Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 34)

[glenrobbo]

DickyC said:

Pretty little flowers.

The hawthorn.

I'm not just reciting random niceties.

We used to have a hawthorn tree. I called it Mike.

And our front lawn was named after another famous British racing driver.

[slopes]

eh?? wozzat??
Page 2 alarm you say??

Right, which one of you lot is on alarm duty today?? Eh? who?

Step forward

[glenrobbo]

slopes said:

eh?? wozzat??
Page 2 alarm you say??

Right, which one of you lot is on alarm duty today?? Eh? who?

Step forward

It's Friday, slopes. You are.

It's not me, I'm too old to do Fridays.

I'm thinking of handing over my duty slot to StuntmanMike. He seems to have learnt the ropes fairly rapidly.

[slopes]

glenrobbo said:

slopes said:

eh?? wozzat??
Page 2 alarm you say??

Right, which one of you lot is on alarm duty today?? Eh? who?

Step forward

It's Friday, slopes. You are.

It's not me, I'm too old to do Fridays.

I'm thinking of handing over my duty slot to StuntmanMike. He seems to have learnt the ropes fairly rapidly.

Nope, i don't do page alarms, i do grumpy short arse things didn't you read the memo??

[Bobberoo99]

Shopping delivered to MIL, chaged her bed sheets while I was there, now queuing to get into the local farm shop, took a slightly longer detour from MIL's to here, it was good to stretch the legs on the awesome Rioja Blue Racing Focus!!!!

[glenrobbo]

slopes said:

Nope, i don't do page alarms, i do grumpy short arse things didn't you read the memo??

Yes, I read the memo, but there have been two more memos which have countermanded that particular memo, and clearly stating that the Friday page alarm duty was placed squarely on the shoulders of your good self, except for Bank Holidays and Bar Mitzvahs.
You really should try to keep up to date.

Mind you, everything is still in a state of flux since Dicky announced his imminent withdrawal.

I knew it would result in confusion..

( No change there, then, eh? )

[Dibble]

Nartnin’

I’m not a fan of the NHS clapping thing, either. Not because I don’t think they don’t do good work, they absolutely do (the majority of them) and “my” current team at the limb reconstruction unit are all brilliant. I’ve just never been a fan of “joining in” and I don’t react well when I’m told how to behave/what I should do.

That said, Southen NHS managed to kill off my brother in law after he’d managed to defeat the odds of his cardiopulmonary condition for the last 30 plus years, so they can fk off.

ION I’ve finally had to cave and book my car into somewhere local to get it fixed/serviced/repaired. I don’t like the thought of being ripped off, so I bought an OBD code reader, which tells me that the engine fault is a P0100, which apparently covers a load of things, but I’m guessing knowing my luck, it’ll be the most expensive thing out of all the options. I think I’ll just get it repaired and save the car buying for a bit. I’m quite taken with a petrol V40 T3 Cross Country (I’d prefer a T4, but they are much rarerererererererer).

[DickyC]

glenrobbo said:

We used to have a hawthorn tree. I called it Mike.

And our front lawn was named after another famous British racing driver.

Just looked up a house I used to pass regularly. It always made me smile and it's for sale!



We could have a whip round and buy it as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Towers.

[slopes]

glenrobbo said:

slopes said:

Nope, i don't do page alarms, i do grumpy short arse things didn't you read the memo??

Yes, I read the memo, but there have been two more memos which have countermanded that particular memo, and clearly stating that the Friday page alarm duty was placed squarely on the shoulders of your good self, except for Bank Holidays and Bar Mitzvahs.
You really should try to keep up to date.

Mind you, everything is still in a state of flux since Dicky announced his imminent withdrawal.

I knew it would result in confusion..

( No change there, then, eh? )

You didn't see the memo from yesterday then? That said unless you want a really grumpy short arse, armed with long distance ability, to be pissed off at you, then he is exmpt from page alarm duties. It was signed and stamped so nope, not my role squire.

And nope, we do confusion very well.

[Dibble]

I’ve just saved us from page two. Near oblivion, frankly.


You’re welcome.

[Bobberoo99]

Aaannndddd I'm back!!!
Thought I'd leave the local farm shop by the rear entrance, oooh er missus, and see if our local tip was open, it was indeed but the queue was around 50 cars long, so I carried on past and came home!!
On the way out this morning I noticed my neighbour opposite was tinkering with his car so stopped for a natter and asked if he happened to have a bit of aluminium plate kicking around, he has a shed full of useful stuff, he asked what it was for so I explained I needed to make a little bracket, he said I think I have just the thing, upon my return this was on my doormat with a note asking "any good for what you need?" Superb!!!

[glenrobbo]

slopes said:

You didn't see the memo from yesterday then? That said unless you want a really grumpy short arse, armed with long distance ability, to be pissed off at you, then he is exmpt from page alarm duties. It was signed and stamped so nope, not my role squire.

And nope, we do confusion very well.

Listen slopes, I don't care if you put a red dot on my forehead and dress me in a sari, I don't give a st because I'm far too old to die young!

The last memo countermanding the previous memo revising the content of the preceeding memo which updated the amended duty roster was issued at 02:45 hrs this morning.

So take your Barrett back to the armoury and give it a good pull-through, there's a good chap.

