so how is everybody doing?

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Still out working.
Have had 3 days holiday (well days off) since day 1 of lockdown 1.

Animal welfare and food production so double whammy of Gotta be out there.
Still get really annoyed with everyone who wants to go for a walk along country lanes!! Need to get to farms and just frustrating.
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Not furloughed and still going here but had last week off which was my christmas break. GWS Jer that really sucks.
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I'm WFH, been at home since the first outbreak. Just managed to get out of Tenerife before they quarantined some hotels there so people at work have blamed me for bringing it back to the UK.

Bikes in the garage. It's a bit easier obeying the restrictions because of the weather. If it was summer it would be much harder...
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Still working here , agree with Ian bloody walkers trying to cut hedges on the roads every time walkers come along you got to wait until they’ve wandered past in thier own time 😡😡
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Still working and have been right the way through the past year. People still need their bird seed and pharmacies still need their drugs, so I'm out and about. It's great the schools are off as getting past Churston Grammar school in the morning is simple now. Still an awful lot of cars on the road later in the day - can't believe they're all going essential shopping
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A lot of people work in places which working from home wouldn't work hence drive.
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I was ok until today ..... Heading home along the ilminster bypass following a big transit at 50mph, we get to a double section and he accelerates into the outer lane and I follow him, at which point he stops accelerating, hesitates for a few moments and pulls in, at which point I see a speed camera van on the other side of the road looking in our direction ........ So there I am, doing about 61mph ......... I guess this will be the ultimate test as to whether my Berlingo van is registered as CDV or not (some of ours are, some are not!) x_x ~x(
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TLS-Moose wrote: Jan 25th, '21, 18:49So there I am, doing about 61mph ......... I guess this will be the ultimate test as to whether my Berlingo van is registered as CDV or not (some of ours are, some are not!)
Thought that was on the V5
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TLS-Moose wrote: Jan 25th, '21, 18:49 I was ok until today ..... Heading home along the ilminster bypass following a big transit at 50mph, we get to a double section and he accelerates into the outer lane and I follow him, at which point he stops accelerating, hesitates for a few moments and pulls in, at which point I see a speed camera van on the other side of the road looking in our direction ........ So there I am, doing about 61mph ......... I guess this will be the ultimate test as to whether my Berlingo van is registered as CDV or not (some of ours are, some are not!) x_x ~x(
I always thought berlingo/partner were Van's and van derived people carriers rather than car derived Van's.

Ie combo van derived, corsa van is car derived van.
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The original Berlingo wasn't CDV, the MK2 supposedly can be ..... "Meets the requirements of CDV" is the phrase they use, I believe (under 2000kg gvw, 800kg max payload, etc).
Can't look at the v5 as it's one of a couple hundred leased that year through Hitachi ......
The only time I've knowingly passed a camera van before, I've been on dual carriageways, and as it's limited to 70 (67, actually) that's not an issue. I've passed plenty of normal speed cameras at 60, but of course wouldn't have tripped them as they're set for the national limit, not odd lower ones.
It is what it is - first time in 25yrs if it does happen, so just gotta take it on the chin. Just daft that if it had more glass and four additional passengers on seats it would have been completely legal. I see there's a petition about to increase sub 3.5t vans to normal car limits ..... Too many fashionistas in their Transporters getting caught out, perhaps ....
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Meanwhile, back in the original thread question..... =))
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Not riding since before Christmas is giving me severe withdrawal symptoms. No amount of Rioja/Malbec/Nero D'Avola or farmhouse cider medicine can suffice to stop me foaming at the mouth :evil:
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beenn out in the garage sitting on the bus making varoom noises?
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TLS-Moose wrote: Jan 25th, '21, 18:49 I was ok until today ..... Heading home along the ilminster bypass following a big transit at 50mph, we get to a double section and he accelerates into the outer lane and I follow him, at which point he stops accelerating, hesitates for a few moments and pulls in, at which point I see a speed camera van on the other side of the road looking in our direction ........ So there I am, doing about 61mph ......... I guess this will be the ultimate test as to whether my Berlingo van is registered as CDV or not (some of ours are, some are not!) x_x ~x(

Mine is registered as a panel van , I thought it was only the ones with rear seats that are CDV ,
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If I lean off far enough with the Busa on the side stand and a chair beside it I can just about get my knee down - turning into a lockdown track god :mrgreen:
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