It would be a long push with the BSA D7 to Lincoln though...and to be fair it's a frame, hardly attached seat, decent set of wheels, worn out sprocket, damaged exhaust, will run but has poorly end to crank, no 'lectrics, no headlight, front mudguard ok, no rear mudguard, handlebars ok, tank ok, one badge missing, modified welded stand. Has no log book but has a document listing original date and location of sale of bike with its frame number from BSA records held.
Said to be ex Skegness Wall of Death.?..but perhaps only hearsay...it made a good story when sold to me by a work colleague 30 years ago...........
Clive.
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Grumpy bear here. 
Arranged a match on Thursday after failed communications, went uncontested on scrums after a Saturday night plea from the hosts who were hookerless.
Got moaned at by the Club Chairman about some registration discrepancies Saturday afternoon.
Picked up the playing shirts this morning at 9am and got moaned at by Chairman of Youth following up on the registration details, then by the Lady Vice-Chairman about not selling enough RFU Draw tickets.
Got to the venue nice and early, and only had thirteen players turn up by kick-off time of 12:30.
Played the match and lost 43 - 5, with two trries rolling through in the last five minutes after one of my lads got up with a floppy right arm after tackling a "lump".
As he'd got there with friends I ended up taking him to meet his parents at A&E, where his dislocation wrist fracture was manipulated back into place, at least it was just a mile or two off the direct route home.
All this blew our chance of getting past the first stage of a National Knock-Out U17 Bowl contest, which we'd have done easily with a couple more players.
Thank heavens for a President with a sense of humour, when I got back to our club aroud 15:30 with the shirts he said "You didn't get them dirty did you?"..............
Arranged a match on Thursday after failed communications, went uncontested on scrums after a Saturday night plea from the hosts who were hookerless.
Got moaned at by the Club Chairman about some registration discrepancies Saturday afternoon.
Picked up the playing shirts this morning at 9am and got moaned at by Chairman of Youth following up on the registration details, then by the Lady Vice-Chairman about not selling enough RFU Draw tickets.
Got to the venue nice and early, and only had thirteen players turn up by kick-off time of 12:30.
Played the match and lost 43 - 5, with two trries rolling through in the last five minutes after one of my lads got up with a floppy right arm after tackling a "lump".
As he'd got there with friends I ended up taking him to meet his parents at A&E, where his dislocation wrist fracture was manipulated back into place, at least it was just a mile or two off the direct route home.
All this blew our chance of getting past the first stage of a National Knock-Out U17 Bowl contest, which we'd have done easily with a couple more players.
Thank heavens for a President with a sense of humour, when I got back to our club aroud 15:30 with the shirts he said "You didn't get them dirty did you?"..............
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Poor old Peter, that lot makes my burnt toast this morning, now seem quite insignifcant. 
Peter, some days just seem to go like that, the harder you try, the worse things seem to get.
But there's one thing for sure, they would sure miss you if they had to do it all.
Peter, some days just seem to go like that, the harder you try, the worse things seem to get.
But there's one thing for sure, they would sure miss you if they had to do it all.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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Peter. Look on the bright side, things can only get better.
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Dear Alan, I'm intrigued to know how you can tell that the wild ducks are the same ones as last year. Every year we get two or three of them arriving in our garden and staying for two or three weeks. I'd like to kid myself that they've remembered the location as there's normally plenty of grain around for the birds which they like to scavage, but to be honest, they all look absolutely identical to me, apart from being male and female and it could just be any old three ducks, rather than "our regular" three.
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Primrose wrote:Dear Alan, I'm intrigued to know how you can tell that the wild ducks are the same ones as last year.
Dear Primrose
Markings!
The hen is rather black with a white chest (Dolly I call her - big chest
) - must be some sort of cross way back, but she's been around the river for some years now. Her two drakes: true mallard markings but one rather grey front and the other rather beige. Plus they know me well enough to let me within less that two feet of them. They have just flown in now - feeding time -
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At last...the sun appeared today.
It was one of those want to do everything sort of days. My colleague and I got a mower out each and did the full round of the lawns...which has really cheered it all up with stripes once more.
Our local fruit specialist volunteer arrived to continue with some of the last of the Apple tree pruning...he freed up the centre of the old Adams Pearmain.
The greenhouse builder arrived too to continue his rebuild of the North facing lean to.
After lunch the ground of the North vegetable border had dried lovely so I was able to very quickly work it down and the Shallots are in. Further along the border I put in a second row of Broad Bean seed and 1 row of Premiere Potatoes and 2 rows of Lady Christl.....
The bees were very busy to say the least today...all 3 hives active.
...and up above in the clear blue sky was a similarly blue Griffon engined Spitfire XIX in formation with a light civilian twin engined aeroplane...photo time I assume..
Clive.
It was one of those want to do everything sort of days. My colleague and I got a mower out each and did the full round of the lawns...which has really cheered it all up with stripes once more.
Our local fruit specialist volunteer arrived to continue with some of the last of the Apple tree pruning...he freed up the centre of the old Adams Pearmain.
