Discovered a new species of bug that turns to glue when struck by a bike and is a bugger to wash off even after a twenty minute soaking under paper towels it's still lingering there. Wtf are they? It had disintegrated to nothing but a sticky transparent gloop by the times I got home, it covers the whole left headlamp.
There's a aphid infestation at the minute Pete and they shit sticky goo for a pastime. We've got one tree they mass on and it drips of it like rain. You haven't driven under something like that, have you? Tree sap is falling too at the moment, getting it on my car at work. That's a bastard to get off too.
The bike was spotless when I set off from home as I'd spent the previous day cleaning her, I remember whooshing through a massive swarm of black flying things near the ribblehead viaduct cos my visor took a pasting as well. Didn't park under any trees at all so won't be sap. I'll give the wd40 a go though, it does everything doesn't it!
Took the old man out for his belated birthday treat yesterday, to the Tank Museum at Bovington. He was like a ten year old wandering around these old monsters. Wistfully remembering his national service days. There might be something he's not telling me about them though... Coming back through Dorset we got buzzed by a bunch of lads on sports bikes, including a couple of Blades. "Look at them daft buggers" he proclaimed. "Arseing around, like that." I kept my gob shut...
Yeah, he kept stroking it and saying "Mein Schatzi" under his breath. I really must ask him where he got that Iron Cross again...
So I got off the delayed plane this evening, an hour a bit late into schiphol, got into a row a the car rental desk because my audi a5 had turned into a fecking Opel mokka ( seriously someone got paid for that????) miserable rain strewn trip to The Hague to find out the hotel car park was full and could I drive three miles to the overflow, then finally get into a bar at 22:30 hrs, ashtrays on table, pull out a fag, smoke it, feckin' health police all over me, ok to blow your mind on skunk but jeesus don't smoke a fag in the place. Grrrr. Nice kebab on way back though, actually looked a bit like picture on menu. Got to be up in 5 hrs mind ready to rock.......bleah.
Finish packing this morning then off to gatwick Hilton tonight. Meal brekky in the morning then lunchtime flight to cancun is the plan for me here xx. Excited I will be
Now that is ironic. Especially after you paying good money to have it done in the Siamese flesh pots for the previous fortnight.
