Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 31)
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Driving home from Devon on Sunday I stopped at Gordano Services on the M5 for a cup of Starbucks' finest. In the car park I saw Rick Wakeman deep in conversation with the driver of a VW SUV. It was definitely Rick Wakeman but when I looked him up on Wikipedia just now there is no mention of an interest in motorcycles. A chap, no matter how eccentric, wouldn't go around in public dressed as a Hells Angel unless he was interested in motorcycling, would he?
It's no good, I'm going to have to lose some weight. I need a waist. My vital statistics are currently 44/44/44 and despite wearing a belt my jeans slide down giving absolutely the wrong impression. Me Callards* are sending out the wrong signals. If I get my waist back a belt will stand some chance of holding them up all proper like.
*Callards - Callard and Bowsers
*Callards - Callard and Bowsers
As we plunge headlong into this brand new unexplored and unsullied year of 2019, it seems to be very much "on trend" to join in this vogue of fitness, exercise and dieting fads. And abstinence.
In my case, its more like fatness, exhorcism* and dying. And absence.
I have decided to search for a method of unshrinking one's garments, but to avoid appearing non-conformist, I will also attempt to give up alcohol.
Yes, you heard me correctly, I said I'm giving up alcohol.
For a whole day.. .
Well, until this evening, anyway. We'll see how it goes, as the B-man says. Cheers!
Oh bugger!
* If you do not pay your exhorcist, you may be repossessed.
In my case, its more like fatness, exhorcism* and dying. And absence.
I have decided to search for a method of unshrinking one's garments, but to avoid appearing non-conformist, I will also attempt to give up alcohol.
Yes, you heard me correctly, I said I'm giving up alcohol.
For a whole day.. .
Well, until this evening, anyway. We'll see how it goes, as the B-man says. Cheers!
Oh bugger!
* If you do not pay your exhorcist, you may be repossessed.
DickyC said:
Driving home from Devon on Sunday I stopped at Gordano Services on the M5 for a cup of Starbucks' finest. In the car park I saw Rick Wakeman deep in conversation with the driver of a VW SUV. It was definitely Rick Wakeman but when I looked him up on Wikipedia just now there is no mention of an interest in motorcycles. A chap, no matter how eccentric, wouldn't go around in public dressed as a Hells Angel unless he was interested in motorcycling, would he?
Dicky, are you quite sure it wasn't Rick Astley? A good few years ago, I told him to get on his bike.
He may have heeded my advice.
Edited to add relevant quote.
Edited by glenrobbo on Thursday 3rd January 10:04
DickyC said:
It's no good, I'm going to have to lose some weight. I need a waist. My vital statistics are currently 44/44/44 and despite wearing a belt my jeans slide down giving absolutely the wrong impression. Me Callards* are sending out the wrong signals. If I get my waist back a belt will stand some chance of holding them up all proper like.
*Callards - Callard and Bowsers
HA!!!! Think yourself lucky, my current vitals are 47/43/45 a belt works, but my god I've got a fat arse at the moment!!!! My biggest problem is across my shoulders to get a T-shirt to fit there is XXL!!!!! *Callards - Callard and Bowsers
glenrobbo said:
DickyC said:
Driving home from Devon on Sunday I stopped at Gordano Services on the M5 for a cup of Starbucks' finest. In the car park I saw Rick Wakeman deep in conversation with the driver of a VW SUV. It was definitely Rick Wakeman but when I looked him up on Wikipedia just now there is no mention of an interest in motorcycles. A chap, no matter how eccentric, wouldn't go around in public dressed as a Hells Angel unless he was interested in motorcycling, would he?
Dicky, are you quite sure it wasn't Rick Astley? A good few years ago, I told him to get on his bike.
He may have heeded my advice.
DickyC said:
I've just stumbled upon a cache of five Christmas crackers.
They're still live!
Five alive? They're still live!
