Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 28)

[DickyC]

McAndy said:

Okili-dokilington.

From Ducklington I caught the buslington to Oxford to catch the trainlington to Newbury via Readlington.

[McAndy]

It does appear to work! Rosetta-Stone will be out of business by the end of the year, Rodney.

[DickyC]

Rosetta are you better?
Are you well, well, well?

[Bomma220]

Alan Price? Or might have been Georgie Fame. Might have been both of them, come to think of it.

Anyhow, we've finalised our forthcoming bank holiday arrangements. We're off to Northumberland with the Granddaughter.

I've bought a metal detector so we can do some beachcombing for a bit of fun.

Reminds me of a story, joke, urban myth, call it what you will - that I heard years ago.

It's about a chap who bought a metal detector and decided to try it out on a beach. He set the thing up, started off and got an instant hit on the area he was searching.
He got his spade and tentatively started digging, nothing apparently there.
Tried the detector again, got another good hit.
Dug some more, still nothing.
Switched back on, another hit, dug some more. This pattern continued for a few hours.
After shifting around 30 tons of sand, he realised he was wearing steel toe-cap boots...

[DickyC]

By last evening I had run out of bread for my sandwiches so I bought a pack of four white rolls as a treat. They tasted as if they were made from white flour and wood glue.

Yuck.

[anonymous-user]

Pushfit PLC has never been so inundated. I was stuck on the M62 yesterday and was half an hour late to Birmingham so I'm just contemplating what I can do to avoid the knock on effect otherwise I'm going to be half an hour late for Christmas dinner this year.

[DickyC]

It'll be fine. We'll just set the clocks here forward by half an hour and no one will notice.

[Bomma220]

I was going to suggest Mrs Pushfit serving Christmas dinner an hour later than normal?

That way he'll get his half hour back plus it'd give us an extra half hour in the B&L.

[anonymous-user]

Thanks for the offer but isn't the bell tower out of bounds after the last episode when Spud McHump did a TT 10,000 post celebratory peel with his head when drunk and knocked himself out into the mechanism?
If anyone has a long pole I suppose the hands could be moved from ground level though.

[Bomma220]

Well, if we can't do it with a long pole there's always Percy 'Washing Line' Slider with his abseil kit.

His rescue attempt during the Brassington windmill business was a marvellous spectacle.

As the Paramedics said, it was a bloody shame we couldn't find anything better than a packet of Wilko cup hooks at the time.

[DickyC]

V6Pushfit said:

If anyone has a long pole I suppose the hands could be moved from ground level though.

If I find someone has moved the billiard cue from beside my bed there will be repercussions. I need it to switch off the light. You know how dark it gets with blackout curtains.

[anonymous-user]

Maybe repeated hits at an angle from a .577 Martini Henry would do it

[Bomma220]

It'd certainly be worth bringing it along anyway.

We could get rid of some of the pigeons if nothing else.

[DickyC]

V6Pushfit said:

Maybe repeated hits at an angle from a .577 Martini Henry would do it

Reminds me of Bedroom Light Extinguishing Plan A where I simply shot the light out. This was indisputably successful but I got fed up with Battert going on and on about constantly replacing bulbs.

[ali_kat]

Mate has trained his dog to turn the light off/on when he puts the laser pointer 'dot' on it

[Bomma220]

DickyC said:

Reminds me of Bedroom Light Extinguishing Plan A where I simply shot the light out. This was indisputably successful but I got fed up with Battert going on and on about constantly replacing bulbs.

I remember the Holland & Holland 12 bore, lovely old thing that was.

Did you ever get the coving replaced?

[Adenauer]

lucido grigio said:

Meant for Adenauer.

I assume you heard about my epic failure to get to Dollendorf Friday night from Lee or Clare .....

I went up the road through Wimbach and heading to Barweiler when I decided I was lost and turned back to Adenau.

Just looked at a better map view ,if i'd kept going I'd have got to the 258 that I needed.

I went through Quiddelbach twice trying to find the right road and got hopelessly lost and just drove all the way to Mettet

in Belgium instead........DOH !......

Well done.

[lucido grigio]

Adenauer said:

Well done.

It was VERY dark out there.....

Who just mentioned Sat Nav ?....

ETA....the closure at the junction of 257 and 258 was the biggest problem I couldn't get round.

[ali_kat]

After a nightmare few weeks with one thing going wrong ish after another, we're feeling a lot happier about the 'new' house tonight

Double glazing quote has come in at 1/2 the budget we'd guessed

Found a CH Engineer that was on the same page as us & a lot cheaper than other quotes

Just waiting for the sparks to send us his quote...

Shame we've had a major amount of rainwater enter the cellar somehow, that made us a little (ok VERY!) despondent last night, but we think we've found the source & we can fix that too

Touch wood things stay this way now

[DickyC]

lucido grigio said:

....the closure at the junction of 257 and 258 was the biggest problem I couldn't get round.

No, no, no. Radio 1 was originally on 247 then moved to 275 and 285 despite 247 being clearer.

Woke up one morning half asleep
With all my blankets in a heap