The T.E.T. - Just got more challenging.

 Greetings. Alb here. Triple locked down but still of sound mind and body. ‘VUI – 202012/01’is now lapping at the door of 'The Old Sidevalve Bar'. I ain't taking no chances so I've stuffed newspaper in all the cracks and keyholes. Glad to report for now that seems to be keeping the mutant at bay. 

If life wasn't tough enough the challenge to ride the T.E.T. has taken on another dimension. What do hungry T.E.T.ers eat whilst riping through the endless miles of Flanders mud?  Having been brought up on Yorkshireshire 'power-foods' I was expecting to take some in my waxed Barbour jacket pockets. (Last thing you need when out in the wilds is a change of diet causing a loose bowel....and furz in den lederhosen)

Pocket snacks-

Guiseley Growlers - Tony Woods Butchers.

Wensleydale Cheese.-If ever a cheese was designed for men on a mans mission this is it! Best balanced on a Jacobs cracker with an accompanying pickled onion or a goodly wedge on rich fruit cake.

But what's this????? Teddies thrown out of the cot!!!!! Dutch and French wearing large Brexit hats!!!!

Confiscating wholesome scran? Eeee cor blooming blimey!!!!We're banned....along wi' us sarnies.

"No..everything is confiscated"....             Phuff.....Even the brot?

Hey guys...I'm getting mi machine ready and I'm coming....No worries. 

Till next time - stay safe and keep the old flag flying and the Homebrew flowing.

Full on into repair mode.4

 It's 2021. A new year...A clean start..?????  Don't want to be Mr Glum but if you guys are expecting the world to suddenly start behaving and all humanity be saved from all the self inflicted wrongs then "Oh dear!!!!! Not gonna happen...!"

But not all is lost, pull ya chair nearer the fire, pour ya'sen a large glass of Barley wine and rejoice that within 'The Old Sidevalve Bar' normality has always been normal. No change and no charge. You still have a free digital link to a small place in The Shire where 'Old Shite' can find a home and old guys talk sense, move around on legs, think with own brain...and try doing the impossible despite the aging process.....Yep, ya Uncle Albert still fights to free peeps from the power of the matrix. Battling against  G5, 'Just Eat' app, meerkat.com., Mc Donalds "click and serve", Costa Coffee delivery by Uber.  Stop!!!! F.F.S.!!! Some of ya are destined to be couch potatoes....    sink deeper into the sofa, forget about Vintafaking.  Chicken nuggets are your destiny. I can't save ya all.......

Ah, good. Ya still here. Interested in the progress of Blauwe Muis? I've finished restoring the saddle. It's had several coats of 'chassis black' I do like this paint.  Available from a local paint manufacturer.  Cost about £8 a ltr and brushes on a treat. I'm not one to make a habit of looking under saddles or even collecting photographs of the same but here's mine. Thick and glossy - 'Shining like sixpence up a sweeps backside'
Good for another 40 years...

Keep the faith - Avoid VUI 202012/01 - Beware of  'The Krankie'