No disassemble !!!https://youtu.be/WjeptaI2T8E
SWTH said:
P5BNij said:
Absinthe...? I think I went to school with a girl pertaining to that moniker 
The general gist of the thread reminds me of the daft Pythonesque conversations a mate and I often have at work, we're both freight train drivers and try to lighten things up a bit by describing our nefarious trips out on the mainlines of merry old England as if we were making sly sorties over enemy territory, thus places like Crewe, Cricklewood and Willesden take on the personas and sinister implications of Berlin, Colditz Castle and the V rocket launching pads at Peenemunda.
Must dash, Binky Blenkinsop has just fired up the Blenheim for a shuftie over Bescot North End Sidings, apparently a reconnaissance patrol on the nearby M6 has spotted someone in uniform 'talking funny, loik'
You’d have fitted in well at the finest depot in the West, Exeter. Two fine, upstanding members of the footplate fraternity used to do a great double act in driving a 33 whilst acting like they were Captain and Helmsman of a U-Boat, including going back into the engine room and lifting the floor grates and then dropping them to simulate depth charges....The general gist of the thread reminds me of the daft Pythonesque conversations a mate and I often have at work, we're both freight train drivers and try to lighten things up a bit by describing our nefarious trips out on the mainlines of merry old England as if we were making sly sorties over enemy territory, thus places like Crewe, Cricklewood and Willesden take on the personas and sinister implications of Berlin, Colditz Castle and the V rocket launching pads at Peenemunda.
Must dash, Binky Blenkinsop has just fired up the Blenheim for a shuftie over Bescot North End Sidings, apparently a reconnaissance patrol on the nearby M6 has spotted someone in uniform 'talking funny, loik'
In the early hours of tomorrow morning I shall be dropping leaflets and 'invasion money' over Basford Hall Yard, Crewe then I'll be donning my flying boots and badly rolled up parachute to work a 75mph express goods to the Smoke, I hope the blackout curtains in my loco's the cab haven't been half inched by local spivs, no doubt I shall be stopped under the M25 at Kings Langley to have my papers checked by the border guards there...
P5BNij said:
SWTH said:
P5BNij said:
Absinthe...? I think I went to school with a girl pertaining to that moniker
The general gist of the thread reminds me of the daft Pythonesque conversations a mate and I often have at work, we're both freight train drivers and try to lighten things up a bit by describing our nefarious trips out on the mainlines of merry old England as if we were making sly sorties over enemy territory, thus places like Crewe, Cricklewood and Willesden take on the personas and sinister implications of Berlin, Colditz Castle and the V rocket launching pads at Peenemunda.
Must dash, Binky Blenkinsop has just fired up the Blenheim for a shuftie over Bescot North End Sidings, apparently a reconnaissance patrol on the nearby M6 has spotted someone in uniform 'talking funny, loik'
You’d have fitted in well at the finest depot in the West, Exeter. Two fine, upstanding members of the footplate fraternity used to do a great double act in driving a 33 whilst acting like they were Captain and Helmsman of a U-Boat, including going back into the engine room and lifting the floor grates and then dropping them to simulate depth charges....The general gist of the thread reminds me of the daft Pythonesque conversations a mate and I often have at work, we're both freight train drivers and try to lighten things up a bit by describing our nefarious trips out on the mainlines of merry old England as if we were making sly sorties over enemy territory, thus places like Crewe, Cricklewood and Willesden take on the personas and sinister implications of Berlin, Colditz Castle and the V rocket launching pads at Peenemunda.
Must dash, Binky Blenkinsop has just fired up the Blenheim for a shuftie over Bescot North End Sidings, apparently a reconnaissance patrol on the nearby M6 has spotted someone in uniform 'talking funny, loik'
In the early hours of tomorrow morning I shall be dropping leaflets and 'invasion money' over Basford Hall Yard, Crewe then I'll be donning my flying boots and badly rolled up parachute to work a 75mph express goods to the Smoke, I hope the blackout curtains in my loco's the cab haven't been half inched by local spivs, no doubt I shall be stopped under the M25 at Kings Langley to have my papers checked by the border guards there...
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