Tell us something really trivial about your life Volume 40
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Jordie Barretts sock said:
Nah, it's all on solidly. Did a 100 mile trip this afternoon with no ill effects. If it was going to flap, it would have done so at 80 on the M5 or over the one or two (!!) potholes hereabouts.
Just to be sure, please cross your fingers for me.
Byker, when you are sipping your vino tinto, I can wholeheartedly recommend this little gem...
Not the cheapest (buy direct is best) but by jingo it goes well with red wine!
Their sausage crisps are good with a beer too.
Someone was telling me to do brie (Pearl wen) cubes in the airfryer. Dust with flour, egg, panko breadcrumbs, 200C for 8 minsJust to be sure, please cross your fingers for me.
Byker, when you are sipping your vino tinto, I can wholeheartedly recommend this little gem...
Not the cheapest (buy direct is best) but by jingo it goes well with red wine!
Their sausage crisps are good with a beer too.
Still Mulling said:
Good grief, the Cerbera is such a good piece of design! One of my favourite cars 
Currently at 1140kg with 3/4 tank and everything in the car/boot with 372bhp on the new engine... CAn't use anyof it really at this time of year, the roads are really slippery
any excuse
Morning All.
Esp. to the lovely Asha. That's a remarkably fetching pair of earrings and she carries off the look with verve and aplomb.
The Memsahib is all agog at the sight of that very pretty motorcar. I'd have to be honest and say it's not altogether my beaker of Earl Grey since my preferences are shamelessly Council, but the Memsahib has better taste and a good eye.
Our friend Arthur has been visiting night and day the last week or two with his Ritis and being rather tedious. The shortage of kippage is getting rather wearing. The prescribed medication doesn't really cut the mustard and I'm reluctant to increase consumption - opiates can be a bit of a mixed blessing. Next time I talk to Malcolm the MO I think I need to press him a little on the topic of steroid injections.
Still, I count myself fortunate that it's nothing worse. I seem to be otherwise fairly sound in wind and limb, and ticker. Thank Providence.
Glenners, what an extraordinary saga of jobsworthiness re: your Haribo. What has the world come to?
I'm tempted to speculate that if you were to self identify as an autistic, one-legged lesbian from foreign someone might suddenly find an emergency stash under the bench to tide you over.
Please give my love to Frankie.
Today Matthew, I will be impersonating a carpenter.
WPGW.
Esp. to the lovely Asha. That's a remarkably fetching pair of earrings and she carries off the look with verve and aplomb.
The Memsahib is all agog at the sight of that very pretty motorcar. I'd have to be honest and say it's not altogether my beaker of Earl Grey since my preferences are shamelessly Council, but the Memsahib has better taste and a good eye.
Our friend Arthur has been visiting night and day the last week or two with his Ritis and being rather tedious. The shortage of kippage is getting rather wearing. The prescribed medication doesn't really cut the mustard and I'm reluctant to increase consumption - opiates can be a bit of a mixed blessing. Next time I talk to Malcolm the MO I think I need to press him a little on the topic of steroid injections.
Still, I count myself fortunate that it's nothing worse. I seem to be otherwise fairly sound in wind and limb, and ticker. Thank Providence.
Glenners, what an extraordinary saga of jobsworthiness re: your Haribo. What has the world come to?
I'm tempted to speculate that if you were to self identify as an autistic, one-legged lesbian from foreign someone might suddenly find an emergency stash under the bench to tide you over.
Please give my love to Frankie.
Today Matthew, I will be impersonating a carpenter.
WPGW.
Hollibobs is a hanging offence.
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DickyC said:
And you say, on top of everything else, that someone has damaged a bumper on the Alvis?
I wouldn't be concerned. If I remember aright, I heard that P5BNij of this parish arranged for buffers to be fitted.
The Alvis is made of sterner stuff than one might suppose.
Related pointless trivia alert : until about ten years ago the body of an Alvis TD21 sat in the old goods yard compound at Long Buckby station. It disappeared and its spot is now occupied by the bare shell of a Rover P4. A little further south in the old goods yard at Althorpe Park station (closed in '64 and since demolished) there used to be a Mk2 Jag with a tree growing in the engine bay!
Bonus slightly related trivia alert : Long Buckby is one of only six surviving railway stations in that there fair county of Northampton, in the mid '60s there used to be sixty five stations.
Edited by P5BNij on Wednesday 22 November 13:06
Byker28i said:
No wheels on my wagon, and I'm not rolling along...
Wheels are going g off to be refurbished, they lasted 16-17 years since they were last done.
Then its an opportunity to clean the chassis, etc.
That could take a while...fitting everything in at the moment
Beautiful Tiv that Byker - the side profile puts me in mind of a stretched out Jensen CV8!Wheels are going g off to be refurbished, they lasted 16-17 years since they were last done.
Then its an opportunity to clean the chassis, etc.
That could take a while...fitting everything in at the moment
hammo19 said:
I went arse over tit this morning loading cases into the car. I fell over a small case as I was pushing it, it tripped me up and I head butted the wing of the car and ended up in the road, we’re at the airport now but I have various aches and pains appearing. Good start to the holiday.
