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RICHARD FORD
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🇪🇺International vinyl DJ🎙️ with camper van ☀️🚐💨 motorbike and pushbike! Sometimes mildly amusing. Records/books collector. European: France/Spain. Keen DIY gardener..👨🏼‍🌾🌳 /🇫🇷/🇪🇸/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿/🇮🇪/🇳🇱/🇳🇴/🇩🇰/🇨🇦 #Resister 🇺🇸 #BlueCrew #FBPE #IFB #MotoSky 💙📎🏍️🚐🌈🌹🗽🪴♻️💚 No DMs pls …🛳️🌊
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 6h
Apparently, it’s Thursday.

Not sure how that happened…

It’s also a granddaughter’s birthday (school!)
&
a daughter’s wedding anniversary (aunt, work!)

Life carries on, but
tick-tock…

Tempus fugit!

This time lark is a bit concerning sometimes.

Good job I’m not on the sauce like Captain Haddock!
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 1d
I’ve been cutting up foam for camper mattress infill today.

The electric carving knife usually saved for Sunday afternoon came in very handy!

Those blocks now need covers in excess curtain material, and it’ll be good to go.

Total cost: zero, as all ‘kept in stock’!

#BargainLovingBrits

😎🤚 🚐…
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 1d
🧲

Wednesday.

Let’s go!

Have a great one!

😃🤚
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 1d
The recent full moon has a lot to answer for…

That, and the cheese, of course…

🎃 💤
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 2d
Insulate the loft at number one…
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Home heating energy savings tips #ClimateAction

Full video here ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky7Y...

PL RP🩷💚💙

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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 2d
It’s early October and likely to fall to 7 degrees tonight around here.

That’s not exactly Arctic but I’m feeling it.

On the Costa Blanca it’ll remain around 20C even at 4 in the morning.

Just saying…
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 2d
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 2d
In order to get the bike into the 5.4m camper, I had to use lateral thinking.

On site, we have a good annex with garage, so the van reverts to a more sensible space.

Roll on winter near the Med; we’re already starting to feel the cold!

Also planned is UK camping, but that’ll be when warmer!

🚐…🏍️
Have mattress will travel. Motorcycle shoehorned into camper van.
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 3d
Monday, Monday.
You have to
put up with it just because it follows Sunday.
The weather’s not great here, but could be worse, so it’s a meh start to the week.
Injection of positivity required, it’ll be fine.
Perhaps something motorbike-y beckons.
That’d do it.
Lighten the load; remove luggage!
🏍️ 😃 👍🏻
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Joules💖🇺🇦 @123joules.bsky.social · 3d
Can’t believe it’s Sunday night already 🙄😳
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 4d
Sort of chilling but still doing something useful…

Moving forward but not going too far…

Not too much exertion as after all, it is Sunday!

That nasty rain and gales have gone, so something outside is doable.

After coffee, obviously.

No real hurry.

Enjoy your day, it’s there to enjoy!

😉🤚
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 4d
16 days or so until
I’m on the road again.

The initial camper build has proven itself, and highlighted a few adjustments required.

Like the microwave’s difficult to access when the table is up, which it usually is!

Storage is the big issue, as there’s too much stuff.

Plus, I need the motorbike!
We could do with a bigger camper says a couple with too much camping gear
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 4d
Attention U.S. citizens! Starting October 12, the European Union is rolling out a new automated Entry/Exit System (EES). U.S. citizens traveling to most European countries should expect new automated border checks and to have their biodata digitally collected upon arrival and departure.
Us and them…
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 4d
Never say never.
But I anticipate being in Benidorm anyway, so could be worse..!
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 4d
40 years + since Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and still worrying about bits dropping off… 😳
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 4d
I’m looking for a far away non vaporising death, but you never know…
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 4d
The Conservatives will pledge to create a new "Removals Force", modelled on US immigration enforcement, which would be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year as part of plans to detain and deport illegal immigrants.

The force would be expected to “integrate closely” with the police.
(ITV News)
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 4d
I know a black cat.

Name’s Trevor.

🤔

Seems friendly…
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 4d
🐈‍⬛
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 4d
“Be inside before the fallout arrives. After a detonation, you will have 10 minutes or more to find an adequate shelter before fallout arrives. If a multi-story building or a basement can be safely reached within a few minutes of the explosion, go there immediately. The safest building is concrete”
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 4d
October.

Almost forgot.

Pumpkins.

🎃 🎃

Orange.

Rain.

Colder.

Skellingtons.

Ghouls.

Bats.

Spiders’ webs.

Black.

Dark.

Scary.

Ish.

Trick or treat?

Who started that?

Won’t be long.

What?

Christmas!

🎄

Surely not!

New Year’s Eve.

Another year.

Scary.

Again.

It all is…

😳
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 5d
That’s the ‘secret’, I suppose…
As much cheese and wine as you like, as long as you burn it off! 😎
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 5d
Very good to meet up with @intruder1500stevie.bsky.social
whilst traversing France.

It’s a very small world and we’re all interconnected in several ways perhaps not always realised.

Try giving Stevie a follow if you aren’t already as he’s an exceptionally nice chap!

😃🤚🏍️
Stevie P (@intruder1500stevie.bsky.social)
Architect, Surveyor, Engineer, Biker, Garden creator. From South Devon to Deux Sevres in France. 1953 vintage.
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 5d
Almost can’t believe that I’ve lost a couple of pounds following a fortnight of perceived over-indulgence!

Mind you, driving hundreds (nay, thousands) of kilometres on a diet of Spanish oranges and Special K bars must have an influence!

Blood pressure is good too! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Have a very good weekend!
😃🤚
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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · 5d
Back to life.
Back to reality.

Returned to Ford Hall after days on the road, and likely to be here for 2/3 weeks before the next adventure.

The weather in Spain bears no resemblance to today in Northern France, where rain is expected later.

And strong winds obvs.

Still, always nice to be home! 🏡
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