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[digitalbhumi]

Petrol and Diesel Price Today in India: Petrol and Diesel Rate Today in Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad and More Cities

Petrol and Diesel Price Today in India: Petrol and Diesel Rate Today in Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad and More Cities

Petrol and Diesel Rate Today in Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Lucknow: The prices of petrol and diesel continue to remain unchanged on Thursday (23 June) as OMCs kept prices steady for the thirty second day straight. Prices have remained undisturbed since Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a cut in excise duty on petrol by 8 per litre, and 6 rupees per litre on diesel earlier on…

[rudrjobdesk]

Petrol Diesel Price: पेट्रोल डीजल के बदल गए दाम ? जानिए यूपी बिहार से लेकर देश के राज्यों में क्या हैं कीमतें

Petrol Diesel Price: पेट्रोल डीजल के बदल गए दाम ? जानिए यूपी बिहार से लेकर देश के राज्यों में क्या हैं कीमतें

Photo:FILE Petrol Pump Highlights तेल कंपनियों ने आज भी कीमतों में कोई बदलाव नहीं किया है कीमतों में आखिरी बार बढ़ोतरी 6 अप्रैल, 2022 को की गई थी महंगे क्रूड की वजह से कंपनियों को काफी नुकसान उठाना पड़ रहा है Petrol Diesel Price:  राजस्थान, एमपी और यूपी सहित देश के विभिन्न राज्यों में पेट्रोल पंप पर तेल खत्म होने की खबरों ने लोगों को परेशान कर रखा है। हालांकि इंडियन आयल सहित दूसरी कंपनियों ने…

[iamthatwhich]

If you menstruate and are on a path of zero-waste, avoiding plastics, avoiding toxic chemicals, minimizing your footprint, or all of the above, then you’ve likely been faced with a frustrating conundrum: Menstruating is a natural part of your life, but there doesn’t seem to be too many ‘clean’, safe options to deal with it.

First off, let me say that I have been off and away from mainstream menstrual care for over 14 years, including birth control (wrecked my hormones), and storebought sanitary products (full of harmful chemicals like bleach, perfume and hormone-disrupting PFAs!). I have used silicone cups, discs, and cloth pads, and have a lengthy and thorough review of how they are used and what brands I prefer up on my Patreon.

However, for today I want to focus on one tried and true item: The pad.

Pads have been around for centuries- longer if you include their earlier predecessor, The Rag. However, in this time we’ve come pretty far to create a more secure, clean and manageable item— though the creation of the chemically-treated, plastic lined disposable pad has been a regrettable pit stop.

Cloth pads are great because they come in a wide range of colors and patterns (making them more appropriate for more kinds of menstruating people, including men and children) and can be reused for years if cared for properly. Over the past decade, they’ve gone from being available solely from independent sellers on sites like Etsy to  being sold alongside menstrual cups in the ‘alternative’ period care section of many stores. You can also specifically buy  pads made from organic or natural materials and avoid petrol-based textiles.

However, a downside here is that purchasing pads can still be expensive even if you aren’t buying direct from an indie seller. Now, it’s not that they aren’t worth every penny; having made 3 sets myself I fully understand the time, skill and materials that go into making them. But the fact of the matter is that under late-stage capitalism, paying the higher up-front cost for a set of reusable pads can be daunting, even if you know it’s cheaper in the long run (and it is). If you have access to fabric, a sewing machine, and sewing skills, you can half the price, and I’m going to show you  how. The cost of fabric can even be lowered by recycling old towels and clothing and I’ll talk about what you need in the tutorial! As a set of good cloth pads can last from 4-6 years or more, this is a great, frugal and eco-friendly option!

Additionally, I’m going to tell you how to wash and care for your pads since working with reusable pads is way different than just wrapping them up and throwing them in the trash.

For the step by step directions, photos and care tutorial, click here to read for free on my Patreon. All of my content is Patron-supported and Patrons also receive private and early-release posts! If you appreciate my work, feel free to visit my membership page and choose the tier that works for you.

Free tutorial here.

Tips + Thank yous Insta

[xylophonetangerine]

Petrol prices in Finland skyrocketed last week (it's literally 1.999€/L everywhere) due to major political strikes affecting various industries this week so I might drive to Sweden today to go refill my car, pick up a few things from Ikea and buy some cheap soft drinks and wine and smokeless tobacco.

