We can’t ever go back to the old things or try and get the “old kick” out of something or find things the way we remembered them.

We have them as we remembered them and they are fine and wonderful and we have to go on and have other things because the old things are nowhere except in our minds.

Charity sheep racing last weekend. It’s going to be the new big thing I tell you!

Winning Tickets

To An English friend In Africa

Be grateful for freedom
To see other dreams.
Bless your loneliness as much as you drank
Of your former companionships.
All that you are experiencing now
Will become moods of future joys
So bless it all.
Do not think your ways superior
To another’s
Do not venture to judge
But see things with fresh and open eyes
Do not condemn
But praise what you can
And when you can’t be silent.

Time is now a gift for you
A gift of freedom
To think and remember and understand
The ever perplexing past
And to re-create yourself anew
In order to transform time.

Live while you are alive.
Learn the ways of silence and wisdom
Learn to act, learn a new speech
Learn to be what you are in the seed of your spirit
Learn to free yourself from all things that have moulded you
And which limit your secret and undiscovered road.

Remember that all things which happen
To you are raw materials
Endlessly fertile

Endlessly yielding of thoughts that could change
Your life and go on doing for ever.

Never forget to pray and be thankful
For all the things good or bad on the rich road;
For everything is changeable
So long as you live while you are alive.

Fear not, but be full of light and love;
Fear not but be alert and receptive;
Fear not but act decisively when you should;
Fear not, but know when to stop;
Fear not for you are loved by me;

Ben Okri

Johnny on his big daft KTM, he really needs to get a boat.

Just a quick test to see if the blog by email function works.

..:::WHATTON:::.. : photos : 2009_05_10 (Bradley BBQ).

http://www.motomorphic.com/

Homemade Motorized Bike Pays Tribute to Motorcycles of Yesteryear

James Hough is a lawyer by profession but a gearhead at heart. He’s always tinkering with engines and building things from scratch. About a year ago, he combined the two passions to create the Houghmade Cycle Works 71, a motorized bicycle that pays homage to the racing motorcycles of the early 20th century.

“I had been looking for a project and saw online that someone had put an engine on an old Schwinn,” Hough says. “I was inspired by that and thought it would be a fun project, an outlet for my desire to build. I thought it would be fun to ride around the neighborhood and to run errands. The 100-plus mpg didn’t hurt.”

Off to Ireland next weekend on the moto bike. Got a nice route on back roads to get from Dublin to the village of Kesh in County Fermanagh.

Full write up now readable here.

Dub to Kesh

One of the bikes out of ZAMM and a GS.

Zen Bike