Tell us Something Really Trivial about your Life (VOL 30)
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The Road Closed Saga rumbles on. The latest casualty at 5.45 this morning was a Police car. Very surprised I was as I tried to leave the house to find a Police car performing a three point turn in my drive. I know they weren't here to arrest someone this side of the abyss as they had their blue lights on. They were going to an incident and should have used the main road.
"Go left, 'Opkins."
"It says Road Closed, Sarge."
"We got blue lights on, son, we'll get through."
"Blue lights aren't a magic talisman, Sarge."
"Do as you're bloomin' told, lad, will ya? You and your lardy dah education."
"Go left, 'Opkins."
"It says Road Closed, Sarge."
"We got blue lights on, son, we'll get through."
"Blue lights aren't a magic talisman, Sarge."
"Do as you're bloomin' told, lad, will ya? You and your lardy dah education."
That's very strange. The spelling mistake in the title, I mean. Forced by circumstance to start the new volume on my almost out of battery phone in a dark car park in Chieveley Services I thought the safest thing for the title was copy and paste. When I left it the title was correct but all upper case. At some time during the last 24 hours it became lower case and includes a spelling mistake.
For students of the thread, other than the volume number, this is the first variation in the title since Volume 22.
For students of the thread, other than the volume number, this is the first variation in the title since Volume 22.
Pericoloso said:
I've just seen the spilling mystique .
We should adopt Tel in the same way as Battert.
Tel is Frank's mate. They met on an Away Day to the Transport Museum in York organised for veterans and survivors of the disastrous 1982 Trivwick Cheese Rolling Competition held for reasons long forgotten on Trivwick Flats, the floodplain of the River Triv between Trivwick and Trivingham. The going was soft. The AEC single decker Q-type bus used to transport the Trivton Magna team to the event sank without trace in what was wittily dubbed "The Car Park" and was never seen again. Tel and Frank have long sought backing for a Discovery, Recovery and Restoration Program for the bus whose name was Florrie. We should adopt Tel in the same way as Battert.
glenrobbo said:
That's an excellent bit of trivia to get the day off to a really trivial start, Dicky.
Will he be driving it?
It's not every day somebody gets the chance to drive a small Peugeot.
Oh, wait. It is every day....
No, it's on the truck. It was loaded last evening in an unprecedented outbreak of forethought and planning.Will he be driving it?
It's not every day somebody gets the chance to drive a small Peugeot.
Oh, wait. It is every day....
The driver plans to stop at Warwick Services for a coffee and a croissant and could be persuaded to post a picture.
glenrobbo, congrats on team enlargement. Marvellous. I'm concerned about the car event though. Yesterday afternoon travelling in the opposite direction to me I saw a brace of Bullnose Morrisses - MG ancestors as you will be aware - and this morning an MG TC in the opposite direction on the M40. My point is none were heading to Northumberland! Should I give chase?
Or do you mean a picture of a coffee and a cwassaunt? 
Eight men unknown to one another walked into the Gents at Warwick Services to stand in quiet contemplation at the urinal. Business concluded six left immediately. The chap next to me at the wash basins said, "Just the two old boys washing their hands then."
"Young lads have hygienic wipes in their cars."
"They don't, do they?"
"No."
Bomma220 said:
It looked very much like this, except it was yellow:
No idea what engine old chap, as I said it was parked up. Wish I'd taken a photo now.
My all time favourite TVR shape is the one after that. That - UIVMM - is the Grantura but it's the Vixen and Tuscan that followed it that tickled my fancy as a lad. No idea what engine old chap, as I said it was parked up. Wish I'd taken a photo now.
V6Pushfit said:
DickyC said:
My all time favourite TVR shape is the one after that. That - UIVMM - is the Grantura but it's the Vixen and Tuscan that followed it that tickled my fancy as a lad.
In that case you need to drop in here when you’re passing!The Tale of Three SLKs
Let's face facts. I'm not cut out to a car breaker. I bought two no-hopers, broke one and started to break the second. As there was no interest on eBay for the bits in auction, I deduced that people who want bits of car want them now not in a week's time. But the auction would have helped me see how much bits are worth. So I now have a garage full of unsold bits and a partially dismantled car in the drive. To the delight of Mrs C. I've been busy with the truck so it's not all sloth. So now I've bought another one. Yes. It's okay. It has potential. It has stood out the back of a garage i deal with for a year or so. The owner recently put it in for MoT and it failed on tyres. So he abandoned it completely. I have tyres - so many tyres - and bought the car for £500. It wouldn't start. If they stand too long the fuel pump fails. Therefore one from the car in the drive might also be duff. I bought a new one. Fuel pump and MoT all in all £100. I've been cleaning it today. It's okay and will do someone a favour. This was not the idea.
I'm too sentimental to break cars for a living.
Let's face facts. I'm not cut out to a car breaker. I bought two no-hopers, broke one and started to break the second. As there was no interest on eBay for the bits in auction, I deduced that people who want bits of car want them now not in a week's time. But the auction would have helped me see how much bits are worth. So I now have a garage full of unsold bits and a partially dismantled car in the drive. To the delight of Mrs C. I've been busy with the truck so it's not all sloth. So now I've bought another one. Yes. It's okay. It has potential. It has stood out the back of a garage i deal with for a year or so. The owner recently put it in for MoT and it failed on tyres. So he abandoned it completely. I have tyres - so many tyres - and bought the car for £500. It wouldn't start. If they stand too long the fuel pump fails. Therefore one from the car in the drive might also be duff. I bought a new one. Fuel pump and MoT all in all £100. I've been cleaning it today. It's okay and will do someone a favour. This was not the idea.
I'm too sentimental to break cars for a living.
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