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TLDR version: Got breathalysed... by lying midget, potential CV19 risk

Long version:

Pull into Tesco's car park, collect phone from holder, look at text that has come through while driving. I notice a figure by my door, and clock it's the filth... I wind down the window

PC :"Hello, do you know why I stopped you"

Me: *quizzical look* "Ummm, I was just parking to go into the shop"

PC: "well I pulled you over because you failed to stop at the stop sign in church street"

Me: "church street?"

PC: "Yes, the stop sign, your wheels have to come to a stop, you didn't stop"

Me: "There isn't a stop sign in Church street"

PC: "yes there is"

me: "well I have to admit, I have no idea where you mean then"

PC: "Next to Greggs, opposite the mere, you come out of it facing the mere"

(me thinks - well that's chapel street, the road off church street)*

Me: "Isn't that.... (thinks better of it) Oh...I'm pretty sure I stopped, I always do owing to not being able to see pedestrians"

PC Liar: "you didn't even slow down" (this utter bollocks - its a proper T junction from a minor back street, if you didn't slow down you mow down the pedestrians and end up in the mere)

Me: "I'm pretty sure I did, I'm pretty anal about stopping there as it goes but ok.. "

PC Liar: "Do you have your licence on you"

Me: "Yes I do as it goes, hold on" *passes licence

PC Liar "Ill be back"

Me: *sniggers and thinks to myself, you're all of 5'0" hardly Arnie*

PC Liar: "have you been drinking"

Me: "looks at watch... it's 12 o'clock fella, no of course not"

PC Liar then proceeds to breathalyse me..and I of course blow a zero.

PC Liar: "take this as a warning, I only warn once"

Me thinks oooOOOOOooo scary man...

Now... I'm not overly bothered about being "stopped" (he didn't - he followed me into a car park) and not over bothered with his lies, I guess there's not much to do in a dead rural town at lunchtime...

However, I didn't think of this at the time, I was too busy being slightly miffed at his lies and not even knowing what road he was on. But, the tube he made me blow into, he had clearly undone and fitted to the machine. In the light of CV19.. I should have told him to go and get a freshly sealed one and let ME open it, after all, I have no idea if he was carrying the plague or not, nor whether the tube was sealed, where he touched it, etc etc etc..

I could now be "the infected"

Wreckless Rat wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 5:49 pm I could now be "the infected"

That's a really upsetting story.

Because

I can't ride bikes any more
I don't drink leaded coffee

So, if you get deaded, what can I have dibs on

GWS Wratty

Set about an innocent bit of racking with a hammer.

I’m at Brands Hatch
I got wet
I’m here tomorrow
I’ll probably get wet
Sunday looks much the same
I’m guessing I could get wet

chillitt wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 6:27 pm Set about an innocent bit of racking with a hammer.

Sell it as a Damien Hirst original.

Skub wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 7:53 pm

chillitt wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 6:27 pm Set about an innocent bit of racking with a hammer.

Sell it as a Damien Hirst original.

I think I'm going to need to hit it some more.

chillitt wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:00 pm

Skub wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 7:53 pm

chillitt wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 6:27 pm Set about an innocent bit of racking with a hammer.

Sell it as a Damien Hirst original.

I think I'm going to need to hit it some more.

It might need a dead sheep or two.

Autumn is here.

Started decorating. We're giving the bathroom a temporary makeover before it gets tiled early next year! She painted the wood panelling charcoal grey. I said it looks like a fecking coal hole. That went down well!

My son moved in to uni accommodation yesterday so popped over to see his new gaff, ended up taking him to Tesco and getting mugged for his shopping bill

v8-powered wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 3:47 pm My son moved in to uni accommodation yesterday so popped over to see his new gaff, ended up taking him to Tesco and getting mugged for his shopping bill

Did that every time I went to visit my youngest daughter.

As well as took her out for a meal.

Oh and slip her a few quid as well.

Further education proved to be expensive.

Scotsrich wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:10 pm

v8-powered wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 3:47 pm My son moved in to uni accommodation yesterday so popped over to see his new gaff, ended up taking him to Tesco and getting mugged for his shopping bill

Did that every time I went to visit my youngest daughter.

As well as took her out for a meal.

Oh and slip her a few quid as well.

Further education proved to be expensive.

I'm sure its going to be a costly 3 or 4 years!

Stood in Waterstones. Pointed out N. K. Jemisin's Fifth Season to the wife and advised her she should read it.

To which she agreed.

Only the wife had walked off two minutes earlier and I was stood next to some random woman of a similar height.

Skub wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 2:23 pm Autumn is here.

Living in the cambrians at 1300 feet that happens most nights....hence the 8 tonnes of wood we currently have.

KungFooBob wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:45 pm Stood in Waterstones. Pointed out N. K. Jemisin's Fifth Season to the wife and advised her she should read it.

To which she agreed.

Only the wife had walked off two minutes earlier and I was stood next to some random woman of a similar height.

Did you get a date to review the book?

The guests have all gone, I've cleaned every mobile and sorted the reception and stores.

Sadly I can't deliver fresh gas bottles to the mobiles as the bottom part of the campsite is flooded....



That river is about 15 feet wide and 8-10 feet deep. It's normally 2 feet wide and about 5-6 inches !







The water has come in from a flooded fishing lake off to the left of those mock palm umbrellas.

My gas bottle store is about 50 metres the other side !!





The blue water slide has a flat 'exit ramp' under there somewhere !



and it's still raining !

So tomorrow I just have to clean the live mobile, there's a few drinks to say goodbye and then Tuesday I'll be heading north! I'll probably be in the Uk in a week or so, then 14 days quarantine......

Have you somewhere to isolate?

Went for a 1 1/4hr walk in the woods, part gravel tracks, part amongst the tree roots and undergrowth.

That might not sound much of an achievement but, as always,  context is everything.

A month ago I had built up to half an hour,  with walking poles, on pavement.

Before skull/neck op I couldn't walk in a straight line and my left foot often dragged or caught. Both due to pressure on the brainstem, causing nerve problems and over-compensating knee reflexes, which has been relieved as a hoped-for added benefit from the Chiari decompression.

Now, the foot works pretty much as it should

Not only is that good news by itself,  it probably lessens (hopefully completely) the need for the second, far more invasive, op.

Giddy-up, Horse

Today? As little as humanly possible, lots of breathing, some mastication, minor bit of defecation, going to wrap the day up with a curry.