If you bump me off, I'll see to it that you get lumbered with my duties on top of your own.
Whatever my duties are. So there!

[slopes]

glenrobbo said:

slopes said:

You didn't see the memo from yesterday then? That said unless you want a really grumpy short arse, armed with long distance ability, to be pissed off at you, then he is exmpt from page alarm duties. It was signed and stamped so nope, not my role squire.

And nope, we do confusion very well.

Listen slopes, I don't care if you put a red dot on my forehead and dress me in a sari, I don't give a st because I'm far too old to die young!

The last memo countermanding the previous memo revising the content of the preceeding memo which updated the amended duty roster was issued at 02:45 hrs this morning.

So take your Barrett back to the armoury and give it a good pull-through, there's a good chap.

If you bump me off, I'll see to it that you get lumbered with my duties on top of your own.
Whatever my duties are. So there!

What was that you said? Far too old to what??
Oh i see, far too old to leave a half decent looking corpse you say. Harsh but okay i can see that

It's a MacMillan ackcherly


Just seen the saddest sight, a hearse going down the road with a coffin in it, one wreath that says dad and nobody following it.
How sad that you lose your father and cant even attend the funeral.

[Mariosbt]

glenrobbo said:

Bobbers,
You can't blame God.
It wasn't God's fault, it was Boris and the select team of scientific advisors* and possibly some eating bats and pangolin.

* SAGE - great when mixed with chopped onions, breadcrumbs and beaten egg: and used to stuff us all.

Pangolins ... now there IS a wonderful little creature, wandering round in its suit of armour, minding its own business. I F#ck!ng hate some nations and their savages. ... I wish I could say rant over but not a chance. Pangolins running round my head all day now.

[Mariosbt]

Bobberoo99 said:

DickyC said:

No, I won't start that argument with him, Bobbers, but I might reawaken the dormant disagreement about his fking hedge*. Unable to go to the tip at present I'll put all the clippings in his drive.

That'll show him.

* Hedge. A loose term he and I use to describe the thicket on his boundary made up of 10% holly, 10% pollarded chestnut, 30% unknown and 50% hawthorn. They're not garden people. Grrr.

We've got a couple of holly saplings growing at the bottom of the garden in our wild corner, I have no idea what Pollard chestnut is, or to be honest hawthorn, but this unknown you speak of, we have loads of that in our wild corner!!!!!

Aw! Wild corner...everyone should have one

[StuntmanMike]

Hedges, lawns cut and dog walked.

Just had this thing from Aldi for dinner, don’t know what they call it but it’s peppers stuffed with a cream cheese.

They cost 1.49 and are generally with the olive type snacks.

[StuntmanMike]

Is the Dicmeister still messing with his neighbours bush?

[Bright Halo]

Are you sure that wasn’t cream cheese surrounded by a pepper?
Completely different but much more expensive at £1.51

[Mariosbt]

glenrobbo said:

DickyC said:

Pretty little flowers.

The hawthorn.

I'm not just reciting random niceties.

We used to have a hawthorn tree. I called it Mike.

And our front lawn was named after another famous British racing driver.

We have Xmas tree called TERRY. We bought him in a small red pot from Asda 3years ago. He has grown a lot since we adopted him. Much better than buying a ‘cut off’ tree IMO. Once a year the missus puts lights on him... for some reason.

[P5BNij]

StuntmanMike said:

Bobberoo99 said:

DickyC said:

No, I won't start that argument with him, Bobbers, but I might reawaken the dormant disagreement about his fking hedge*. Unable to go to the tip at present I'll put all the clippings in his drive.

That'll show him.

* Hedge. A loose term he and I use to describe the thicket on his boundary made up of 10% holly, 10% pollarded chestnut, 30% unknown and 50% hawthorn. They're not garden people. Grrr.

We've got a couple of holly saplings growing at the bottom of the garden in our wild corner, I have no idea what Pollard chestnut is, or to be honest hawthorn, but this unknown you speak of, we have loads of that in our wild corner!!!!!

Pollard was a dodgy geezer in old school Emmerdale Farm, first name Eric.
Do you think this could be Dicmeisters real identity and he wants us to find out?

Anyway, morning all, it is overcast on the Shropshire/Cheshire border.
It is also overcast in Aspie and the Hondón valley in Spain, where it will rain all weekend and normal scorchio service will resume next week.

Warning - pointless trivia content alert viz a viz Cheshire : it has the most boring bit of railway line running through it, namely the twenty four mile, four track section between Stafford and Crewe, apart from the bit that branches off to Stoke-upon-the-actual-Trent it's so bland that when learning the route with another driver twenty odd years ago I fell asleep twice. The only item of interest along the way is the old Victorian pumping station at Mill Meece, which looks like a plastic model from a Hornby train set plonked next to the track.

IOTN some more books and dvds have just arrived, including a bonkers Russ Meyer film called 'Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls' which I remember seeing on late night telly back in the '80s and a fine little volume on Plymouth muscle cars. It's all go in 1970 I tell you.

IOOTN, I had to ask Mrs.P5B what day it was this morning, I've spent so much time inside Kilsby tunnel this past fortnight I've lost all track of time.

Some dolls, beyond the valley....