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hellkat
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PostPosted: 12:16 - 29 Jun 2026    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've had a bit of a payday spending spree as its my 65th birthday soon.
There's no other bastard around to buy me a pressie that I would be certain to like, so I bought them for myself Laughing My daughter always sends me flowers or a treat of noms, anyway.

Can't remember what I've bought.
Nothing exciting ... some (more) perfume, some books, trainers, maybe a cake... Thinking
They'll turn up this week ahead of the birthday anyway but what the hell - I might die tomorrow, no pockets in a shroud etc

I'm also planning a trip to Marseille/Avignon with my Russian bestie, I was gonna go by myself for my birthday weekend but I remembered (thankfully before I booked the flights) that I had a cake arriving on my Actual birthday so I couldn't go. Shocked

So we're gonna go later in the year when there's less people and we're gonna take ourselves to a perfume factory on the way.

*hastily adds British passport to the list of necessary purchases* Laughing
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PostPosted: 16:14 - 20 Jul 2026    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tickets for the Driffield Show

150 piece Halfords Advanced socket set - currently on offer at 50% off.
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A new (well one trip) 20 foot shipping container, dark green so it blends in, fitted with 14 vents. Plus some steel racking for the end, plus electrical stuff to wire it in plus scaffold boards to make a ramp.

It'll be storage for the bikes I'm not currently using, my ride on mower and some other stuff. Plus space to work on wood based projects.
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PostPosted: 15:57 - 21 Jul 2026    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sportsbikeshop 'Special Edition' Scottoiler.

Basically a smaller vSystem and a bit cheaper.
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PostPosted: 16:31 - 23 Jul 2026    Post subject: Reply with quote
Flip screen for the new bike

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B54QZ2NK?psc=1&smid=A30DC7701CXIBH&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp
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PostPosted: 18:17 - 23 Jul 2026    Post subject: Reply with quote
D.I.D KM500R chain tool.

So much better than the Motrax one I've been using for years.
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PostPosted: 20:41 - 23 Jul 2026    Post subject: Reply with quote
panrider_uk wrote:

150 piece Halfords Advanced socket set - currently on offer at 50% off.


how can you not already own all these tools at your age?
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PostPosted: 23:34 - 23 Jul 2026    Post subject: Reply with quote
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panrider_uk wrote:

150 piece Halfords Advanced socket set - currently on offer at 50% off.


how can you not already own all these tools at your age?


I do.
Was just missing an adapter so I could use the 3/8" drive torque wrench with the 1/2" drive 30mm socket on the yoke nut - it needs quite a low torque so couldn't use the 1/2" drive one

So... Very Happy
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PostPosted: 20:54 - 28 Jul 2026    Post subject: Reply with quote
an air rifle. fancied a springer.
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Half a ton of gravel.

Sick of seeing the uneven savanna in my back garden to I've cleared a patch, levelled the ground and made a nice area for the garden furniture.
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PostPosted: 08:32 - 29 Jul 2026    Post subject: Reply with quote
to v or not to v wrote:
an air rifle. fancied a springer.


What did you go for?
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PostPosted: 16:18 - 29 Jul 2026    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rob W wrote:
to v or not to v wrote:
an air rifle. fancied a springer.


What did you go for?

Weirauch HW99. they get a lot of praise from owners. its a nice light rifle.
have put an old Simmons 4x32 on it for now.
https://iili.io/CvpmrOX.jpg
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PostPosted: 20:30 - 29 Jul 2026    Post subject: Reply with quote
.177 or .22?

Whats it for? A few years ago I refurbed my schoolboy BSA Mercury, but apart from plinking tins cans I've not really used it Neutral
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PostPosted: 07:34 - 30 Jul 2026    Post subject: Reply with quote
A100man wrote:
.177 or .22?

Whats it for? A few years ago I refurbed my schoolboy BSA Mercury, but apart from plinking tins cans I've not really used it Neutral


its in .22. i find .177 pellets too awkward to handle with my sausage fingers.

it will be used for plinking and rats.
i already have a nice quiet co2 gun, but missed the simplicity of
springers.

have you thought about visiting a shooting range Mr A100?
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PostPosted: 12:05 - 30 Jul 2026    Post subject: Reply with quote
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its in .22. i find .177 pellets too awkward to handle with my sausage fingers.

it will be used for plinking and rats.
i already have a nice quiet co2 gun, but missed the simplicity of
springers.

have you thought about visiting a shooting range Mr A100?


I've got a Weihrauch HW80k they're superb reliable and accurate air rifles, you're going to love that beauty. Mine's a .22 as well and I also have a BSA Ultra PCP .22 which is also superb.

If I were buying another I'd be seriously tempted to get an HW100 PCP but in .177 for the flatter ballistic. Up to around 200 rounds from one charge, 14 shot rotary magazines... Get thee behind me foul tempter Laughing
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PostPosted: 18:59 - 30 Jul 2026    Post subject: Reply with quote
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https://iili.io/CvpmrOX.jpg


Yeah that's nice. I have a few myself, a real mixed bag including a nice AA S410.
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PostPosted: 20:20 - 30 Jul 2026    Post subject: Reply with quote
Islander wrote:

I've got a Weihrauch HW80k


probably the most popular model Weihrauch ever made.
a couple of my mates had them about 35 years ago.
i could only afford an old Relum tornado at the time.
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PostPosted: 20:31 - 30 Jul 2026    Post subject: Reply with quote
Switch 2 to get me through this period of post surgery boredom. Cant sit up or move loads so have just got it plugged into the tv and playing whatever looks good.
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PostPosted: 20:47 - 30 Jul 2026    Post subject: Reply with quote
P.addy wrote:
Switch 2 to get me through this period of post surgery boredom. Cant sit up or move loads so have just got it plugged into the tv and playing whatever looks good.


try reading a good book. much better for the grey stuff.
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P.addy wrote:
Switch 2 to get me through this period of post surgery boredom. Cant sit up or move loads so have just got it plugged into the tv and playing whatever looks good.


try reading a good book. much better for the grey stuff.


I cant read. Ive got an eye issue where my left eye is not aware of stuff intermittently which is a big problem for reading and watching any 3d films. Quite annoying as I used to enjoy reading. Where I move my eyes, reading lines etc my left eye takes over for a second then my right eye for another length of time.

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