New Haven Neil

But when he's the author???

S'easy - just get Baz @Barry Oto do it!

Cheeky &^%$er. Anyone with an interest should buy the books anyway, they are excellent. That's £20 thanks, Dave. ;-) And I don't even model the MR/LMS, but they are incredibly interesting to anyone that is a locoholic. Seriously though, did they really expect you to do that? Words fail me.

No, not really, corner speed on a Motard is high - that was a good handling and nimble little bike on sticky 17 inch tyres, you could cut under heavier bikes on corners like the Gooseneck. Slow to approach and leave the corner, yes, as it was only a tweaked up CRF250 - 280 bore, Joy cams, full Yoshi system and a Power Commander EFI tweaker. It was good for 95 on the flat, ran out of revs, heaps of fun to ride in the twisties but a bit slow on the mountain. Awesome for wheelies too #cough# off road of course. Sold it a couple of years ago, it's still about on the island.

Bungee hook. And digging holes in your leg when you fall off.

Morning, err afternoon, 12c but a very wet morning which has morphed into a dry bit very windy afternoon. I was off out early doors to a mates All the way west in Kirk Michael to talk trains for a couple of hours, a long catch-up as he has been off island for a while. I wonder if Smiffy was actually attacked by the Whelkmen, for revealing their innermost secrets the other day? Some kind of Putin-esque attack. Watch out for shell fish poisoning, mate. I first found THHGTTG via the LP records, which were fantastic. The TV series put Marvin right into my head, but the Zaphod extra head was rubbish and ruined the programme for me. OK it was sort of meant to be cheap and trashy that was part of the humour, but Zaphod was the pits. The film was just as bad, just bigger budget, and the 'new' Marvin was simply wrong, although voiced well. Just as well the real one had a cameo appearance.

PS - the size of the belly is a give-away too!

Same bike in our garden? Manx reg.

My helmet....with middle aged hooligan inside.

Got one of those somewhere in the loft if you want to try it.....

A friend of the family of my Best Man used to write them, and what a character she was! Her first efforts were returned as too sexually explicit, but she did have quite a few published eventually. A larger than life and rather posh woman, who had had a rough time in the past with relationships, which gave her plenty to write about. She was certainly entertaining, she was often a house guest at my friend's parents (biiiig house!) when we were there too.

What a sad state of affairs. I shook my head in disbelief when I saw coal imported to Tyneside some years ago, but it's OK because it's green, because it's someone else's carbon footprint. Pah.

Morning, a draughty but dry 10c on the rock, with no set plans as yet for the day. Pottering in the garage is likely. Oh Ridley Scott, very much yes on him and his work, he is also from my home town as an added fan bonus. My late teen reading was much the same as iD's list, Dick, Asimov, Heinlein, and so on. I'm still partial to good SF but haven't read anything new in that direction for a while, I'm stuck on Anne Cleeves type police procedurals.

It was something (there had to be something....) I was really good at, and got a Distinction in finals back when I was a gadget. I really enjoyed engineering drawing, and it was drawing - I'm pre-CAD! Didn't use it again really, but when we were doing commissions it helped to be able to read drawings, and spot errors etc, but someone else did the CADs to our instruction. The best result was Sea Lion.

It is more likely to be an unsuitable controller.

Evenin' orl. I'd stay clear from Lostwithneil, Rick! I wonder if your subconscious heard the wall beginning to move and rang the internal warning bells? The daffylids are looking nice now. Not all out yet but getting there.

Morning, from a sunny but cool rock, 8c not too bad and not currently raining. Housework day beckons, washing isn't going to do itself. I must photograph the daffs while they look good, for some reason they are not flowering yet at all in some places nearby, but others are almost over. Usually they pretty much all flower together. Woodwork is best avoided by me, you can't weld it. I can make things from metal, but wood doesn't generally behave for me. At least my crummy baseboards are covered in scenery to hide the bodges.

Clauds are just 'right'.

Talking of accurate - her outdoors was the winner again today, but not a PB this time. Do not annoy this woman! Nothing in flower down the glen yet, but the daffs are out in force in the garden, must take a photo. Snowdrops are over, and the crocus not far off it either. The glen will soon be a carpet of bluebells.

Indeed he is, thank you Gilbert. Nice photos this week, the 'early' drone is doing a great job. Maybe it's seagull powered or something.

A'noon. Mrs NHN (her being a Corn and all) has her sis and an aunt in that town, known to us as LostwithNeil. On the subject of Mrs NHN, the camera obviously found no sunshine where it went, but found nothing else, thankfully. Odd, as the test she keeps having strongly suggests something is VERY wrong up there. So a good result, but still more questions than answers, we await the next steps slightly relieved but not convinced. Nice to see @Dave F Dave F recovering well, take care Dave, nice and easy does it. The Whelkmen too, who have been absent from the news for so long, and their most impressive coracles.

I actually quite like the Kawasaki Sauber livery. Kawasaki Green.

Well at least the BedPan line was descriptive of its route! For someone from the norf, these new names mean precisely nothing.

Cherry blossom time....partially obscured, sorry.

Morning, from a knackered Fraggle that has had two bad nights sleep in a row. Tonight won't be any better as the sound of distant thunder has begun, Mrs NHN's Moviprep is working to empty her digestive system prior to investigation early doors tomorrow. Eeeuww. Damp, dull but 11c here, I'm off around the corner to see my mate soon as it is his birthday, escape the house for a while! Loved JJB's photos of Tokyo, I used to visit Japan regularly when in the merch, taking LPG there mostly, it is a fascinating country of huge contrasts.