Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 26)

[DickyC]

Today we will be contemplating the debt we owe The Velvet Underground.

Thanks, Champers.

[DickyC]

fatboy18 said:

If its music night tonight this more my cup of tea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-MdjZD9JmU

I like other music too but always have to get back to this

In the eighties I worked with a guy who had owned a fifties Plymouth, a humungous great two forward speed device which he had restored in powder blue. Dave Doveston, where are you now? He loved the car but its principle role was to gain him acceptance at a pub where they played Rockabilly and the regulars were all bikers. He was disappointed to find that the car only moved him up to tolerated. But time went by, people mellow and the Plymouth became a fixture in the car park. Then, one summer Saturday evening, with Rockabilly blasting in the function room behind the Public Bar, the door burst open and there was a rocker shouting, "The Plimmooff's on far! The Plimmooff's on far!" The whole pub decamped into the car park where the VW Beetle next to the Plymouth was found to be ablaze. Without a word to Dave or to each other half a dozen bikers broke into the car, released the brake and pushed it to safety. Dave was grateful the car only had blistered paint down one side but dismayed the bikers had smashed as much glass as they had to get in. He wasn't far behind and had the keys after all. He drove it home and - eons before the internet - spent many fruitless evenings trying to source parts. The car was sold for next to nothing and Dave took to enjoying Rockabilly at home.

[DickyC]

Sounds like the right consistency and sweetness for Mummy Bear.

[DickyC]

Iva Barchetta said:

Sorry,no room,got too many 27s at thé moment.....

By my reckoning we have three weeks before the commencement of Volume 27.

So, unless there is a burst of trivial activity, we're looking at the end of January before we call in the bookbinders to immortalise Volume 26.

[DickyC]

22,000 carefully considered, erudite and witty posts probably exist somewhere on the internet.

[DickyC]

All AMGs are automatic.

Just saying.

[DickyC]

That's just awful.

But his songs will be around for ever.

He'll be up there already jamming good with Weird and Gilly

and Mick Ronson and Lou Reed.

[DickyC]

They will be in different parts of Rock'n'Roll Heaven.

[DickyC]

Today I will mostly be admiring oast houses.

[DickyC]

Just dropped a car in a very pitchers queue part of Essex. The buses to my next car are every third Shrove Tuesday. I may be here for a while.

[DickyC]

Eventually the bus arrived, completely empty of passengers and in darkness. "Lucky I saw you, I normally have this run to myself," the driver told me. I suggested he carry on with the interior lights off. "You sure? It would be a great help." Very different. I felt rather privileged.

[DickyC]

Impasse said:

Show me on the doll, DC.

I would have done earlier if you hadn't handcuffed me to the bed and then promptly forgotten.

[DickyC]

fatboy18 said:

DickyC said:

Today I will mostly be admiring oast houses.

Ha Ha, Driving through Kent some years ago when my Son was a nipper (sitting in the toddler car seat), he asked..."Why have those houses got Hats on" Tickled me

My eldest son as a little lad referred to Brands Hatch as Brown Hats. And, needless to say, that's what we still call it.

[DickyC]

Story about Brands Hatch does irreparable harm to motoring thread.

[DickyC]

I'm going to pick up a car in Widnes. If you never hear from me again please look after Mrs C.

[DickyC]

I'm in Widnes. Did I say?

[DickyC]

I do. Despite this, and my wish to support local businesses, they didn't have Twining Afternoon Tea.

Either that or they weren't prepared to serve it in the forenoon.

[DickyC]

McAndy said:

Everyone's too busy having adventures to post on here.

[DickyC]

pad58 said:

Morning, my son is 25 today.

God I'm old.

Rub it in, why don't you?

/great grandad

[DickyC]

underwhelmist said:

For the same reason windscreen wipers, in our house at least, are now called "wipe screemers".

When I was little I couldn't say Car Park. Luckily, 'Par Cark' did not enter the family vocabulary.