Tell us something really trivial about your life Volume 40

[DickyC]

Bobberoo said:

We have made it as far as here, 3 points if you can name it.

Where they filmed The African Queen?

And I don't mean in the back lot at Shepperton.

[DickyC]

bowder said:

Today I will be mostly mending fences. A gerbil brained motorist managed to reverse into it. Though there is bent metal, it appears their Vauxhall Mokka suffered more, judging by the plastic debris.

Exercise with a lump hammer and battery powered angle grinder looms.

Hasn't he suffered enough?

[DickyC]

paua said:

Bobberoo said:

Good evening Trivialities everywhere!!!
We have arrived at our FOB and have found it to be very agreeable.
Dinner has been consumed and a beer is on the go!!
Travelling through the Scottish countryside on the way up the A9 we were reminded of just how beautiful it is up here.

You be definitely lost, old chap - th A9 goes from Munich to Berlin.
Morneve y'all

Chicago to LA, surely.

No? It's the satnav in my Jap import leading me ashtray again. When I'm low on fuel it finds me a petrol station five thousand (5,000) miles away.

[DickyC]

slopes said:

Byker28i said:

Paul had to park some way away... I spotted him later removing the weights from the tourists front wheel...

That is genius

Isn't it?



Wish I'd thought of it.

[DickyC]

psi310398 said:

Apart from fearing the depredations of the Picts and Celts on clan Bobbers, I have no worries. It’s just age, I think, and it’s very humid here. But thanks for your concern.

What about the Border Bobbers? Feared by all.

[DickyC]

Bobberoo said:

This is just over the road from our cottage and is what the village is named after.

You're in Bridgend?

I was miles out.

[DickyC]

Bobberoo said:

Good morrow fellow Trivialities everywhere
Weather appears grey and overcast, but mild, off to Glenfiddich and Dufftown today, Mrs Bobbers is driving so I can sample a few whiskies!!

Many happy returns to Mrs H!!

By chance it's our 29th wedding anniversary today!!

Safe travels psi!

That's weird, birthdays on the 9th of September and 29th wedding anniversaries are both celebrated with single malts.

Joyeux Anniversaire.

[DickyC]

Bobberoo said:

Thanks chaps, I think I've finally decided she's a keeper!!!

Any progress on who will be left back?

[DickyC]

Bobberoo said:

Luckily Mrs Bobbers encourages me in my whisky procuration!!!

Mrs Bobbers is the Procurer Fiscal?

[DickyC]

Grandson #1 who builds things like patios for a living is helping me to build mine. Okay, I'm his tea boy and gopher. The design of the patio is mine though. Perhaps i should have involved him at the Concept Phase. I think he wanted to say that in his opinion it is over designed. Possibly a bit sturdy. Y'know. For a patio. But he didn't want to hurt my feelings. "It's a Weapons Grade patio."

[DickyC]

Byker28i said:

DickyC said:

Grandson #1 who builds things like patios for a living is helping me to build mine. Okay, I'm his tea boy and gopher. The design of the patio is mine though. Perhaps i should have involved him at the Concept Phase. I think he wanted to say that in his opinion it is over designed. Possibly a bit sturdy. Y'know. For a patio. But he didn't want to hurt my feelings. "It's a Weapons Grade patio."

Someone underneath you really hated?

We did discuss the difficulties facing a subterranean investigation into missing person or persons.

"Oh, Sarge, do we have to keep digging? It's really hard. It's all concrete."
"Yes. Keep going."
"But, Sarge."

The bloke in Jewsons made me laugh. I had been looking for brick ties to add a bit of extra hold for the edging stones back into the main slab.

"What are you trying to do?"
"The edge stones look a bit vulnerable to me and I was hoping to tie them into the slab."
"There's not much load on them to make them move and the slab will weigh three tonnes. It's not going anywhere."

We started pouring the main slab last weekend. We would have finished but we ran out of material. Yet another underestimation by your correspondent. The current estimate is the slab will weigh more like four tonnes.

I'm still not sure how else I could have done it.

