Frank’s back

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Topping up the oil tank. £700+ Blimey. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

A big beast!

Home to washing, work and wine. Whatever happened to women and song?

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Got to love some crusty wordplay. Hexham.

Hexham Tidy 2CV outside a French restaurant.

Surf school on Tynemouth beach.

I have just peeked out of the hotel window. There are lunatics in the surf. “Sea temperature 12.7°C - Water Conditions: Cool to cold, with a risk of cold water shock upon entry.”

Quirky indeed.

Leases ParkRun within sight of a Geordie shrine.

Early doors for breakfast at The Grand. Not a popular option on a Saturday! Suits me, Sir.

The Grand Hotel, Tynemouth. A sea view and a rainbow. Afternoon tea too

An obsession with the Dutch artist Cor Visser made this hard to resist. (1935, Zeebrugge.) As an economy measure,and in my own defence, I did buy the frame at the recycling centre for £3.

Started first time. 10 mile bimble to test the new plugs. Running smoothly. Hard to imagine that the 750F is 45years old. A black beauty!

Chainsaw manoeuvres in the park

Reform Who’d have known?

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A tidy Triumph at Rougham Tower today. Same colour scheme as my W800.

Wordle 1,940 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Bacon bap breaks spell. Frank emerges from rut, muddied but unbowed.

Enjoyed another Eastern Angles production: “Fire. Fire” last night in Ipswich. Political stuff. (Mrs F declined the invitation in favour of a local musical bonanza.) Cabaret seating. Oo er. All very cosy.

Sunday observance departure delayed - not leaves on the line or digital interference, but due to the extra layers of clothing needed. Riding East into the sun not a fave either, although a brew, a bacon bap and a book on bombers broke the spell. Rougham Tower That’s enough consonance for today.

I wonder if perhaps it is ToolStation policy to call all customers “Mate”? I’ve just been severely multimated.

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MOT followed by a fresh run out to the Country Park. Should use this bike more.

Early doors MOT calls for scrambled eggs on toast and a decent coffee in the bikers’ cafe upstairs at Krazy Horse.

Awaiting the lady folk at Edmundo’s. It’s managed by one of my former pupils, of course. They pop up everywhere. More alarming when they’re wearing a white coat and stethoscope, especially when I’ve marked their slapdash work …

I have just received the Local Plan Timetable It is a masterpiece of jargon, gobbledygook and mock democratic “consultation”. The fact is that there are whole estates of big, expensive houses for sale. Other developments have stalled phase twos due to lack of buyers. .

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Friday is officially bike-fettling day. My skilled pal Adrian is coming round to tickle the reluctant 750/4 into life - in preparation for a weekend bimble. I should have been focusing on non-edible, metal carbs all along ..

The Morrison’s girl tells me I’m the first person ever to order the porridge. I must admit that I lingered over the trad fare. But resisted.

Where am I?Not a tractor in sight. Oh yes, The Smoke. Nephew fixing car. He’s a good lad.

Bumped into a fellow-traveller at the hospital, of all places. Identical W800. Same colour/same year. But very well-used: 48000 miles - heroic!

A sunny ride-out on the W800. Many more to follow, I hope. Coffee with like-minds too.

Car show at Rougham Tower.

Wrong kind of swan on the line. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The sun being almost over the yardarm, I feel that a small libation is in order.

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I was irrationally optimistic that I would be the only pax in Row 9. The plane soon filled to capacity. But at least departed on time.

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i-spy with Frank’s beady eye … A Cruz in Dad’s Roller, perhaps?