March Plus 2024

                                                    March Plus 2024

This is my second posting for March and I have to be inventive with the names but still remain sequential in reporting. I am reducing my viewing of news as it is so bad and the world is standing by watching a terrible disaster unfold and nothing has been achieved in stopping it. It will not stop until the USA and UK stop the arms and funding. The Muslim Brotherhood is just guilty of inaction.

Talking about brotherly love there was a quick trip to Bristol to see Adrian and Barry and managed to buy some free range eggs at a farm in the countryside. As you can imagine the best way to transport them is in a 2CV. There was a visit to the Museum in the Park in Stroud and a good inspection of the Baughan two wheel drive sidecar outfit. On that trip we walked along Sharpness Canal and saw a Great Escape.

The last weekend I spent my time visiting Coops who is creating a masterpiece in acrylic canvas for me. The El Cid will have a new hood with clear side screens so I can see through them. I will devote a whole posting to that but the fun of the travelling has to be mentioned. Saturday in the C3 was fun but marred by the 9 inch display screen playing up. This was all to do with my phone or more specifically the car software demanding to connect to it. Citroen apps and Android apps. It was all too annoying with the screen switching from whatever I chose back to the Apps screen and connect. I was in the middle of sorting my navigation destination and before I could complete three letters the screen would flick to the apps screen. I would lose what I had just put in and have to start again. I did this several times until  I thought I had one only to be outdone by a spelling mistake that I could not rectify. I found that the climate control screen was not interrupted but did not help my navigation . I could not hear the instructions because the radio volume was too high. When I turned the volume down I could not hear the navigation instructions. And I did take a wrong turn because of that. With an on-line manual and a phone where the print is too small to read how can anyone assimilate the instructions from the manual other than printing 200 pages on your own printer. Admittedly you probably only need ten pages but which ten? Almost ready for a Basil Faulty moment? 

Great work by Coops though and I went down again on the Sunday. This time on the Kawasaki. Great fun but I did have the exhaust split just before the silencer box a few miles short of Whitchurch. I had to come home with a somewhat noisey motorcycle. The fun of riding a motorcycle for a fifty mile run cannot be over stated. Lots of smiles there. I have spent most of this week waiting for new header pipes to assemble the exhaust system. Fighting with BT over lack of internet. Mainly cause I can’t watch motorcycle racing.

Good Friday was a good Friday. Internet, phone and Sport channels have been restored, Kawasaki has new header pipes and no leaks and the Buell is ready for collection