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Just saying hello..

As I'm having to stay in the house a lot, I been scoping this forum and decided to join again and see whats new.

Used to be on here before under exitwound, but I'm happily retired now but still enjoying the stuff I used to and enjoying life too.

Looks like being a cheap year holidaywise this year, hope we get some long hot sunny weeks like we did in 2018.. Had some lovely commutes in the hot sun sans roof. 😎

Welcome back, Mate.

(nice location)

Meanwhile ... consider yourself lucky:- I've just heard that in locked-down South Africa, there will be no jogging, or walking dogs (not to mention a ban on selling alcohol across the country).

Welcome back. If you'd like to reactivate your old account, just let me know.

Cheers Geoff..

Keeping busy, and still organising my life via an A4 diary that I used to get grief for instead of "tapping in" on some device (I can write faster during phone calls!)

Some interesting threads on here and I'm keen to see how the Dyson vents work out especially now they are needed urgently in use which may stress a few who get too precious with acceptance and testing procedures..

Retirements fine btw, and quite strange. Not having an intense daily routine, means the past has time to catch up and i'm remembering and experiencing now, such a lot from my past that I had forgotten. Hard to explain this stuff but its very tangible. Work definately suppresses things.

Regards..

Oh yes; many of us can relate to that, I should imagine.

I'm often amazed how clearly I can recall stuff (details, names even) from fifty (forty, thirty) years ago ... yet am sometimes pushed to remember what I did last week (or even what I had just said) - only to conjure it up twenty minutes later!

I would write it all down (tales from the Good Old Days, that is) if only I had the time. And anyway, who would want to read it?

Its more than remembering old stuff.. Its like working to a routine supresses memories and once your not, they surface again..

On the other hand, I have come across a fair few who used to daydream at work, too.

But yes, it seems that not having to concentrate on stuff immediately in hand releases memory for data that has remained dormant (and buried).

A bit like the Stack in (computer) programming terms. Or maybe "clearing the decks" (for action) is a better metaphor.

But what may be more interesting is that that old stuff is still "addressable", as it were (that is, still there, just waiting to be retrieved). But like archived data, sometimes it takes a while to bring it back to ready use.

Cheers Huw but I'll stick with this one.. 👍

Exactly right!

Can you remember what the woodwork class sounded and smelt like at school, that burning wood smell off the linisher? I awoke to this one early morning. It was so vivid and totally forgotten about before.
I've had several instances of similar tears in the space-time continuum.. Very strange and not at all unpleasant to remember, very much like playing your old vinyl and even enjoying and remembering the sound of the scratches!
Having a tidy, I found a cassette tape I recorded of my Honda S800 at full chat in 1972 (.. its a car not a bike at12k+ rpm) and as I still have the cassette player I recorded it on, I'm enjoying it again.

Not being tempted to "volunteer", then?

I also had a lucky find:- a couple of tins of Plumrose Bacon Grill amongst my stocks of emergency rations.

Did your S800 have chain drive to the rear wheels?