Tell us something really trivial about your life Volume 40
Discussion
Bomma R1 said:
Didn't the Great Fire of London start in a bakery or some such?
I only ask as Battert's made a start on Sunday lunch, he's been over to the hangar looking for firelighters.
Oh, no! When he starts late he goes for speed over quality. And quantity. And decorum. And life and limb.I only ask as Battert's made a start on Sunday lunch, he's been over to the hangar looking for firelighters.
Do you still have the Fire Brigade on Speed Dial?
DickyC said:
Bomma R1 said:
Didn't the Great Fire of London start in a bakery or some such?
I only ask as Battert's made a start on Sunday lunch, he's been over to the hangar looking for firelighters.
Oh, no! When he starts late he goes for speed over quality. And quantity. And decorum. And life and limb.I only ask as Battert's made a start on Sunday lunch, he's been over to the hangar looking for firelighters.
Do you still have the Fire Brigade on Speed Dial?
Spends a fair bit of time around the Towers these days, he does
So far today I have "dug out" over 200 magazines that someone might buy from me , put them in year order ,count them ,photograph 2 piles of them and now exhausted . 
32 years of them to be exact ,car club magazines ,bi monthly so 6 per year .
I have ordered lunch from the kitchen staff and shall now scoff the lot and then some .
NOM !
I did find a Tweety Pie tax disc holder stuck to one of them , must have stuffed it in a pile of mags ages ago to flatten it out .
Had no idea it was there .
32 years of them to be exact ,car club magazines ,bi monthly so 6 per year .
I have ordered lunch from the kitchen staff and shall now scoff the lot and then some .
NOM !
I did find a Tweety Pie tax disc holder stuck to one of them , must have stuffed it in a pile of mags ages ago to flatten it out .
Had no idea it was there .
Bobberoo said:
So far today I have replaced a number plate bulb in Ivor, had another pay with the audio, went out and filled Ivor up with fuel, bought and consumed lunch, cleaned out the chimnea, and tidied up after our burn session yesterday, and am currently sat watching Silent Witness.
Today's car based activity has mostly consisted of me not being at all arsed to clean the filthy car, and instead changing the selection of CDs around, out went Laurie Johnson's (RIP) 'The Professionals' soundtrack, the EMI loungetastic compilation 'The Sound Gallery' and a rather spiffing Alan Hawkshaw compendium in favour of Lalo Schifrin's soundtracks to 'Bullitt' and 'Dirty Harry, and a slightly worn out copy of the MC5's 'Kick Out The Jams' 
I haven't watched Silent Witness for ages, is the new series any good Bobbers? I've just started on 'The Rockford Files' boxset and it's just as good as I remember it the first time around...
And the theme tune is as catchy as ever
I'll see your Professionals and Rockford Files Nij old boy, and raise you this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evIQoOZZ3Zo&ab...
Good old Jack and George. Proper coppers.
Incidentally, I think Dicky once coined a phrase: "Sits well on the road"
Marvellous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evIQoOZZ3Zo&ab...
Good old Jack and George. Proper coppers.
Incidentally, I think Dicky once coined a phrase: "Sits well on the road"
Marvellous.
P5BNij said:
Bobberoo said:
So far today I have replaced a number plate bulb in Ivor, had another pay with the audio, went out and filled Ivor up with fuel, bought and consumed lunch, cleaned out the chimnea, and tidied up after our burn session yesterday, and am currently sat watching Silent Witness.
Today's car based activity has mostly consisted of me not being at all arsed to clean the filthy car, and instead changing the selection of CDs around, out went Laurie Johnson's (RIP) 'The Professionals' soundtrack, the EMI loungetastic compilation 'The Sound Gallery' and a rather spiffing Alan Hawkshaw compendium in favour of Lalo Schifrin's soundtracks to 'Bullitt' and 'Dirty Harry, and a slightly worn out copy of the MC5's 'Kick Out The Jams' I haven't watched Silent Witness for ages, is the new series any good Bobbers? I've just started on 'The Rockford Files' boxset and it's just as good as I remember it the first time around...
And the theme tune is as catchy as ever
DickyC said:
Bomma R1 said:
Friend of mine subscribed to a 'Bi monthly' magazine, poor fella didn't know what he was letting himself in for.
I think he's still bombarded with emails from the LGBT lot
I had one of those. It had black bumpers so I didn't get waves from chrome bumper wallahs. I think he's still bombarded with emails from the LGBT lot
The car, I mean, not her. Quite tidy, she was, as it goes.
