New Haven Neil

It's just gone 6.54 @ 226. Getting rather snappy!

In my case the loss of high - but oddly not the highest frequencies - was indeed due to something very loud indeed. Engines this big are Very. Noisy. Indeed. Especially those turbochargers, hence whistly-hissy tinnitus. Pah.

I think either I have two broken shoulders, or the tree lopping yesterday with the mini chainsaw on a long pole thing has taken its toll on my 65 y/o muscles. *&^%$£ I'm sore! Hells bells. Not doing that again in a hurry!

Cripes, I have achieved! Tip civic amenity site run, 2 loads of washing, dusting, polishing ...er...a bit..., cleaned bathroom basin shower and bog, vacuumed everywhere, and.....collapsed into a heap. That's 'enuf' for today I think.

Yes, our suffix or prefix letters have no age relation, they are issued until they run out! Currently on RMN xxx S IIRC, another six months and we'll be on to SMN. Cars here get grassed up for UK registrations as they're not paying road fund licence, which neighbours see as unfair! The police didn't used to care, but the top cop now is from the UK so will expect some tightening of things like that - low hanging fruit. I don't think rank and file UK bobbies have a clue about IoM/Channels reg so turn a blind eye!

Mullet has been in the 6's with 220 mph, goes OK for the weight of it! Edit - it was 'street legal' in Florida, he ran it in drag and drive weeks, but street legal for Florida doesn't count for much! It's on methanol now so isn't road driven. The Barra is a good motor, but the Americans ain't interested unless it has 8 cylinders, the Viper V10 never was really loved, although Allen Millyard made a nice bike with one! Cleetus' mate Cooper Bogetti swapped a Nissan 2JZ 6 cyl into a Camaro, goes 7's, but the punters hate it - ain't American, ain't a V8. Coop likes to cock a snook at folk.

ahh, Ashland. Go to 12.20.

Google/Utoob 'Cleetus McFarland' to see the 'real' Mullet - one of those, but rather faster.

Well the hay fever season is starting! 🤧

D'oh, I knew that really, I was tired, honest! 🙄 Picked the wrong one...should have thought about it longer as it would have become obvious by the modus operandi. Thanks for the correction. I always thought that the Decca lines spoiled charts!

Morning, from a bright, breezy rock, whereas I'm anything but. 9c and 13 promised by the seaweed twirlers. Looks like a washing day 😒 pah. We've both been a little off-colour for a couple of days, achey and 'not quite right' feeling, so perhaps a bit of ol Chris's unspecified pottering will be about it for activity, bar said washing. We trimmed the low lying bits of the dreaded sycamore trees at the bottom of the garden yesterday, I think that finished us both off. Her Ladyship went to work in her car despite saying she was going to use the bike.

Derbyshire, nee Liverpool Bridge. Big ol gurl. I still get survivors guilt, lost four good friends on her.

Still used Decca Navigator in my time - which as I'm sure you in particular know, was based on H2S radar technology IIRC!

Just watching the first Vera S1 Ep1, hadn't seen that one before - almost jumped when they used the frontage of the hospital I used to work in, felt really strange. Not sure why, it was used for a lot of filming back in the day when I worked there, Victorian stone frontage type place, often used as a 'Town Hall', but it really popped up for me. St Nicholas', Gosforth BTW for any north-easterners. And yes, it was one of those hospickles. No I worked there, honest.

As I think you know I had a vested interest in all that - having served on her, and my dad was standby 2EO as she built, and a close friend and neighbour was on board with his newlywed wife..... and I was supposed to be first trip extra fourth on her when she sunk, due to being late I went to the Staffordshire instead. I have the book that built the theory of the bulkhead failure, and it rang true to me - she had huge cracks there that were a constant worry and a lot of attention was spent trying to repair them and the unknown cause. The cruciform pipe castings above the cargo pumps fractured too as a result of the heaving, so it all felt fine to this very junior engineer at the time. It was quite a shock after the second enquiry, but neither myself or dad (who was still alive then) would ever direct any malice at the authors of the original conclusions, far from it - they did the best they could with what was known at the time.

Welllllll, Hammy made a lot of places....somewhere. I was gutted for Ricciardo though. Talk about bad luck, but Stroll is just not F1 material, proven yet again. Blaming DannyRic for braking 'for nothing' when there were two cars in front of him all nose to tail. We used to call it driving without due care and attention.

I'm well aware of what they are thanks, my tongue in cheek comment was a little dig at the north vs south thing earlier, that we can also have such 'exotic' garden ornaments at 55 degrees north. Maybe you missed the meaning of the 😇 after my comment - it was an attempt at humour, maybe when you get to know us all here better it may make more sense! Now that rather nice effort at shelf building in the garden looks like G1, mine is G45 but it would be nice to see some photos of it in action, may I advise they are put on Night Mail though, ER's is supposed to be a train-free environment. 😉

Mad Saturday as usual. Torbay Palms? Do you mean Manx Palms? 😇 They're everywhere here, despite us being in the allegedly frozen and food-culture free north. Actually achieved things today, for a change, after Mrs NHN was Pilated and I had a couple of miles walk we had a nice brunch in Glen Helen (prepared by South Africans in their style, to add to the culinary desert) then I split some....a lot of firewood while Mrs NHN gardened, then I washed the bikes.....well two of them, then we cooked a curry. Ourselves, using fresh ingredients and spices, not a tin or packet. M25 my ar$e.

The average price in our village is somewhat skewed by the late Trevor Hemmings (he was worth over a billion) having a mansion and stud/stables here. He was a top line racehorse owner, used to fly out every day in a personal helicopter to races. The house and stud is worth......a LOT. Three time Grand National winner.

Rant Incoming: House and contents insurance. Last year £230, this year £647. WHAAAAT! On a rock where there is hardly any crime, away from water courses, pit heaps, etc etc. So the story is they now use 'blanket cover' in areas, and the value of our house is taken as a million.........I wish. £330k more like it, it's tiny. Tried three other companies, same story. (Probably same underwriters). LV came to the rescue at slightly under £230, with Civil Serpent Motoring Club membership. So why this stupid blanket cover lark, while there are houses in the village with that sort of value (and one of ten times that) why should we be paying their costs? /rant.

Indeed - if you have ever shot a bow without an arm guard, the string buzz from that multiplied by about ten!

ION: I ate the TimTam. Special treat. It was nicer than a Penguin, no contest, very tasty. Therefore it was probably full of Anti-iD stuff......to survive the 'strine climate I suppose. I won't be having another due to previously mentioned diabetes, shame really as it was nice.

We don't shoot traditional, we shoot barebow field, so don't know, but the modern wooden bows are all laminated, no idea what the woods are in them either as we use modern materials. Cheap and last longer! A couple of the guys use modern wood bows, they are exquisite to look at but one v expensive one failed.

Note from Fraggite long term multiple motorcycle owner - don't cut them to accurate (allegedly) length off the bike , cut them down maybe, but mount the pipes up and hang the silencers and see where bolt holes come - the newies will NOT be in the same place, guaranteed!

The one thing in Kiwi that was way better than the UK version (weather too, but foodstuffs at the moment!) is the Moro bar - like a Mars bar, but maltier and very yummy. #sigh#