What was the last thing you bought?

[Islander]

[blurredman]

Wheel slave cylinder for the car. Unfortunately dust seal has a split in it. I've message e-Bay vendor, but has yet to get back to me. I have MOT re-test relatively soon so if time becomes too close i'll have to just use seal from the old cylinder. I'll give him a bit of time, after all I need to put a new section of line to the flexi after the fixing to the cylinder rounded, and then the line twisted when I did get it free.

I was considering just re-building or freeing up old cylinder anyway but the bore is just far too rusty and beyond use.
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CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S, 1979 MZ TS150.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 18k, 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 10k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 40k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 50k.

[mentalboy]

[Islander]

[blurredman]

[hellkat]

An Uber home (£37)


Wiped myself out getting to the monthly Exec Committee meeting by 9am without first having breakfast or even swilling down a coffee before I left the house.

Managed to blag an instant coffee before the meeting but followed that up 3 hrs later at lunchtime with two steak bakes which repeated on me all afternoon

So I had a little snooze for half an hour on the way home and managed to perk up a bit in the late afternoon/early evening to catch up on my emails before knocking off time.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[panrider_uk]

Some solar lights for a fence and a load of veggies for stir-fries
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Current bikes: Hondas - Forza 750, ST1100 Pan European

[BanditsHigh]

Bought some new parrot food for my African Grey, Holly Crackers ... 12.5kg for £35 delivered, so £2.80 per kg.

Pets At Home was charging around £50 for 10kg of their stuff so £5 per kg (which looks the exact same as the new stuff) ... they are now stocking the new stuff I've just bought, but for £40 so £3.20 per kg ... bye bye P.A.H.

[Easy-X]

A "proper" Raspberry Pico 2 W to replace the Chinese knock-off. The genuine WiFi is much easier to get on with and serving up basic web pages trivial.

I'd have to say the setup is well thought out. In "boot select" mode the Pico looks like a USB memory stick and you just drag and drop an operating system image file, it gobbles it up and reboots as a USB serial device ready for programming. MicroPython is the ez-mode and you can either send the code down the serial for interactive running or dump a "main.py" file on the Pico and it'll autorun on power up.

Fun as Picos and Arduinos are to tinker with it's all a bit futile without a genuine task. I therefore have an idea to leverage the Pico's USB host capability to turn a cheap PC numberpad along with a simple display and emulate an old-skool accounting calculator:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/-2EAAOSw2Zhf3lI6/s-l400.jpg
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[CrypticCrud]

£11.75 of Sausage rolls, doughnuts, coffee & a cup of tea.

Could only drink the tea as i'm on a diet.
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CBT - Aug24, Theory - Jun25
Mod 1 - Jul25, Mod 2 - ….

[A100man]

[Easy-X]

[A100man]

[recman]

[CrypticCrud]

[panrider_uk]

New torch
https://ledlenser.co.uk/cdn/shop/files/WEB_P7R_Signature_red_dot_2048x2048.jpg?v=1729671239

And a foot pump for the bike
https://media.autoexpress.co.uk/image/private/s--hhN6CPep--/f_auto,t_content-image-full-desktop@1/v1739375765/autoexpress/2025/02/Best%20car%20tyre%20foot%20pumps%20-%20Michelin.jpg
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Current bikes: Hondas - Forza 750, ST1100 Pan European

[hellkat]

Ten spicy wings
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[recman]

Just signed up for my separation/early retirement package from work.
One of the options included the very impressively discounted fleet vehicle purchase of the car I picked up on Tuesday.

Which was nice.

[to v or not to v]

[recman]

[Polarbear]

[BanditsHigh]

[Pete.]

My air pump runs off the bike battery and is so small I don't notice it in my rucksack.
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[panrider_uk]

[hellkat]

A fried egg and bacon sarnie on white bread.
No sauce just slightly runny egg yolk so it goes nice and gooshy on the bacon.
I haven't had one for probably five years.
It were 'andsome.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.