[poem-today]

A poem by Erik Kennedy

Another Beautiful Day Indoors

The light lengthens on the carpet, a sure symptom of afternoon. I haven't left the house today because there's only one reason to do that, and I've already got goat cheese. A half moon is only a quarter of the moon. This sky should win trophies. I look at other people, their energy, and think they must have been raised by marmots. I know for the sake of social cohesion we must try to live togetherly, like Bronze Age women and men, but it's been a long week, and, anyway, petrol prices have gone up again.

Erik Kennedy

Listen to Erik Kennedy read his poem

This poem originally appeared in The Moth, No. 35, Winter 2018

More poems by Erik Kennedy are available on the Iamb poets site

[delicatuscii-wasbella102]

Ridiculous

The price of Diesel and Petrol in the UK and its down to the greed of the government because they tax it twice, once when they buy it then again at the pump which adds up to 70%!!  Today Petrol is at 1.87p per litre (US $9.80 a gallon approx)  (Euros 2.18 per litre) Today Diesel is at 1.97p per litre (US $9.88 a gallon approx)  (Euros 2.28 per litre) Its a bloody disgrace, but under this Conservative government it will be going in their bank account, this country is going backwards! 

[canadianabroadvery]

[scotianostra]

A Leith aeroplane.

The Edinburgh man who was flying his aeroplanes before the Wright Brothers. John Gibson was creating 'flying machines' from a workshop on Leith Walk while the fathers of modern flight were still wrangling with bureaucracy thousands of miles across the Atlantic.

It’s really quiet today and have no further anniversary posts, while scouring for more I came across these interesting couple of photos. 

Henri Farman built the first practical flying machine and tested it at Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, between November 1907 and January 1908. In America the Wright brothers managed to satisfy the U.S. Government that they had a practical flying machine during tests from July 27th to 30th 1909, but by then John Gibson had already tested numerous prototypes on Leith Links. On 9th October 1909 the Leith Observer reported on Gibson's 19th model as follows: 'Mr John Gibson, Caledonian Cycle Works, Leith Walk, has made a model aeroplane of one-fourth of the real size. It is on view in his motor garage in Manderston Street. The aeroplane stands on three wheels. The flying man sits in the centre of the plane, the great "wings" terminating in square "ailerons" on his right and left. At his feet is the 6-cylinder engine; at his right and at his left hand a lever. Attached to the frame of the plane, and only a few feet from his opened-out arms, are two propellers. Belts or ropes from the one engine shaft (one belt being a crossbelt) cause the two propellers to revolve, as desired, at the rate of 1000 revolutions per minute. The aviator with his foot raises or depresses the elevator, the slightly bent horizontal bit of sail in front of him, over which is the broad, pear-shaped keel. Behind him is the framework of a few feet, ending in the double rudder, by which the course is changed. The whole machine looks like a huge cross, of which the "upright" is short and the transverse beams (the wings) long, in front the elevator and keel, behind, the rudders, both of which work in unison. A petrol tank is fixed a few feet above the head of the aviator. The present is Mr Gibson's nineteenth flying machine, and he confesses to having had his disappointments with some of his earlier efforts. The machine is well worthy of inspection.' John Gibson finally opted for the Farman biplane, which a few months later he was advertising for sale.

Manufactured from Gibson’s own drawings, or built to customer specifications, the models did not come cheap, with prices starting at £450 - around £50,000 in today’s money.

Another newspaper report told how, during an "experimental flight" in Cramond, a biplane "of Leith construction" suffered a fault, causing the aircraft to "accidentally turn in a complete somersault".

After four years of being the talk of the Walk, the entrepreneur had ceased production of his aircraft shortly before the start of world war one, returning to the ‘day job’ of cycle manufacturing.

The workshop departed Leith in 1916, setting up in Dalry. The last mention of the Caledonian Cycle Works to appear in print was a notice of a ‘clearance sale’ shortly before the move, though it is unclear whether any plane parts remained.

[mitsubishifever]

Why Buy A Mitsubishi ASX Now Before It's Too Late

Mitsubishi Motors will unveil an all-new ASX sometime in the near future, but it will be nothing like the current Mitsubishi ASX for sale that has become one of the biggest success motoring stories over the past decade.

