Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 5:52 pm Belly dancing? Reckon you'll fit right in

I'm just looking forward to the photos that's all I can say. In a sort of gawping at a car crash kind of way .

Well as per ******* usual, after a sunny day, it started lashing it down just as I finished work and contemplated a bit of trail madness on the lowside. Went for a shed session instead which turned into the usual epic as I wrestled a motorcycle engine together with a fail on the crank free rotation. Crank case now in oven, offending bearing (which hadn't seated properly) in freezer, and whole house smelling of burnt engine oil

RIP wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 6:33 pm

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 5:52 pm Belly dancing? Reckon you'll fit right in

I'm just looking forward to the photos that's all I can say. In a sort of gawping at a car crash kind of way .

John you'll be like https://youtu.be/ud5J7Ye332I, 2:45 onwards

I'll remind Hermione to pack her spangly crop top....what she lacks in belly fat I reckon she makes up for by having ten nipples

Verena wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 8:03 am

RIP wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 6:33 pm

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 5:52 pm Belly dancing? Reckon you'll fit right in

I'm just looking forward to the photos that's all I can say. In a sort of gawping at a car crash kind of way .

John you'll be like https://youtu.be/ud5J7Ye332I, 2:45 onwards

I'm late to the party, but you mean this
https://youtu.be/ud5J7Ye332I&t=2m45s
Add &t=xxxmyys at end of YouTube URL
Where xx is minutes and yy is second in from the start...
Feeling like a clever dick ,
so I'm bared from that party?

Happy Birthday Bob you old codger! Summat nice planned?

RIP wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 4:43 pm Happy Birthday Bob you old codger! Summat nice planned?

just been to t' pub for a nice meal.

Happy birthday for yesterday Bob. Hope the ribs are healing up.

Very cheery here - off to Torridon for a week with the mountain bike tomorrow, and part time working means I have a whole day to sort out bike, camping gear, food, and all the little bits and pieces I never seem to have time for, like downloading stuff to listen to in the car, and jobs that need doing before I go, like cutting the grass and watering the house plants, without rushing around and getting stressed.

Looks like it's going to be a tad chilly (maybe even snow!), but not too bad - should have gone this week though

Biggest dilemma currently is... Laphroaig or Ardmore...

Cheery here. Did my last indoor training session before the World Cornish Gig Pilot Championships in the Scillies next weekend (hence WRT absence). Really excited about racing something completely different but must get back to bike packing pronto.

Read that as Cornish pig pilot championships ... sounded great.

Me, I'm going paying my mortgage off this morning.

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:37 am Me, I'm going paying my mortgage off this morning.

Ha! That's what you think... you think your bank will let you

Seriously though, it's a nice place to be when you're mortgage free

Must be a nice feeling paying off the mortgage - congrats!

I was late to the house buying game, so only another 24 years to go...

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:37 am Me, I'm going paying my mortgage off this morning.

A situation I covet and envy

Gig tonight in town. In the grand scheme that's enough to be content.

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:37 am
Me, I'm going paying my mortgage off this morning.

I did that years ago The assistant doing the transaction noted: "Ooh, you've a lot of available equity, do you want a loan?"

"No I f***ing don't! I've just paid off a cheap loan why would I want a high interest rate one?"

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:37 am Me, I'm going paying my mortgage off this morning.

Can you actually walk into the bank and pay the last bit off with a bundle of twenties? Would seem a satisfying way of doing it, and make a point, given the other thread.

whitestone wrote: ↑ lot of available equity, do you want a loan?" .......
"No I f***ing don't! I've just paid off a cheap loan why would I want a high interest rate one?"

Very clever how they rope people into these things. The terminology is always inverted to make it sound cuddly. "Would you like to do some equity release so you can buy something nice? ie "have some debt"; or "would you like credit?" ie "have some debt".

Quite hilarious(?) looking back now at some of the insanity of early this century. Remember those 125% mortgages from Northern [c]Rock[-of-sh1t]? Have a house, oh you deserve a holiday too (small print: you'll still be paying us for that holiday in 25 years time long after you've lost that sun tan, hah hah)

Bonkers.

It is done but weirdly (to me at least) no one seemed very concerned about where I had found a large sum of money from

They don't care when you're giving money to them, they only care when you're taking money out. Our entire financial services industry revolves around not asking where people get their money from...

Crikey, this thread is heading STWard

have a (red) panda

I red pandas.
I've also just indulged in a bit of retail therapy (new running shoes), so feeling pretty cheery.

Bearlegged wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 1:56 pm I red pandas.
I've also just indulged in a bit of retail therapy (new running shoes), so feeling pretty cheery.

Did they convince you to take out a loan for them? .

Anyway, now it actually is Friday, hurrah!

Got a cup of tea, a biscuit, doing a jigsaw, and listening to The Macc Lads, so all is set fair at The Perrinery.

No loans, just savings.

Well I'm off for a bivvy this evening and it's sunny. If I could be bothered driving a bit further north I could get a dry day tomorrow. But I can't so will head out to a local-ish spot and hope to get back before the drizzle comes in

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 12:29 pm It is done but weirdly (to me at least) no one seemed very concerned about where I had found a large sum of money from

They were very disappointed when I paid it all off 13 years early*
Good job too, I then got main redundant 12 months later.

*3 cheers to amortisation.