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Not sure if it's just me but I'm not able to create an event at the moment. For the time being I'll put this week's race details here. FG League race #4 Trial Mountain Reverse Gr.3 10 laps x2 Fuel x 2 Tyres Any tyres No pitting necessary this week.

Yeah but I didn't feel very young or youthful the day after 😭

Was that an attempt to explain you felt really young and youthful in there??

I was surprised that I managed to get a full 11 laps out of a single set of Softs, although as @slamminbones can attest, it was getting very uncertain going into corners at the end 😅 I shall be there this week!

1. The story is all over the place, letting Hassan go in beyond ridiculous for example. 2. The boss battle with the tank. Was the tank supposed to stay in one place? Glitch or by design? 3. Armour wearing enemies is tedious, COD should not generally be a bullet sponge game. 4. Some of the missions could have been done better but overall I've actually quite enjoyed it.

Ta, I'll try that if I can be bothered to do another playthrough 😄

Never too old! There is a guy up our allotment who is 96! There is another who is partially blind too! The spikey flower head is actually an allium, it was on it's way out when that photo was taken but if you google alliums pretty much everything that will come up will look more akin to what it is in bloom 🙂 They are quite pretty and certainly grab some attention. Veg tends to be either given to us or we keep things back from last year, i.e. all our potato's that we grow next year will be whatever we have left over this year just put in the ground 🙂 As for flowers, the dahlia's are my go to and you tend to pick them up as tubers or small plants. Again if they grow well and I'm particularly fond when the tuber's get over a certain size you break them up when you store them away for next year and essentially you get multiple plants of the same sort. If I was to buy seeds it often varies, I have had success with a couple of stores on ebay, suttons is quite good as well or dt browns 🙂 But otherwise most of my stuff tends to come from a little garden centre I found a few years back that I'm quite fond of. Aggh don't test me 😄 Nothing of mine ever looks pretty (unless I just take a cutting of a single flower head 😄 ) Gardening is a patience thing most definately, it's why people tend to just buy flowers each year and throw them in their flower beds but at home we have tried to build up a garden using plants and flowers that come back again each year. We have a couple of camellia's which are lovely (flowering season is a bit short though). The other things is the type of soil you mentioned earlier, like certain flowers don't like acidic or alkiline soils, at home we have clay soil which is horrible to work with as it means your plants sit in water when you get crap weather and it dries out in the summer so you need to consider that (or as we are, you spend time each year working in compost and the such to improve it). Gardenings just a vast subject 😄 I have considered doing a course a couple of times, it would be one of those things that if I could pick any career and money wasn't an issue I would likely be a gardner I think.

Haha you got away lightly! The boss fight was a pain when it works - getting shot to shit by a tank in front and then spawning enemies behind whist you're desperately running round trying to locate orange toolboxes with conveniently placed C4 in them. I think it took 4 hits and 4 enemy waves including armoured ones plus you had ensure the C4 was down and not only hope the tank went over it but time the detonation right. the buildings don't provide much cover either.

Yeah ffs I thought it was too easy. My tank was stuck in one place on the outer perimeter 😂 I forgot about the briefcase mission and yeah having to craft stuff again at the end was not a fun way to close it out...

Just put it on the lowest difficulty setting - you can literally takedown the 3 enemies in the alley with melee and not die the AI is that bad. There are ways to do it on veteran but it requires lots of research, luck and patience plus collecting crucial crafting items.

Not finished the campaign yet (about to do Chicago), but on the whole I've enjoyed it, barring one or two bits in particular. had a look at acheivements and I'm not entirely sure how you're mean to finish Alone without firing a gun. Some bits look impossible to get past without alerting enemies.

Modern Warfare II Campaign (2022)

It was amazing, plus the support act was the ska band I went to see in Brixton recently. Place was chock full of skinheads about your age and yesterday my legs were still sore 🙂

Was it a good gig Phil?

Fingers crossed the FAL is in the multiplayer. From the looks of it, they couldn't get licenses to use real-world names of most firearms.