This is already casting some doubt as to whether the newcomer can replicate its predecessor’s sales performance, and even over the viability of importing it given the extent of change the model is undergoing.

As reported in late January during the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance’s announcement stating its intention to introduce 35 new electric vehicles to market by 2023, the long-awaited replacement for the 12-year-old small SUV will be derived from one of “Renault’s bestsellers”.

All bets point to that being the Renault Captur II that landed a few years ago, but the implications of this raise far more questions – and eyebrows – than answers for consumers.

As with the closely-related but British-built Nissan Juke II that launched in 2020 as well as the recently released Renault Arkana from South Korea, this means that the 2023 ASX is set to switch to the CMF-B (for Common Module Family – B-segment vehicles) modular platform by the French manufacturer rather than Mitsubishi.

This changes everything, beginning with packaging. Will it be big enough?

The current ASX is based on the GS platform that first saw the light of day in 2005, underpinning scores of C- and D-segment models from various manufacturers, with the most pertinently for Australians being Mitsubishi’s now-defunct Lancer small car, two generations of the Outlander mid-sized SUV (until the latest model arrived in late 2021) and today’s Eclipse Cross.

So what, you say? Well, the MY22 ASX’s length/ width/ height/ wheelbase measurements are 4365/ 1810/ 1640/ 2670mm, while the latest Captur II’s equivalents come in at 4227/ 1797/ 1567/ 2639mm. Or, in other words, the future ASX could be substantially smaller in every dimension and thus will shrink a segment size down, from the C SUV to the B SUV class.

The consequence of this is that, while we can’t say for sure as yet, the next-gen version may end up being significantly less spacious inside. Think going from a Mazda CX-30 to a CX-3… or Holden VF Commodore to ZB Commodore. This would have major ramifications for people seeking a family-friendly SUV. The fact that Australians buy the ASX because it offers one of the bigger interiors for the money cannot be underestimated. This has been a key unique selling proposition against key opponents for years, and one that the next ASX is on track to lose.

Then there’s the question of pricing and exchange rate issues. Will it still represent compelling value for money?

The ASX will most likely have to be imported from Europe (probably Spain, since the Captur II is sourced from Renault’s Valladolid facility) rather than from Japan like today’s version, so it’s best to forget about the rock-bottom pricing that has been the lynchpin of the existing ASX’s success in recent years. 

Why is the Mitsubishi currently so comparatively inexpensive? Considering it was globally unveiled in Japan as the third-generation RVR in December 2009, the current ASX has had years to amortise its initial investment, making it now very cheap to produce and market.

Of course, the next ASX’s relationship with the also-CMF-B-based Renault Arkana could lead to less-expensive South Korean sourcing – courtesy of Renault Samsung Motors, which also supplies us with the established Nissan X-Trail-derived Renault Koleos – to serve non-European markets like Australia and North America (where the ASX is sold as the Outlander Sport). But this is pure speculation, with no confirmation from the Alliance.

However, regardless of where it’s imported from, part of the anticipated extra expense is down to the ASX stepping up in technology and sophistication, adopting more modern safety and updated, advanced petrol powertrains. Mitsubishi isn’t saying, but the Alliance’s circa-84kW/180Nm 1.0-litre three-cylinder turbo or 118kW/270Nm 1.3-litre four-pot turbo engine (shared with Mercedes-Benz) are very strong possibilities, along with various electrification options further down the track.

Along with requiring better-quality and higher-octane fuel, these turbo powertrains use efficient, if complicated, dual-clutch transmissions, making them a far cry from simple and proven 110kW/197 2.0-litre and optional 123kW/222Nm 2.4-litre naturally-aspirated units offered today, sending torque to the front wheels via either a five-speed manual or continuously variable transmission (CVT). Besides driving and feeling very differently compared to today’s ASX, rising servicing and upkeep costs may also impact buyers’ wallets.

Ultimately, for all the advancements that come with it, embodying a much-more modern Renault (or Nissan) ultimately undermines the Mitsubishi-ness of the ASX.

Besides connecting with brand pillars like the Lancer, the current model adheres to a decades-long company policy of persisting with reliable, reputable and durable vehicles that proved their mettle over time, even if they ended up being outdated as a consequence. It happened with the Australian-made Sigma and Colt in the 1980s and Lancer and Magna in the 2000s. That’s how cash-strapped organisations survive, garnering legions of loyal Australian consumers along the way.

