Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 27)
Discussion
DickyC said:
hidetheelephants said:
DickyC said:
Ham, mayonnaise and mustard on super seeded bread.
Super seeded bread. There's a joke there.
What's it been super seeded by?Super seeded bread. There's a joke there.
Here all week.
Remember that Top Gear episode from a while back where they attempted to grow their own petrol using wholly unsuitable tractors/ploughs? I was reminded of that this evening, but especially the bit where May dumped the whole bag of seed in one go instead of spreading it around the field.
The recollection came as I joined a short sliproad to the A3 and ran across a pile of salt/grit while spotting the yellow flashing lights of the spreader about half a mile in the distance. Road maintenance by Top Gear. What's the worst that could happen?
The recollection came as I joined a short sliproad to the A3 and ran across a pile of salt/grit while spotting the yellow flashing lights of the spreader about half a mile in the distance. Road maintenance by Top Gear. What's the worst that could happen?
DickyC said:
My old dad would have been 90 today. Happy birthday, dad. There may be a beer or two later.
Happy Birthday your Dad. What was his name chum? I think I would've liked him. 
Maybe tell us a bit more about what he was like? (most respectfully)
Edited by Ali2202 on Wednesday 27th April 07:02
Ali2202 said:
Happy Birthday your Dad. What was his name chum? I think I would've liked him.
Maybe tell us a bit more about what he was like? (most respectfully)
That's kind of you, Ali. Maybe tell us a bit more about what he was like? (most respectfully)
John Cutler, born in Croydon in the same week as the Queen, to loving parents who didn't have two ha'pence to rub together. Evacuated to Weybridge at the beginning of the war aged 13 to a family where the dad was a foreman at Vickers Armstrong. This chap - I can't remember his name - took a shine to my dad and got him in as the youngest ever Vickers apprentice. Despite dad's education being interrupted by the war he went on, by studying at night school, to become a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He worked bits of aeroplanes from the Spitfire and Wellington right through to Concorde. Oh, to have had half his ambition, ability and drive.
At a time when Vickers employed 17,000 people, mostly men, and there wasn't a lot of entertainment around, the works sports clubs were very active. He played scrum half in the Vickers second eleven. It was a source of disappointment to him that he didn't make the first eleven.
He wrote a book called Understanding Aircraft Structures which is (or certainly was) on the Civil Aviation Authority's preferred reading list. Despite all this, to his irritation, he will be remembered for giving the world the modern passenger seat. His seat structure took away the bottom member of the seat frame that did so much damage to the legs of the passengers in plane crashes. Must have saved a lot of lives.
He also designed seats for cars. The Microcell seat in the later Sunbeam Alpines was the start. That seat went on to be developed into the Contour seat that was used by Ford in the sporty Sierras and influenced many seats - Recaro springs to mind.
He lived a good, full and productive life and left my mum well provided for in a house overlooking the sea in Devon.
Cheers, dad. I'll call your grandsons and raise a glass with them too.
DickyC said:
That's kind of you, Ali.
John Cutler, born in Croydon in the same week as the Queen, to loving parents who didn't have two ha'pence to rub together. Evacuated to Weybridge at the beginning of the war aged 13 to a family where the dad was a foreman at Vickers Armstrong. This chap - I can't remember his name - took a shine to my dad and got him in as the youngest ever Vickers apprentice. Despite dad's education being interrupted by the war he went on, by studying at night school, to become a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He worked bits of aeroplanes from the Spitfire and Wellington right through to Concorde. Oh, to have had half his ambition, ability and drive.
At a time when Vickers employed 17,000 people, mostly men, and there wasn't a lot of entertainment around, the works sports clubs were very active. He played scrum half in the Vickers second eleven. It was a source of disappointment to him that he didn't make the first eleven.
He wrote a book called Understanding Aircraft Structures which is (or certainly was) on the Civil Aviation Authority's preferred reading list. Despite all this, to his irritation, he will be remembered for giving the world the modern passenger seat. His seat structure took away the bottom member of the seat frame that did so much damage to the legs of the passengers in plane crashes. Must have saved a lot of lives.
He also designed seats for cars. The Microcell seat in the later Sunbeam Alpines was the start. That seat went on to be developed into the Contour seat that was used by Ford in the sporty Sierras and influenced many seats - Recaro springs to mind.
He lived a good, full and productive life and left my mum well provided for in a house overlooking the sea in Devon.
Cheers, dad. I'll call your grandsons and raise a glass with them too.
Wow! Makes me want to re-evaluate my life choices.John Cutler, born in Croydon in the same week as the Queen, to loving parents who didn't have two ha'pence to rub together. Evacuated to Weybridge at the beginning of the war aged 13 to a family where the dad was a foreman at Vickers Armstrong. This chap - I can't remember his name - took a shine to my dad and got him in as the youngest ever Vickers apprentice. Despite dad's education being interrupted by the war he went on, by studying at night school, to become a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He worked bits of aeroplanes from the Spitfire and Wellington right through to Concorde. Oh, to have had half his ambition, ability and drive.
At a time when Vickers employed 17,000 people, mostly men, and there wasn't a lot of entertainment around, the works sports clubs were very active. He played scrum half in the Vickers second eleven. It was a source of disappointment to him that he didn't make the first eleven.
He wrote a book called Understanding Aircraft Structures which is (or certainly was) on the Civil Aviation Authority's preferred reading list. Despite all this, to his irritation, he will be remembered for giving the world the modern passenger seat. His seat structure took away the bottom member of the seat frame that did so much damage to the legs of the passengers in plane crashes. Must have saved a lot of lives.
He also designed seats for cars. The Microcell seat in the later Sunbeam Alpines was the start. That seat went on to be developed into the Contour seat that was used by Ford in the sporty Sierras and influenced many seats - Recaro springs to mind.
He lived a good, full and productive life and left my mum well provided for in a house overlooking the sea in Devon.
Cheers, dad. I'll call your grandsons and raise a glass with them too.
Cheers to Mr.C Snr!
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