Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 31)

[Bobberoo99]

Today has been a productive one, I've changed the oil and filter on the Rover and the oil/air/fuel filters and oil AND the bonnet lock on the Focus, meanwhile Mrs Bobbers has been baking!!!

[g3org3y]

Bobberoo99 said:

Today has been a productive one, I've changed the oil and filter on the Rover and the oil/air/fuel filters and oil AND the bonnet lock on the Focus, meanwhile Mrs Bobbers has been baking!!!

Good effort. (need to change the oil on the wife's Polo).

We've been to the garden centre (spent too much money), we've been to Tesco (spent too much money) and walked Haggis (no money spent). Back home now having an ice lolly.

This afternoon will be spent messing around in some dirty holes. Will probably be wrist deep.

[P5BNij]

DickyC said:

Nij - do you fancy being OIC Car Parking?

Why certainly Dicky - but only if I can sit in a bright orange Pontiac Firebird parked on a grassy knoll, wearing a Carroll Shelby rally jacket and smoking a big old stogey, whilst pointing and shouting ''over there, dude... no, over there you goddam pinko limey retard'' to the oncoming hoards as they approach the airfield. Anyone with a beard and no socks looking remotely hiptserish will be directed to follow the arrow signs I've erected all the way around the perimeter fence, meaning they'll just be going round and round in circles until the penny drops, or it gets dark, whichever comes first. Anyone in posh wellies will be put on a train to Yeovil-Pen-Do-As-You-Please-Let's-Do-Reading-Next-Year-Hermione and told never to darken our door step again. Those of a redneck persuasion will be directed to the Trivia-Berger stand next to the latrines and anyone enquiring as to the whereabouts of the carparking fees deposited in my little satchel (not a man bag, please note) will be told with great conviction that it categorically isn't going towards my '68 Mustang Fastback Fund. No sir. Honest. It says here.

My 'murcanisation is all but complete, why, I've even gained about forty pounds in weight just typing this guff out...

[GOG440]

By 12 o`clock today we have been out for breakfast, picked my TVR up from the garage after its MOT, tidied the back garden,broke,mended and rebroke the strimmer and Jetwashed all the paving slabs in the garden. Tired and sitting down with a coffee now.

[Bomma220]

I'm currently sat in a pub garden sipping a nice pint of ale. Livin' the dream

Anyhow, the music festival business. Yes, there's plenty of assorted cables and crocodile clips in the hangar. I'm sure we can soon lash up whatever proves necessary.

I thought a good name for a band might be 'The Brassington Bloomers', it'd be nice to build a half scale replica of the old windmill as a tribute to them. Must be a good couple or three years since that fateful weekend, how everyone survived it remains little short of a miracle.

Little short? Yes, I will, thanks. In fact, here's a fiver. I'll have a large one

[Bobberoo99]

In a reversal of form I'm currently sat in the front room carrying on with my Lego camper while Mrs Bobbers has a kip!!!

So far I've managed to sign Borkman Turner Overdrive, The Corn Dogs, n' Dave, The Trivton Magna all male transvestite choir, Cerise Floyd and Showaddywaddy!!!

[Dibble]

“Security”, you say?

Are we thinking “friendly, approachable British Bobby”, “rather heavy handed French CRS riot squad”, or full on “lunatic ‘Murican, shooting anyone who looks “a bit brown””? If I’m honest, I’d rather go with the “softly, softly” approach. I’ll bring The Idiot; he can chomp any miscreants.

Hopefully, I should be more mobile by the end of June, but what transport am I getting? I think an “ATV” type thing as an absolute bare minimum, although I would prefer a fully specced up thing like this. We could put high visibility stickers on it too, if we must. I think the “bull bars” on the front can be specced up to “Pelican pushers” for a small additional fee the blurb says “The Armormax Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat armored vehicle has bulletproof glass and panels, 707 horsepower on tap, and should be good for a gnat’s nadger under 200mph...

[DickyC]

I'm going down to Battert's Farm
I think I'll join a Rock'n'Roll band
I'll camp out near the latrines
I'll try and set my soul free

[Bomma220]

That Armormax thing looks just the ticket. Best keep the keys out of Battert's reach though, we've all witnessed how the Lagonda's ended up.

