InvictaMoto's On The Road Again!

Checked with Elddis and the 10 year warranty on the build system hadn't been transferred to us from the previous owner. I had to send them a copy of the habitation check done in March and the V5 for the vehicle. With that done I had to pay £60 transfer fee.  That's all sorted. Let's hope it's worth it in the end!!!

I have been looking for a WiFi or MiFi device to use in the Moho since we had the TV installed and had the Amazon Firestick. I ended up ordering this one that comes with a free SMARTY SIM card. It arrived today. I'll play with it in the week and see what performance I can get out of it. It's quite small and they reckon battery life is about 8 hours. Plenty for an evenings TV viewing.

A shortish run out today. Entry to the Fair was pre-book and a good job too.  Restricting numbers meant there wasn't the crush that can be found at free for all events. We set off about 12.30pm. The Fair opened at 1pm and we didn't want to be there first and stuck in a jam as the access road is narrow and has houses along it. We arrived around 1.30pm. Parking was tight but well managed by the staff working on site.  The stalls were from lots of independent artists and small businesses and were spread around the outbuildings and inside the house itself. Claire's first stop was the mulled wine and we both had a complimentary shortbread biscuit. Yep. Something for nothing. It was then into the garden to check out the stalls by the oast houses. And then continuing to other stalks.  Claire bought some pottery items and then a bowl of hyacinth bulbs. At lunch we had a coffee and a really nice locally produced sausage in a brioche roll. Very tasty. Of course during our walk we t...

You may never ride into Camden. You may never ride into London at all with the #ULEZ and the difficulties parking. This affects you as much as London riders. This sets a precedent that if it gets voted through, other councils will see it as a way to restrict our rights to own and ride motorcycles. And of course, earn money to pay for all kinds of other schemes that they should be funding from the council tax! Please read the post and follow the link. Thank you to everyone who responded to Camden’s consultation on their  new proposed motorcycle parking charges. They are now looking at your  responses so it's vital we keep up the pressure. Save London Motorcycling have written an open letter to Camden against  the charges and we need as many people as possible to sign it! Go to "Save London Motorcycling - Camden" and scroll to the end of the open letter  to sign, it should only take a minute of your time! Last time Camden tried to bring in charges our open letter s...

With another game in the South-East, that doesn't clash with an Arsenal season ticket home game, my brother Neill was able to come along too. We decided to meet at our Aunt's in Maidstone and take one car. As I paid for the tickets we went in his car. The financial jiggling can come later. Tickets for us fogeys are £15 and for that we had a seat in the main stand behind the goal. Parking was nearby and two hours is free. We just paid for the extra couple of hours. It was a short walk to the ground. We were there just after 2pm. The kickoff was 3pm. We managed to munch down a 10" German sausage and a coffee the temperature of lava before the teams came out.  If results were based on the warm up and shooting into the goal then we would expect 6-0 scores every week. The game was pretty even. Woking had a chance to go ahead but Holden saved well.  0-0 at half-time. Second half was a vast improvement and Latics came close a few times, but the shot at the end of the move was wea...

Tuesday As expected the weather was terrible from the moment we set off. Our mood was one of optimism that no matter what, we'd enjoy the trip. Even a prang that broke the left mirror couldn't ruin the "midweekend" entirely. It looks as though we will need to splash the cash... How about a Just Giving appeal? The Ohrex (the satnav) decided to avoid the Dartford Crossing and go what I always think is the long way around the M25 via Gatwick and Heathrow airports. It saves us the £2.50 toll and maybe a lot of sitting in traffic. We were on the road early, for us 9am is early. I had set a departure time of 8.30am but that was simply to get us moving. After the heavy rain there was a lane near Ashford and another near Maidstone that had the hard shoulder (emergency lane) flooded. later I read on Google that the flood near Ashford had spread across the entire three lane highway.  We were making good time at our regular 55mph on the GPS driven HUD (Heads Up Display) and stop...

One day to go and the weather hasn't let up with the rain and winds.  After the two storms that passed through in the last two to three weeks, we have another one, Debi, coming through over the next couple of days and this will affect the west and midlands. Over the weekend we fuelled Molly up with diesel and lpg in Dover. We then decided to clean the fresh water tank. I bought some puriclean in a tub from Halfords and that went into the tank here at home early on Saturday morning.  It took a while with the hose stretched across the drives to fill the tank. It was left for a couple of hours and then we drove to the New Dover Road Park and Ride motorhome aire at Canterbury to empty the tank in their motorhome service area.  The P&R costs £4 for 24 hours or to 0000.  An overnight stay will be £8.  There's no ehu, and the loos are only open whilst the P&R buses are running to the city centre. The £4 allows free travel on th...

With a few late season trips coming along this autumn and winter I haven't done too much planning for this trip.  I have been looking at some YouTubes and also the traveller pages on Instagram.  I have some ideas.

I have been using this reusable pod now for around four months. Is it worth using instead of the disposable Tassimo pods? Yes for the ecological reason that there is less plastic waste. Currently where I live the pods aren't recyclable. Maybe other areas can recycle them? They are a little fiddly to fill at first but with practice and the little serving spoon it soon becomes easy. What I should have bought is the tamper to press down the coffee in the pod. Using fingers works but doesn't get the coffee tight. Maybe I should order one? The choice of coffee is always important. It works easily enough with filter ground coffee. I have tried a few different grades of coffee. Currently, I am trying an Italian blend. More to come. https://invictamoto.blogspot.com/2023/07/my-reusable.html

IAM RoadSmart has launched a petition calling on the Government to scrap VAT on life-saving air vests which are currently subject to a 20% VAT rate.  Other lifesaving equipment, like motorcycle helmets, are either zero rated or lower rated. Click the red button to read more and add your support... https://www.britishmotorcyclists.co.uk/bmf-support-iam-petition/

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