[DickyC]

It will be fine when it's finished.



The four red bricks are a ludicrous bit of cost saving where the step will go. I say ludicrous because the project became a case study of penny wise, pound foolish. The bricklayers who worked for the firm who built the extension estimated £3,000 just for labour on the patio. Three grand plus materials? Kinnell.

"I can do it much cheaper than that."
"You have chronic heart disease."
"Okay, Tony can do it and I'll watch. Advise. Fetch him drinks and sandwiched and stuff."

Tony (Grandson #1) does a day or two at weekends and I do peripheral - less arduous - jobs during the week. I've kept a tally of costs. It ain't gonna be cheap. Retirement? Love it. Every day a project.

[DickyC]

Byker28i said:

I know when we did our patio in Wales, over £1k for the porcelain tiles, and about the same for the materials, which included rendering the back of the house, which all had to be delivered outside on a busy main road and then manually taken through the house in a wheelbarrow....

All the old rubble/render went back out the same way. Looked nice at the end though - proper sun trap

Nice.



That's the way to do it.

[DickyC]

glenrobbo said:

Thanks Witters, a whole month's supply of hard wood cleaner Bonas.* You're too kind.

Makes up for the lack of wood each morning, I suppose.

* Wooden't hose be perfect for Snowy's bully of a boss?

No wood detected yet again this morning, butt I have detected 16 centipedes in the conservatory.

No morning whiskies for me either, unlike our Intrepid adventurers Bobbering their way around the distilleries in the Glens.

But, but, but, Bobbers said you were in both distilleries they visited yesterday.

Have you heard my motorboat impression? But, but, but.

[DickyC]

glenrobbo said:

DickyC said:

But, but, but, Bobbers said you were in both distilleries they visited yesterday.

Have you heard my motorboat impression? Butt, butt, butt...

It's just a malicious rumour spread to deflect attention from the actual perpetrators of the raids on the distilleries.
I won't be anywhere near them until the end of thus month


Incidentally, Edward Woodward sounds more like a motorboat.
Or am I getting him confused with Alan Whicker?

https://youtu.be/Cn8Pua5rhj4?si=pLUV3sunKALK1JOd

It had to be done. There are rules governing these things.

[DickyC]

glenrobbo said:

DickyC said:

It will be fine when it's finished.



The four red bricks are a ludicrous bit of cost saving where the step will go. I say ludicrous because the project became a case study of penny wise, pound foolish. The bricklayers who worked for the firm who built the extension estimated £3,000 just for labour on the patio. Three grand plus materials? Kinnell.

"I can do it much cheaper than that."
"You have chronic heart disease."
"Okay, Tony can do it and I'll watch. Advise. Fetch him drinks and sandwiched and stuff."

Tony (Grandson #1) does a day or two at weekends and I do peripheral - less arduous - jobs during the week. I've kept a tally of costs. It ain't gonna be cheap. Retirement? Love it. Every day a project.

I hate to bring this up at such a late stage, Dicky, but it seems you've forgotten all about the blast deflectors.

Unless it's all just for show, and you're not really intending to launch a succession of mighty Atlas/Centaurs to propell the component subassemblies of your DickyC earth-monitoring Space Station into synchronous orbit. Mwahahaha!

They're on the allotment disguised as lettuce tunnels.

[DickyC]

spikeyhead said:

belated morning all

I've done some sums, had a good run, done more sums and have a day with no meetings

nSs + 1Gr + nMs = 1(D + 0m)

[DickyC]

An odd surname to choose at random. The cartoon appeared on my desk at work years ago. No idea.

[DickyC]

slopes said:

Hold on a second....

Did i miss something here?

What happened to Ivor?

He changes his name so often he could be here amongst us. Last known as LamborGino.

And no mistake.

[DickyC]

Ooh, look. We're nearing the next 1,000 pages of inconsequence without a (1) day missed in 14 (fourteen) years.

That will take us over 450,000 uni queue posts

We may be over already. Anyone here do sums?

Anyway, the First Half Million (500,000) is within our grasp.