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Old 27-07-24, 03:46 PM   #11321
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It is new phone day. My ten year old Doro dumb phone, that I use only for work calls, can survive on standby for week but only 60 seconds of call time before it squarks to be charged. My seven year old Samsung A5 personal phone keeps running out of memory (it's a 32MB jobbie) and takes forever to open anything. So, new Samsung A25 purchased, the old A5 is now my work phone, and the Doroe will be off to the WEEE bin at the tip next time I go.

What an utter faff it is setting up new phones, even if you do use the Switch app...
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Old 27-07-24, 07:54 PM   #11322
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Two in one day - I'm becoming a right Victor Meldrew...

It's a fantastic evening in South Buckinghamshire. The French doors are wide open allowing the cool mid evening air into the drawing room here in Trev Towers. Am I enjoying it? NO! There is a fudging police helicopter overhead, just afew roads away, and it's been there all fudging evening!! SOD OFF!!!
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Old 28-07-24, 06:40 AM   #11323
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Two in one day - I'm becoming a right Victor Meldrew...

It's a fantastic evening in South Buckinghamshire. The French doors are wide open allowing the cool mid evening air into the drawing room here in Trev Towers. Am I enjoying it? NO! There is a fudging police helicopter overhead, just afew roads away, and it's been there all fudging evening!! SOD OFF!!!

Hate to say this Sir Trev but you were a lot easier going when you owned a Triumph.
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Old 28-07-24, 09:11 AM   #11324
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How very dare you?!
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Old 29-07-24, 02:20 PM   #11325
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Out on a lovely ride and just when I get to the good bit of road, I come up to the back of a long line of cars doing 45mph. The worse thing is that the two cars at the end of the line are both cop cars.

Ah well, just throttle back and enjoy the scenery ...
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Old 30-07-24, 12:24 PM   #11326
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I know how you feel. One of the worst roads for that is from the Seaside/ Withernsea back to Hull. If there's a cop car coming out of With you can't do anything until you get to Hull. It's about 20 miles of ,"Yawn"

So usually most bikers, myself included, dive off down some back-roads
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Old 31-07-24, 08:00 AM   #11327
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I know how you feel. One of the worst roads for that is from the Seaside/ Withernsea back to Hull.
That gives me a massive nostalgia rush. I was born & raised in Hull, and there was very little finer than scratching my X5 to Withy on a sunny day, getting a fiver's worth of silver for the amusements, having a bag of chips, then scratching home again
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