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Just remember that after the last gathering we are marked men and women - be prepared for incoming piss taking by the auctioneer, and maybe an opportunity to play pass the frying pan
"I think I must have been the only one who heard a guy who come over when the auction had finished and we were standing by the exit doors - "the auctioneer would like a word with one of you" or words to that effect;  once the dust had settled I found myself looking a the backs of the departing AS Community.  Oh well I thought, here I go;  the auctioneer was leaning out of his window so quoth I - "you were in good voice today".  I then explained the gathering and the quiz;  what does the winner?  get he asks;  just appearing as the winner in the internet forum says I.  Maybe he spotted a commercial opportunity.
I asked if we were causing him any bother;  not at all said he, so I reckon Cannock meets should be good for the future but there could be a bit of merry banter from him.
KrueJoe's frying pan has been passed to Mr Fowler for speedy transfer to Glasgow;  who will be the next lucky recipient?"
 

Hey, my Capri owner's handbook talks about new fangled EEC emissions regulations and how carbs should only be adjusted by Ford dealers...
 
There's so much chatter about reducing waste, yet so many ridiculous examples of it.
We had some builders in at work a few years ago. The project manager asked them to quote to put up some additional hoarding, cost was £X, all approved and they got on with it. They ordered in a bulk pack of ply sheets and timber, used a certain amount, and the remainder was wheeled out to the skip - there must have been a dozen lengths of brand new 4x2 thrown out. (A number of which were subsequently "rescued" to be repurposed...). Asked the manager if it wasn't a little wasteful - they were nonplussed, the cost of the excess material was within the "£X" quote, and besides the subcontractor erecting it was coming from miles away so didn't want to take excess back, and it was a different contract to the main works so the material couldn't be used elsewhere. 

Today I found myself in the middle of a Funeral.
I was coming out of the Grand Arcade car park in Cambridge - swung left onto Trumpington Street and there was a hearse outside Pembroke College.  "Weird" I thought - the church is on the other side of the road, about 500 yards up.  
Notwithstanding, as the coffin was taken out of the hearse, I stopped the Avensis as awkwardly as I could to prevent any cyclists/mopeds/oncoming traffic from passing - turned down the radio, took off my hat and allowed the guys to do their job without fear of being run over.  Once they'd got out of the road, one smiled at me - and I was on my way.
It was only at 5pm this afternoon I realised who the deceased was.

As a fellow of Cambridge, he was entitled to a funeral at the college.  
I'm only 36, but I loved CJ on the TV.  Not that many people are as honest and as straightforward as he was.  
When I mentioned the above anecdote to my lady wife, she finally confessed that her team at the hospice had been caring for him for quite some time now.  I, quite correctly, had no idea.
The most striking thing was the coffin.  Clive James was, professionally, a very succesful man.  He had a beautiful home and an even more beautiful family.  But it was a stark reminder that we all enter and exit this world in the same simple way.  His was a plain, unadorned vessel.
I don't need to further sharpen the point I'm making. 

Chris,
I'm going to have to miss the Tavistock gathering;  I don't feel I've recovered enough from surgery and Mrs K's night driving confidence isn't getting any better.
If you want a break on the way down/back or need a refuge you know where I live.  If M5/A30/A38  blocked the Tiverton/Crediton/Okehanpton route will get you past some of the closures that regularly happen.  It is wet down here and getting wetter and staying wet into Sunday so I'm expecting roads being closed because of floods - A35 already closed. 
Mike

Mrs K wants to visit East Anglia so that's almost settled. She met some shiters last year  so she has an idea of what to expect

I thought this thread was the place rather than News.
Just got my Friends of Beamish magazine;  They are opening their new Bus Depot on 24th October and "Members of the Invalid Carriage Register will present their first ever working demonstration of invalid carriages...........driving four extremely rare examples around the museum"   but presumably not demonstrating their top speed if Dollywobbler isn't there.

I thought this thread was the place rather than News.
Just got my Friends of Beamish magazine;  They are opening their new Bus Depot on 24th October and "Members of the Invalid Carriage Register will present their first ever working demonstration of invalid carriages...........driving four extremely rare examples around the museum"   but presumably not demonstrating their top speed if Dollywobbler isn't there.