Maybe the best thing that Mitsubishi South Africa could do is change the name to manage consumer expectations. With the benefit of hindsight, perhaps Holden would have been wiser to do the same when it stuck on the wholly-unsuitable ‘Commodore’ badge on the imported 2018 Opel Insignia that replaced the locally-made icon.

Of course, the next ASX is still at least two years away from any local launch activity that might be being planned, and in that time, maybe Australians might tire of its age-related deficiencies against far-newer alternatives.

Finally, there’s the Eclipse Cross factor.

Mitsubishi may choose to concentrate on this last vestige of pre-Alliance engineering, with sharper pricing and minor updates to help boost this 2017-vintage small SUV crossover’s appeal to South Africans.

And why not? After all, using the same GS platform down to an identical 2670mm wheelbase, the Eclipse Cross was originally created as the ASX’s replacement back in the middle of last decade, before the latter’s unexpected popularity surge worldwide coupled with mounting company financial woes led to the decision to run old and new concurrently.

While managing fewer than half of the 14,764 sales accumulated by the far-older ASX last year, the Eclipse Cross’ 6132 registration tally represents a 36 per cent rise over 2020, aided by that year’s much-needed facelift.

Whatever Mitsubishi decides, and despite falling far behind the best in its segment, the ASX is now regarded as a pioneer, being one of the first small SUVs on the market when it arrived in mid-2010 to be pitched as an alternative to regular small car hatchbacks like the Toyota Corolla. Back then, the larger Toyota RAV4, Honda CR-V and Subaru Forester were classed as ‘compact SUVs’, with only oddball models like the Suzuki SX4 offering something truly urban-sized.

Of course, since then, copycats ranging from the Honda HR-V and Mazda CX-3 to the Hyundai Kona and MG ZS have proliferated, but with regular improvements and updates, the ASX rose from a sales outlier to segment champion heading into the 2020s.

Is there even hope that the Renault Captur-based replacement can achieve the same degree of success?

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Originally posted by https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-news/

[digitalbhumi]

Petrol and Diesel Price Today in India: Petrol and Diesel Rate Today in Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad and More Cities

Petrol and Diesel Price Today in India: Petrol and Diesel Rate Today in Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad and More Cities

Petrol and Diesel Rate Today in Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Lucknow: The prices of petrol and diesel continue to remain unchanged on Wednesday as OMCs kept prices steady for the thirty first day straight. Prices have remained undisturbed since Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a cut in excise duty on petrol by 8 per litre, and 6 rupees per litre on diesel earlier on 21 May…

[rudrjobdesk]

Petrol-Diesel Price: हवाई जहाज का पेट्रोल महंगा, जानिए क्या दिल्ली लखनऊ पटना में बदले कार स्कूटर के तेल के दाम

Petrol-Diesel Price: हवाई जहाज का पेट्रोल महंगा, जानिए क्या दिल्ली लखनऊ पटना में बदले कार स्कूटर के तेल के दाम

Photo:FILE petrol diesel price Highlights तेल कंपनियों ने आज भी कीमतों में कोई बदलाव नहीं किया है कीमतों में आखिरी बार बढ़ोतरी 6 अप्रैल, 2022 को की गई थी महंगे क्रूड की वजह से कंपनियों को काफी नुकसान उठाना पड़ रहा है Petrol-Diesel Price: इंटरनेशनल मार्केट में लगातार बढ़ रही तेल की कीमतों का असर आज हवाई जहाज के ईंधन यानि एटीएफ की कीमतों पर पड़ा है। जेट फ्यूल के दाम आज 16 प्रतिशत बढ़कर अब तक के…

[badlypackedtraveller]

Sixty is the new sixteen.

A day out in Sarajevo – after a poor breakfast we wander back into the centre of town then go our separate ways to explore the city. This is a city whose past, both recent (1990s) and historic (13th century) has been one of bloody violence.

First stop the War Childhood Museum,[1] a collection of personal items and children’s memories of the siege of the city for 1400+ days in the mid-1990s. Housed adjacent to a kindergarten and playpark added to feel of this very moving exhibition. Death came to nearly every family and the little keepsakes became such treasures: a swing, an embroidered duvet, photos, comic books, shoe boxes filled with toys.

