleaned my bike, between the showers
tonight went to a pub in sheffield to there local bikers night about thirty bikes in attendance a good night out
On the way back got p**s wet through only three miles from home
back on here now !!!!!!!
today got up went to my mums, went to lark lane for coffee, went to work, went to the scotch piper loads of bikes out but loads of police about tonight seemed very furtive out there as well...a couple of crazies doing wheelies and tear arsing up and down the road may be the reason.
Amongst the multitude of bikes there I saw a vincent velocette with fishtail exhaust a real thumper, an old triumph bonne, and a new triumph tiger in black (very sexy) it has to be my next bike. The man riding it had a 31 and 1/2 inch inside leg and I know this because i asked him and he said it was great for him. That will do me nicely then.
Pagan prince was there and so was Rattler who asked me to say hello to everyone he has had an allergy from being bitten by midges last week and was sorry he missed everyone at matlock, now his computer has gone off and wont go so when its fixed he will be back.
I'm always playing catch up lol
(yesterday) evening Mike and I went to Squires, in the car cos he'd been riding the bike all day on his course. It was very busy at Squires. There seems to be a lot more Brit bikes, and cruisers, attending than there used to be which is great. I was in Brit' bike and cruiser heaven
This monring i went for the medical assesment for the insurance claim resulting from the bike accident i had last September. I am just about to go into work for a late shift! Bugger!!!!!
Went to work this morning and had a job interview this afternoon.
Did not get the job i went for but was offered another job...In Jersey, feel very shocked and in a complete dilemma. Got a lot of thinking to do.
Hmmm, woke up (eventually) and did the boring 'work' thing. Sat watching the rain come down thinking that I had no chance of getting out on the bike.....and didn't :(
Re-subscribed to this site to give it another bash.
Looking forward to tomorrow as the Met says sunshine due so smilin like a Cheshire cat lol
Not so much what I did as what happened as opposed to what should have happened.
Sods law: "If anything can go wrong it will do so in the worse possible way at the worse possible time"
What should've happened: The sun came out, I went home, my tyre arrived on time, I went to Saltire Suzuki and got it changed, went back home loaded up the bike and was all ready to go to RnB. In my ******* dreams.
What actually happened: I left work in the pissing rain, hit diesel which slid the front wheel onto red cyclepath stuff where it gripped again. Nobody told the back wheel; I fell off and kissed the tarmac. Got the bike back up and suffered electrical failure. Buggered about with it for a while with another biker who kindly stopped,before slapping the bars in disgust; RESULT all the electrics came back on - fiery latin temperament I guess. Limped home.
Checked where my should-have-been-here-yesterday-express-delivery tyre was. On a van for delivery at 08.37. it was 08.02 so I waited, and waited and waited until it was delivered (news to me) and signed for by Mr Hossain ????????????? Phone call to parcelforce confirmed that their lazy bastard driver couldn't be arsed delivering it and so left it at the post office. Now 14.30. But at least my front tyre has arrived. Phoned Drummond, he came down, we got tools and... couldn't get the front wheel off. Axle nut - should be finger tight and maybe a 1/2 turn bc pinch bolts hold axle in place - had been torqued down by an elephant on steroids. Big shifter, mole-grips etc = no joy. So up to lock up to investigate tool kit; largest socket we have is 1". All jap bikes, as far as I know, are 24mm axle. So off to Halfords who stock 1-27 then 30mm. 27mm to small, 30mm to big. looks like a 28mm. back into torrential rain and off to machine mart who sell everything - except 28mm sockets. "Sorry mate, never heard of them". So next stop Unipart; no joy here either so I phone Harry at Ducati Glasgow just in case a 28mm socket is now a Ducati patented special tool. No says he, but I've no idea where you'll get one. Phones Steve at Suzuki - it's now after 17.00 so tyre will have to wait regardless and - btw - they have never heard of a 28mm socket being used on a bike. In the meantime, Unipart have done some networking, and found the last Britool 28mm socket in Scotland at Wilkinsons Specialist Engineering shop. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is 3miles through rush hour traffic in torrential rain in 10mins. I crash through Wilkinsons door with seconds to go and mumble 28mm socket. £7 please. At last things are looking up.
Back into monsoon and off to Lidl for nuts, dried fruit, tinned fish, biscuits and ravioli. It stops raining. up to Morrisons where I discover Morrisons Isaly malt at 13quid - that'll do nicely; no qualms about putting that in a plastic bottle.
Home to get changed for work. The sun has come out.
I am now at work and have spoken to some of the guys who are already there. I will make it come hell or high water.
You can probably work out what should happen tomorrow: the sun comes out, I get my tyre changed, load up the bike and meet Dean and everyone else in the beer tent at RnB for 5pm. Hopefully Sod has the day off tomorrow.
Ahhh i will have to go to the zoo and see one then, not today as have to go to work and just see some of the miserable faces on some of my colleagues, will go tomorrow if the sun is shinning and not a black cloud in the sky.
Sun...no clouds...in yer dreams!
(Actually there's what looks like sunlight outside but I reckon its an illusion. Plenty of cloud though - they look real enough!)
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