John Leyden🏴🇫🇷
@flyingscot1964.bsky.social
Retired Scot in beautiful Normandy, France/ex dentist, lawyer, regulator, auditor / cycling steel bikes/driving R129 - love old cars but 2 wheels are better/vizsla dad/unashamed lefty
Psst! Nae helmet! Oh my goodness!😁
December 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Psst! Nae helmet! Oh my goodness!😁
I wonder what the German for 'He's always given off a creepy vibe is?'
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I wonder what the German for 'He's always given off a creepy vibe is?'
Social media influencers are really the equivalent of the telephone sanitisers of Golgafrincham.
Lets build an ark.
Lets build an ark.
December 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Social media influencers are really the equivalent of the telephone sanitisers of Golgafrincham.
Lets build an ark.
Lets build an ark.
No queue at market. Everyone in good moods. Usual folk in the cafe, then off across country to see friends dance in renaissance gear at another local Christmas market. No traffic, though parking there was more busy.
Oh the stress! #lePerche
Oh the stress! #lePerche
December 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
No queue at market. Everyone in good moods. Usual folk in the cafe, then off across country to see friends dance in renaissance gear at another local Christmas market. No traffic, though parking there was more busy.
Oh the stress! #lePerche
Oh the stress! #lePerche
My guidance teacher (and also our GPs wife) had a bright yellow, new TR7 with the plaid seats in 1977.
She drove me to a uni meeting in it. Really nice car.
She drove me to a uni meeting in it. Really nice car.
December 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
My guidance teacher (and also our GPs wife) had a bright yellow, new TR7 with the plaid seats in 1977.
She drove me to a uni meeting in it. Really nice car.
She drove me to a uni meeting in it. Really nice car.
Lovely car (i drive it's daughter), but those bumpers!
December 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Lovely car (i drive it's daughter), but those bumpers!
One thing I really appreciate here is that folk aren't trying to kill each other in supermarkets in the run up to Christmas.
Busier, but cheery and good natured.
Busier, but cheery and good natured.
December 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
One thing I really appreciate here is that folk aren't trying to kill each other in supermarkets in the run up to Christmas.
Busier, but cheery and good natured.
Busier, but cheery and good natured.
It's nice to get waves, but why expect them? I don't get waves for not speeding, or stopping at red lights or any other time I'm obeying the law.
December 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It's nice to get waves, but why expect them? I don't get waves for not speeding, or stopping at red lights or any other time I'm obeying the law.
I had a Saab 900 Turbo that about 250 miles before it was due a service (every 6k iirc) would start the occasional misfire. Every time.
December 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I had a Saab 900 Turbo that about 250 miles before it was due a service (every 6k iirc) would start the occasional misfire. Every time.
If we could get sponsorship, a TdF team beckons.
December 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If we could get sponsorship, a TdF team beckons.
I don't get why these morons don't just let folk get on with their own lives.
December 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I don't get why these morons don't just let folk get on with their own lives.
Even Melania doesn't want to ride Trump but these guys are born to?
December 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Even Melania doesn't want to ride Trump but these guys are born to?
Indeed. But there are lots of instances of directors using insolvency as a 'business model".
Bail out leaving lots of debt, start again. The law needs to be tightened.
Bail out leaving lots of debt, start again. The law needs to be tightened.
December 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Indeed. But there are lots of instances of directors using insolvency as a 'business model".
Bail out leaving lots of debt, start again. The law needs to be tightened.
Bail out leaving lots of debt, start again. The law needs to be tightened.
Yes. Sorry, I was a lawyer, but it takes a bit of hoop-jumping. Should be much easier.
December 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Yes. Sorry, I was a lawyer, but it takes a bit of hoop-jumping. Should be much easier.
There has to be a way to take action against directors who hide behind limited liability, and if not the law should change, where ltd companies are set up simply to profiteer.
December 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
There has to be a way to take action against directors who hide behind limited liability, and if not the law should change, where ltd companies are set up simply to profiteer.
JYSK is another Scandy tipe furniture place. Right about LM.
December 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
JYSK is another Scandy tipe furniture place. Right about LM.