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All these dogs are still in the foster home where I go on volunteering days. I have up to 10 to feed and exercise. Kent Greyhound Rescue 

What a palaver!! I took a backup of the folders on the Satnav last night and saved them to the laptop. There is only one main folder called NAVI. Secondly, this morning,  I downloaded the massive 6.6gb RAR file from the link Ohrex send in an email with instructions in a PDF.  Simples. After 6 hours I finally managed to get one RAR downloaded, but only after multiple failures when it was part way through. Then I connected the Satnav by the supplied USB cable. It's USB-mini and luckily they supply a cable. Everything I have now is either micro, USB-A or USB-C.  Only then once the RAR file is downloaded and unzipped (7-zip) can you format the satnav drive! Yes format.  Once formatted then use Windows to copy the NAVI folder from the unzipped folder to the satnav. Copying at 2 to 3 mb/sec means that over 7gb unzipped will take a while. Much easier with the TomTom where you connect and let if check for upgrades.... It took way over an hour to copy from the laptop to the u...

You can never have too many summer gloves.  These were well priced and made of leather. Fit nice and tight but they'll stretch to fit I expect.  

Some pics from tonight's bike night. I went on the GT and then parked behind this one! Gulp. Where mine is pretty much standard with work still to be done, this is absolutely fantastic piece of work. My Old Girl!

It's a day over 14 years since I bought this Frank Thomas Aqua Jacket.  I originally blogged about it on Blogger way back in 2008.  http://invictamoto.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-jacket.html Over the years it has remained waterproof. It has faded a little and where it was once black with reflective piping it has become a mixture of black and a mauve/maroon. After losing in excess of three stones (45lbs) in weight it is a little big now. With just a t-shirt today it was very roomy. Plenty of room for a jumper if it turned cold. But maybe now is the time for the jacket to be retired. Or at least retired from my use.  The elastic in the cuffs has gone and no longer "elastics". The press studs can't make the cuffs tight.  I am going to remove the armour and donate to charity.  The Salvation Army have a collection box in Hythe.  Of course. It means getting something to replace it. It needs to be all seasons and of course waterproof. After such long service it deser...

As expected just Cal and me on the breakfast ride out.  With heavy rain and thunder/lightning overnight I decided not to repeat the summer gear mistake on the Czech trip and wire my FT Aqua Jacket and Armr waterproof trousers. Good job as the rain came .. Cal arrived at my house just after 0930 and we set off. I had forgotten the last time I had put fuel in Vera was in Belgium soon after leaving Bastogne.  With the high speed dash to the ferry port I didn't bother refuelling. So when the range light dropped to 1 I had to fuel up at the Esso in New Romney. At 193.9 for E10 it was the cheapest litre around here. I got 19.57 litres in the tank. There was I thinking I had a 19 litre tank. This came out at a tad over 51mpg. We had a chat over coffee/tea and bacon baguette at Jo's Café in Brookland and then decided to head back via Rye and Appledore. This café is right by the model car racing circuit. It's popular with bikers too. The Getapic guy was taking photos and when we arr...

Yep. It's Ride to Work Day 2022 on Monday June 20th. Two days from now. Not that I have a job to go to though. Since I retired my dream of riding my bikes more often hasn't actually happened but I do volunteer at a local dog rescue centre. So it looks as though I will ride there instead. https://www.ridetowork.eu/information/ http://ride-to-work-day.mag-uk.org/

I haven't been out on Vera since I got back from the Czech Trip on June 1st. The reason? Weather part of it and then when it got more like a summer I had the MoHo back to sort out. I had her out of the garage for a clean and I took the opportunity to clean the screen properly. A little polish and then I tried to remove the Airstream sticker. Very sticky. Now I need to find something to remove the gluey shit without damaging the screen itself?  Nail varnish remover? Tomorrow is Father's Day and I didn't expect there would be many out. It looks like me and Cal will be the only ones again. It looks as though the Meldrews' are almost dead in the water. Also, Getapic will be in the A259 on the way to Rye. Only about half a mile from the café we will meet up at. Hopefully the photographer will get one of me on Vera. It was them that took the picture of me on the Kettle a couple of months ago 

My insurance renewal for both the bikes is due in the next few weeks. I've not had the renewal from Carole Nash yet and time is running out. I did the Meerkat Shuffle  to see what the bikes would pan out like. In the end I had to do them as separate quotes. Both around £90 fully comp. So then I looked at Carole Nash. Both bikes. It came out as bit of a shock.  WTF! I can insure both separately for half of that.

Hopefully, I'll there aboard Suzi. It moved to Sellindge last year and it will be there again this year. I have posted a few times in various FB groups to interest local Kettle owners to come along and make a show of it. But who knows. A lead balloon would float better than this idea. But we shall see eh?

It's June 17th. I have actually had the SHO-1 sitting on the shelf in the conservatory since November and have had it out to check out the contents and read the installation instructions. Today I decided to fit to the Qwest and get it charged up as I might venture out on Sunday morning.  It's Father's Day here and so hopefully all the would-be GP riders will be out to lunch with their kids.   It was supposed to be designed to fit in the Qwest. It kinda does but some of the instructions can't be followed as it doesn't have removable headlining!  It says the wire from one speaker to the next needs to go under the inner lining from ear to ear. Great but the lining doesn't come out! One side has the unit fitted to it and the other the battery pack. Connecting the two is supposed to have the wire put in between the hard inner shell and the outer shell. That won't work either! The two are pretty much bonded tight. As they ought to be. After all this effing about i...

https://invictamoto.travellerspoint.com/tag/czech_trip_2022/  I posted this from email and it looks as though the text disappeared! What I said was that I had moved all the blog updates for this to Travellerspoint as it was easier. 

Eurotunnel was booked months ago and we have been waiting to see when tickets for the track went on sale. This week as it happens. To my amazement there is a 50% ticket reduction for those of us lucky to have lasted more that 65 years. I tried for ages to book seats in Grandstand 1C but it didn't work. I messaged Neill and he tried. I gave it one last time from the laptop and it worked successfully first time! So two seats booked. I have offered to go 50/50 on the tickets. It means it will cost me €25 more than the senior ticket would have.  Booking direct with Motorland rather than using the agents saves a few quid each. Official Motorland Site