Interesting. You were able to decide this on a single encounter?
He always sounds a bit tetchy on Radio 4's Just A Minute, but seems good value for money entertainment.
Still,  they say you never really know people.....

Realoem I think lists airbag steering wheels but they must have been a rare late option for the samerican market

Realoem I think lists airbag steering wheels but they must have been a rare late option for the samerican market

I have been told that in the latest Mission Impossible  film a number of e28 m5s are totalled, and that these are real m5s not lesser models tarted up; apparently   the director insisted on real m5s being used (insert an appropriate term) and in a multi million dollar film the cost was immaterial; furthermore due to insurance liability the remains were crushed not parted out for their valuable spares. I am weeping but also anticipating the increase in value due to the fall in numbers - possibly 1% of the 587 lhd  built for Europe - there are about 1,400 USA spec with strangled engines and forget car bumpers
 
 

I phoned the number on a van one day - he had double parked alongside me in Crediton High Street and was off looading kit into a pub when I got back to the car - "won't be a minute says he taking in tools and then back for a wheelbarrow" - somewhat long minute passed as I sat getting grumpier;  out he comes - I say "if you had moved it I could have got out and you could have parked in the place";  "you don't understand mate, I was busy".   I DID UNDERSTAND, HE WAS TAKING THE PISS
Not a wise move;  so I phones the number- firm is a big utilities contractor,  asked to speak to the transport manager - he was supposed to be at a job quite a distance away, he would be spoken too, misuse of a works van could lose him his job, tough thought I.  One up for the down trodden.

Best wishes to both of you, long and happy etc
 

Best wishes to both of you, long and happy etc
 

I phoned the number on a van one day - he had double parked alongside me in Crediton High Street and was off looading kit into a pub when I got back to the car - "won't be a minute says he taking in tools and then back for a wheelbarrow" - somewhat long minute passed as I sat getting grumpier;  out he comes - I say "if you had moved it I could have got out and you could have parked in the place";  "you don't understand mate, I was busy".   I DID UNDERSTAND, HE WAS TAKING THE PISS
Not a wise move;  so I phones the number- firm is a big utilities contractor,  asked to speak to the transport manager - he was supposed to be at a job quite a distance away, he would be spoken too, misuse of a works van could lose him his job, tough thought I.  One up for the down trodden.

I phoned the number on a van one day - he had double parked alongside me in Crediton High Street and was off looading kit into a pub when I got back to the car - "won't be a minute says he taking in tools and then back for a wheelbarrow" - somewhat long minute passed as I sat getting grumpier;  out he comes - I say "if you had moved it I could have got out and you could have parked in the place";  "you don't understand mate, I was busy".   I DID UNDERSTAND, HE WAS TAKING THE PISS
Not a wise move;  so I phones the number- firm is a big utilities contractor,  asked to speak to the transport manager - he was supposed to be at a job quite a distance away, he would be spoken too, misuse of a works van could lose him his job, tough thought I.  One up for the down trodden.

I phoned the number on a van one day - he had double parked alongside me in Crediton High Street and was off looading kit into a pub when I got back to the car - "won't be a minute says he taking in tools and then back for a wheelbarrow" - somewhat long minute passed as I sat getting grumpier;  out he comes - I say "if you had moved it I could have got out and you could have parked in the place";  "you don't understand mate, I was busy".   I DID UNDERSTAND, HE WAS TAKING THE PISS
Not a wise move;  so I phones the number- firm is a big utilities contractor,  asked to speak to the transport manager - he was supposed to be at a job quite a distance away, he would be spoken too, misuse of a works van could lose him his job, tough thought I.  One up for the down trodden.

I phoned the number on a van one day - he had double parked alongside me in Crediton High Street and was off looading kit into a pub when I got back to the car - "won't be a minute says he taking in tools and then back for a wheelbarrow" - somewhat long minute passed as I sat getting grumpier;  out he comes - I say "if you had moved it I could have got out and you could have parked in the place";  "you don't understand mate, I was busy".   I DID UNDERSTAND, HE WAS TAKING THE PISS
Not a wise move;  so I phones the number- firm is a big utilities contractor,  asked to speak to the transport manager - he was supposed to be at a job quite a distance away, he would be spoken too, misuse of a works van could lose him his job, tough thought I.  One up for the down trodden.

