Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 27)

[Iva Barchetta]

Well,with that I'm off down the Legion for some warm,watered down lager shandy.

[DickyC]

Never drink the mild.

[DickyC]

Alresford, home of English watercress, is thirty miles from here. We like a bit of watercress. We had some with a salad this evening. It's a year round crop. We see Watercress Company lorries a lot round here.

[Iva Barchetta]

Oh dear,those food miles are excessive.

[Impasse]

Even on the warm rolling hills of Hampshire it's a little too early for good watercress. Although, having said that it was a mild winter so who knows? Perhaps there's been a strong demand for watercress soup in the surrounding areas over the past few weeks?

[hidetheelephants]

DickyC said:

Alresford, home of English watercress, is thirty miles from here. We like a bit of watercress. We had some with a salad this evening. It's a year round crop. We see Watercress Company lorries a lot round here.

How do you tell if watercress is washed or just as it was picked? Ooh, deep philosophical questions about salad.

[Justayellowbadge]

On my way home from work, knowing full well that doing so will ruin it for me, why do I have an almost overwhelming compunction to click on the Line Of Duty thread?

Must...resist....

[DickyC]

Ten years to negotiate new trade deals between the USA and a non-EU UK?

In place already, I'd say. They sell us watercress and we sell watercress to them.

Everyone's happy.

[DickyC]

Justayellowbadge said:

On my way home from work, knowing full well that doing so will ruin it for me, why do I have an almost overwhelming compunction to click on the Line Of Duty thread?

Must...resist....

Spoiler Alert: they all lived happily ever after. It was all a big misunderstanding but was sorted out in the last ten minutes. All friends again.

[DickyC]

Sorry, I was acting on a compulsion.

[ChemicalChaos]

Not the best of days.

Took a day off work to accommodate some Salvage Hunters -esque bloke who wanted to come and buy 20 sets of seats from me. He turns up, had a good look and says they're a bit more tatty than he thought because the fabric is a bit dusty or the odd armrest has a discoloured patch.
Ends up only buying 3 cherry picked ones so meaning I still don't have room to bring my trailer in

Then, having spent 2 weeks refurbishing some trailer wheels, Kwik Fit manage to take most of the paint off the rim edges whilst putting tyres on them. That's 2 coats of oxide primer and 2 coats of Hammerite, left to harden for a week, scraped off like kiddies poster paint.
So what the bloody hell are wheels painted with in the factory?

Oh and to top it off, it took 2 hours to get home rather than the usual 1, due to motorway misery

Roll on tomorrow...

[Vitorio]

Morning all

Final day before the weekend, and ive got mixed feeling about it all (as in the, the next few days), work is pretty meh lately, but i might go and see a movie afterwards... so yeah

Oh, and it is pissing down again.. fking weather..

[DickyC]

ChemicalChaos said:

Not the best of days.

Took a day off work to accommodate some Salvage Hunters -esque bloke who wanted to come and buy 20 sets of seats from me. He turns up, had a good look and says they're a bit more tatty than he thought because the fabric is a bit dusty or the odd armrest has a discoloured patch.
Ends up only buying 3 cherry picked ones so meaning I still don't have room to bring my trailer in

Then, having spent 2 weeks refurbishing some trailer wheels, Kwik Fit manage to take most of the paint off the rim edges whilst putting tyres on them. That's 2 coats of oxide primer and 2 coats of Hammerite, left to harden for a week, scraped off like kiddies poster paint.
So what the bloody hell are wheels painted with in the factory?

Oh and to top it off, it took 2 hours to get home rather than the usual 1, due to motorway misery

Roll on tomorrow...

Hammerite is formulated to go straight on to rust. No need to prime it. Clean off the worst of the rust and ensure the surface is free of dust, dirt and grease. There is also paint specially for wheels.

[coopedup]

Morning all

[DickyC]

Get out the jalopy and Hammerite the wheels
She's got to be the smartest of the automobiles

[Adenauer]

ali_kat said:

J&T?

Morning.

[james_tigerwoods]

I drove through a puddle/lake this morning in Leeds - Front indicator contacts have got wet (I looked) and it stops working. Urgh.

[Vitorio]

Ive just given my old 7 inch tablet to my oldest daughter, so she has something to play with while on holiday, figured she might as well get it since i wasnt using it.

And now im looking at new tablet myself, because suddenly i dont have a tablet anymore :P

[Ali2202]

Greetings Troops.

Today, after 32 years sat in front of a PC with a phone glued to my lug (OK OK I got the occasional toilet break ), I have 'retired' myself from the corporate-grind.

I'm equally relieved, excited and elated. I'm also pooping my shorts that I'll go a bit mad without the structure of it all.

Month-long European road-trip launches on May 13th so that'll be nice. Going to try to obtain a tennis-coach qualification too.

Outwith the above, anyone need their windows cleaned?

[Adenauer]

Ali2202 said:

Greetings Troops.

Today, after 32 years sat in front of a PC with a phone glued to my lug (OK OK I got the occasional toilet break ), I have 'retired' myself from the corporate-grind.

I'm equally relieved, excited and elated. I'm also pooping my shorts that I'll go a bit mad without the structure of it all.

Month-long European road-trip launches on May 13th so that'll be nice. Going to try to obtain a tennis-coach qualification too.

Outwith the above, anyone need their windows cleaned?

Wow, that's pretty exciting, good luck.

If you're passing the ring on your trip let me know and you can buy me a beer.