(03-02-2023, 10:50 AM)jayess64 Wrote:

(02-02-2023, 04:28 PM)Kenj Wrote: Some years ago, late 1980's, I gave up smoking and drinking so as to be able to take up photography where I setup an outside shed into a darkroom lab where I practiced B+W photography and later, a rudimentary colour processing system using tubes and a warm water bath. Temperature was extremely critical with colour printing. I spent a fair bit on my hobby so didn't weaken with the above-mentioned evils again. Cost me heaps but have loved the hobby ever since.

Up until a month ago after moving into a retirement village just before Christmas!!



PS didn't find any ciggies thank God! Couldn't afford them now!

Aw, c'mon Kenj. You don't need a darkroom now. With a digital camera (or just a mobile phone) and a laptop you can still do great things. That way you can reward yourself with the odd tipple or three when your piccies come out as you want them.

(04-02-2023, 09:26 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: It arrived in the driveway one afternoon, ready for me as I rode my Honda in after work. There had been ongoing discussion around my reluctance to get off the bike and into a car, my driving lessons experience with first my father then various other males having been less than enjoyable. So I had foolishly agreed to reattempt the process if and when a nice red E type was the vehicle offered...

But we couldn't afford that, so he who I adored found this candy apple red sporty thing and decided that it might be enough. I did give it a decent try, even managed a couple of road trips behind the wheel, with the top off. The Spitties, not mine. But driving a car was never the same as riding a road bike for me, and while I was happy to pilot the landrover along firebreaks while he wandered through the trees, or take over during long trips for a while, cars just never really were my thing.

So the Spitfire went on to a new owner, and our bank account felt the relief of no more regular mechanic accounts for 'computerised tuning' whatever that was. Mind you, keeping the old rover on the road wasn't a cheap exercise either.

Bikes were so much more economical to run.

(03-02-2023, 05:47 PM)Kenj Wrote: I think one ciggie to me would be like a drop of Scotch to an alcoholic. I was so addicted to the rotten things

(04-02-2023, 05:41 PM)R2x1 Wrote:

(04-02-2023, 09:26 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: It arrived in the driveway one afternoon, ready for me as I rode my Honda in after work. There had been ongoing discussion around my reluctance to get off the bike and into a car, my driving lessons experience with first my father then various other males having been less than enjoyable. So I had foolishly agreed to reattempt the process if and when a nice red E type was the vehicle offered...

But we couldn't afford that, so he who I adored found this candy apple red sporty thing and decided that it might be enough. I did give it a decent try, even managed a couple of road trips behind the wheel, with the top off. The Spitties, not mine. But driving a car was never the same as riding a road bike for me, and while I was happy to pilot the landrover along firebreaks while he wandered through the trees, or take over during long trips for a while, cars just never really were my thing.

So the Spitfire went on to a new owner, and our bank account felt the relief of no more regular mechanic accounts for 'computerised tuning' whatever that was. Mind you, keeping the old rover on the road wasn't a cheap exercise either.

Bikes were so much more economical to run.

Bikes were economical for me too, as long as they weren't spawned from poverty rock as those did not age at all gracefully. If any Triumph I owned did not leak oil I knew it had run out of the stuff. If the lights worked, that was an unfailing precursor to luminary catastrophe of the electrical kind. Batteries on bikes could be used as surface plates, they were the flattest things around. But, the tricks pulled by other road users were a bit of a decider as I aged and my flight or flee reflexes lost their zip. Cold and wet long trips went out of fashion if often conducted in the dark. Nortons educated me into being a bit helpless if road works appeared unexpectedly.

(04-02-2023, 04:56 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote:

(04-02-2023, 04:35 PM)piroska Wrote: I vape.

Really? And there was me thinking you were quite sensible... 

(06-02-2023, 08:31 AM)piroska Wrote:

(04-02-2023, 04:56 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Really? And there was me thinking you were quite sensible... 

Some people can quit just like that, others not. It's far better than cigarettes.