I phoned the number on a van one day - he had double parked alongside me in Crediton High Street and was off looading kit into a pub when I got back to the car - "won't be a minute says he taking in tools and then back for a wheelbarrow" - somewhat long minute passed as I sat getting grumpier;  out he comes - I say "if you had moved it I could have got out and you could have parked in the place";  "you don't understand mate, I was busy".   I DID UNDERSTAND, HE WAS TAKING THE PISS
Not a wise move;  so I phones the number- firm is a big utilities contractor,  asked to speak to the transport manager - he was supposed to be at a job quite a distance away, he would be spoken too, misuse of a works van could lose him his job, tough thought I.  One up for the down trodden.

I phoned the number on a van one day - he had double parked alongside me in Crediton High Street and was off looading kit into a pub when I got back to the car - "won't be a minute says he taking in tools and then back for a wheelbarrow" - somewhat long minute passed as I sat getting grumpier;  out he comes - I say "if you had moved it I could have got out and you could have parked in the place";  "you don't understand mate, I was busy".   I DID UNDERSTAND, HE WAS TAKING THE PISS
Not a wise move;  so I phones the number- firm is a big utilities contractor,  asked to speak to the transport manager - he was supposed to be at a job quite a distance away, he would be spoken too, misuse of a works van could lose him his job, tough thought I.  One up for the down trodden.

Many thanks to 320T for letting me drive the GSA. The ride and engine were as I remember my father's gs's but the switchgear, speedo etc were out of this world crazy, proper Citroen

Stents are wonderful;  I had mine done about 18 years ago and the next morning I felt supercharged and raring to go but was told you have a fortnight off work, SAD.  I think the insertion of the stents is easier than it was those years ago, and for me it was no worse than a trip to the dentist. The stents lasted me until about two years ago when further furring up slowed me down again;  I had a further angiogram two months back and was a bit set back by being told it was surgery not more stents and it would be sometime between September 2019 and September 2020 for the operations, bypasses and valve replacement.  Good news received yesterday  - rather than a long wait to be done in Plymouth I'm lined up for 4th October in a private hospital in Cheam - (Mrs K may be boarding out in Railway Cutting).  
Hopefully Mrs T will have as good an experience with stents as I had, and if not she will soon be referred on by the overstretched NHS to a private hospital to be bypassed.
 

I think I must have been the only one who heard a guy who come over when the auction had finished and we were standing by the exit doors - "the auctioneer would like a word with one of you" or words to that effect;  once the dust had settled I found myself looking a the backs of the departing AS Community.  Oh well I thought, here I go;  the auctioneer was leaning out of his window so quoth I - "you were in good voice today".  I then explained the gathering and the quiz;  what does the winner?  get he asks;  just appearing as the winner in the internet forum says I.  Maybe he spotted a commercial opportunity.
I asked if we were causing him any bother;  not at all said he, so I reckon Cannock meets should be good for the future but there could be a bit of merry banter from him.
KrueJoe's frying pan has been passed to Mr Fowler for speedy transfer to Glasgow;  who will be the next lucky recipient?

Many thanks to 320T for letting me drive the GSA. The ride and engine were as I remember my father's gs's but the switchgear, speedo etc were out of this world crazy, proper Citroen

I think I must have been the only one who heard a guy who come over when the auction had finished and we were standing by the exit doors - "the auctioneer would like a word with one of you" or words to that effect;  once the dust had settled I found myself looking a the backs of the departing AS Community.  Oh well I thought, here I go;  the auctioneer was leaning out of his window so quoth I - "you were in good voice today".  I then explained the gathering and the quiz;  what does the winner?  get he asks;  just appearing as the winner in the internet forum says I.  Maybe he spotted a commercial opportunity.
I asked if we were causing him any bother;  not at all said he, so I reckon Cannock meets should be good for the future but there could be a bit of merry banter from him.
KrueJoe's frying pan has been passed to Mr Fowler for speedy transfer to Glasgow;  who will be the next lucky recipient?