Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 29)

[DickyC]

I'm delivering a car to a nautical chap this afternoon. His name is Jon Kidd.

Jon Kidd. Nautical.

I don't know how I can prevent myself bringing Johnny Kidd and the Pirates into the conversation.

I'll be shakin all over.

[fatboy18]

DickyC said:

I'm delivering a car to a nautical chap this afternoon. His name is Jon Kidd.

Jon Kidd. Nautical.

I don't know how I can prevent myself bringing Johnny Kidd and the Pirates into the conversation.

I'll be shakin all over.

Lots of Arrrgh's from those Pirates,
Careful if he meets you on Crutches, Could Be Long John Silver....

J Kidd could be a Female!

[fatboy18]

DickyC said:

glenrobbo said:

alorotom said:

Bobberoo99 said:

resembles a cross between an office block and a prison!!!!

One and the same they are my friend

Not strickly true my good man.
I think you'll find that most prison inmates serve much shorter sentences than those poor unfortunates incarcerated in office blocks..

My parents retired to Salcombe in Devon to an Arts and Crafts style chalet overlooking the estuary. All the houses in the road were of a similar age but interesting in their differing sizes and styles. One of my dad's last projects was to successfully object to planning permission being granted for a house next door to them. When they moved there next door was a double plot with a house that had been split into two apartments. The cost of reunifying them was prohibitive and developers submitted plans. Dad followed the process through all its stages objecting all the while. At the final hurdle as he and the developers presented their last ditch arguments it occurred to him that the committee hadn't realised what it was they had been deliberating about. They hadn't been able to visualise it. The plan came as a surprise to them at the final meeting. The plan put forward was for a simple flat roofed block covering virtually the whole plot as high as the top of the pitched roof of the building it replaced. Saying it was Bauhaus would have been doing Bauhaus a disservice. It was a block. As a single dwelling it would have been stunning to live in; a model of convenience with the most extraordinary view out to sea. But outside it was awful. To come across it among the cottages would have been a real shock to the senses. Dad won, the plan was thrown out and the developers sold to a local builder who put up a modern chalet style house. It's a smashing house, sympathetic to its surroundings. My mum still moans about it being an eyesore. Gawd knows what she would be saying if the block had been built.

I know Salcombe well.

[coopedup]

Bobberoo99 said:

coopedup said:

Morning all, had a new guy join the site team on Monday, he did not come back after lunch yesterday

What did you do to the poor man?!?!?


Youf of today init.
Sadly they don't seem to cope too well with real work and this guy was 35 FFS!!

[Jim AK]

fatboy18 said:

know Salcombe well.

Famous for Crabs if nothing else

[fatboy18]

Jim AK said:

fatboy18 said:

know Salcombe well.

Famous for Crabs if nothing else

And D-Day invasion fleets!

[Bobberoo99]

I have failed, I am a huge disappointment, I should be disembowled disavowed, I've let you all down!!!! I got distracted and forgot to take a picture of the officeblockprisonwarehouse thing down the road!!!

[DickyC]

fatboy18 said:

know Salcombe well.

I'll see you in the Victoria Inn in Fore Street for a pint of Salcombe.

My dad was a regular after he could no longer manage the steps at the yacht club. The landlady and landlord, Liz and Tim, came to his funeral.

[Pericoloso]

Yesterday I saw one of those old Audi 100s ,that were advertised with the amazing drag coefficency of 0.30 ,from about 1983 ,it was a

Quattro Avant ,so probably quite rare.

So today I look at its MOT history ,because nosey ,it failed on the same CV boot in 2017 as it did in 2015 and it only does 1-2000

miles per annum......116,000 miles total.

[DickyC]

fatboy18 said:

Jim AK said:

fatboy18 said:

know Salcombe well.

Famous for Crabs if nothing else

And D-Day invasion fleets!

There are some stories there.

My grandsons were monumentally unimpressed with the Sherman tank at Slaoton Sands. They did like the fish and chips though.

[Pericoloso]

I just mistook Salcombe for Saltash ,which isn't in Devon anyway ,it be Cornwall....

[fatboy18]

DickyC said:

fatboy18 said:

Jim AK said:

fatboy18 said:

know Salcombe well.

Famous for Crabs if nothing else

And D-Day invasion fleets!

There are some stories there.

My grandsons were monumentally unimpressed with the Sherman tank at Slaoton Sands. They did like the fish and chips though.

Have you read the book on the story of the Tank recovery?
I've got it, its a very good read.

[DickyC]

fatboy18 said:

ave you read the book on the story of the Tank recovery?
I've got it, its a very good read.

I shall look out for it. The guy who masterminded it was a dynamo judging by what I read on the information boards.

[DickyC]

Just so you know, it is taters on Platform 7 of Reading Station.

"The 19.01 is delayed by approximately twenty seven minutes due to lineside equipment problems."

Sake.

[Pericoloso]

Ask them to shift the taters off the platform and then the train can do it's thang.

[fatboy18]

DickyC said:

fatboy18 said:

ave you read the book on the story of the Tank recovery?
I've got it, its a very good read.

I shall look out for it. The guy who masterminded it was a dynamo judging by what I read on the information boards.

Yes, and he didn't half have a lot of red tape to cut through!

Slapton Sands.

[fatboy18]

DickyC said:

Just so you know, it is taters on Platform 7 of Reading Station.

"The 19.01 is delayed by approximately twenty seven minutes due to lineside equipment problems."

Sake.

OK, who's nicked the copper cable this time?

[Pericoloso]

I have a thing this weekend ,looks like the weather isn't going tits out till middle of next week.

It won't be warm there though.

Dusting off gloves.

[Bobberoo99]

I've just cracked open a bottle of 12yr old Glenlivet that Mrs Bobbers bought for me on Valentine's day, haven't had Genlivet for ages and had forgotten how good it is!!!

[DickyC]

fatboy18 said:

Slapton Sands.

Yes. Sorry. I typed Slapton Sands. Slaotan Sands was what my phone thought i meant.

Mind you, in addition to proper names, it changes perfectly normal words into slightly unusual words for no reason I can discern. A phone with a sense of mischief. What will they think of next?