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Hi John
I did find it difficult to breathe walking uphill in small local town this week, but I had a diy mask with valve plus ordinary face covering mask over top...I do have a the bottom of my right lung collapsed though.
D.
 
Hi John
I did find it difficult to breathe walking uphill in small local town this week, but I had a diy mask with valve plus ordinary face covering mask over top...I do have a the bottom of my right lung collapsed though.
D.
I have some serious difficulties breathing also so I do find it uncomfortable but for the relatively short time I may spend in a shop I find it doable and can put up with it in enclosed spaces out in the open I feel it's not so critical and may dispense with the mask as long as I can see people approaching and if unable to avoid close encounters of the dangerous kind will put the mask back in place, I do feel if the powers that be pass such legislation then they should provide for the provision of some kind of certificate or written proof of the reason for exemption.
 
This is brilliant @Alien Aspie
Amazing. The light on the grass in between the trees, giving it depth.
 
This is brilliant @Alien Aspie
Amazing. The light on the grass in between the trees, giving it depth.
Thanks for posting that. I would never have noticed that or understood what you all mean by depth. You guys may yet make me a more discerning viewer of art. (Don't hold your breath though)
 
I do feel if the powers that be pass such legislation then they should provide for the provision of some kind of certificate or written proof of the reason for exemption.

i may not have been clear earlier john, but i do agree, it should be an official stamped ID.

and i do similar to you. re mask.
on in supermarket, off in the street,
took me a while to not react badly to the more 'socially distanced' challenged

though i do just tend to make space or turn my back.
that was some of the advice for tube travel in London.
 

Pepe....



Scrappy Doo..aka frankie

 
Looking the other way this am.
My old work place with arguably the best views in England. Top of hill 1220 feet up.
One could see N.I. on a clear day.

That slight bump to the east is High Pike in the Caldbeck fells. Shame about the windfarm.
High tops in cloud. Last 500 feet of Skiddaw missing.
 
Bikes have changed a lot in the last sixty years since I had several.
Stay safe in your travels.
D.

Yes agree.

have had a variety, too
one enduro type, the others mostly road.
can't say the cruser types appeal
many changes, as you say.

last one was a monster..so much GO.....

caught me out almost once or twice, until i remembered when you twist that throttle, better hang on TIGHT..

but while i love the rush, i really just don't use the bike to even 50% of it's abilities, nor ride enough to justify it.

the idea of the scooter was to allow our Steph, to learn with such a bike, go on take test and THEN have some knowledge,
for that time she takes a scooter out on holiday with friends etc..it'll happen, i'm sure .

i want her to have some core skills at least.

And madam doesn't really like the bike, but is happy on the scooters...so there is that too

Thank you, i do try.
it's the others that are the issue

as you well know.
 
I was very fortunate JJ
I hit a travellers lorry just behind the cab going very fast with a pillion passager.


I wrote off my nearly new 650cc 1959 Matchless and we were very lucky. But it spoilt our looks for a few months.
D.

 
My first bike was a Tiger Cub a mere 250 cc but I was happy with it a bit jealous of my mates Ariel Square Four though but I came off the pillion of that one when he pulled away quite sharpish one day full throttle and I went straight off the back.

A friend of mine in the Air Force had a velo thruxton 500 cc we used to race up and down the A1 on that it was a monster, in the end he wrote it off under an ice cream van that pulled out from a side road right in front of him

After I'd lost quite a few mates in various biking accidents eventually I decided to get my self a nice safe car, so I bought one of these. The photo is exactly as mine looked but it is not the one I had.

 
My Mountain Bike Equivalent. THis model sits in this garden by a stream, the owner dressesit different for every season, every big event, I pass it on the way to Cannock Chase and today took this photo of it in summer dress. Christmas week it's always Santa and New Year's Day Black Tie and evening dress and drunk.
 
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Hi John, I got one of those ford anglia's with a funny back window in 63. The one the police had in Heartbeat.

What memories, great!
Atb
D.
 
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