Tell us something really trivial about your life (vol 24)

[Engineer1]

slopes said:

ChemicalChaos said:

slopes said:

Ahhh i see, good good, nice to see standards are being kept around the old place. Has CC stopped being an annoying fool or is he still the same old rootin, tootin, western type?

Actually... these days I am much more of a chap, my dear chumrade

Much more of a chap you say? So tweed suits with elbow patches, pipe etc?

With a real WWII flight jacket... here

[ChemicalChaos]

slopes said:

ChemicalChaos said:

slopes said:

Ahhh i see, good good, nice to see standards are being kept around the old place. Has CC stopped being an annoying fool or is he still the same old rootin, tootin, western type?

Actually... these days I am much more of a chap, my dear chumrade

Much more of a chap you say? So tweed suits with elbow patches, pipe etc?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiRPBCiJg2c


No, but seriously... day to day, I'm just a very normal person.

The 3-piece suit only comes out for smart occasions, and the cowboy clobber is only worn when I'm actually over in the States

[Fishtigua]

Matt, did you see my link to the flying jacket care? Really, really the best in the biz. My brother had a WW1 jacket done with Connolly Hide Food.

If it's good enough for RR and AM.....

[ChemicalChaos]

Just had a look - the others all seem to have some disagreement so I'll give it a go

[Leafspring]

I just drove to Faversham and back (52miles ish) to pick up a spare short engine for our Land Rovers (block, crank, flywheel, pistons, con-rods, cam shaft & followers and a water pump)

Not a bad haul for £10 we thought... Then he threw in a dismantled gearbox complete with transfer case for my Series III... for free.

Cost more in petrol to fetch it all

[EvoDelta]

Leafspring said:

I just drove to Faversham and back (52miles ish) to pick up a spare short engine for our Land Rovers (block, crank, flywheel, pistons, con-rods, cam shaft & followers and a water pump)

Not a bad haul for £10 we thought... Then he threw in a dismantled gearbox complete with transfer case for my Series III... for free.

Cost more in petrol to fetch it all

Good days work Leafy!

[ApOrbital]

Who is this spanish looking bloke in our ground?

[iva cosworth]

King Juan Carlos ?

[Impasse]

I think that's the gardener. Quite why Juan can't get a paper round instead is a mystery. But he seems to enjoy grubbing about in the shrubbery.

[iva cosworth]

A member who attended the SS today has listed some of his highlights including "The well travelled Barchetta"

I thank you.

[Impasse]

"Well travelled"? What is the English translation of that? Is some sort of Autotrader/Dating site language?

[TheChampers]

iva cosworth said:

A member who attended the SS today has listed some of his highlights including "The well travelled Barchetta"

I thank you.

Lovely

Ion the wood burning stove is up and running There is something primordially satisfying about making a fire and watching the flames Ug has FIRE!!

[iva cosworth]

No idea.

English is my 2nd language after gobbledeegook.

[slopes]

TheChampers said:

There is something primordially satisfying about making a fire and watching the flames Ug has FIRE!!

Agreed, it is very very therapeutic to sit and watch flames dance around, knowing that the reason they do that is down to you making it properly

[Leafspring]

I miss the log burner we had on the boat... cold winters day, shove some kindling and a nicely seasoned log onto yesterdays embers, sit in the wheel house and watch the snow melt and slide off the saloon roof.

The good ol' days

[DickyC]

Some canoeists lit a fire and sank proving you can't have your kayak and heat it.

[SWTH]

slopes said:

Agreed, it is very very therapeutic to sit and watch flames dance around, knowing that the reason they do that is down to you making it properly

Indeed

This particular fire was very therapeutic for me:



Not only was it in this:



But it also consisted of coal, wood and most importantly, all the uniform I had left from the employer I'd just resigned from

[iva cosworth]

Move that to the Sean Connery joke thread DC.

Masssive groaner but chuckleworthy.

[DickyC]

It's very old, iva. There are limits.

[iva cosworth]

Post it anyway.

What's the worst that could happen ?

Just do a flounce if it ends badly.