While documenting his own experiences in his book ‘War Childhood: Sarajevo 1992 – 1995,’ Jasminko Halilović, Founder and now Managing Director of the War Childhood Museum, met hundreds of participants and heard their stories and testimonies. Many of participants described or showed their war memories to me: personal items, photographs, diaries, letters, drawings and other documents. Twenty years after the war, a large number of these were lost during relocation, accidentally thrown away or permanently damaged.

The process of creating the Museum started in May 2015. Sympathetically, housed adjacent to a kindergarten and children’s’ play park the collection already contains hundreds of items and documents of those who played no role in the start of the war, yet still suffered multiple consequences. Today the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo is the world’s largest archive dedicated to the experience of growing up during the war.

In the main city centre park and elsewhere in the city war graves take their place amongst the basket ball sized boulders scattered about, each on marking the grave of a child. Statues of heroes of the peace brokering negotiations line the park, including one of Paddy Ashdown.

Next to the Museum of Crimes Against Humanity & Genocide, which gave an adult perspective to the same story. I found myself uncomfortably inured to this having seen Dachau, Auschwitz and endless action movies and war films so I didn’t stay long. It was all a bit voyeuristic.

Back out into the sunshine I wander through the Turkish quarter – stopping for some great food at Bosna[2] - to the Town Hall. This building, still and administrative HQ, which once held a massive library, sadly bombed and burnt out, now hosts contemporary art exhibitions and an excellent and informative exhibition about the work of the International Court Tribunal for Yugoslavia. The ICTY investigated and took witness statements before the Court moved to The Hague for the prosecution of war crimes. As I am leaving a class of primary school age children are arriving to rush around all the gory pictures and exhibits.

Heading back to the hotel I pass the scene of the assassination of Kaiser Franz Ferdinand and Queen Sofia that heralded the start of WW1, now marked with a few dusty words and dates chipped into a dirty wall. One historical landmarked superseded by another generation’s more recent, more raw memories.

In the evening we head to the Sarajevo Brewery for beer, bland beer, bland MOR music and a very scary taxi ride. Our driver pays scant attention to the road until she has found the exact track she wants to serenade us with on her phone. People still smoke in bars (and taxis) here and the air stinks. Products of all the cosmetic clinics that pepper the city are in evidence: perfect teeth, fat lips, unfeasible boobs, wide eyes. Sixty is the new sixteen. Again. Predatory groups of women outnumber British bikers so we take our waiters advice and leave before the dancing starts.

After days of tough riding into the trip, as is usual, I start to feel conflicted as to what we are doing. Somewhat homesick I question the luxury of travel, especially so at a time where petrol prices are surging dramatically. It is just tiredness and still building up stamina for the road ahead.

[1] www.warchildhood.org

[2] Bravadziluk br 11, Stari Grad 71000 Sarajevo. T: 033538426

[jayne-hecate-writer]

Motorcycles and Lego... again

Today I took my motorbike out of the garage and washed the dust and cobwebs from the machine for the first time this year.

Once she was clean, I applied a coat of wax and waited for it to dry before I buffed the paintwork until it gleamed in the sun to a level that was frankly disgusting. I used colour restorer on the fairing inner to give it back a nice deep gloss black and even cleaned the foot pegs. When I was finished, she barely looked like a nineteen year old, soon to be classic motorcycle. I don't know what has happened to the time, but it hardly feels like any time has passed since I bought my bike and started modifying her to fit my damaged frame. Now she is a nineteen year old relic of the petrol age, an age that is all too easily coming to an end for people in my financial bracket. The chances of my affording a new electric motorcycle are on the never happening side of slim and to be honest, despite my knowing that internal combustion engines are filthy, smelly things, I am rather fond of this one in particular. As I type this, petrol is rapidly rising in price, to almost two pounds per litre and I am conflicted. I want to ride my bike, but fuel is expensive. Yet, environmentally, can I justify using petrol as a resource to burn just for fun? The human addiction to hydrocarbons has created a cruel and unfair world, with the disparity in wealth and the political power of some, far outstripping the majority of every one else. So alas, I put my motorcycle away and retired to my office and my Lego...

