Martin

So i have just got off the phone with my bank. The lady was very helpful. She removed the pending from the money morrisions fuel had on my account for the fuel i did no have. BUT she has said as i used my PIN with the card in the fuel pump, Morrisons can still take the money upto 6 months.

They should give me a free DD3

Just seen the 2023 colours and Suzuki have pinched my idea. One of the new colours is Thunder grey with a deep red.

I know i wont be paying at the pump again, i will wait for a non card payment pump to become free. At our Morrisons station, the 2 pumps on the far left are card payment only pumps now. I will say, how many of us read the small signs on the fuel pumps. I dont know about you guys, but I'm watching what i am doing when messing with fuel and not reading the small printed signs.

It's now £100 @ Morrisons petrol stations. When it was the £1 pending you knew what it was for and made sure the money was in the account for the fuel. Now you have no choice in the matter and the £100 or all your money upto £100 goes into pending. It's not right. As i said above i have £200 pending for £32 of fuel

A little heads up to you guys. Be careful when using the card payment on the fuel pump when you get fuel. I did this yesterday and the pump played up. It did not give me any fuel the first time, but i now have £100 pending for fuel in my bank account for it. This is not a big problem as i have money in the account. What has pissed me off, is that it will now take a week to free the funds as its a long bank weekend. I don't think its right that they can freeze this amount of money as pending. As now i have £200 in total pending for £32 of fuel. As i only found out when i checked my bank account at our first stop for a coffee. When i spoke to the fuel station about this late in the day, they told me that even if you only have £40 in your account and have just £10 of fuel, the whole £40 will go and be pending leaving you £0 in your account. Just so you know this was at Morrisons. They said the system has only just changed for taking just £1 pending as it did before to the £100 pending. From now on the wife and I will only pay for fuel inside the station now. I wonder how many people have been put in the sh!t with this system. which i think is wrong.

It won't be long before there are Gen2 out there with Gen3 parts fitted. Like with the Gen1 ass end, fairings & forks swap for the Gen2 parts. Already seen a Gen2 with Gen3 end cans fitted.

Phone call between the 2 leaders today. "The Russian leader is also reported to have told Mr Niinisto there are no security threats to Finland, and that a change in Finland's foreign policy would be negative for bilateral relations." In my book whatever Russia (Putin) says, he mean the opposite. @mark3evo "Most of the Russians are Siberian based cattle fodder" That is only the conscripts.

Also did you know the Ukraine soldiers call the russian tanks a "Jack in the box". This is because the way the Russians store the ammunition inside the tanks that when it is hit it blows the top off the tank. Thats why you see all the photo of tanks without the tops on them.

ok BOT. One thing i've been keeping an eye on are Russian losses. These losses are what Ukraine say they have distroyed. I look at the numbers and take away 25% to get a more real world figer. But even doing that the losses are high and IMO are not worth the lives of the russian or ukraine soldiers. These are as of today, Day 80. I do not know what Ukraine have lost as they are keeping that quiet, But i think its around the 10 to 12,000 figer of soldiers killed so far.

Ok i'll be around for tea at 6

is that a pic of your last nights dinner plate.

IMO he is weak, because he does not know how wrong he is in the eyes of the world.

More bad news for the world on food. India is banning wheat exports as prices rise worldwide due to Russia's prolonged war on Ukraine. Even less food for the world. Mark your going to have to start eating meat soon

@mark3evo No, Because he need to start caring about his own people and not just use them as cannon fodder.

In this day an age, i can not understand why Putin can't be the bigger man and say "ok i fcuked up" and pull his troops back to russia. He has made so many statements saying the reasons for the WAR. But has never backed them up with proof. As for Finland and Sweden joining NATO. IF Turkey does block them, they will not be alone because of it, The UK & US will now both come to the aid of Norway, Sweden & Finland if Russia or anyone else attacts them. But in all truth, Finland has a better army than Ukraine, so Putin would be mad in the first place to attact them.

Turkey says it cannot support Sweden and Finland's plans to join NATO Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said it will not be possible for his country to support plans for Sweden and Finland to join NATO. Yesterday, Finland confirmed it will make a bid to join the military alliance, with Sweden expected to echo this decision in the coming days. Mr Erdogan claimed the Nordic countries are "home to many terrorist organisations", without providing any further details. Turkey has been a member of the North Atlantic Alliance since 1952, and has typically supported enlargement of the group. Its opposition to Finland and Sweden's bids could pose an issue for them, as new members need unanimous agreement to join. Mr Erdogan said: "We are following the developments regarding Sweden and Finland, but we don't hold positive views. "As Turkey, we don't want to repeat similar mistakes. Furthermore, Scandinavian countries are guesthouses for terrorist organisations. "They are even members of the parliament in some countries. It is not possible for us to be in favour." Earlier, NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said the Finns would be "warmly welcomed" and promised a "smooth and swift" accession process.

So the first russian soldier is in court for war crimes. The killing of a 62 year old man. I think IMO that he will be made an example of and get a very harsh sentence. Life imprisonment would be to soft. and the death penalty the easy way out for him. He should be given hard labour for life, to work on rebuilding Ukraine. Because if he gets life it will cost Ukraine money keeping him locked up, so putting him to hard work is what i would do.

Seeing some of the photo's & video's that have come out from Ukraine has made me feel very sad. No one should have to go though what is going on over there. The loss of life on both sides, just so one man can play the "big i am", Also what he is doing to his own people, just because there views are not the same as his. And my message to Putin,

All are Chinese copys

I used a colt 45 and an SLR when i was younger.

I think you have given more to China than me, with all them cheap parts from china your fitting to your engine

Years of hard work has taken its toll on my body, not the food i've been eating. Back on topic. They are now talking about China giving Russia help. This is getting closer to WW3 "IF" China starts giving arms to Russia. Nato are only giving Ukraine arms to protect itself. Russia are the invading force, so "IF" China does give Russia arms then how much more will China do to the world.

What about some of Marks veggy crap, same thing i thought