I certainly don't relish the prospect of lobbing a boat anchor out of that Dodge at nigh on two hundred miles an hour...

DickyC said:

I'm going down to Battert's Farm
I think I'll join a Rock'n'Roll band
I'll camp out near the latrines
I'll try and set my soul free

By all means, old chap. In the meantime I'll see if I can set our souls free.

[P5BNij]

DickyC said:

I'm going down to Battert's Farm
I think I'll join a Rock'n'Roll band
I'll camp out near the latrines
I'll try and set my soul free

Not without a valid ticket you won't sonny Jim. See Dicky C for details. Oh, hang on a mo'...

Have we sorted out the line up yet...? Adge Cutler, The Wurzles, the slightly less miserable half of Pink Floyd, XTC's alter ego cod-psychedelic beat combo The Dukes Of Stratosphere and the local Bernhard Cribbins tribute band known as 'Diggin' A Hole' should suffice for the main stage.

''We are stardust, we are golden... and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden centre before closing time...''

(I really don't know what's worse - being old enough to remember the hippie period, even the dregs of it in a Warwickshire market town, or just being old! )

[GOG440]

Just been out to fill the wedge up with fuel, I must have got a little lost, the 2 miles home turned into about 30, driving a convertible on a day like today is just perfection.

[nonsequitur]

I can't keep up. You guys must spend nearly all day posting for the volume of traffic produced for the thread.

I'm going away to a comfortable place
I just can't keep up this furious pace
Just lying alone on a soft feather bed
The occasional visit to the needlework thread.
It must be me that is severely lacking
The fortitude for all of the yacking.

[Bomma220]

P5BNij said:

(I really don't know what's worse - being old enough to remember the hippie period, even the dregs of it in a Warwickshire market town, or just being old! )

Nothing wrong with 'getting on a bit' old boy, at least we can appreciate what a lovely old thing the P5B was. I remember my old uncle Arthur had one, it had been stored in a lock up garage in West Drayton for years.
Me and my old brother went and rescued it one weekend, took it to RAF Uxbridge (where my brother was stationed at the time), gave it a bloody good 'fettling' over the next couple of weekends and I finally drove it back home to Arthur's place in Northampton.

Lovely old thing it was, like a bloody boardroom on wheels. Good turn of speed too, once the old girl was rolling.

[DickyC]

Bomma220 said:

Lovely old thing it was, like a bloody boardroom on wheels. Good turn of speed too, once the old girl was rolling.

Once the old girl "had gathered up her skirts."

[DickyC]

nonsequitur said:

I can't keep up. You guys must spend nearly all day posting for the volume of traffic produced for the thread.

It's not a thread, it's a way of life.

There was a brief period in the early days when we were filling a volume a month.

[DickyC]

Pericoloso said:

Lancia connection.....I found out recently that the last Delta Integrale Evos were assembled in the factory that became

the Barchetta factory.

I already knew that the factory used by Maggiora to make the FIATs was ex Lancia but didn't know which era were built there.

Saw this earlier:





Built by Ferrari.

Maintained by someone who doesn't give a toss.

[Pericoloso]

I went to the thing,Wheels day in Aldershot.
Met with friends there.
No pics on this phone.
As GOG said,an absolute sublime day for convertible driving.
Managed not to buy any old tat from the stalls,rather fancied some Ferraris in blister packs ,couldn't be bothered to try bartering 2 for a tenner ?
They were £8 each.
So came home wallet intact.
Time for a pasta meal.
Obviously !

[Pericoloso]

You need to direct that paintwork complaint to member Magoo.

[DickyC]

Pericoloso said:

You need to direct that paintwork complaint to member Magoo.

There you are, Resident Italian Expert. Tell me, is a single Bugatti a Bugatto?

[anonymous-user]

Nearly there. Apologies for the radio silence but I've nearly finished to tunnel from the Isolation Hospital. Digging the tunnel was difficult enough but some bright spark put vaulting horse on the list, I’m pushing it in front of me but how I can make my escape on it goodness knows....