Lego Technic motorcycles had developed over the last few years from basic motocrossers with odd engine choices, to sports bike that are carefully designed rip offs of real world machines. I started with Lego again following an accident at work that left me a damaged shoulder and back. To make up for not being able to ride my bike, my wonderful wife purchased the Lego set 42007 for me to build. This was a strange motocrosser style with a transverse v-Twin engine, in a similar vein to the old Honda CX500. The exhaust and the drive chain were on the same side and the tyres were a pair of cute knobbly things that were the same size, front and rear. I built this model up and was entertained for a couple of hours, until I took it all apart again and built the B-model variant, a strange moto-speedway bike that did have the right sort of engine.

The Lego bug bit hard and I quickly found myself on line, buying up sets 8291 – the green motocrosser and 9392 – the quad bike. All of these machines were roughly the same scale and came with the usual Lego strangeness, such as odd engine choices or funny axles. The green motocrosser came with a flat twin engine, reminiscent of the BMW boxer twin (or Dnepr or Ural engines from the former Soviet Union for you motorcycle nerds), which seemed somewhat out of place on a what was supposed to be a small lightweight crosser. As you can imagine, my being a motorcycle nerd had no impact on my Lego whatsoever and I quickly set about building the bikes with single or parallel twin engines to make them look more authentic, somewhat like the KTM that I imagine the new of those sets was meant to look like.

The more I delved in to the world of Lego motorcycles, the more intrigued I became, right up until I found set number 8051 (of which I have currently found an unopened box set on Amazon, for £405! Fuck me...), entitled simply 'motorcycle'. Now I can well imagine that the designer of this set might have got themselves into a little bit of trouble because if you look closely at this machine, you can see that it is pretty much a modern Triumph Street triple. Maybe Lego and Triumph worked together to produce the set, but if that was the case, the box would be branded with the Triumph mark and as far as I can tell, this is not the case.

The bike is very pretty and probably one of, if not the best looking motorcycle that Lego has ever released, including the Creator Harley set that was just a Lego model of the usual Harley Pig Iron clunker from a hundred years ago! (Yes, that was a mean dig at Harley, one of the most well known brands of motorcycle in the world.) Mind you, the 8051 B-model is a clone of a Harley and it actually looks quite good, if you ignore the double crank shaft needed to make the 70 degree v-twin engine work right. Once built up, the Street triple A-model looks mean, with the bug eye lights poking out from under the front fairing. The clever use of angled lift arms gives the engine to look of the original and by using long con-rods, the engine is suitably tall and works very well. There is no gear box, but the drive chain does run inside the swingarm and the suspension works very well. In all, this is one hell of a display piece and with the casual changes of a couple of bits, you have the factory Streetfighter look of the original bike.

There were a couple of other Lego motorcycles that came after all of these and they were pretty ordinary. A blue coloured one had an engine layout that was remarkably similar in design to the fabled Honda VFR and the fairing that Lego built around it looked like it had come from a track bike, it did look cool, but there was something not quite right. It was easy to build and it looked OK when done, but it did not come close to the Street triple in terms of realism or design. Things got strange when Lego released a special 40th anniversary of Technic, BMW R 1200 GS Adventure model.

This model came in black and blue and generally had the shapes and designs that called back to the original bike and the front suspension was absolute genius, utilising a pair of headstock mounted swing arms to make the front end look like the telelever of the BMW bike. The engine however looked pants, with the narrow Lego flat twin made to look like the colossal BMW unit by building it outwards with a couple of special pieces. The singled sided gear driven swingarm was remarkably rigid and transferred motive power to the little piston engine beautifully, but suspension had to be limited, maybe to stop the universal joint used on the swing arm pivot from bending beyond a usable angle. The pannier boxes looked great and the asymmetrical light clusters was fairly authentic. The big knobbly tyres from the 42007 motocrosser fitted perfectly into this model and the whole bike was only a little larger than the Street Triple, well within the scale of the bikes themselves. Parked together, these bikes looked amazing, but the original 8051 was still the prettier bike.

The quad bike has been a staple of Lego Technic for several years now and it too has had various iterations over the years. I purchased the 2013version, but the previous model had a couple of specialist pieces that would have made the model less versatile. My 9392 version came with independent front suspension and a chain driven, solid rear axle mounted on a swinging arm. It was a lovely little model, but it just looked incomplete, having no rear lights or exhaust for the little single thumper. The obvious solution is as always to take these base models and just improve them, but after a while it starts to become a case of asking the question of how much value does the set have? Given the price of the set at the time, it was a great little kit and it looked great on my display shelf... Until the bug bit hard and I dismantled ever set I had and turned them into the many and various MOCs that I still play with to this day as a nearly fifty year old woman with creaky joints and fading eyesight!

