-
Recent Posts
Archives
Categories
- Aging
- Alcohol
- Apologies
- Bad Service
- Birds
- Blog News
- Cars
- Computing
- Critics
- Cycling
- DIY
- Eating Out
- Electric
- European Friends
- Family
- Fear of Old Age
- Friends
- General Rants
- Hastings
- Motorcycles
- Music
- Patricks Predictions
- People
- Photography
- Politics
- Pubs
- Quizes
- Religion
- Revelations
- Self Delusion
- Software
- Sport
- Technology
- The Press
- Travel
- Uncategorized
- weight
Author Archives: SteveHardy
The shoelace incident.
Part of the new policy of covering decay, mine that is, must be recounting of “the shoelace incident”. A few weeks ago I had just returned from an evening of what passes as jollity in the pub I go to, … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Alcohol, Pubs
Leave a comment
I will be back.
I think. Hardware failure and my own incompetence led to the disappearance of the “police stories” at the beginning of the year; “backup and understand what you’re doing”, a lesson I have often spouted in my most vigorous and pompous … Continue reading
Posted in Blog News
Leave a comment
There are lines…
Over which you don’t go. Unfortunately I have “line blindness” which leads me often snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Last night was such an event. A great dinner party at the home of partner in crime Mr Evans. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Mr IT, I don’t think so
The few people who read this might have wondered what happened to the recent posts, not that there were many. Well the truth is due to a very foreseeable event my server “deleted” all the posts and did I have … Continue reading
Posted in Apologies, Blog News
Leave a comment
Pub Quiz again!
Next Wednesday, 18th November, 7.45, I’m back as a desperately needy Quiz Master at the Cinque Port Arms, Old Town Hastings. Come to fight for the massive prizes (a bottle of wine) and sheer entertainment (in the event of legal … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Pubs, Quizes
Leave a comment
The final chapter of the BMW R1150RT story.
Ever since I’ve had the BMW R1150RT It’s been prone to “pinking”, i.e. pre-detonation where the petrol ignites before it should. It sounds like stones rattling on the front of the bike and it can damage the engine. In the … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Service, General Rants, Motorcycles, Self Delusion
Leave a comment
Oh boy, you know when you’re old.
When you’re round a table and only two of you have all your original parts. Fortunately as some one who has never looked after himself I’m glad to report that I was one of the still intact individuals.
Posted in Eating Out, Fear of Old Age, People
Leave a comment
Not voting, an option?
Now, I’m not going to get on my high horse about this; I have failed to vote more times than I care to remember, but my enthusiasm for a particular candidate and the low turnout got me thinking. The first … Continue reading
The taste of defeat…
Oh well, our boy Andy Dumas came a distant second; 625 to Godfrey Daniels 1522 votes. It says a lot about the quality of his campaign that he beat the Conservative and Liberals. It will be interesting to see what … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Leave a comment
Voting
Went to vote early, a groggy hangover head made the European voting slip a bit of an effort, I swear it was twenty miles long. Evan at this time of the morning, 7.15, a passer by walking his dog shouted … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment