6 days later and I’m finally out the other side of the gastro. Jess woke up this morning, seems it’s her turn :S Fingers crossed it's not with her for the same sort of duration. From a positive perspective, maybe it will have assisted you in keeping your weight down. ;) She went back to work today ...

Happy Birthday mate! No doubt a delay on celebrations. Hope you feel bette soon!

6 days later and I’m finally out the other side of the gastro.

Jess woke up this morning, seems it’s her turn

So someone has taken a shot at Trump but only grazed his ear by the looks so far.

You can tell he’ll use this to his advantage, who ever was trying to stop him just gave him the biggest boost he could get

Kwacky wrote: ↑12 Jul 2024, 08:10 Biden really needs to step down. Did you see his performance at the NATO summit?

Just introducing Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Vladimir Putin was enough, but the whole thing was a train wreck.

I can’t believe him and Trump are the best that politics has got to offer in the US.

Into my third day of gastro.. not fun. I was still trying to plod through as it’s the school holidays but it’s got worse and after a loss of containment episode I’ve pull up stumps and ceasing activities. Teens can fend for themselves

Out cycling today and just got absolutely nailed by some b@stard hanging a u-turn. There's a reasonable amount of blood to clean up, and all down my right side took a decent battering. The driver didn't stop. Two very nice ladies helped me get myself together. I'm going to be very sore later. Hell,...

Tradesmen I had the ensuite shower regrouted and sealed professionally the other day. Gave it 48hrs to cure as recommended. Used it last night. Showe starts to fill up with water. No drainage at all. 10pm at night, still partially wet, climb under the house and drop the s-bend. Totally plugged with ...

Kwacky wrote: ↑08 Jul 2024, 07:46 That sounds like our summer

It’s been weirdly cold. The temperature figures don’t actually represent how cold it feels. I thought it as just me missing the tropics but seems everyone is complaining about it

Kwacky wrote: ↑05 Jul 2024, 20:00 The weather.

It's shite.

This. My first full winter at home in over a decade and I don’t like it one bit

Both bikes road worthy and re-registered for the coming year.

It’s been freezing and pissing down ever since

100%. I'm the last person to be authoritarian but voting should be made a legal requirement with the option to spoil your vote. I think (someone on here will know for sure) that in Australia it is mandatory to vote, punishable for those who do not. The real problem as I see it, is that the democrat...

Yeah, all good thanks, went to A&E for some X-rays on my hand, but it's just muscle damage. It got trapped between the bars and the car. There's hardly a mark on the bike, just the bar end mirrors, sliders and a slight misalignment of the forks. Hoping they have moved a bit in the yokes and the...

Finally changed the plug caps, repaired the fan wiring and put the Thruxton R all together.

Quick test ride after a full warm up and it didn’t skip a beat.

Sushi Train

Cav wrote: ↑14 Jun 2024, 07:30 On behalf of Kiwi, who recently made some pretentious coffee purchases, I'll share my coffee purchases...

A moka pot and stainless steel hand grinder. I've had enough of instant coffee on the jet boil.

And so it begins

New 58mm calibrated tamp
58mm portafilter funnel ring

The coffee machine upgrade has caused me to have to upgrade a bunch of stuff around it as I’ve moved from a 54mm to 58mm portafilter.

Cav wrote: ↑10 Jun 2024, 07:11 Finally watching Clarkson's Farm Season 2.. bloody brilliant

Really enjoyed that series, even more than the first. We even sucked Jess’ 13 yr old son into it and had to wait for him to be around to watch episode! He now systematically watching all the Grand Tour episodes

Waking up to find out our bridges are open again! Once again we got flooded in for the weekend. Had planned to help friends move house and go into the city for Vivid. So a selfish part of me enjoyed being stuck home, pottering around the yard, doing a few odd jobs on the Mrs car while teaching her s...

I took an unplanned lie down in the woods yesterday. I got my suspension back from a service so ran the same trail back to back while bracketing damping. Happy with compression I moved onto rebound. I ran it faster which was excellent for grip but beat up my hands so then I ran it slower. Over the ...