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28 July 2016
New Helmet - LS2 Metro with Bluetooth Too
Reggie Refusnik
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Wedding of the Year - Jen & Chris
27 July 2016
New Helmet - LS2 Metro with Bluetooth
Coming Soon.... Czech Out 2016
AZ16 - Route 66 Pictorial
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25 July 2016
Deafcon 5
Getting to see your Doctor is almost as difficult as getting to have tea with the Queen.
In the end I wrote a letter and posted it through the door. Monday that was.
That said, Tuesday, a phone call to the surgery, after 1030am, elicited a response that they hadn't heard from the hospitals about my echocardiogram nor about my hearing test and MRI. Nothing arrived here or the surgery.
As the latter was in May I was a bit pissed.
I called the hospital and eventually got though to audiology. They were closed all day but call back between 10 and 12 or 14 and 16 hours.
I did. Wednesday. The lady said that they had written to the surgery, cc me, on 17th May. Before the MRI.
I said I was still deaf in that ear and needed the device fitted.
Now booked in on August 16th. She'll write to me. Don't know if that will ever arrive but have it in my Google calendar.
As for MRI? Who knows. They didn't have the result two months after it was done.
Don't Ride Angry
12 July 2016
Glass 2
Rewind over three weeks.... (sound effect of tape rewinding)
The wound in my foot seemed to be getting worse. So tonight after work I headed back to Folkestone and the Royal Victoria minor injuries clinic.
A short wait and I was in. The nurse checked the x-ray and there was another piece in there.
Fifteen minutes later and a bit of scalpel to enlarge the hole and it's out.
The piece is actually bigger than the bit I pulled out. Hopefully now it will heal.
Phew.
10 July 2016
The Somme Commemorations - Day Three
Short Run
Just a short run today. A week since we got back from the Somme and Pepe needed a wash'n'brush up.
I togged up and with a plasttic bottle of cleaner bungeed on the rack I headed for the jet wash.
The idea was to get the worst of the French crud off from under the engine, mudguards and if course the easy-corrode wheels that Triumph preferred to fit.
The wash machine has changed and takes £1 coins and you get three minutes. There are six options from jet to wax and rinsing.
In the end and £2 later it all looked good. Ten minutes later I knew I had to do it by hand again when it was cold! At least the mud and crud was gone.
As it was sunny the wax rinse dried in streaks. I had a ride to Tesco to fill up with their 3p a litre cheaper 95 unleaded, then a tour around Folkestone to check out the football ground for the next home game and then home along the coast drive.
It was some two hours later when I went out with a bucket and some Simoniz suds to clean the exhausts and the streaky bits.
Then after a mere 13 miles today, Pepe went back to bed. Hopefully I can get out tomorrow.
4 July 2016
Somme 2016 - Trip Reports
http://invictamoto.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/fwd-somme-commemorations-day-one.html
http://invictamoto.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/the-somme-commemorations-day-two.html
The Somme Commemorations - Day Two
Not so bad for the men, but some of the old servicemen there were in their 80's and up and they stood whilst kids sat down on chairs. Not good.
HRH Prince Charles |
The Ulster Tower in sun |
Pano of the battlefield between Thiepval Hill and the Schwaben Redoubt. |
The Somme Commemorations - Day One
Saddlemen FTB |
Suitably attired for the wet weather |
3 July 2016
Saddlemen FTB3600
Saddlemen FTB3600 with waterproof cover |