Good grief, Hammo, take it easy chap! We don't want you to go round giving Glasgae kisses to any motor you stumble across.
We want you in fine fettle so you can report back to us on your 'oliday escapades so that we can live vicariously for a bit in order to escape all out Trivial woes, especially in this current gloomy Grade A? ( Grey Day ) weather situation.
Get a couple of G'n'Ts darn ya neck an chill out, Man! Have a great relaxing holiday.
We'll look after the old place whilst you're whooping it up and putting all yer woes to the back of your old kit bag for a while. Apparently there's a decent tool bag up there in Earth orbit somewhere at the moment: I haven't spotted it yet, due to adverse weather conditions.
Dermot O'Logical said:
I regard it as a full service and MOT in anticipation of the forthcoming festive festivities season!
Good morneve, all!
Get well soon any Trivs or Triv associates or hangers-on who are ailing at the moment. Glenners, have a look at Pharmacy2U, you can just order your prescriptions online, and a few days later they're delivered by the postman. Works for me.
Take care, the rest of you.
Gude Eftermorgen Trivialites! Good morneve, all!
Get well soon any Trivs or Triv associates or hangers-on who are ailing at the moment. Glenners, have a look at Pharmacy2U, you can just order your prescriptions online, and a few days later they're delivered by the postman. Works for me.
Take care, the rest of you.
Thanks for the handy tip D O'L.
Unfortunately, I have spotted two potential weak links in your FarmerC2U suggestion:
Firstly, I am not very good with the 'on-line' stuff.
Despite my railway working experiences, I prefer to leave that kind of stuff to people that are far better qualified, such as our very own P5BNij.
Secondly, my faith in the modern postal system is hovering at precisely the Zero mark.
I am still waiting for an appointment letter that was posted to me by Wythenshaw Hospital on 9th October, advising me of the scheduled time and date of my first heart op, subsequently postponed twice.
We sometimes receive first class letters that take 10 days to arrive, but unfortunately not addressed to us, but to people that live in a different street with a different postcode.
Generally, in our recent experience, today's Postal Service is totally unfit for purpose.
It has been in steady decline ever since the parcel postal system was privatised and thrown open to tender, and has been a race to the bottom of the heap.
Sitrep:
This morning at 11:00hrs, I went for a routine check-up at the Dentist. He says my tooth is good, just a shame about the rest of me!
He says my tongue is showing signs of ulcers and translucency(?) and there are cold sores in the soft tissues of my mouth, most likely due to some of the meds I'm on.
I do keep accidentally chewing the inside of my mouth behind my bottom lip, but only at mealtimes.
I get more gravy that way!
My nose is prone to minor bleeding and so is my other end, probably because of the blood thinners and Auntie Kwajulance.
But I'm getting out & about more lately.
Yesterday I walked about two miles in total, calling in at EB's along the way to drag him & FrankieDoggie out for walkies. She didn't need much encouragement and was soooo pleased to see me.
As I reported yesterday, I needed some more anal geesics (codeine phosphate) so I called in at my GP Practice and one of the receptionists kindly said she would do her best to get a doctor to authorise it that very day and she would phone me to let me know when to pick it up from the pharmacy.
She rang just after 17:00hrs and said it was ready.
I persuaded Mrs Robbo to drive there to pick it up and also give Our Son & Frankie a lift home.
She came back without the tablets, because they had no stock and would have to order them, probably available on Thursday pm or Friday. After some discussion, they gave her a prescription slip which she then took to their other branch in H/Grove.
Yes, they had stock, but NO, they were unable to supply them because I wasn't registered with them. WTAF??? 😖
Today I walked from the dentists' to that nearby second Pharmacy with the prescription slip but again they wouldn't serve me because I wasn't registered with them, which is ridiculous, a GP scrip should be valid at ANY pharmacy in the country!
"No.We can't do that, it's all electronic now!"
"Well that's a pretty poor retrograde step, isn't it?"
No answer came the sternum reply.
Impasse?
I offered to sit there in pain for as long as necessary, until they acted to resolve their ridiculous beaurocratic company interbranch red tape.They then said they would enquire with their other branch and in the end, three telephone calls later, they promised that the other branch would have them there at 12 noon, so I had to walk a further half mile up the A6 to their sister branch in Asda, where they magically produced them. TA~DAH!!!
Just like that! Magic.
It's strange how you can order a few grams of coke or a bag of crystal meth or smack and they will be delivered to your door faster than a pizza, but prescription drugs can take days to get hold of.
So today I have walked about 1½ miles so far.
Excellent.
To celebrate beating the County Lines cartel, I have made myself a nice Cuppachickensoup
Because I'm wutthut!
Byker, I do love your Cerb. Almost as much as beautiful Asha's flashy earrings!
Snowy, I hope you manage to get the jabs you need to give you adequate protection during the coming winter months.
And now, back to the Towers...
Jordie Barretts sock said:
In other non Rosso Pearl related news, the bumper is still fully in place on the Auris.
Well done JBS, may this happy Status Quo continue far into the future...https://youtu.be/Ik3MGcjZDBE?si=YTomBctUwo3n0lNH
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