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| Tango wrote: | Triple cylinder Triumph engines ....  |
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Wmmst; seeing HCMS complete the London Tri today, his time was only very marginally longer than us three ladies took to complete it in
We all did good but HCMS should be very proud, great effort 
Being cheered on and getting great encouragement was really lovely 
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| V wrote: | Wmmst; seeing HCMS complete the London Tri today, his time was only very marginally longer than us three ladies took to complete it in
We all did good but HCMS should be very proud, great effort
Being cheered on and getting great encouragement was really lovely |
I am still worn out and didn't get up until 10:00am and all I did was watch  as you say great effort by Vanessa, Kate and Rana and especially Pete, for a guy that naturally sinks in water and has never swum long distance it was a super human effort.
Great to see Waki, Paula, Southern Speed, Markie Mark and Madam leading the 
Not forgetting some very generous sponsors from this place...... You know who you are 
All in all a great day and great effort 
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wivvy's dad
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| biggus wrote: | ...... thinking back to the weekend & spanking my Street Triple around the Norf...  . It may not be the fastest bike out there, but by 'eck it's a cracking real world bike.  |
I'm surprised we didn't bump into each other.
Found some cracking roads in some rather surprising places..... |
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biggus
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 11:16 am Post subject: |
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| wivvy's dad wrote: | | biggus wrote: | | ...... thinking back to the weekend & spanking my Street Triple around the Norf... . It may not be the fastest bike out there, but by 'eck it's a cracking real world bike. |
I'm surprised we didn't bump into each other.
Found some cracking roads in some rather surprising places..... |
I found some corkers too, Hartside was rather wet though!!
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moriwaki
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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Finally joined Facebook to see what all the fuss is about .......only to find it dosen't recognize my e-mail address on friend search 
Perhaps i don't have any 
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biggus
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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| moriwaki wrote: | Finally joined Facebook to see what all the fuss is about .......only to find it dosen't recognize my e-mail address on friend search
Perhaps i don't have any |
Why would you want to be friends with yourself?  
I searched on your email and found you.
I cba with facebook, I have an account, but it's pretty much locked down because all manner of fucking idiots have zero respect for my privacy. Sadly, I am related to some of these retards.
Q. "why don't you let people write on your 'wall'?"
A. because wankers like you would post random unmoderated shit on there, that's why. Do you really think I want to have you post up that we were out on the lash until 3am on a skool night when I turn up for work looking like I've been dug up twice already and managed to feign the old "dodgy curry" excuse for chundering in my desk bin twice successfully until a colleague read on the book of fail that we were out getting smashed?
Q. "why don't you accept tags on pics of you?"
A. because i like to choose what content is shared with the people who are fiends with me on facebook that includes, colleagues, elderly relatives, nosey relatives, people I just don't trust, shit stirrers etc. I don't want you to tag me in a picture you post of a vagina so that when Aunt Mabel looks on my profile and searches for pics of me she sees a vag. You may find the word "cunt" amusing, I do too...However, Aunt Mabel would probably die of shock- she still has a carbon copy of the letter of complaint written to Penguin books about them publishing that word in print in D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Q. "Why does it not show that you were at 'some random place in Europe' with me even though I tagged you?".
A.Because, quite simply, I live on my own and I'd rather that my whereabouts, specifically when I am out of the country were not shared on your completely public profile. You trust people to not misuse information you put on the web, you are stupid... This also goes for those people who do not remove exif location information from photographs when they post pictures online. Useful to know where that view was, but please, you nobs, not when you are taking pictures of my posessions in my home...
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moriwaki
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| biggus wrote: |
Why would you want to be friends with yourself?
I searched on your email and found you.
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Apparently by sending my e-mail details, they can tell me who's on facebook from my contacts list. Just did it out of curiosity tbh.....don't think i'll bother , especially after reading your Q & A's 
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biggus
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| moriwaki wrote: | | biggus wrote: |
Why would you want to be friends with yourself?
I searched on your email and found you.
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Apparently by sending my e-mail details, they can tell me who's on facebook from my contacts list. Just did it out of curiosity tbh.....don't think i'll bother , especially after reading your Q & A's |
Never done that myself as I am not a big fan of giving 3rd party places my email password.
If you are using an email client, such as outlook it won't work anyway since your contacts would be stored locally on your computer rather than your email company server.
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SkinnyHulk
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Handed my notice in at lullingstone today. Been there 8 years, never had time off for sick or any unauthorised absence. But due to the wage cuts and trebling of work load I have decided to jack it in. Gonna miss the place.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| SkinnyHulk wrote: | | Handed my notice in at lullingstone today. Been there 8 years, never had time off for sick or any unauthorised absence. But due to the wage cuts and trebling of work load I have decided to jack it in. Gonna miss the place. |
That made you smile? Shame as you really knew your way around and looked very at home there
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Miss G
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WMMST: a new toy of the 4-wheeled variety
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NAPA121
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| SkinnyHulk wrote: | | Handed my notice in at lullingstone today. Been there 8 years, never had time off for sick or any unauthorised absence. But due to the wage cuts and trebling of work load I have decided to jack it in. Gonna miss the place. |
Good for you...Out of interest have you found other employment before you did the deed?
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moriwaki
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Miss G wrote: | | WMMST: a new toy of the 4-wheeled variety |
....So, what have you bought ?
