So what have you done today..?

Pert.

 

Much more rewarding than when Jamie Oliver did his naked thing!

 

I was supposed to have a rideout on sunday which turned out to be a great October day but the bike was not ready/still on the stands for maintenance purposes and besides the weather experts said monday was going to be dry & how wrong were they.anyway tools down as the sun has been out inforce today,lets get one or two more rides bagged before it goes tits up weatherwise.
Both tyres had been changed last week but with a very lightly used secondhand front tyre which was given to me recently and i just brought a new rear matching tyre to keep the costs down plus with new front brake pads in place,so i proceded with caution to the coastline for maybe the last time (hope not) this year.
I stopped & snapped away at the Eastbourne lighthouse whilst having a chat with cyclist about the Pros and Cons of living in Lewes as you do,when a Spitfire came over not once but twice which included some aerobatics.
Happy Days

 

I reckon burglars are getting more crafty these days.

Last night my wife woke me up telling me " Ron, Ron, there's a burglar downstairs".

So I got up, went downstairs and checked every room including the bike shed.

Then I realised that I don't have a wife, and when I went back upstairs, my wallet, tv and watch had gone.

 

Get yourself three chords, such as C,D and G they’re relatively easy to change to and from and are found in a number of easy to play songs.
There’s plenty of three chord musics books to buy.
But I found it easier if you find a piece of musics you like and can sing along to while strumming.
Either that or cut out the middle man and go straight to the Jack Daniels,
Rock’n’Roll style!

 

First day not on call for a week so having a glass or two of wine

 

Spent the morning faffing around the 748 in a very enjoyable journey of discovery.
Beautiful afternoon here so a quick 60 miles around Bucks/Oxon on the 765RS. Now nicely over 500 miles (quadrupled it’s miles since acquisition) so exploring up above 8k and beyond for short stretches. I really like it.
Oh, and had to drop off a donation at a local chapel of rest. St Johns Ambulance so a good cause. The undertaker was a biker and was restoring a Honda NSR250 Rothmans. I left my number.

 

Really wanted to apply all three buttons on the above agree/funny/like but chose funny.

 

Tomorrow looks favourable weather wise. Not as nice but dry. Get some in.
Oh, and Spitfires. Bloody fantastic things. Me and no 2 were coming back from her Uni in Norwich a few years ago and one was doing stunts over Duxford. We stopped the car and watched for a good 20 minutes. Helps that she is a historian so held her attention too. I just like the noise they make.

 

I've a few boxes to tick in the morning but maybe inbetween 1/5pm if bone dry.

 

Finally started putting this roof together..
We were due to start yesterday but I noticed that the drop on the rafters was such that the soffit would missed the top of the window frame and hit the glass!
As I didn't want to recut all the rafters and hips the easist solution was take the blocks up another corse .
Good fun day today, bit of a pain with the fork lift, a crane would have been better but we got there .
Wall plates are bowed to fuck and as they are 165x165 oak I can see no way of sorting em so may have to cut the birds mouths in a few rafters a bit further back where the plate bows out ....

 

Trick or Treaters have started tonight - I've found that by answering the door completely naked, they soon piss off.

Here come another two down the path now, dressed as fuckin' Policemen

 

Met up with a bud lunchtime who had his colon cancer removed two weeks ago, to see him you would think nothing is wrong although he did bitch about wearing man nappies though.

 

And @Carr01 I find the Ultimate Guitar app to be tremendously helpful, this one

 

I bet the brickies loved you when you told them they had to put another course in?

 

we had a bricky on site but as he either cant or cant be arsed getting the bricks level (quite important for a wall plate!) i done it myself.. he did one wall in the time i did 2 and i had to redo his.. had 2 guys helping. 1 cutting blocks and mixing and 1 loading out and moving towers so it wernt too bad. shoulders are sore today though!

 

Then you know the answer.... practice practice, practice.
And soon enough we’ll have our band on the road.