Tell us something really trivial about your life (vol 24)
Discussion
) hidetheelephants said:
You mean you don't have your valet deal with those? Speak to Battert, the dhobi wallah will do them for you.
He's never been the same with me since I questioned the smell of the washing power they use below stairs. I'm now cautious of having my smalls over starched.My new thread, "Tell us something really, really trivial about your life (Vol 1)" exceeds the permissible title length so you're just going to have to put up with this anecdote here.
For the Great Landing Floor Restoration Project, the Lady Mayoress asked, while I had the floor up, if a further three pin socket was possible. Yes, I said, unknowing but eternally optimistic. Anyway, I tottered up to Homebase this afternoon for this and that and, while I was there, looked for a switched single three pin plug socket in white. They had any amount of trendy colours, they had white switched doubles and they had white unswitched singles, all for about five quid, but they had no white switched singles except one by Laura Ashley for £16. Thank you, goodbye, and I set off for B&Q. En route, I remembered Barry Forkin and his miniscule electrical and hardware emporium. In I popped. Within, the staff were all sporting new polo shirts emblazoned with the words:
Barry Forkin
Toomers
Est 1692
A few years ago, Barry's main competitor in that part of Newbury, Toomers, shut up shop. The business had been run down and so he negotiated for and bought the name and the lock business and became Barry Forkin Toomers; the oldest business in Newbury. Oldest by some margin as the next oldest is the department store, Camp Hopson, which is only 120 years old and still owned and run by the Hopson family.
"Until recently," quoth Barry Forkin, "this was the oldest business in Newbury. It's now the oldest business in Berkshire!" Apparently, a family business in Reading closed down earlier this year. No one thought to buy it for its provenance and over three hundred years of continuous business went down the drain.
Established 1692. If my model making business had survived it would boast, "Established 1978," which doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
For the Great Landing Floor Restoration Project, the Lady Mayoress asked, while I had the floor up, if a further three pin socket was possible. Yes, I said, unknowing but eternally optimistic. Anyway, I tottered up to Homebase this afternoon for this and that and, while I was there, looked for a switched single three pin plug socket in white. They had any amount of trendy colours, they had white switched doubles and they had white unswitched singles, all for about five quid, but they had no white switched singles except one by Laura Ashley for £16. Thank you, goodbye, and I set off for B&Q. En route, I remembered Barry Forkin and his miniscule electrical and hardware emporium. In I popped. Within, the staff were all sporting new polo shirts emblazoned with the words:
Barry Forkin
Toomers
Est 1692
A few years ago, Barry's main competitor in that part of Newbury, Toomers, shut up shop. The business had been run down and so he negotiated for and bought the name and the lock business and became Barry Forkin Toomers; the oldest business in Newbury. Oldest by some margin as the next oldest is the department store, Camp Hopson, which is only 120 years old and still owned and run by the Hopson family.
"Until recently," quoth Barry Forkin, "this was the oldest business in Newbury. It's now the oldest business in Berkshire!" Apparently, a family business in Reading closed down earlier this year. No one thought to buy it for its provenance and over three hundred years of continuous business went down the drain.
Established 1692. If my model making business had survived it would boast, "Established 1978," which doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
The deja vu is rife in here this evening Giuseppe 
Trust all is well Dicky and dmn?
We have enjoyed a rather nice early dinner out to celebrate Mrs Champers' birthday
In the car park was this; I like a V8 but have never driven a Japanese V8, cheap as chips too
Not this one, but a clean unmodded one could be interesting; views?
Trust all is well Dicky and dmn?
We have enjoyed a rather nice early dinner out to celebrate Mrs Champers' birthday
In the car park was this; I like a V8 but have never driven a Japanese V8, cheap as chips too
Not this one, but a clean unmodded one could be interesting; views?
TheChampers said:
The deja vu is rife in here this evening Giuseppe
Trust all is well Dicky and dmn?
We have enjoyed a rather nice early dinner out to celebrate Mrs Champers' birthday
In the car park was this; I like a V8 but have never driven a Japanese V8, cheap as chips too
Not this one, but a clean unmodded one could be interesting; views?
Yes, all well, thanks, TC. Most members are comfortably numb in the bar and as a result are being no trouble.Trust all is well Dicky and dmn?
We have enjoyed a rather nice early dinner out to celebrate Mrs Champers' birthday
In the car park was this; I like a V8 but have never driven a Japanese V8, cheap as chips too
Not this one, but a clean unmodded one could be interesting; views?
That would be a Soarer in the pic? Odd name. I know nothing of any merit about Japanese cars, I regret to say. I'd like a 240Z and/or one of the more entertaining Skylines. Beyond that I am no use to you. Agree about V8s though. One does need a V8 in the equipe every so often.
Equipe? Ecurie? Not sure. I do know Team TT is suddenly sounding a bit provincial. Ecurie Bagatelle should be the TT team name, in my opinion.
Justayellowbadge said:
Productive day.
Sorted the sink, sorted a couple of property issues, sent the Jag off to a specialist for a couple of jobs, entertained the lad and completely knackered the hounds.
Didn't manage to fit in any gym based shenanigans though, maybe tomorrow.
Steak was consumed surely? Sorted the sink, sorted a couple of property issues, sent the Jag off to a specialist for a couple of jobs, entertained the lad and completely knackered the hounds.
Didn't manage to fit in any gym based shenanigans though, maybe tomorrow.
Dicky, a Soarer indeed
I used to see a mint J reg one parked near my sister in law's place a few years back, handsome thing, dark blue with light tan interior. Hadn't seen one at all for a long time until tonight. Mrs Champers was somewhat taken aback when I asked, rather suddenly, to borrow her 'phone because I'd "seen something I fancied in the car park" 
Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff