Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 29)
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I had a Simon Snorkel fire engine:
Marvellous thing it was, one of my favourite toys when I was a nipper.
Thinking about it, I used to have a bit of a fascination with fire engines. I had another one with a working hose pipe, you filled the tank up with water and pressed a little plunger on the top to make the hose work.
Sometimes I'd fill it up with some paraffin from dad's shed. Quite spectacular when one of your pals is trying to extinguish a blazing Airfix model...
Marvellous thing it was, one of my favourite toys when I was a nipper.
Thinking about it, I used to have a bit of a fascination with fire engines. I had another one with a working hose pipe, you filled the tank up with water and pressed a little plunger on the top to make the hose work.
Sometimes I'd fill it up with some paraffin from dad's shed. Quite spectacular when one of your pals is trying to extinguish a blazing Airfix model...
fatboy18 said:
DickyC said:
Sorry about the rain, it's my fault. Of my vast collection of Workmates I left the most recent one outside in the elements overnight.
Well, it was dry when I left it out.
So its your fault I was standing on the roof of an Art Gallery today in Surrey trying to find the leak in the roof!Well, it was dry when I left it out.
I say attempt as the showers are on Prestex buttons so it wasn’t much of a flood.
Or protest.
Bomma220 said:
I had a Simon Snorkel fire engine:
Marvellous thing it was, one of my favourite toys when I was a nipper.
Thinking about it, I used to have a bit of a fascination with fire engines. I had another one with a working hose pipe, you filled the tank up with water and pressed a little plunger on the top to make the hose work.
Sometimes I'd fill it up with some paraffin from dad's shed. Quite spectacular when one of your pals is trying to extinguish a blazing Airfix model...
Why do I always think of the local kid my parents didn`t like me being with when you post stories like that?Marvellous thing it was, one of my favourite toys when I was a nipper.
Thinking about it, I used to have a bit of a fascination with fire engines. I had another one with a working hose pipe, you filled the tank up with water and pressed a little plunger on the top to make the hose work.
Sometimes I'd fill it up with some paraffin from dad's shed. Quite spectacular when one of your pals is trying to extinguish a blazing Airfix model...
Did your Father own a Humber or an American car, are your initials MH?
Bomma & the f
king Pelican!!!Do you mean this Fire Engine?
I had one too, it became incontinent after I dropped it or something!
Had one of these too. Had about 6 little ladders you could join together & fit to the top of the truck ladder iirc.
Bomma220 said:
I had a Simon Snorkel fire engine:
Marvellous thing it was, one of my favourite toys when I was a nipper.
Thinking about it, I used to have a bit of a fascination with fire engines. I had another one with a working hose pipe, you filled the tank up with water and pressed a little plunger on the top to make the hose work.
Sometimes I'd fill it up with some paraffin from dad's shed. Quite spectacular when one of your pals is trying to extinguish a blazing Airfix model...
Did any pals end up as a ball of fire hurtling across the garden? And did all this hose, water and spray stuff manifest itself in later life as err ahem ‘waterworks problems’ ?Marvellous thing it was, one of my favourite toys when I was a nipper.
Thinking about it, I used to have a bit of a fascination with fire engines. I had another one with a working hose pipe, you filled the tank up with water and pressed a little plunger on the top to make the hose work.
Sometimes I'd fill it up with some paraffin from dad's shed. Quite spectacular when one of your pals is trying to extinguish a blazing Airfix model...
Jim AK said:
Why do I always think of the local kid my parents didn`t like me being with when you post stories like that?
Did your Father own a Humber or an American car, are your initials MH?
Bomma & the fking Pelican!!!
Do you mean this Fire Engine?
I had one too, it became incontinent after I dropped it or something!
Had one of these too. Had about 6 little ladders you could join together & fit to the top of the truck ladder iirc.
Not guilty on the Humber or initials charge Jim! Did your Father own a Humber or an American car, are your initials MH?
Bomma & the f
king Pelican!!!Do you mean this Fire Engine?
I had one too, it became incontinent after I dropped it or something!
Had one of these too. Had about 6 little ladders you could join together & fit to the top of the truck ladder iirc.
The Dinky fire engine is indeed the same as I had, marvellous little thing.
Funnily enough I had one of the American turntable ladder things too, though mine was quite a rough example with a few bits missing. I seem to recall I got it from the lad next door in exchange for letting him have a few shots with my air pistol. Happy days!
V6Pushfit said:
Did any pals end up as a ball of fire hurtling across the garden? And did all this hose, water and spray stuff manifest itself in later life as err ahem ‘waterworks problems’ ?
I recall 'Flamazine' Phil lost his eyebrows and a good bit of his hair when we were called to a chip pan fire in his sister's dolls' house. Lost a gable end and most of the roof on that one, got a proper rollicking from his mum.The water thing didn't really have any great effect on my later behaviour. Mind, a place I worked had a communal shower block and some bugger put bright red drain tracing dye in the header tank.
Looked like a scene from a horror film. The guilty party was never found
V6Pushfit said:
Did any pals end up as a ball of fire hurtling across the garden?
The battle with air rifles stopped abruptly when Jim Delaney was shot right in the midfle of his forehead when he stuck his head above the parapet. I never completey understood their domestic arrangements but at least Jim, his mum and her father lived in the same large house. His mum was worried by the bulging 'third eye' wound but his grandfather was apoplectic. He was going to call an ambulance and the police and find the boy responsible. Our fear was a one man lynching party. Jim's mum reasoned with her father. Perhaps Jim wasn't an innocent caught in cross fire. Perhaps he had been involved.She won the old boy round eventually by appealing to the retired Colonel in him. Jim joined up a couple of years later but I suspect he was never commissioned.
Blimey! I`m amazed some of us still have their liberty with all these shenanigans going on.
In Trivtastic mode; Jeremy Beadle had a dog called Shenanigan, Golden Retriever I think.
In Rose tinted specs mode; Mrs Jim AK thinks all my old Tonka Toys, the proper metal ones, are still in the loft at `The Rents` gaff.
In Trivtastic mode; Jeremy Beadle had a dog called Shenanigan, Golden Retriever I think.
In Rose tinted specs mode; Mrs Jim AK thinks all my old Tonka Toys, the proper metal ones, are still in the loft at `The Rents` gaff.
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