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

[iva cosworth]

Re the above,my mate turned up at Uni BITD on the bus.

Everybody else was dropped off in the flash cars of the day.....circa early 80s.

I didn't go to Uni BTW.

[iva cosworth]

I have 12 threads in my stuff,need to cull a few more.

Humer Unbeam ????

[DickyC]

Don't do that. The OP would never forgive you.

[Impasse]

I went into TK Maxx the other day and picked up a Paul Smith shirt for £14.99 which pleased me greatly. I'm wearing it now, don't I look smart?


(No, he can't have it back)

[DickyC]

RICARDO'S RANDOM RIDES

From the top of a bus which had diverted from the route I anticipated I witnessed a lovely cameo. As we approached a hospital an elderly couple stood up and made their way downstairs. The wife had a bunch of flowers. When they got off they were with another elderly couple who must have been travelling downstairs on the bus. They were so pleased to see one another and all thought it was a hoot that they had been so close by on the bus without knowing. What a relief it must have been from the hospital visiting or hospital appointment keeping they were doing. Some of what they were saying you could lip read it was so comfortably predictable. The downstairs husband pointed to the upstairs wife's flowers and said, "Are those for me?" They all laughed. I inexplicably filled up.

Later on, for the first time in my life, I drove a Shev-O-Lay. A Cruze, no less. What a ghastly vehicle. It was covered in bird st which didn't improve its chances in the Cutler Car Comparator.

Having dropped the Cruze at the car auction in Northampton, I had to get to the Car Shop to pick up another. It was only about four inches on Google Maps so I decided to walk. After an hour I was less than half way but as I was adjacent to a bus stop I read the timetable to discover one was due in five minutes. The driver asked me where I was going and I asked if he crossed the A45 and if so could he drop me there. He said he went by stops. I said I didn't now the names of the stops but showed him the remaining two and half inches of my journey on Google Maps. He invited me stand just behind him and call out when I wanted to get off. After half a mile or so he said he had to go through the villages and that would delay me and stopped the bus to drop me off. When I asked how much he said there was no charge. Carrying trade plates is no guarantee of a lift, I have discovered, but I have met some nice people. I shall gather my rewards in ways other than financial.

[SWTH]

Had the Transit up on a ramp today. Turns out there's a lot of fresh air holding the inner arches and front wings together....

It's got MoT until December, given that I only paid £510 it'll have cost me less than £50 per month if I get nothing at all for it. Still leaves me with the problem of where to find a new van for similar money though....

[Impasse]

DC if you're ever down this way with your trade plates under one arm and your thumb raised with all the hope of a foster child on Christmas morning while you stand on the side of the A3, well I'll make sure I switch lanes to the outside so that I don't blast you with too much wash from the draft of my car.

[DickyC]

And long may that tradition continue

Bedford, Leighton Buzzard and Bristol today.

I have to say how well behaved you all seem to have been in my absence. I'm impressed.

[Adenauer]

This thread's dying a slow painful death, which should not be allowed.

Morning

[KaraK]

Morning all!

[Pixel Pusher]

Chunkymonkey71 said:

Picked Ellis up from school on Friday in the Mercedes stan.

Had to move over to let a Rolls Royce Wraith in.

I hate being the poorest parent at his school!

When I win the lottery, you'll be collecting him in this Chunks.

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/n...

[Fishtigua]

I hate bloody e-bay. 9 days to go on bidding for a Honda and BLINK, gone. Not even a 'Sorry, sold'.

Gits.

[KaraK]

Pixel Pusher said:

When I win the lottery, you'll be collecting him in this Chunks.

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/n...

I've always had a soft-spot for R34 GTRs - I blame Gran Turismo

[GOG440]

Afternoon all.

In keeping with the GTR theme a mate of mine is a serial GTR owner, he has owned an R33, and R34 then he had one of the fiHe is in GTR limbo at the moment, his current GTR had some gearbox trouble very early in its life and Nissan keep giving him new ones to run around in whilst his gets sorted, but he does a lot of miles so they only let him keep them about 2 or 3 weeks

[McAndy]

DickyC said:

And long may that tradition continue

Bedford, Leighton Buzzard and Bristol today.

I have to say how well behaved you all seem to have been in my absence. I'm impressed.

Waving to you from somewhere south between junctions 16 and 17 of the M4.

[Pixel Pusher]

Home made curried parsnip soup today and the parsnips were grown in my garden.

Yum.

[EvoDelta]

It's a slow day in the office, and I'm just not motivated to do anything pro-actively... but it's nearly time to go home.

[Fishtigua]

Lunchtime Practice Times are now in.

Fish is average.

We are having a mini Go Kart challenge with other local businesses in a few weeks, so nipping off at lunchtime for a quick hour's practice at the track. Hopefully none of the other teams have thought to do this.

[McAndy]

Pixel Pusher said:

Home made curried parsnip soup today and the parsnips were grown in my garden.

Yum.

One day, I am determined to self-produce.

Deliberate.

[Impasse]

Talking of one's own produce, I put my new bucket to good use this afternoon:




It's a bigger bucket than I thought, there's over 2 kilos in there (about 3 medium sized jars of jam) - and they're all ready to empty themselves out into the boot should my bungee do silly things.