Happy birthday and new bike?Dave Barter wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 1:14 pm It's my birthday. Where's all my cards?
So what random present should I treat myself to.
Yay, it's cheery Friday.
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Well, happy birthday to you Dave. 

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Happy to be off work for the next 16 days but shame it's gonna be in lockdown #2 
Aye, happy birthday!

Aye, happy birthday!
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Yes, Happy Birthday Dave. I hope the next 12 months prove better than your last 12 all in all.
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Thank you Pete much appreciated.
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It's mine too today, I didn't even get your card Dave....
Maybe it's stuck in the 3 Tier post office up here still.
Mine should have go to yours by now......
Oh and I found my little Panda that Reg gave me last year. Picture to follow
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Stick her on top of your birthday cakeJohnClimber wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 4:51 pm Oh and I found my little Panda that Reg gave me last year. Picture to follow


Have a relaxing b'day boths.
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RIP wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 6:34 pmStick her on top of your birthday cakeJohnClimber wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 4:51 pm Oh and I found my little Panda that Reg gave me last year. Picture to follow. 53. Blimey
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Have a relaxing b'day boths.


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Awww, bless!


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High five on the cusp ladsbenconnolli wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 11:02 pmSNAP!
Same same.
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Happy belated birthday you lot - hope you had great days each!
I had a bit of a sort out in the garage - new shelves built (not quite to Gairy's standard, but using offcuts, so even happier that the pile of "it'll come in handy" wood is finally getting smaller and actually being useful).
A usable workbench has made me really happy!!
Plus a first coat of top colour on my vintage Falcon road bike
I had a bit of a sort out in the garage - new shelves built (not quite to Gairy's standard, but using offcuts, so even happier that the pile of "it'll come in handy" wood is finally getting smaller and actually being useful).
A usable workbench has made me really happy!!
Plus a first coat of top colour on my vintage Falcon road bike
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Having a nose around the village here as you do, and spotted someone's living room being put to particularly fine use! FIVE of them. Surely even Stu/Dee's or Phil's lounges don't contain that many lovingly cared-for bits of 'furniture'?





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A Goldie! Oh be still my beating heart! I had one in 1968-70. Chopped it in for a Reliant Supervan III. (Courting. Says it all, really)
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Ha ha! I thought for a minute you'd said you'd chopped a goldiefrogatthefarriers wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:58 pmA Goldie! Oh be still my beating heart! I had one in 1968-70. Chopped it in for a Reliant Supervan III. (Courting. Says it all, really)

Reg - I'd never have motorbikes in my living room - they are for using not looking at

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My acorns are sprouting like mad now so time to pot some up. Chose 10 at random, but that still leaves nearly 100 in the bag to do another time! Oh, and having a fascinating time watching the U.S. election, it's better than any soap opera.


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Further to Jim's BaM post next door......Un-nerving sculpture.....Hmm. I was riding a bike along the Russian border in Finland, as you do, 1984 if I remember rightly... no, 1983?... and came across a sort of sculpture park in someone's back garden. I love a nice sculpture park, the more un-nerving the better. There used to be a superb one near Watlington in Oxfordshire... where the hell was it... oh yes, Cowleaze Wood... I bet BrownDog knows it. Some massively incongruous installations in that one. Anyway, Finland.. so a few hand gestures and smiles, parked the bike, and I was into the garden. Packed with figures in myriad different poses. Spent an hour there. It was like being in a particularly scary episode of Dr Who. Had a Finnish sauna later... the recommended jump into the freezing lake straight afterwards rather made me forget the traumatic sculptures...
Machine gun tower just across the railway, just next to top right tip of the sign.... I'm on their files to this day....





Machine gun tower just across the railway, just next to top right tip of the sign.... I'm on their files to this day....





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Ooh, I'm getting into this now.... found the Cowleaze Woods ones... all gone now.. lost Council subsidy.. criminal...
Looking at the pictures again, I'm laughing out loud at stuff I didn't spot the first time round...."I Don't Agree But Never Mind". Really that sign should have immediately been hung on me daughter's bedroom door! (Yeah OK, everyone's daughters bedrooms
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And I've never spotted her feet under "Floating Dress" before:

My lad (and me being led astray) being as disobedient as ever:

Looking at the pictures again, I'm laughing out loud at stuff I didn't spot the first time round...."I Don't Agree But Never Mind". Really that sign should have immediately been hung on me daughter's bedroom door! (Yeah OK, everyone's daughters bedrooms


And I've never spotted her feet under "Floating Dress" before:

My lad (and me being led astray) being as disobedient as ever:

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Thought that was you and Mrs P first glance Reg
Quite cheery here as I've just finished welding up my gear linkage / levers ... and it works

Quite cheery here as I've just finished welding up my gear linkage / levers ... and it works

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Last one... I'll stop now you'll be pleased to know.... Forest of Dean Sculpture Park... absolutely superb.... Peter Sling' and Kev Raggedstone admiring a stunning stained glass window during our BaM last year.....a window into...?? ... a window out of...???? You decide.

Go on then.... whaddayagot?

Go on then.... whaddayagot?
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Which one? The spooky dress one? Yeah she is pretty ethereal I must admit. Frequently appears through walls when I'm least expecting it. And at the most inconvenient moments.
Piccie pleaseQuite cheery here as I've just finished welding up my gear linkage / levers ... and it works![]()

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