Adventures with XOG - being sick in garden centres - the home of Harry Potter

[Partridge]

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[Parky]

Nice. Will mid trip vomit shot become the new Pez station shot?

[Partridge]

Bwhahahahahaha! Combine the the two and be sick over a petrol pump, and take a picture of that?

[Jim Bell]

Were you sick out of your face, or arse?

Because pavement is traditional for depositing face sick.

Garden centres (or anywhere open on a sunday) are traditional depositories for surprise bum gravy.

 

 

I just came in for this 8p packet of cress seeds. WHERES YOUR TOILET!!??>>>>>>

[Partridge]

Face sick. Is taking a dump in a garden centre and autoshite thing, then? And if so, what am I missing? A thinking man would grow the cress, then carry it around in the car to be sick in? Vomit Cress is now a Rover 800 essential!

[Jim Bell]

 Is taking a dump in a garden centre and autoshite thing, then? And if so, what am I missing?

 

If its not, it should be.

[Partridge]

Dare you to make it an "interest" on Faceache. Dare you.

[Pillock]

Rover Cress. Because if your car leaks water, you might as well grow something.

[Partridge]

Way ahead of you. I've got a family of Sturgoens living in the spare wheel well.

[michael1703]

I think your car is more of a roger

 

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[DS20]

Never before or since my 820, did I have a car whose rear light clusters filled up with water (between the inner lens and the outer one), then cascaded like Victoria sodding Falls into the boot.  Not even my admittedly-leaky DS is as bad.  I genuinely don't know how Rover etc build quality rant etc 

[Partridge]

It's an easy fix according to Lord Sterling...I should pull my finger out of my arse really. Victory, jaws, defect etc etc.

[ruffgeezer]

Were you sick out of your face, or arse?

Because pavement is traditional for depositing face sick.

Garden centres (or anywhere open on a sunday) are traditional depositories for surprise bum gravy.

 

 

I just came in for this 8p packet of cress seeds. WHERES YOUR TOILET!!??>>>>>>

 

 

I can remember collecting this from Evesham,

 

 

 

still with grumbly guts from the night before. We stopped off in Melton Mowbray and wandered into town to find the public loos, they were 20p a trap. 

 

I reckon I did about a fiver's worth and felt a lot better for it.

[michael1703]

 

Oh, and this is the model Hogwarts (as for the name, it's just spelt Warthog backwards, not magical at all)

Warthog backwards is gohtraW though

[Partridge]

I meant the syllables. I should have been more explicit.

[Captain Slow]

 

"Lynn, message from Alan. Something to pitch to Tony Hayers at BBC lunch, Friday. Idea for film extravaganza. Plot, thus: Malcolm McDowell is trapped in the future. He's being pursued by a cyberpunk from the past, played by Rutger Hauer. Erm, terrible idea. No one will watch that. I've not thought it through"

[Partridge]

Ha! I've also just noticed the doors are actually unlocked in that picture...

[Partridge]

Well it survived the run to P'bro and back, so as far as I'm concerned, it's a good egg.

 

My parking is almost as good as my camera skills.

Next week it's doing the same run again, then it's off to Swindon, and the week after Brum then it's on in-law visiting duties in Glozzershite. It's actually a GR9 mile muncher...I love it! It's fair to say I've had my monies worth already. My only concession is that it drinks a little more than I was expecting getting me back and forth from work...But it's worth it, having a car which stands out in the sea of boring, sensible hatchbacks at work. One of my co-workers thought it was a manager's car.

 

Anyway, here's the closest it gets to dirty. This was taken in Northampton ish, heading homewards. Having a bladder the size of a pea and an insatiable appetite for tea I'm getting to know even bloody service station in the country... 

Sadly I was't able to get a picture, but on the way back I drove past Cowley, XOG's birthplace.

I felt better about the state of mine when a saw this Fester at Oxford though.

I also spotted this.

 

On getting home I went to the breaker's yard to try and find a filler cap to replace the one I left in Dorking. I didn't have any luck but did find these bits.

No idea why I bought the 800 Si wheeltrim, but I was chuffed to bits to find a spare centre cap lying on the floor waiting to get trodden on. I'm easily pleased.

 

Also, what do you all think of my Autoshite sat nav?

[Semi-C]

That Sat Nav....Very yes indeed.

 

5 pecks/1 bushel,

Great up,

Thumbs work.

[Honey Badger]

Have you tried asking at any petrol station if they have a petrol cap for a Rover thats been left behind, last time I asked at Tesco they had a bucket full of various types of cap behind the counter I just picked one of several rover caps.

 

Lovely looking 800, you don't see many around anymore.

[Partridge]

Have you tried asking at any petrol station if they have a petrol cap for a Rover thats been left behind, last time I asked at Tesco they had a bucket full of various types of cap behind the counter I just picked one of several rover caps.

 

Lovely looking 800, you don't see many around anymore.

Ha! Good thinking, although there's now one in the post to me, out for delivery...

 

It will be lovely after I get the crap off the paint...I'm starting to think "you don't see many of those anymore/how much did that set you back then?/bit that young for that aren't you? should be it's catchphrase (if it could talk).

[Noel Tidybeard]

this thread is like watching Midsomer Murders with all the pitchers of DCI Barnabys Rover

[Partridge]

Although I doubt he had to write the directions on the back of his hand to Mrs Dribblebottom's cottage (who later gets arrested for murdering the entire village in oddly quaint, amusing ways involving vintage farming equipment) or has to stop in a garden centre to throw up, or more fittingly, a tea room perhaps? "DCI Barnaby Gets Food Posioning After Eating an Out-of-date Lasagne" would be more interesting than the average "DCI Barnaby drinks tea and looks confused standing in a forest for no real reason for two FUCKING HOURS"....did I tell you I don't like Midsomer Murders?

[Taff]

I don't even like Rovers but that's a nice looking motor there, mate

[Partridge]

Cheers, Taff!

[EssDeeWon]

I do like that Rover quite alot.

 

Is it a KV6?

[Partridge]

Cheers No, 820. Downside is less power, upside is it's not as complex and explody.

[HMC]

I must say its a great colour combo, that and the contrasting seat piping make it look a classy motor. When you look at the earlier and plainer 800 interiors its impressive what they managed to achieve as a spruce up on what must have been (knowing Rover) a tight budget

[Partridge]

Apparently they got cheaper to produce as time went on, but improved quality at the same time. No idea how that works. I love the colour combo, it was just what I wanted. The piping just finishes it off. I put some brand new mats in it this afternoon....not sure what to think of them. 

[dugong]

Less money on cleaning jism, more spent on that exhaust clamp and replacing the missing sound deadening in the boot. I'm fine after my accident BTW, tar for asking.

 

And I'm titsed off I didn' get a decent photo of it.