6/10 on IGN Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Single-Player Review - IGN WWW.IGN.COM Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s campaign is a lackluster follow-up to its refined predecessor, saved by its best-in-class shooting.

You can also just select the individual missions in the campaign menu along with the difficulty which is handy for filling in any leftover achievements without having to go through the whole game again.

Maybe we could have a few Garden challengers , the basket I did was in a challenge on a facebook group I’m in. Ive not been in it long, but from looking around, they tried to grow carrots in pipes lol, strange but seem to turn out ok. Might give it ago next year. Hardest part for me in growing is really knowing when to start with veg and plants... I don’t seem to have patience, I like my flowers to flower right away lol, that’s prob why I buy for shops and grow from seed lol

Did your tank stay still Phil? Mine was driving round all the buildings and you had to intercept/lure it into the C4 after fending off a wave of 4-8 enemies after each successful it. There was quite a few random bugs - mission 3 I couldn't get on the barge and the Chicago level I couldn't even reload my weapon at one point. I can't believe the big showpiece was me running around a skyscaper armed with a briefcase and some booby traps🤣

What also shocked me is it takes literally 12 missions before you actually have a level where you can run and gun without having some on-rails gimmicky event dominating the mission. Even then, the next mission after that is a stealth+crafting one which was utterly painful. Also got sick and tired with the amount of enemies that wear body armour in the very few missions where you're actually shooting - the developers literally have a hard-on for Warzone fodder nonsense in this game. The tank boss battle was also hilariously bad - you wouldn't see this amateur garbage design even in Call of Duty 3. The oil rig mission that I was really looking forward to turned out to be nothing more than musical chairs with cargo containers too! Every time I get to a new mission and think this looks interesting it turns out to be nothing more than rage-inducing trash with some tacked on garbage mechanic or infuriating combat encounters with bullet-sponge enemies. The checkpoint system is also a joke - on some missions it saves literally every 15 seconds even if you're just about to be shot and on the worst missions you can be set back many minutes of torture.

Yea, I'm done with this one. It was fun up until the volcano, and then it just got worse. The haunted manor enemies are cheap as fuck, so much so, that once one of them starts the animation of throwing a sickle at you, no matter where or how you move, it locks on and hits for big damage. But, the second "race" was what did it for me. You're never really in the lead. Your mostly following some bastard, but when platformers drop right in front of you just before you reach them is cheap as fuck. Fuck. This. Game.

Well I know I played the worse mission because I played the all. All the missions names with rewards are available. Which one was the worse mission? There are number of them. "Ghost team" with the boss battles and you allies crouching in the corner jerking off for me was the worse. I don't know how you can do that on veteran level as it is such a cheat by the AI "alone" was probably next. Too long, too pointless. For fucks sakes Ghost if you know where I am how about coming over and helping a brother out man. Another ally crouching in a corner jerking off. Almost felt like trying to win an objective based game with randoms

I need to invest more time into putting up some garden threads. This is great, thanks for sharing @Luseth . My mum has a love for gardening and I do too enjoy seeing lovely gardens, just never knew where to start. I'm probably more into growing nice flowers than vegetables, etc, but you are tempting me to restructure the garden so we have a small patch for growing some things. I think it would help the kids too learn new things. Where do you get your flower seeds from?

Great race last night, eventhough trying to do a no stop on Hards saw me come last 😅 I was experimenting with settings last night and I think I'll give that a miss from now on. I was also gobsmacked that Softs lasted the full 11 laps...so much for my testing 😥 I'll post up the results and league table tomorrow after @GazzaGarratt shows me how to embed it in the forum 👍

Last week was actually a close battle. My most consistent race for a while too, I led for a good few laps and then stayed with Kiwi within 2 seconds until I went off track at the high looping corner which made it a scary last lap to retake Phil for second. Great to see @JBR-Kiwi back at the races, @LordBaguette having his most consistent race so far and @Bluebear and @slamminbones having a great battle throughout.