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

[Scrump]

Bobberoo99 said:

Just for you Scrump

Indeed I also forgot to wish Madam Magoo a very happy birthday!!!

Third cup of coffee!!!!

Thanks. Now I feel ready to get out of bed.

Paddling pools! Did you take your speedos to work or are you going skinny dipping?

[Bomma R1]

Morning all

Happy Birthday to Mme Magoo, Many Happy Returns

Here's a nice cake we've got ready:

[Bomma R1]

It should be safe enough...

[Bobberoo99]

Scrump said:

Bobberoo99 said:

Just for you Scrump

Indeed I also forgot to wish Madam Magoo a very happy birthday!!!

Third cup of coffee!!!!

Thanks. Now I feel ready to get out of bed.

Paddling pools! Did you take your speedos to work or are you going skinny dipping?

Yep, all ready for a splash around!!!

[Bomma R1]

Right, that's that sorted then.

Incidentally, has anyone seen the keys for the airfield fire truck lately?

[DickyC]

Bomma R1 said:

Right, that's that sorted then.

Incidentally, has anyone seen the keys for the airfield fire truck lately?

Ask Battert Clone 004.

[glenrobbo]

Bomma R1 said:

Right, that's that sorted then.

Incidentally, has anyone seen the keys for the airfield fire truck lately?

Have you checked above the sun visor?

[fatboy18]

Just switched the Central Heating on!

[Pericoloso]

glenrobbo said:

Have you checked above the sun visor?

Usually left in the ignition , sometimes the engine is left running ,the record being 3 weeks ,4 days and 7.5 hours .

[Bomma R1]

It's no good, we've had to wheel the cake outside. It's spinning a bit too quickly

Never mind, we'll have this one instead:



Be a lot safer.

[Bomma R1]

DickyC said:

Bomma R1 said:

Right, that's that sorted then.

Incidentally, has anyone seen the keys for the airfield fire truck lately?

Ask Battert Clone 004.

Good Lord, is that really you old boy? What on earth are you doing perched up there?

[Bomma R1]

And what the devil are you wearing?

[DickyC]

Bomma R1 said:

DickyC said:

Bomma R1 said:

Right, that's that sorted then.

Incidentally, has anyone seen the keys for the airfield fire truck lately?

Ask Battert Clone 004.

Good Lord, is that really you old boy? What on earth are you doing perched up there?

It's part of my Fear of Heights Therapy. And it seems to be working. My fear of heights has been completely displaced by a fear of gravity.

[glenrobbo]

DickyC said:

Ask Battert Clone 004.

That's it!! Great idea for this Volume's title!

TUSRTAYL Vol 34: Attack of the Colons.

[DickyC]

Bomma R1 said:

And what the devil are you wearing?

It's a home made collision suit fashioned from bubble wrap and Sellotape.

I'm waving. Cooey.

Ooh-er.

I've now stopped waving and gone back to clinging on with both bubble wrap mittens.

[Dibble]

Pericoloso said:

glenrobbo said:

Have you checked above the sun visor?

Usually left in the ignition , sometimes the engine is left running ,the record being 3 weeks ,4 days and 7.5 hours .

Morning all. I’m recovering after a 2km dune walk with The Idiot and GF yesterday morning, a 20km bike ride yesterday evening with GF and then a solo 2km flat outing with The idiot at 7am this morning. My arse hurts. My legs hurt. My back hurts. I’m ok lying down or standing up/walking, it’s the transition between, which is tricky/painful.

IOTN, a mate of mine is an engineer, specialising in power station gas turbines. He was working on a new build gas power station in Russia a few years ago, which was at least as complicated as you’d imagine. The lead consortium contractor was an Irish construction firm, but they also had, amongst others, Turkish, French and Russian companies there. No one read any of the plans and each firm did their own thing. No one liked anyone else. All sorts of shenanigans ensued, with stuff like high pressure steam pipes having loads of 90° bends in, when they were supposed to be straight. Both the Turkish and the Russians wanted to put in the walkway around the top of the chimney stack. Management negotiated they could do half each. The Turkish guys went up and installed their half, then the Russians went and installed their half, only a metre higher... obviously with no sort of transition/fencing between the two circumferential halves, just a one metre height difference, 100 metres up.

Anyway, back to the point. The new power station was next to an old Soviet-era peat fired power station, which wasn’t decommissioned as such, everyone just got up and left. There was a diesel train in the sidings, which was just left running until the diesel in it ran out. All the offices/control rooms were left unlocked and he got some great photos. It was in a place called Shatura, only 100 miles or so east of Moscow, but about 3 1/2 hours’ drive. 40°C in summer, minus 40°C in winter...

He had some photos of the site canteen in a Portakabin. It looked quite fancy (comparatively speaking), bottles of mineral water on every 4 man table. Except they weren’t mineral water, they were three one litre bottles of vodka, which got finished, every day, without fail. They had to leave the gates open for the goods delivery yard, as pissed up Russian truckers would just drive straight through, whether they were closed or open. They did away with the fence soon after, for similar reasons!

[Pericoloso]

More engines left running stories .

It was one of those celebs go for a drive on the dangerous roads of the world tv progs and on one of them the guide said they just left

all vehicles running all day all night as it was so cold that they just froze up if switched off.

That be cold.

[Bomma R1]

DickyC said:

Bomma R1 said:

And what the devil are you wearing?

It's a home made collision suit fashioned from bubble wrap and Sellotape.

I'm waving. Cooey.

Ooh-er.

I've now stopped waving and gone back to clinging on with both bubble wrap mittens.

Hellfire. Look, just hold on tight, I'll go and fetch the telehandler and a ladder.

[Pericoloso]

Bomma R1 said:

Hellfire. Look, just hold on tight, I'll go and fetch the telehandler and a ladder.

Good luck with that ,keys for that are in my pocket......soz .

I need to find something else to do , maybe go and look at the void.

Not sure what the sit rep is on weather .

[Bobberoo99]

Bomma R1 said:

DickyC said:

Bomma R1 said:

And what the devil are you wearing?

It's a home made collision suit fashioned from bubble wrap and Sellotape.

I'm waving. Cooey.

Ooh-er.

I've now stopped waving and gone back to clinging on with both bubble wrap mittens.

Hellfire. Look, just hold on tight, I'll go and fetch the telehandler and a ladder.

Pericoloso said:

Bomma R1 said:

Hellfire. Look, just hold on tight, I'll go and fetch the telehandler and a ladder.

Good luck with that ,keys for that are in my pocket......soz .

I need to find something else to do , maybe go and look at the void.

Not sure what the sit rep is on weather .

This is going to be interesting, I wonder just how long a bubble wrap mitten wearing Dicky can hang off a tower like that? And I wonder if Bomma's going to try hot wiring the telehandler like before, I mean it worked, sort of, apart from the whole back is forward, forward is backwards thing!!!! Of course Peri could just bring the keys back, but where would the fun it that be???