Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life Volume 37
Discussion
It's time to commence preparations for my dinner.
I have some leftover salad potatoes, so I might just have a nice ham salad with a hard boiled egg, some cornichons and some shredded iceberg and peri-peri mayo.
Unfortunately I have no crusty fresh bread rolls, but sometimes you have to adapt to life's little glitches, so plain sliced bread and butter it is.
FML.
I have some leftover salad potatoes, so I might just have a nice ham salad with a hard boiled egg, some cornichons and some shredded iceberg and peri-peri mayo.
Unfortunately I have no crusty fresh bread rolls, but sometimes you have to adapt to life's little glitches, so plain sliced bread and butter it is.
FML.
The thing I dislike most of all about being abroad is running into British people… so I can definitely empathise with your dislike of the ex-pat party, Magoo.
I need some dinner, but I can’t decide what to have. Indian sounds very good. The Idiot will be having his usual kibble, fibre pellets, his joint meds and a Denta Stix for dessert. I know how to spoil him!
I need some dinner, but I can’t decide what to have. Indian sounds very good. The Idiot will be having his usual kibble, fibre pellets, his joint meds and a Denta Stix for dessert. I know how to spoil him!
Dibble said:
The thing I dislike most of all about being abroad is running into British people… so I can definitely empathise with your dislike of the ex-pat party, Magoo.
I need some dinner, but I can’t decide what to have. Indian sounds very good. The Idiot will be having his usual kibble, fibre pellets, his joint meds and a Denta Stix for dessert. I know how to spoil him!
Highlighted for context, and the HHH are quite the worst!I need some dinner, but I can’t decide what to have. Indian sounds very good. The Idiot will be having his usual kibble, fibre pellets, his joint meds and a Denta Stix for dessert. I know how to spoil him!
Dibble said:
The thing I dislike most of all about being abroad is running into British people… so I can definitely empathise with your dislike of the ex-pat party, Magoo.
I need some dinner, but I can’t decide what to have. Indian sounds very good. The Idiot will be having his usual kibble, fibre pellets, his joint meds and a Denta Stix for dessert. I know how to spoil him!
It's a pain to be honest Dibble. People in my area see me about a lot. I drive a distinctive green pick up rhd on French plates,so they know I'm a Brit but automatically think I want to mix with other Brits.I need some dinner, but I can’t decide what to have. Indian sounds very good. The Idiot will be having his usual kibble, fibre pellets, his joint meds and a Denta Stix for dessert. I know how to spoil him!
It's not the case for me.
I'm happy being on my own with agent M.
Where I have a drink,down by the river,I say hello to everybody in both speaks then p
s off somewhere on my own.Dibble you may have seen the "cool mats" for dogs. Agent M has two. One in the kitchen and another in the lounge. They are her "go to" places for comfort after a good walk or when it's hot.
I would highly recommend one for the idiot! Large would be his size I imagine.
Bobberoo said:
P5BNij said:
I went abroad once, to Neasden. Awful place, couldn't wait to reach the border at Dudding Hill and slip into familiar territory at Cricklewood. The things we do, eh! 
Mind you, at least Neasden isn't Crewe....
D you feel the need to have a shower after you leave Crewe??? Mind you, at least Neasden isn't Crewe....
On the To Do List on Project SLK was the leaking diff. It was an advisory on several past MoTs. The repair was more than the estimate but I was okay with it because they had to pull the half shafts out which they weren't expecting. The car came back and the diff was still dripping. Not much, but still dripping. It went back. They said the seals were okay but they must have put too much oil in and it was coming out of the breather. While it was in I had them fit new discs and pads. When it came back there was a new vibration at 70. Instead of assuming it was to do with the brakes or the garage who fitted them, I left the car at the tyre place to have the wheels balanced. They called and asked me to go back to look at the car on the ramp. The leaky diff and brakes garage had fitted the wheels wrong, the narrower front wheels wheels were on the right and wider rear wheels were on the left. I hadn't noticed. On Mrs C's SLK230 the front and rear wheels aren't just different width they actually look different. On the SLK32 they're different width but very similar to look at. Maybe they have different roll radius and that explains the vibration. I won't drive it again until Wednesday when it goes back to be sorted out and tracked and have new tyres.
Old cars need love too.
The diff breather is still dripping.
Old cars need love too.
The diff breather is still dripping.
Bobberoo said:
Thanks pequod, but I hate to tell you this, yes I really am that depraved, I have visions of me wearing nothing but one of those masks, a pair of riggers boots and my nicest pair of tasseled nipple clamps and going on a bare hugging spree!!!!