Recently Lego released a new Quad-a-like set, 42139 All-Terrain Vehicle. This is a six wheeled forestry vehicle and proves yet again that Lego hate trees when the cargo deck comes complete with a chainsaw and some chopped up logs.

They are not being subtle about these things. Over the years, Technic sets have included multi-wheeled logging machines, log loaders, log haulers and now now this little horror of tree murdering splendour. The colours chosen for this model are a rather bland orange, white and black, but again with a little fiddling around in the parts box, you can bash together the kit with far prettier parts. For my version I used lime green, dark green, red and black, just try and make the thing look more fun. The suspension on the bike is fairly ordinary, being a rocking beam that allows the wheels to move up and down, but does not actually provide any shock absorption. The cargo bed is hand activated and the little front winch has a clever ratchet mechanism on it to make it unwind easily, but strong enough to pull a heavy load. The model is very dense in structure and even comes complete with a beautiful and clever little gear box, changing the speed of the flat twin piston engine as it moves along the carpet. There is not a lot to dislike with this model, but at the end of the build phase, I was still left with the slightly unfinished looking parts that was only remedied by dipping into my parts bin. Also, the wheels that this set came with a lovely, but to my mind they just do not work on this model. It needed big balloon tyres and I had just the set in mind, those from set number 8446 – Crane Truck. This was a strange Sci-fi looking six wheeled truck that had a crane on the back and four steering front wheels. The wheels from this model looked perfect on the All-Terrain Vehicle from the tree murdering division of Lego.

So why am I talking about all of this nonsense? Recently Lego unveiled a Technic motorcycle set that is by all reports astounding, the price alone is enough to put off all but the most ardent of Lego fans. The new Lego set is a model of the beautiful looking BMW M1000RR, itself an incredible bike, being a one litre sports bike of immense lineage. The power and speed figures are frightening to the average road rider, but a track speed of around two hundred miles per hour is promised, while producing one hundred and fifty six KW of power (212BHP for us old farts). I can well imagine that with my sort of bumbling throttle hand, this bike would snap my head off of my neck. But I am not talking about the real thing, I am talking about the Lego version and to be fair it is a pretty model, but for me, it is going to stay just that. I think the chances of me splashing out nearly £200 for a Lego motorbike (when I have a real motorbike in the garage that could easily drink £200 worth of fuel in a day with current prices!), are pretty slim. I am sure that the engine and gear box it comes with are excellent. I am sure that the specialist wheels it comes with and the cool looking tyres are very good. But they are bigger than the ones I have on my Lego models and frankly, after the disappointment of the Lego version of the beautiful Ducati Panigale V4R, I am not sure that I want to be burned like that again.

The Ducati was a lovely bike to dream of in my early biking life. The 916 was a vision of Italian beauty in two wheeled form, especially in the deep red that Ducati are famous for. Films like the Matrix which also happened to use these bikes no doubt helped the bike achieve this legendary status and loads of Streetfighter builders in the late 90s early 00s would source copies of the 916 tail piece for their own creations because it was so glorious. So when Lego announced that they were going to release a branded Ducati set, I was very excited. When the set came out, it was just over fifty pounds and I spent the money, knowing that this was an awful lot for a Lego motorcycle. When the set came, the box was very pretty, the photos of the real motorcycle on the back of the box were beautiful and despite jokes about Italian engineering that seem prevalent in the motoring world, Ducati really do know how to bolt a bike together in a way that just exudes a feral beauty. The Lego set came with a two speed gear box, working from a gear lever in the correct place. The engine was a small V4, located beneath the hump that should be a fuel tank and the wheels came with a wide rear tyre and disk rotors. However the screen on the front was abysmal and supplied paddock stand was so badly designed that the rear wheel does not fit into it. Once the wheel has been squeezed in, the bike promptly falls over. The front forks are an inverted design with gold uppers and grey lowers. There are no external springs visible and they feel firm enough to make the bike a bit more fun. But, as you can no doubt feel, there is a big but coming here. The whole front end of the bike looks unfinished and awful. There are no brake callipers, no front guard, no hand controls and the bar ends look uglier than a hill-billy cross-bred goat! The disappointment I felt as time went on resulted in the bike being stripped down and the parts being put into my general Lego sets. Fifty quid poorer and a little disappointed, I went back to building trucks.

