I thought you looked familiar Matt I would’ve realised if I’d stopped and talked but I was late for a meet.
I remember meeting someone from school by chance at Jack Lilly’s when it was at Shepperton. We had both parked across the road in the park (funnily enough). He was on an Ariel arrow, I was on a Yamaha YDS3. It was such a hot day that when we got to the bikes they were both leaning well over as the side stands had sunk into the tarmac.
Went out for a blast on the 996 and yes a blast of cold air, it's fucking freezing and windy and nearly got culled by Muriel and gladys in there fuck knows what car, they weren't even looking and turned in front of me in my path, bit to close that one!!
This is ASI ....they recycle airliners ..... these are all for the chop ...if you look ...the engines are already gone on most of them ,....
Today I finished phase one on this: Full story and phase two on this thread https://www.ducatiforum.co.uk/threads/what-winter-project-for-expat-jack.81021/ Think my Big Bin trumps @RC1 dont you @Ducbird ?
Two days ago I got home to find a big truck blocking my drive. I asked the guys destroying the pavement if they could move it so I could park which they did no problem. I went indoors to find my internet was out. I did the usual thing -turn it off and on, call the provider & via a simple automated sytem booked an engineer. I got home yesterday at three, drive was again blocked. I spoke to the truck guys again and they smiled, moved truck straight away no problem. Then at 4pm, the broadband guy arrived and after a couple of munutes showed me the problem. The smiling truck come pavement smashers had installed their LILA cable over the top of my broadband connection, and even though I spoke to them twice they were without any backbone to say "Sorry mate, we have accidently broken you cable". Instead, they proved themselves to be wankers by hiding the broken cable under the clump of grass pictured. What did they think - That the cable would somehow grow back and I would never have noticed? The black plate ids the LILA box which is installed exactly where the my connection was. So the important bit of this moaning whine is this: Virgin Media sent an engineer with 24hours. That engineer then sent a repair team to reconnect and repair the tarmac within a further 18 hours after someone else caused a problem. Virgin provide the fastest download speed and repair service in the country. LILA are wankers who really don't give a FCUK. Worth remembering when your contract is up. BTW Virgin costs me £20.62 pcm so one of the cheaper options too.
Got my bike back from an extended service at Ducati Mcr today. Sounds and feels fantastic can’t wait to get a decent run out.
https://lilaconnect.co.uk/stoke-on-trent/full-fibre. That’ll teach me to read all of the paragraph. Andy