Damn you, Bobbers! I have had The Village People singing YMCA in my head for hours now!DickyC said:
On the To Do List on Project SLK was the leaking diff. It was an advisory on several past MoTs. The repair was more than the estimate but I was okay with it because they had to pull the half shafts out which they weren't expecting. The car came back and the diff was still dripping. Not much, but still dripping. It went back. They said the seals were okay but they must have put too much oil in and it was coming out of the breather. While it was in I had them fit new discs and pads. When it came back there was a new vibration at 70. Instead of assuming it was to do with the brakes or the garage who fitted them, I left the car at the tyre place to have the wheels balanced. They called and asked me to go back to look at the car on the ramp. The leaky diff and brakes garage had fitted the wheels wrong, the narrower front wheels wheels were on the right and wider rear wheels were on the left. I hadn't noticed. On Mrs C's SLK230 the front and rear wheels aren't just different width they actually look different. On the SLK32 they're different width but very similar to look at. Maybe they have different roll radius and that explains the vibration. I won't drive it again until Wednesday when it goes back to be sorted out and tracked and have new tyres.
Old cars need love too.
The diff breather is still dripping.
Oh dear, Dicky. Old cars need love too.
The diff breather is still dripping.
That does not inspire much confidence in your chosen garage.
We await further developments and hopefully a satisfactory resolution.
glenrobbo said:
pequod said:
Highlighted for context, and the HHH are quite the worst!
Worse than the KKK.The HHH was a drinking club whose members attempted the old game of 'Hare and Hound' in inhospitable climates over terrain that the locals only walked whilst the idiot foreigners ran around bellowing 'halloo'!
Thereafter, it was necessary to be polite to the memsahibs whilst sweating from places which never usually leaked! Bah, humbug!!!
Bobberoo said:
Pictures if you do Dibble!!!
I've just finished a book by John Grisham about a lawyer who had a nervous breakdown, found god and became an Episcopalian minister and ends up being something called an innocence lawyer who gets a convicted murderer off after 23 years inside!!!
Mrs Bobbers has decided to treat me to an Indian takeaway tonight for all my car cleaning efforts!!!
My introduction to John Grisham's books was about 15 years ago, The Innocent Man, his only work of non-fiction. Worth a read!I've just finished a book by John Grisham about a lawyer who had a nervous breakdown, found god and became an Episcopalian minister and ends up being something called an innocence lawyer who gets a convicted murderer off after 23 years inside!!!
Mrs Bobbers has decided to treat me to an Indian takeaway tonight for all my car cleaning efforts!!!
Some of his later efforts are a bit samey, and he is in the habit of giving his characters some distractingly silly names, but he is good holiday reading.
pequod said:
Fine job there glenners, albeit you have poisoned the land and have made Chez Robbo unsaleable! 
Never mind, we are shortly entering CV21 LD so any paint will do to presevere/perserve/dowse the wood in summat before the Winter is upon us.
Winter? I have yet to deploy the summer canopy. I am intending to install trellis screens all along the area above the back of the bench before installing the canopy. Circumstances have conspired to delay my programme somewhat, but I shall prevail.Never mind, we are shortly entering CV21 LD so any paint will do to presevere/perserve/dowse the wood in summat before the Winter is upon us.
Eventually.
witteringon said:
Bobberoo said:
Pictures if you do Dibble!!!
I've just finished a book by John Grisham about a lawyer who had a nervous breakdown, found god and became an Episcopalian minister and ends up being something called an innocence lawyer who gets a convicted murderer off after 23 years inside!!!
Mrs Bobbers has decided to treat me to an Indian takeaway tonight for all my car cleaning efforts!!!
My introduction to John Grisham's books was about 15 years ago, The Innocent Man, his only work of non-fiction. Worth a read!I've just finished a book by John Grisham about a lawyer who had a nervous breakdown, found god and became an Episcopalian minister and ends up being something called an innocence lawyer who gets a convicted murderer off after 23 years inside!!!
Mrs Bobbers has decided to treat me to an Indian takeaway tonight for all my car cleaning efforts!!!
Some of his later efforts are a bit samey, and he is in the habit of giving his characters some distractingly silly names, but he is good holiday reading.
glenrobbo said:
pequod said:
Fine job there glenners, albeit you have poisoned the land and have made Chez Robbo unsaleable!
Never mind, we are shortly entering CV21 LD so any paint will do to presevere/perserve/dowse the wood in summat before the Winter is upon us.
Winter? I have yet to deploy the summer canopy. I am intending to install trellis screens all along the area above the back of the bench before installing the canopy. Circumstances have conspired to delay my programme somewhat, but I shall prevail.Never mind, we are shortly entering CV21 LD so any paint will do to presevere/perserve/dowse the wood in summat before the Winter is upon us.
Eventually.
Magooagain said:
witteringon said:
Damn you, Bobbers! I have had The Village People singing YMCA in my head for hours now!
Since the Friday quiz I've been whistling that Rick Astley or the Alison Moyet songs. Agent M is not amused.Thanks P!
Just wait 'til next week when the TTFNQ will be all about ear worms!!!!
witteringon said:
Bobberoo said:
Thanks pequod, but I hate to tell you this, yes I really am that depraved, I have visions of me wearing nothing but one of those masks, a pair of riggers boots and my nicest pair of tasseled nipple clamps and going on a bare hugging spree!!!!
Damn you, Bobbers! I have had The Village People singing YMCA in my head for hours now!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k
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