Bomma R1 said:
DickyC said:
Bomma R1 said:
Friend of mine subscribed to a 'Bi monthly' magazine, poor fella didn't know what he was letting himself in for.
I think he's still bombarded with emails from the LGBT lot
I had one of those. It had black bumpers so I didn't get waves from chrome bumper wallahs. I think he's still bombarded with emails from the LGBT lot
The car, I mean, not her. Quite tidy, she was, as it goes.
I'll check.
ETA
Yup. Weird the things I carry in my head. I have a career limiting poor memory. unless it's something that interests me.
Edited by DickyC on Sunday 4th February 16:40
DickyC said:
Bomma R1 said:
DickyC said:
Bomma R1 said:
Friend of mine subscribed to a 'Bi monthly' magazine, poor fella didn't know what he was letting himself in for.
I think he's still bombarded with emails from the LGBT lot
I had one of those. It had black bumpers so I didn't get waves from chrome bumper wallahs. I think he's still bombarded with emails from the LGBT lot
The car, I mean, not her. Quite tidy, she was, as it goes.
I'll check.
Nurse, she was. Met her on holiday in the south of France. Lived in Lancaster, she did. Went up there a few times, had my old white Capri 2.8i at the time.
Happy days
Bomma R1 said:
I'll see your Professionals and Rockford Files Nij old boy, and raise you this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evIQoOZZ3Zo&ab...
Good old Jack and George. Proper coppers.
Incidentally, I think Dicky once coined a phrase: "Sits well on the road"
Marvellous.
Marvelous stuff indeed Bomma. A few years ago a bunch of us visited the location at the end of that clip...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evIQoOZZ3Zo&ab...
Good old Jack and George. Proper coppers.
Incidentally, I think Dicky once coined a phrase: "Sits well on the road"
Marvellous.
Bom - I edited my post to include a pic of a Jubilee model with wheels the same or very similar to the V8. But bronze.
I was working in Wembley Park when they were making The Professionals. Apart from the urban decay surrounding the studio for backdrops, there were also the ruins of the British Empire Exhibition. Ruins, I tell you. Most of the buildings were in ruins anyway. The Stadium was an exception. And the building used as the canteen for the stadium staff. We were allowed to use it if we made way for stadium staff. Dining in The Palace of Art sounded a lot grander than it actually was.
"What do the omelettes contain?"
"Eggs."
I was working in Wembley Park when they were making The Professionals. Apart from the urban decay surrounding the studio for backdrops, there were also the ruins of the British Empire Exhibition. Ruins, I tell you. Most of the buildings were in ruins anyway. The Stadium was an exception. And the building used as the canteen for the stadium staff. We were allowed to use it if we made way for stadium staff. Dining in The Palace of Art sounded a lot grander than it actually was.
"What do the omelettes contain?"
"Eggs."
DickyC said:
Bom - I edited my post to include a pic of a Jubilee model with wheels the same or very similar to the V8. But bronze.
I was working in Wembley Park when they were making The Professionals. Apart from the urban decay surrounding the studio for backdrops, there were also the ruins of the British Empire Exhibition. Ruins, I tell you. Most of the buildings were in ruins anyway. The Stadium was an exception. And the building used as the canteen for the stadium staff. We were allowed to use it if we made way for stadium staff. Dining in The Palace of Art sounded a lot grander than it actually was.
"What do the omelettes contain?"
"Eggs."
Thanks old boy, that's pretty much as I remember it.I was working in Wembley Park when they were making The Professionals. Apart from the urban decay surrounding the studio for backdrops, there were also the ruins of the British Empire Exhibition. Ruins, I tell you. Most of the buildings were in ruins anyway. The Stadium was an exception. And the building used as the canteen for the stadium staff. We were allowed to use it if we made way for stadium staff. Dining in The Palace of Art sounded a lot grander than it actually was.
"What do the omelettes contain?"
"Eggs."
Dreadfully unreliable thing though, I recall we stayed in a hotel around the Stoke area, I had to dry the distributor cap out with a hairdryer.
"What would you do if it was your car, Bomma?"
"Chuck it in a bloody skip and buy an RS2000"
I've never been much cop at relationships.
Bomma R1 said:
P5BNij said:
Marvelous stuff indeed Bomma. A few years ago a bunch of us visited the location at the end of that clip...
Good old NHK295M. Proper old thing, that was.Consul 3000GT, Essex V6.. They don't make 'em like anymore
(One of the lads owns a slightly later Mk1 Granada used in the series though, 'RHJ 996R' I think it is)
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