The greenhouse builder arrived too to continue his rebuild of the North facing lean to.
After lunch the ground of the North vegetable border had dried lovely so I was able to very quickly work it down and the Shallots are in. Further along the border I put in a second row of Broad Bean seed and 1 row of Premiere Potatoes and 2 rows of Lady Christl.....
The bees were very busy to say the least today...all 3 hives active.
...and up above in the clear blue sky was a similarly blue Griffon engined Spitfire XIX
in formation with a light civilian twin engined aeroplane...photo time I assume.. Clive.
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Primrose wrote:I shall obviously have to train myself to be a little more observant ! But then I expect they probably think that all humans look alike !
Hi Primrose
They certainly recognise me - must be the feed-bucket on the end of my arm
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Out of interest....this is a link to the Spitfire photo sortie I saw yesterday..
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/news/index.c ... 43D5363692
I think they may have drifted a bit South East of their stated location when I was watching them...my work locaton is not between Bardney and Louth.
Fairly cool this morning. Nearly 1/4" ice on our dustbin lid birdbath. There was still some ice glaze on some path edge bricks after lunch in the shade behind the N. kitchen garden wall.
Lawn edging machines had a very light service this morning...we cleaned them up...and then went and got them dirty again.
Hoeing around over wintered Onions after lunch and fruit cage area...letting the soil breath once more.
No Spitfires about today...but a civilian microlight was spotted first thing, a Thruster 600..a very nice machine. ...and an equally nice RAF operated Grob Tutor about later.
Clive.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/news/index.c ... 43D5363692
I think they may have drifted a bit South East of their stated location when I was watching them...my work locaton is not between Bardney and Louth.
Fairly cool this morning. Nearly 1/4" ice on our dustbin lid birdbath. There was still some ice glaze on some path edge bricks after lunch in the shade behind the N. kitchen garden wall.
Lawn edging machines had a very light service this morning...we cleaned them up...and then went and got them dirty again.
Hoeing around over wintered Onions after lunch and fruit cage area...letting the soil breath once more.
No Spitfires about today...but a civilian microlight was spotted first thing, a Thruster 600..a very nice machine.
...and an equally nice RAF operated Grob Tutor about later.Clive.
I spent a long morning on the allotment, too. Most of the morning was taken up with measuring up the brassica bed, putting in sticks where the rows are going to go before the whole bed is surrounded with wire netting. Then did a lot of hoeing or, more appropriately, "scuffling" the soil to open it up. Everything has dried up very well the last few days and, although there was a brisk westerly wind, I even shed my jacket in the sunshine!
I got so engrossed in the work that my OH came to look for me at lunch time - he had phoned my mobile but that was in my jacket pocket, hanging at the shed, and of course I hadn't heard it.
Light rain forecast for tomorrow and Wednesday, but at least we won't need the heater on in the greenhouse every night. Last night it was minus 4!
I got so engrossed in the work that my OH came to look for me at lunch time - he had phoned my mobile but that was in my jacket pocket, hanging at the shed, and of course I hadn't heard it.
Light rain forecast for tomorrow and Wednesday, but at least we won't need the heater on in the greenhouse every night. Last night it was minus 4!
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Hang on, has someone put my clocks foward by 24 hours.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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Managed to get 600 hundred shallots planted yesterday, and by the heck does my back know it this morning.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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600 
I have planted a mere 60 this morning.....
....and I have done something that goes against the grain here....most of these were bought at the local Co-op...sold as eaters. They were immaculate and so I thought I would get 2 packs for setting. An English grown red variety they have made up the bulk? of my planting.
The Topper, that I bought a pack of from a local garden centre packed by a well known local wholesaler, looked a little veined and not so good but I have picked the best of them out and got a couple of short rows out of them...and will set the rest of them for salad use.
Just got the job done and it came on a sharp drizzle...so have gone back to setting up my "new" computer...replaces that one that I "fixed" from its random power shutdowns. It started acting up again in the last few weeks...I suspect a connection to main board now.
so it is being decommisioned...and an identical one takes its place. This is typed on a machine 2 back in my pc history.....rather lumpy in its operation...but at least it keeps going.......touch wood...
Clive.
I have planted a mere 60 this morning.....
....and I have done something that goes against the grain here....most of these were bought at the local Co-op...sold as eaters. They were immaculate and so I thought I would get 2 packs for setting. An English grown red variety they have made up the bulk?
of my planting.The Topper, that I bought a pack of from a local garden centre packed by a well known local wholesaler, looked a little veined and not so good but I have picked the best of them out and got a couple of short rows out of them...and will set the rest of them for salad use.
Just got the job done and it came on a sharp drizzle...so have gone back to setting up my "new" computer...replaces that one that I "fixed" from its random power shutdowns. It started acting up again in the last few weeks...I suspect a connection to main board now.
so it is being decommisioned...and an identical one takes its place. This is typed on a machine 2 back in my pc history.....rather lumpy in its operation...but at least it keeps going.......touch wood...Clive.