Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[Tonji]

Hello

did you manage to catch the 4 episodes of

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04plfkb/the-mekong-river-with-sue-perkins-episode-1 ?

iirc you like travelogues etc

this was a really good one

Hello yourself.

Although I'm not a huge Sue Perkins fan, I've seen two of the four episodes and I thought they were excellent.

I've been enjoying

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04sp8kd

World's Greatest Food Markets with the Bastard of Billingsgate.

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Hello

did you manage to catch the 4 episodes of

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04plfkb/the-mekong-river-with-sue-perkins-episode-1 ?

iirc you like travelogues etc

this was a really good one

Hello yourself.

Although I'm not a huge Sue Perkins fan, I've seen two of the four episodes and I thought they were excellent.

I've been enjoying

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04sp8kd

World's Greatest Food Markets with the Bastard of Billingsgate.

I was going to watch it, but during a promo I took agin the main protagonist and crossed it off my list.

did I do wrong?

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I'm cutting the grass in December. I can't believe it.

[Tonji]

Hello

did you manage to catch the 4 episodes of

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04plfkb/the-mekong-river-with-sue-perkins-episode-1 ?

iirc you like travelogues etc

this was a really good one

Hello yourself.

Although I'm not a huge Sue Perkins fan, I've seen two of the four episodes and I thought they were excellent.

I've been enjoying

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04sp8kd

World's Greatest Food Markets with the Bastard of Billingsgate.

I was going to watch it, but during a promo I took agin the main protagonist and crossed it off my list.

did I do wrong?

I guess I enjoyed it from knowing his type from my youth in the London markets, if you know what I mean.

[TightEnd]

something to practice?

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Gugulothu Lachiram performs yoga on a speeding motorbike in Telangana, India. Using just the bike for support, the 40-year-old takes the ancient Indian discipline to new levels as he runs through a series of complex poses - while only a slip away from disaster.

[Nakor]

Hello

did you manage to catch the 4 episodes of

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04plfkb/the-mekong-river-with-sue-perkins-episode-1 ?

iirc you like travelogues etc

this was a really good one

Hello yourself.

Although I'm not a huge Sue Perkins fan, I've seen two of the four episodes and I thought they were excellent.

I've been enjoying

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04sp8kd

World's Greatest Food Markets with the Bastard of Billingsgate.

I was going to watch it, but during a promo I took agin the main protagonist and crossed it off my list.

did I do wrong?

I find him a very engaging chracter.  In the original programme about Billingsgate he was not very likeable but very watchable, but the new series (liniked above) he is both engaging and likeable.  He also has a wonderful naivety when out of his comfort zone of home.

[Rod Paradise]

something to practice?

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Gugulothu Lachiram performs yoga on a speeding motorbike in Telangana, India. Using just the bike for support, the 40-year-old takes the ancient Indian discipline to new levels as he runs through a series of complex poses - while only a slip away from disaster.

Wouldn't last long on most bikes - take your hand off the throttle & the bike will slow down sharply. You learn not to wave with your right hand first time you nearly go over the handlebars....

You can fit 'cruise controls' to keep the throttle engaged though.

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something to practice?

Click to see full-size image.

Gugulothu Lachiram performs yoga on a speeding motorbike in Telangana, India. Using just the bike for support, the 40-year-old takes the ancient Indian discipline to new levels as he runs through a series of complex poses - while only a slip away from disaster.

I'm happy to practice staying on the bike, not finding ways to fall off it. Anyway, I couldn't do that pose on the living room carpet, never mind hurtling down a strip of concrete at 40mph.


The bloke in my local motorcycle shop told me 2 months ago that they were having a half-price clothing sale on December 1st. So I went in bright and early expecting it to be packed but I was the only customer there.

"I thought you would be busy on the first day of your sale" I said.

"Oh we were" he replied. "We had it last Saturday".

There was hardly anything left. I still managed to get a good pair of gloves and some waterproof trousers though.


I have a 2 hour lesson and then take my Mod 1 on Friday.

Smoke me a kipper.....

[Rod Paradise]

All the best for Mod 1. You doing Direct Access?

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All the best for Mod 1. You doing Direct Access?

No. I went and saw an instructor and spent half an hour getting on his good side. (As per the T Kendall Cooey Wooey method) Then I told him I was skint so I needed to get through my test as cheaply as possible.

He gave me a one hour assessment and advised me to go away and take my theory test and then book in for a two hour lesson plus test at a cost of £125 using his 600cc bike. If I pass the Mod 1 we'll book in for mod 2.

That's where we are at the moment.

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I was thinking last night about the bloke (Or woman, who knows?) who invented the wheel.

Inventing the wheel is no biggie, it almost invented itself. Stand on a round stone or a log and it will roll beneath you.

Inventing the axle, so that when the load moves, the wheel goes with it. That was the clever bit.

[Tal]

I was thinking last night about the bloke (Or woman, who knows?) who invented the wheel.

Inventing the wheel is no biggie, it almost invented itself. Stand on a round stone or a log and it will roll beneath you.

Inventing the axle, so that when the load moves, the wheel goes with it. That was the clever bit.

Thought you were referring to Rich Hall.

"They say the wheel is the greatest invention. I say it's the second wheel. Ever see someone on a unicycle? What an asshole."

[atdc21]

And as for inventing the differential, well .........whole new ball game. Good luck with bike test Tom.

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And as for inventing the differential, well .........whole new ball game. Good luck with bike test Tom.

I struggled for years with the concept of a limited-slip diff.


If only I'd had YouTube back then.

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Yesterday, it came to my notice that there is a difference between a quilt and a duvet. I had to Google to find out what it was.

I didn't find the explanation interesting, but the fact that there is a difference is. (Or should that be was?)