Now for a musical interlude

To follow on from adventures in the shed, whenever I'm in the shed I listen to some type of CD that can get the  heart started and a pumping whether it's Rush "Working Man", Ronnie James Dio "Holy Diver, AC/DC "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) or even Courtney Love's "Violet" She's a silly tart I know, but I love this tune.

This one, by Alice Bowie,  (I know they're not a "real" band), is a great one. For the uninitiated, Cheech&Chong were a couple of dozy geezers from back in the 70s who made some albums and movies that were funny as he-double toothpicks, most notibly "Up In Smoke", a stoner movie that was a riot.

This is a song from that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bwEy8BQBfk

So click on it, sit back and enjoy for a few minutes, and then go into yer shed and play some good tunes while a spannering on yer ride.

STOP THE PRESSES!!!!!

I've just discovered something that I had saved on my Favorites section and forgot about that is a must for good tunes for in the shed.

It's this: www.radiocaroline.co.uk   a pirate radio station outta the UK that's been on the air for years and plays some GOOD tunes, better than some of the drivel that's on the radio hereabouts.

Disaster area

Today I decided to tackle the disaster area more commonly known as my shed.

Had to do some tidying as it was looking more like a storage area than anything else. Boxed up some odds and ends, straightened out the library area some by consolidating the binders that have info in them, putting books/manuals away, same with the CDs and other bits.

However, I still need to store/pack up more stuff in order to have more space. More boxes are needed along with some trash bags for the junk. Need some for the larger parts off Vicky to keep everything inn one place instead of them going walkabout. But's it's slowly getting there.

So now instead of a disaster area, it's looking more like a small tip.

All the while I was doing this, the weather has been cool for here, somewhere in the 50s I'm guessing. Very enjoyable......

A Day to Remember

Today, November 11, is a day for rememberance for most whether it's called Veteran's Day or Rememberance Day.

For some it's a day off work, for most it's a day to give thanks and appreciation to the men and women of the military who have served and in some cases gave heir lives and also for the ones serving today.

If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't have the freedoms that we all have today to enjoy the things we have such as swanning about on old motorcycles and other things.

So today, remember those who have served and are presently serving in the military, no matter country it may be.

Slow is the word for the noo!

For the past week my laptop has been running slow as treacle/molasses and I don't like it one bit!

I went on line to check my email and my provider took close to 10mins just to load and after another 10mins or so to get to the email page it timed out. "What the b*ggery b*llcks" to quote Pats and Eddie (yer homework is to find out who they are) was my initial thoughts about it.

So being the computer challenged person I is, I took it to the local 'puter geeks to have them check it out. Prognosis is that it had some Malware and some other poxy stuff on it and for the princely sum of more than a couple of goats, they could "fix" it.

So after a few days in their "loving" care, all is well according to them. If I had high speed 'net it probably would be just dandy, but I don't and it isn't. Still can't get to the email stuff unless I use someone elses 'puter, and it takes donkeys ages to get to anything else, but at least I can still get on.

I got an email with a link on it, not the cause of all this BTW, that showed B25s and B44s for sale in a US mag. An nice looking B25 such as my little Amelia had an asking price of $5,0000! Are they insane??????
Not even on a good day would I pay that for a B25.

I've had time to ponder on things while without this box of wires and have decided that the year 2011 will be spent on working on Vicky and Amelia both in order to get them on the road or at least close to it AND to save enough scratch for my next trip to the UK which will be to Aberdeenland in order to take part in the Haggis Run in 2012.

After that, a little jaunt around the Highlands to Inverness, Culloden, Loch Ness, Inverary and Falkirk along with Stirling. All in the comfort of a tin box I'm afraid.

Oh, and Kawa, an frequent contributor has his Blog up and running and is looking pretty good so check it out.

Toodle pip 'til the next time...if the box of wires co-operates and lets me do it!!!!

Let's give it another go shall we&*^*%&$^&????

OK, seeing how I botched it up doing the cut-n-paste thing in the last posting, here's a linky thing that has ALL the piccies that I was gonna post on here.

So, if you clicky on here, (fingers crossed), it'll show up this time.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/850norton/sets/72157625024911995/


Actually I just did a test run and, hold on to yer hats, it @#$%*&%$#@ WORKED!!!!!

Who woulda thunk it! Cheers to Kawa for sending me the "Cut-n-Paste Instructions for Dummies" via cyberland.

Oh, and there is a movemet afoot to save, as in not destroy, the old BSA building(s). If you go to http://www.bsatrust.org/, hit the link for email and send one in to show your support.

This is important.....the once great British motorcycle industry may have withered away and died, but the buildings can at least be saved  for historical purposes at least to let future generations know about the industry.

As the caretaker of two of Small Heaths finest, it's the very least I can do and so can YOU!