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    Quote Originally Posted by TheRealKW View Post
    for a shite bracelet, no thanks.
    I assume you like to show off your Rolex when in a local restaurant with your Chivas Regal 12 years filled in with Mekhong...

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    Santa Barbara Ca. has both the electric scooters and electric bikes. The bikes are much cooler and you can get all over town in just a few minutes. One of these would make you very mobile in Gothenburg. Same deal just drop them anywhere when you are done.

    My post-lockdown commute back to work-61589300_2297081640377537_4161936147204800512_n-jpg

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    Quote Originally Posted by Klondyke View Post
    You can get it exchanged in Thailand on the road (once you are back) for few hundred Baht, no breakage over 10 years...
    Whoa! Don't exchange the old strap, there is a good market for all things original Rolex.

    It looks like just a few pins that join the links need tapping out and replacing. In Thailand many of the small watch repair stalls can do it for about B50 per pin. Just stand over them and make sure you end up with the same number of links as you started with, even individual links have a market.
    Of course if you want to change the strap then go ahead and be sure to keep the original.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Klondyke View Post
    I assume you like to show off your Rolex when in a local restaurant with your Chivas Regal 12 years filled in with Mekhong...
    You assume incorrectly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
    Whoa! Don't exchange the old strap, there is a good market for all things original Rolex.
    It looks like just a few pins that join the links need tapping out and replacing.
    Sadly if you look at the second pic closely the pin is in place but the actual link has worn through... and there are a few more on their way.

    I guess 30 years of my wrist movements... plus whatever went before... has taken it's toll.

    Cue the gardener joke...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    the robbing Swiss b@stards want a stunning £1500 to replace the bracelet.
    Save yer cash and get a Seiko SARB 065 (known as the Cocktail Time), and put it on a Milanese mesh bracelet. Then invest in a lotto ticket and use your winnings to get a Rolex.


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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    Santa Barbara Ca. has both the electric scooters and electric bikes. The bikes are much cooler and you can get all over town in just a few minutes. One of these would make you very mobile in Gothenburg. Same deal just drop them anywhere when you are done.
    AO, you are very correct but it's just not for me. I quite like walking anyway.

    The system seems great however and once you've downloaded the app you can find the closest scooter by GPS, jump on it, and just dump it when you reach your destination. It costs pennies as well.

    I really don't know what's gone wrong in the UK... this just wouldn't work. I guess for one there would be no 4G coverage, but the scooters would be stolen, or if that wasn't possible just vandalised and dumped in the nearest canal to join the shopping trolleys. Especially up north!

    I think they tried a similar system with bicycles, in Leicester was it? Had to give up because the system was so abused.

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    ^^

    Happy... I don't have a good track record with lotto tickets...

    To be honest that Seiko is a bit 'dressy' for me.

    This is the one I've got my eye on... or very similar.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Sadly if you look at the second pic closely the pin is in place but the actual link has worn through... and there are a few more on their way.

    I guess 30 years of my wrist movements... plus whatever went before... has taken it's toll.

    Cue the gardener joke...
    On my phone today, small pics and I didn't notice until you pointed that out. Never seen that before. I have had mine 40 years and wore it every day until I put it back in its box a couple of years ago. I never noticed that kind of wear. Maybe you got some abrasive material in the links?

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    Shutree, it's a mystery. The pins will be genuine so I don't see why they should be particularly abrasive. The watch has been through the wars and I haven't taken particularly good care of it, but even so... it will now be retired with a leather strap for day to day stuff... dog walking and mild garden projects.

    My mind is now pretty well made up... unless there is a sudden and significant change of entry requirements to enter Thailand, I think I'll be overwintering in the UK... unless of course I can pick up some more work during the low season in Europe.

    At the moment I'm lucky enough to be doing a project that requires very little interaction with other people, so it's uninterrupted headphones on to Radio Bristol for most of the day. Yesterday the topic was loneliness, the discussion brought on by the surge in mental health cases the UK has experienced during the Covid lockdown. It got me thinking about my mum... my dad passed just a few years ago and she is now living quite an isolated life... her social life has been curtailed and my sisters don't visit very often at all. I am sure the right thing to do is stay with my mum for a while this winter... especially over the 'festive' season by which time it looks as though the UK may be in full blown lockdown again. I'll miss my daughter terribly of course, and vice versa I think... but she's doing OK so far and will bounce back fast.

    I've already promised her a UK summer holiday next year, hopefully including regular short Easyjet trips around Europe... with Greece a must after reading Lostandfound's thread. All Covid permitting, of course...

    Anyway... I figured that I deserve a present... I rarely buy meself anything these days, and besides I'll be saving a small fortune by not travelling back to Thailand at the moment.

    A very good friend of mine in the UK with contacts in the jewelry business sent me this pic yesterday...



