Just my observations......
Dumb and dumber
They amble along with no sense of direction, they are not aware of what's around them or think about anybody else, they get off a bus and crash into you if you happen to be walking past. They walk out of a shop door come to a dead stop and for some reason look in their shopping bag while standing still right in the middle of the pedestrian traffic flow. They queue for a bus or cash machine and block the pavement.
They cross the road right in front of the bus they have just got off and cause confusion and mayhem as they peer around the front of the bus, some run across the road and take risks, some just walk out and of course cause the bus they just got off to be delayed or worse run over a few of them.
The ones I have mentioned above are the clever ones, wait to you tangle with the ones with a mobile phone or a ipod stuck in their ears, it's crazy out there.
No money out there
I know why!! Lambeth Council and TFL are spending it all on road speed bumps and other road obstacles so the non-thinkers I mentioned above can carry on with their kamikaze pedestrian life style but bring everybody else down to a snail pace. With these speed lumps and bumps, I have never seen the like anywhere else (apart from Southwark council). There is more obstacles on Lambeth's roads than there was on the Normandy beaches.
More on this speed bump nonsense within this Blogspot
Monday, 19 December 2011
Saturday, 10 September 2011
Double Rainbow over the Isle of Sheppey
Never seen this before, until today.
A twin Rainbow and if you notice (I did not notice untill a friend pointed it out) the colours are inverted.
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Vickers "Taxed and tested"
Great for going to the shops or great for protecting the shops.
British hardware, self propelled big gun.
Monday, 4 July 2011
Cafe Racer
Picture the state of Texas with Mods and Rockers. I just watched it on the telly and was amazed.
From time to time I watch a programme on Discovery Turbo called Cafe Racers which is always a good watch but I was amazed to see what I can only describe as a 60's Mods and Rockers re-enactment without the punch ups somewhere in the state of Texas. With plenty of British Iron and other bikes jostling with busy bee Vespa's the Mod's and Rockers in full regalia set the seen. Sewn on to bike leathers there is Ace Cafe and 59 Club sew on patches and the scooter boys wearing pork pie hats it is very weird to see in Texas. This very British scene takes me back and watching it made me think I must be getting old...... I was there.
From time to time I watch a programme on Discovery Turbo called Cafe Racers which is always a good watch but I was amazed to see what I can only describe as a 60's Mods and Rockers re-enactment without the punch ups somewhere in the state of Texas. With plenty of British Iron and other bikes jostling with busy bee Vespa's the Mod's and Rockers in full regalia set the seen. Sewn on to bike leathers there is Ace Cafe and 59 Club sew on patches and the scooter boys wearing pork pie hats it is very weird to see in Texas. This very British scene takes me back and watching it made me think I must be getting old...... I was there.
Photo by TRITON ROCKER
Monday, 30 May 2011
FIFA
Reports of corruption, hearings and general accusations and bad press
Do we need this motley crew?
Do we need this motley crew?
This little nipper could do a better job
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
LEZ is pure unfair and unjust nonsense
As somebody that will be affected by LEZ I do Despair.
What is LEZ? A diesel vehicle low emission zone which is not UK wide but covers 99% of the area within the M25 circular motorway that rings London. From January 1st 2012 perfectly legal diesel vans and minibuses will not be allowed to enter or drive within this zone. A fine of a hundred pounds each time you do is applied
The vehicles that are not allowed is only calculated by the age of the vehicle and nothing to do if they run clean or what mileage they clock up yearly. Many private owners of historic vehicles will be forced to scrap the them or sell them to people far away from London. Charities and scouting organisations that have older minibuses will be hit very hard as they can not afford new ones or a filter that will cost a over inflated 3.5K and their is no guarantee that they will work. Most of these minibuses do very low mileage yearly and would produce less emissions that a minibus that complies but is used daily. I have own a small minibus that does two thousand miles a year has a very clean exhaust as the engine is maintained .There is a picture of it in another post in this Blog. The MOT inspector commented when it was took in for it's last MOT that the vehicle had a very good low emission which measured a excellent emission figure of only . 9 out of a maximum of 3.5 which as you can see is well inside the legal requirement but not good enough for London, one law for me and a few others it seems, anyway the only crime my small minibus has broken is that it is pre 2001. Can we remember all those years ago when leaded petrol was the big baddy and we had to get rid of it, since then it hasn't stopped, we (the motorist) are being squeezed out of existence.
