So... What oiled your gears today?

[blurredman]

One of the cars passed the MOT yesterday.

The tester is a bit funny though. Sometimes he doesn't see things he noticed last year and vice versa despite nothing being changed. For example he didn't notice the inside bent wheel rim (perhaps the rotation was at the top of the strut), and this year unlike last year he didn't advise of the rust hole in the boot (and I know he was there as he moved the spare wheel). But he did mention the broken number plate as an advisory. The number plate has been broken 8 years and the last 4 years he has tested he has never mentioned before.
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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.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 17k. , 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 9k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 38k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 49k

[Easy-X]

Dutiful Son Episode 29: nothing wrong with the loft tank at my mum's place - full of water - seems it was an airlock. Luckily the bathroom tap is the mixer sort so I stopped it up with both hot & cold on and after a moment the toilet started filling up. The Dark Arts of plumbing
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[hellkat]

My neighbour finally showed up with the two hundred quid that it cost me to fix my bike after their friend knocked it wonky late one night in December.

Having the money is good but I'm more pleased that I don't have to go knocking on their door and asking for it again.


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[A100man]

[blurredman]

Found my wedding ring before it went in the hospital compactor. Phew
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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.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 17k. , 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 9k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 38k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 49k

[recman]

[Easy-X]

Saturday afternoon and the streets of Kingston are awash with Chuggers

Starting a punch up with the purveyor of Socialist Worker was tempting - he had a trestle table emblazoned with the banner "Are you a Communist?" - but instead I ended up chatting to one of the Hara Krishna mob. Of course he fished out a copy of the Bhagavad Gita but he was a bit surprised that I'd already read it
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Polarbear]

[hellkat]

Went to make some keto banana bread that I accidentally turned into gingerbread instead, avec glace cherries and chopped ginger.

Tastes fucking delicious.

I've now made myself sufficiently sick on it (slathered in butter) for one evening, I can now leave the rest of it to cool down under a teatowel, and I will slice it up and put it into individual little diet-rescue parcels in the morning.

It will save me from going out and snorting a pack of donuts from the Outlet Greggs down the road every other day.

It's not exactly keto, cos it are got treacle in it (the recipe called for maple syrup or golden syrup of which i have none) so there's a bit too many carbs in that for my continued weight loss regime, but if I only eat one slice at a time and freeze the rest, it will be more difficult to make a pig of myself with it
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[hellkat]

S-L-O-W-L-Y starting to feel differences from the latest keto thing.

Despite scoffing far too much of that banana gingerbread the other day, I can tell my thunder thighs are not *quite* so thundery as they were (but they still are).

I seem to be in the right frame of mind to behave myself (mostly) - but it could topple over at any moment if the cat snuffs it ... when

So I'm managing to eat (some) vegetables, meat, eggs, cheese and mostly avoid pasta, spuds, and bread.

Top tip: Celeriac mash tastes more like parsnips than spuds, but it makes ok bubble and squeak
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[MCN]

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[hellkat]

Managed to get two tablets into the cat.

Did the "burrito wrap" thing which worked reasonably well, even though I was doing it on my own - fumbled a bit due to not having enough hands - but I got them down her without too much trouble, having coated them in Primula cheese spread, and then a little squirt of water to make her swallow them.

Not sure she will let me do it again in two days time but at least succeeding at my first attempt made me feel better about the whole goings-on.
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[Easy-X]

Torque specs on the exhaust studs called for an anaemic 8Nm so very easy to overtighten. Did 'em by hand to what I thought felt right and the torque wrench said I was an eighth of a turn out
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[MCN]

[MCN]

[stinkwheel]

[Freddyfruitba...]

[stinkwheel]

[Easy-X]

Watching a review of the Triumph Street Scrambler: "...it's basically the same as the ordinary 1200 'cept it waxes its moustache and rolls its own cigarettes"
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[hellkat]

Well we're down to only 10mg at the moment as the WBC was down a bit, so I only had to get one capsule in there today (until further notice).

All I can say is thank god for Primula cheese spread
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[hellkat]

[hellkat]

Oh yea, and my blingy Hollywood Vampires fangirl gear turned up at last. Yay!

I'm not gonna send back the KISS hoody, they can afford to lose fifty bucks on a mis-delivered hoody I don't even like KISS but fuck it.
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[Easy-X]

https://i.imgflip.com/8heh07.jpg
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[MCN]

[hellkat]

I finally managed to find the energy to affix my fairy lights along the hallway wall.

At least I can also now put away the set of steps which I dragged out from behind the fridge.
Although if I had left them out, it might have motivated me to buy some curtain wire so I could hang curtains in my front window.

It's all very higgledy piggledy and ad hoc but I don't care as long as they are up.

My levels of motivation have been very low lately, I expend what little energy I do have on making sure my work is done properly, and that the dog is walked.
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