    What clinched it... you see the date my old Airking stopped ticking after I took it off when the bracelet broke back in August? (#741)

    You see the date on the example Rolex I took from the net? (#758)

    And you see the date shown by this watch my mate found in the UK...

    I don't normally believe in stuff like that, but freaky hey... it must be fate!

    If anyone's buying a lotto ticket this week, make sure it has '16' in it!

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    It does sound like a plan and you dear old mom will appreciate it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    If anyone's buying a lotto ticket this week, make sure it has '16' in it!
    I did, I hope it will be better than the ticket pair my missus bought last month.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheRealKW View Post
    It does sound like a plan and you dear old mom will appreciate it
    Yeah... I think so. It's kind of taken the pressure off now I've decided that.

    And of course freed up some money to put to a different use.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    And of course freed up some money to put to a different use.
    I can suggest you another brand of red wine in box if you want..

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    Quote Originally Posted by lom View Post
    I did, I hope it will be better than the ticket pair my missus bought last month.
    Good luck Lom... my missus has done the same. I said to her to get a ticket with '16' in it... and she says she doesn't usually do the lotto. Yeah... right!

    An old friend from Norway arrived yesterday and he was supposed to be bringing me a bottle of malt... He waited until CPH because it's cheaper there but the duty free was closed down at the airport. This Covid is really starting to piss me off now.

    Anyway, I took him for a walk along the front after work last night.

    A fine old building.



    And another lovely old church... every building seems to be built around these solid outcrops of gneiss.



    And another... me mate reckons I'll be seeing the inside of this place before the project is finished up... we shall see.



    I'm wondering if these buildings are what they call 'Gothic' style... and if this comes from 'Gothenburg'?

    And some of the local wildlife.



    But find of the day... which has definitely made it into my Swedish top 5...

    'Apelsin' is orange, and these are just like Terry's Chocolate Orange, but maybe a bit tangier and even better!



    The weather has definitely taken a wintery turn and it was 3 degrees walking in to work today... in my short sleeved summer shirt.

    I came over in July and as usual didn't really pack for the winter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lom View Post
    I can suggest you another brand of red wine in box if you want..
    That would be great Lom... but I'm good for this week so no rush!

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    ^ I guess that is a no then..

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    ^ Well... more of a yes really.

    I usually do the wine box run on a Monday...

    That Gosa Monastrell is very nice, by the way!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    I'm wondering if these buildings are what they call 'Gothic' style... and if this comes from 'Gothenburg'?
    The style is gothic but I don't think it got its name from Goteborg.

    My post-lockdown commute back to work-sockerbruket_e14-jpg


    I wouldn't mind having this old lighthouse as my apartment, imagine what a view of the harbour entrance you get there..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    That Gosa Monastrell is very nice, by the way!
    It got better with time, eh?
    You've already got two to choose between so I won't suggest another one, not changing a winning horse and all that..

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    Here is a picture of the area from 1901 when the sugar mill and the porter brewery was running.
    The area got its name Klippan (The Cliff) from the cliff which the top sugar factory (with the turret light house) is built upon.

    My post-lockdown commute back to work-1200px-carnegienedre1901-jpg

    (The whole Klippan area is today cultural heritage marked)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post


    And another lovely old church... every building seems to be built around these solid outcrops of gneiss.


    "St. Birgitta's chapel, which is located on a small mountain ridge in the middle of the former Carnegie mill area, was built in 1856–57. It was designed by the architect A W Edelsvärd and the model was a chapel that David Carnegie had previously built at home in Scotland. The chapel is characterized by the neo-Gothic style and has relatively large pointed arched windows. The roof is covered with slate and the facade is made of red brick with details of yellow brick. The west gable is emphasized by a small slender bell tower and a rosette window."

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    ^ It's a dead ringer for the Catholic Church in Australia that I used to attend when I was growing up...

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    Quote Originally Posted by lom View Post
    The style is gothic but I don't think it got its name from Goteborg.
    Yeah... point taken. I keep forgetting about the weird spelling you guys use for everything over here.


    Quote Originally Posted by lom View Post
    I wouldn't mind having this old lighthouse as my apartment, imagine what a view of the harbour entrance you get there..
    Not much of a view at all Lom... the windows seem to be painted over?


    Anyway, I had a good day in the office today so rewarded meself with something else from my Swedish top 5... (after a bad day I cheer myself up with exactly the same!)

    Not bad all... would prefer it dryer and cloudier, but apart from that very OK. The price of cider and wine seems to be about half that of Norway as well. I could get used to this.



    Well, the way things are with Covid I'm gonna have to get used to it anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Well, the way things are with Covid I'm gonna have to get used to it anyway.
    That's the spirit! Have you now got another month out of them?

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