However, as is always the way with these things, a little thought and reflection leads to minor modifications and improvements. There is little if anything I can do about the lack of front guard on the Panigale V4R and I have no idea how I can attach front brake callipers. The front screen is beyond ugly and I have tried several different ways of trying to improve it, but nothing comes close to my mind. So that leaves me with the handle bar and here I was able to add tiny switch gear, grips and even tiny silver bar weights. The result is that the bike still looks unfinished, but at least the handlebar is prettier. The addition of six tiny pieces was all it took to make the improvements to the bar. Sadly, I don't think that we will see another Ducati in the Technic range again and this is probably for the best. Some things are just too beautiful to build in Lego and that includes the Ducati and before you even think of suggesting it, my precious Suzuki.

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Day 29 I'm going on a flamingo hunt, I'm gonna catch a big one!

Today's plan was slightly altered as Rosie woke up feeling unwell, potentially an issue of being too cold at Sagres yesterday and/or a continuing battle to get sleep because of all the partying at Praia da Rocha. I am so relieved Eva (Upwork) found me a place in the middle of Praia da Rocha, Portimão Marina and Portimão, and it's quiet.

After some quick research about what might be my options I headed off to see if I'd feel safe on my own on the Ludo Trail at Rio Formosa Natural Park, Faro. I was going to go via Igreja de São de Matos (a church with amazing tiles, apparently) however after I thought I was about to have a misstep with google maps I pulled over to get directions to my second stop instead, feeling the need to breathe over a decent latte, The Showroom Coffeehouse. And that's what it was, a little coffee shop inside a very plush kitchen showroom. The bathroom even had proper towels to dry your hands and Molten Brown soap and hand cream! I add this as mostIy the public toilets are pretty horrid! I didn't really care where I was, the coffee was great and so was the homemade cinnamon scroll, at Australia prices.

Ok, ditch the church and head to the natural park, but google maps (avoid tolls) took me on the same route that I was uncertain about. I considered that google may have got it right as parts of the major toll road might not attract tolls (but this wasn't the case, and the problem was I hadn't asked for the toll tag to be turned on, now I'm incurring a fine, damn it).

After missing the location for the Trail, finding it, peeing in the bushes, noticing others were on the trail, I more confidently headed off. Eyes peeled for a flamingo. There were loads of crabs, a few guys shellfishing, birds (big and little), but no damn flamingos. Early on I asked a young British couple if they had seen flamingos (they only wandered if there might be flamingos, but they said they hadn't seen any, but plenty of storks). At the end I asked two older dudes with big cameras if they'd seen any flamingos and there answer was the same.

Despite my disappointment it was a pleasant and unusual 90+ minute walk. The natural park is surrounded by beaches, golf courses and under the Faro Airport flight path! If I was not alone I would have taken another track I saw, but it was deserted.

At this point I'm getting quite hungry and I google what might be opened on a Monday after 2pm. I head to Esther's recommended Rei do Churrasco in Quarteira for grilled food with high expectations. Finding out the fish wasn't fresh I ordered the 1/2 chicken and chips!! Yes, you read correctly. It was ok, could have been better with a Super Boch beer, but by this time I was quite over driving (my shoulder and hips were giving me grief). Everyone here loves the churrasqueira.

I then headed to Boliqueime (another recommendation of Esther's, a quaint village) and despite putting exactly that into google maps twice, I ended up first time in the middle of nowhere and second time up some hill near houses! I stumbled across a church, but the remainder of the village seemed pretty quiet (it was siesta time after all). I then decided to head back via petrol to return the car and breathe a little easier for the next few days until I collect another car!

On the trail I was thinking about whether in hindsight I would change where I had stayed, or for how long. I may miss Old Town Faro (I saw bits of the waterfront when I ended up there on the train by mistake), and I'll definitely miss Tavira, further towards the Spanish border (which I hadn't heard about prior, but from what I've read it seems like a great place to visit).

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