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SkinnyHulk
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| V wrote: | | SkinnyHulk wrote: | | Handed my notice in at lullingstone today. Been there 8 years, never had time off for sick or any unauthorised absence. But due to the wage cuts and trebling of work load I have decided to jack it in. Gonna miss the place. |
That made you smile? Shame as you really knew your way around and looked very at home there |
They cut my wages by quite a bit earlier on in the year as in my average wage packet went down to £432 a month and they reduced our hours per week by four hours. I also had to make two trips in to work each day (unlock and lock up which was fine) however due to fuel prices getting a bit silly has started to make the job fuel expensive, as to which they also removed the fuel allowances. They have trebled the workload (just look at the size of the new car park and how often it is filled).
The final straw however was KCC spending £200,000 on a new toilet block to allow the public to have a piss/shit when the visitor centre is closed and the park is still open. This works out that for an extra 3.5hrs a day for up to 4 months of the year (when the gates are closing late) people can use the loo. BTW after 5 o'clock you get on the busiest day only about 30 cars in the car park, but the average is about 5-6 cars after 5.00. The park "service" has now become so income focused that IMO it is detrimental to the parks as a whole and to the park itself.
I will miss the place very very much. But on the plus side I can now walk the dog down there for leisure.
The smiling part is to do with my boss taking it well, my boss is excellent, and has been an absolute pleasure to work with and has been a great role model to me, so I was worried about letting him down.
I arranged for us to have a chat this morning, walked through the door and pull the letter out of my pocket, as to which he said "your not resigning are you" I replied "yes" and he called me a "fucker". jokingly of course. But he understood as about 9/10 wardens have handed in our notice this year. (they have replaced 8 of them but nobody wanted one of the parks, which is one I have been covering for about 9 months).
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Good for you...Out of interest have you found other employment before you did the deed? |
I got a job as a vet nurse a couple of months back. Which pays more!!! And also have 150 sheep plus lambs as a business, (which is doing surprisingly well) so if anyone wants any lamb let me know.
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biggus
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| SkinnyHulk wrote: | | have 150 sheep plus lambs as a business |
Business or pleasure?
Good for you in resolving your work woes, many of us, myself included don't address this part of our lives, which is silly considering how much of our time is spent at work, travelling to/from and thinking about it..!
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SkinnyHulk
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| biggus wrote: | | SkinnyHulk wrote: | | have 150 sheep plus lambs as a business |
Business or pleasure?
Good for you in resolving your work woes, many of us, myself included don't address this part of our lives, which is silly considering how much of our time is spent at work, travelling to/from and thinking about it..! |
Business and pleasure, but not the welsh kind of pleasure!!! Large animals and livestock have always been my forte, plus making money off of the sheep is cool as well.
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| SkinnyHulk wrote: | | biggus wrote: | | SkinnyHulk wrote: | | have 150 sheep plus lambs as a business |
Business or pleasure?
Good for you in resolving your work woes, many of us, myself included don't address this part of our lives, which is silly considering how much of our time is spent at work, travelling to/from and thinking about it..! |
Business and pleasure, but not the welsh kind of pleasure!!! Large animals and livestock have always been my forte, plus making money off of the sheep is cool as well. |
ever thought of starting up a renta sheep buisines.....or tie em to a lampost and call em a leisure centre
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moriwaki
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Painted on a railway bridge over the M25 near Rickmansworth......
" GIVE PEAS A CHANCE !.."
.....Right on  , eat more carrots
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JimBo
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| moriwaki wrote: | Painted on a railway bridge over the M25 near Rickmansworth......
" GIVE PEAS A CHANCE !.."
.....Right on , eat more carrots
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Whenever I hear "Give Peace a Chance" peace (or peas) is the thing furthest from my mind! 
It is only marginally better than "Imagine" so it is pretty awful.
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Tusky
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| JimBo wrote: | | moriwaki wrote: | Painted on a railway bridge over the M25 near Rickmansworth......
" GIVE PEAS A CHANCE !.."
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Whenever I hear "Give Peace a Chance" peace (or peas) is the thing furthest from my mind!
It is only marginally better than "Imagine" so it is pretty awful. |
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Miss G
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WMMST and most of the weekend, 400 dry miles through 9 counties, much hoonage and
Found a great B&B in the middle of Stratford upon Avon with secure bike parking (in locked garage attached to the house with the owner's two-wheeled toy). lovely people, clean en-suite room, comfy bed, 10 min walk to the river and town centre, and fantastic organic breakup with local produce, all for £60 for the room per night. Happy to recommend and will definitely be returning to Appletrees, details on http://www.thebikerguide.co.uk/bikerfriendlywarwickshire.html
| moriwaki wrote: | | Miss G wrote: | | WMMST: a new toy of the 4-wheeled variety |
....So, what have you bought ? |
Big old pajero to cart round the kit for my newest business venture. Can't knock an old bit of Japanese industrial machinery!
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ChoccieMuffin
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Unexpected excursion on the tractor (god, I love my bike!!!) and met up with the Surrey Bikesafe bunch at an unexpected visit to Box Hill. Managed unexpectedly to book myself on a Bikesafe course on 14th Oct.
Yes, I will be taking the tractor out even if it's raining, and yes, it has only had two minor sploshes with a bucket of soapy water since I bought it. And yes, I DO nod at bike riders of almost all flavours, even when astride a Harley. Have to say I don't make a big effort if the approaching rider isn't even bothering to wear gloves, but nod happily at plastics and trailies and even scooter riders and L-plates, and don't wait for them to nod first (unless I happen to be mid-manoevre at the time).
And wasn't the weather nice earlier today. That made me smile too. |
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Carnage
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| moriwaki wrote: | | Miss G wrote: | | WMMST: a new toy of the 4-wheeled variety |
....So, what have you bought ? |
i opted for this as my new 4 wheeled toy
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Nice and economical Pete - probably does more miles to the gallon than a Panigale
Still on a bit of a high from that great run yesterday and having watched that fantastic finish to the Ryder Cup.
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