BEIGE SHERPA scampervan and old Honda motorbike.

[Guest Breadvan72]

I am shortly to get into MRs BV's ex njgleeds ex Pillock ex everyone else on the Forum Saab 9-3 droppytoppy, so that Mrs BV can drive me to Didcot Parkway railway station.   Yes, it's the Great Western Railway for me.  

 

Little did Isambard Kingdom Brunel know when he built the thing that it would be used by people with questionable taste and judgment to go and collect appalling products of what passes for engineering, over a hundred years on.  If he had known, I guess that he'd have jacked it all in and gone off to play snooker or invent Symbolist poetry, or something.  

 

All that I can say further at this time is that, if the two railway lines soon to be in question were roads, they would be called the M4 and the M5.  It may also be worth bearing in mind a version of The Rule of Two.   Not just Sith, but also other evil things that want to kill you come in pairs. 

 

[Dave_Q]

I sure hope this is what I think it is, you absolute winner you.

[Guest Breadvan72]

You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment.

 

It may possibly, or possibly not, be what I think that you think it is, but it may be, and in fact is, also something else. 

[Spottedlaurel]

I am shortly to get into MRs BV's ex njgleeds ex Pillock ex everyone else on the Forum Saab 9-3 droppytoppy, so that Mrs BV can drive me to Didcot Parkway railway station.   Yes, it's the Great Western Railway for me.  

 

Little did Isambard Kingdom Brunel know when he built the thing that it would be used by people with questionable taste and judgment to go and collect appalling products of what passes for engineering, over a hundred years on.  If he had known, I guess that he'd have jacked it all in and gone off to play snooker or invent Symbolist poetry, or something.

 

Guilty. I used it (the GWR, not the 9-3) to collect an accident-damaged Camry from Gloucester some years ago.

[Bren]

I saw "HO" and "MAY" and it added a new dimension to hard brexit.

[Ghosty]

Rule of two? Is the car named after a Greek letter?

[beko1987]

Are you there yet?

[Supernaut]

Throwing money down the toilet / burning it? Too boring!

 

BUY MORE OLD LANCIAS AND BE A WINNER*!!!

 

You legend.

[anonymous user]

Throwing money down the toilet

I'm wondering if the money has been thrown down the (flying) plughole

[Guest Breadvan72]

Rule of two? Is the car named after a Greek letter?

 

Nope.  Neither.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Hard Brexit it is, as one of the two conveyances in question is symbolic of the shitty old Britain to which we are fast returning, strapped to an out of control express train driven by idiots.  The other conveyance is symbolic of why the shitty old Britain was doomed, and also connected with something useful that happened to Britain in the EU, and which will probably stop happening after 2019. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Another CLUE.  Toilet reference above.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Anyway...

 

"Fetch your revolver, Watson.  The game's afoot."

 

I missed my train.  Mrs BV wanted petrol  (she had been in all morning, and the nearest petrol pumps are about 600 metres from our house, but never mind that).  The Saab had nearly a quarter of a tank.  That was too little to go from near Thame to Didcot and back. Obvs.    Attempts to point out that the reserve light was not even on yet resulted in disputation.  The conversation ended.

 

At the station, in time for the next but one train, we were dismayed by a pre-op Tranny, not because of transphobia, but because her shoes, handbag, and dress all clashed most unhappily. The word Tranny is, by the way, A CLUE, but only tangentially.

 

Mrs BV regained her good humour and agreed to do a Joan Didion, viz:-

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

At Bristol Temple Meads: A tall bird with long legs. Confident, high flying, stylish, noisy, likes to eat fish. Also full of shit. Reminds me of someone I used to know.

 

 

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Yet again I ask why photographs taken with the phone upright, that look upright on the phone screen, come out sideways on AS?

Anyway, the bird in question always used to look ok lying down, so whatevs.

[Eddie Honda]

Because wanky Iphone. Hold the phone the bloody right way round (landscape, button to right).

 

http://rotatemailer.com/sideways-pictures.html

[NorthernMonkey]

I'm really hoping it's Formica wrapped in an oversize MGB...

[Guest Breadvan72]

The phone is a Windows phone, not an iPhone. I am holding it correctly.

 

Anyway:

 

"Is there anybody there, said the (Morris?) Traveller

As he smote at the moonlit door..."

 

 

Not Walter De La Mare, Leigh Delamere. Eastbound. All good thus far. More when home.

[For Fiats Sake]

Maybe an Alfa on the back of a beaver tail Tranny?

[Skizzer]

Whatever you've bought, I'm jealous that it hasn't broken down (yet).

 

I'm waving as I pass you going the other way on the Train Of Shame.

[Eddie Honda]

The phone is a Windows phone, not an iPhone. I am holding it correctly.

Windoze, schimdoze. Same difference. It's only when you're doing portrait shots.

 

i) Get a camera app that isn't half-arsed and does the job properly or

ii) Stop taking portrait shots (you're not holding correctly as far as the half-arse camera app is concerned)

iii) bin phone

iv) edit it on phone after taking, by rotating and rotating back and re-saving.

[Eddie Honda]

Or the technohead version: https://www.howtogeek.com/254830/why-your-photos-dont-always-appear-correctly-rotated/

[Skizzer]

It's all gone a bit quiet. Have you broken down yet?

[rantingYoof]

It's all gone a bit quiet. Have you broken down yet?

 

Aye, is the car alright too?

[Timewaster]

Either that or he has taken many pictures of his fine new steed but has spent the last few hours in a state of confusion trying to get them the right way up.

[Noel Tidybeard]

"Is there anybody there, said the (Morris?) Traveller

As he smote at the moonlit door..."

 

 

oo oo oo a clue- is it a montego cuntyman?

[Six-cylinder]

I am waiting up here for news!

[Guest Breadvan72]

I arrived home a while ago, after road closures and so forth. Both vehicles, for two there are, are fine. I had to eat supper and have a row with Mrs BV before posting. OK, not a row, but a discussion on the meaning of the E in ETA. A clue. It does not stand for exact.

 

As for phones, screw the absurd notion of apps. I always hold the phone the same way, and most photos are fine. A few random ones go sideways but only when posted here, and never when posted anywhere else eg FB or PH.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Now it is bed time, but the vehicles are as follows: -

1. A 1981 Austin-Morris Sherpa campervan by Autosleeper. Two litre O Series engine, single SU carb, four speed manual, 98,000 miles, scruffy but sound, MoT June, pop-up roof, four berths, cooker, fridge, awning, BEIGE.

2. A 1998 (registered 2001) Honda CG125 CDI motorbike. Single cylinder four stroke OHV, carb, kick start, four speed, 12,000 miles, showroom condition, MoT August, RED.

The bike is in the back of the van.

Story and photos in the morning. Nighty night!

[Six-cylinder]

I can go to bed now happy!