XUD9A engine and ill concieved
What's ironic is that the XUD9A engine used in my small mini-bus is used in various cars which includes some Rover models, Lada, Peugout and Citroen and of course the LEZ will not affect them. This proves to me that nobody has been involved with this LEZ that has a knowledge of motor vehicles and this whole unjust fiasco is ill conceived. My old LDV is maintained to a high standard as is the case with anybody who has the love to cherish a older and obsolete set of wheels.
Great news for me, Transport for London has cocked up. Because my small mini-bus has only eight passenger seats it does meet LEZ requirements so I don't have to scrap it after all.
All that stress for nothing.
What is LEZ? A diesel vehicle low emission zone which is not UK wide but covers 99% of the area within the M25 circular motorway that rings London. From January 1st 2012 perfectly legal diesel vans and minibuses will not be allowed to enter or drive within this zone. A fine of a hundred pounds each time you do is applied
The vehicles that are not allowed is only calculated by the age of the vehicle and nothing to do if they run clean or what mileage they clock up yearly. Many private owners of historic vehicles will be forced to scrap the them or sell them to people far away from London. Charities and scouting organisations that have older minibuses will be hit very hard as they can not afford new ones or a filter that will cost a over inflated 3.5K and their is no guarantee that they will work. Most of these minibuses do very low mileage yearly and would produce less emissions that a minibus that complies but is used daily. I have own a small minibus that does two thousand miles a year has a very clean exhaust as the engine is maintained .There is a picture of it in another post in this Blog. The MOT inspector commented when it was took in for it's last MOT that the vehicle had a very good low emission which measured a excellent emission figure of only . 9 out of a maximum of 3.5 which as you can see is well inside the legal requirement but not good enough for London, one law for me and a few others it seems, anyway the only crime my small minibus has broken is that it is pre 2001. Can we remember all those years ago when leaded petrol was the big baddy and we had to get rid of it, since then it hasn't stopped, we (the motorist) are being squeezed out of existence.
XUD9A engine and ill concieved
What's ironic is that the XUD9A engine used in my small mini-bus is used in various cars which includes some Rover models, Lada, Peugout and Citroen and of course the LEZ will not affect them. This proves to me that nobody has been involved with this LEZ that has a knowledge of motor vehicles and this whole unjust fiasco is ill conceived. My old LDV is maintained to a high standard as is the case with anybody who has the love to cherish a older and obsolete set of wheels.
Great news for me, Transport for London has cocked up. Because my small mini-bus has only eight passenger seats it does meet LEZ requirements so I don't have to scrap it after all.
All that stress for nothing.
Monday, 18 April 2011
Englands South Coast Sky
18/4/2011
With kind permission, a picture taken by my friend Pat from a view from her flat in the town of Hastings, which is located on the south coast of England, apparently she gets skies like this all the time.
With kind permission, a picture taken by my friend Pat from a view from her flat in the town of Hastings, which is located on the south coast of England, apparently she gets skies like this all the time.
HI-SKY-FI
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Chris Jefferies media lynched
He may as well have been hung drawn and quartered. The disgusting portray of Chris Jeffreys by the tabloid newspapers in my opinion was a personal attack on a man just because he is a bit "different" I am sure there must be a breach of the PCC code and a assault on he's civil rights. This man was portrayed as guilty by the Sun newspaper and other tabloids and I am sure that the Police had a hand it this attitude as well.
I just hope and pray that there is not a murder where I live as I am getting on a bit, I have long hair and some funny hobbies, the Sun will have me guilty, make defamatory remarks and smear my name. In the future there maybe a murder near you and it may be you going through the torment and splashed all over the tabloids and being accused of goodness know's what.
I just hope and pray that there is not a murder where I live as I am getting on a bit, I have long hair and some funny hobbies, the Sun will have me guilty, make defamatory remarks and smear my name. In the future there maybe a murder near you and it may be you going through the torment and splashed all over the tabloids and being accused of goodness know's what.
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