Datsuncog's Heaps: May 2025 - Corolla vs. Sparkly Stick Action...

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Heh, right... this is probably going to get me roasted like with my toaster-in-the-drawer revelation last year, but...

When we designed the kitchen in this house, we put in tall units with a mix of shelves and drawers in them. The tinned food lives in one of the pull-out inner drawers, and it works well except that it's hard to tell what's what whenever you look down from above.

My solution was to keep a Sharpie close by and write the contents on the lid after doing the shopping...

Simple solution to an individual problem! Our tins are on shelves in the pantry (don'tcha know), pans and tins in deep drawers.

[Stanky]

2 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Heh, right... this is probably going to get me roasted like with my toaster-in-the-drawer revelation last year, but...

When we designed the kitchen in this house, we put in tall units with a mix of shelves and drawers in them. The tinned food lives in one of the pull-out inner drawers, and it works well except that it's hard to tell what's what whenever you look down from above.

My solution was to keep a Sharpie close by and write the contents on the lid after doing the shopping...

Live life to the max, flip the cans the other way up and for dinner each night you have to select three, blind, then whatever you have chosen you MUST eat

Maybe it'll be meatballs, chopped tomatoes and potatoes? Maybe it'll be whiskas, custard and Chili paste? It all goes on one plate and you have to eat the lot!

[LightBulbFun]

17 minutes ago, Stanky said:

Live life to the max, flip the cans the other way up and for dinner each night you have to select three, blind, then whatever you have chosen you MUST eat

Maybe it'll be meatballs, chopped tomatoes and potatoes? Maybe it'll be whiskas, custard and Chili paste? It all goes on one plate and you have to eat the lot!

On 25/05/2023 at 15:14, LightBulbFun said:

(I feel sorry for anyone who comes across a box of these in the post apocalyptic future "Yes! some canned food! we will make it through this nuclear winter!" *is a load of canned 60W lightbulbs*)

 

[artdjones]

4 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

And, sure enough, a message came through mid-p.m. today complete with photos, to advise that the sill repair was now complete.

He'd gone for a belt-and-braces approach, with any metal that was suboptimal chopped out and replaced.

Hey, if it'll please the MOT tester, then I'm happy enough.

I headed back up to the yard just after 5, and the Corolla was waiting alongside Robert the welder's own transport:

Yup, all looks solid enough.

I've never seen anyone leave their business details affixed to a repair before, but I don't hate it. 

I guess that if you've had a vehicle welded once, chances are it'll need doing again...

He'd also gifted me quite a snazzy promotional keyring, as an additional memento. Nice.

There were no last-minute MOT slots available this evening (at least, not unless I wanted to hoof it all the way up to Derry), but I managed to swap my Mallusk appointment on 15 May for one over in Newtownards tomorrow morning, so I'm pleased enough with that.

We'll see what the morning brings!

He is good.

[Datsuncog]

Well, cometh the hour, cometh the (testing) man.

It was in and out pretty much before I'd managed to make my way over to the Waiting Shed of Shame - I'd say less than two minutes.

Well worth the £30 retest fee, you'll agree. 🤡

But hey, a pass is a pass...

And now the Corolla can get back to being a car, rather than a driveway ornament.

Still a lovely, eager little thing - I've a lot of affection for it. I really should give it a cosmetic tidy-up this summer, it certainly deserves it.

[Split_Pin]

There's something wonderfully 'old money' about that shot.

Congratulations on the pass, it's a grand wee steed that.

[hairnet]

16 hours ago, Stanky said:

Live life to the max, flip the cans the other way up and for dinner each night you have to select three, blind, then whatever you have chosen you MUST eat

Maybe it'll be meatballs, chopped tomatoes and potatoes? Maybe it'll be whiskas, custard and Chili paste? It all goes on one plate and you have to eat the lot!

yeah but because cultchie the cat food would be nae bother

(youve eaten taytos right 💩)

[Joey spud]

Instead of digging around for old lids you could of used your old brake pads as a spacer.

[beko1987]

16 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

 

That's a grim game of eat what's in the tin roulette 😂

[crad]

presume because yours is prefacelift it isn't the mighty oil burning vvti engine? looks like a lovely motor, certainly looks better kept than mine!

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, crad said:

presume because yours is prefacelift it isn't the mighty oil burning vvti engine? looks like a lovely motor, certainly looks better kept than mine!

That's right, it's the glorious 4E-FE 1.3 lump that only has a titchy oil capacity of something like 2.6 litres - so not much margin for burning!

It's very much a twenty-footer - lots of giffer-dings and laquer peel, but so long as you don't look too closely it's simply lovely...

[artdjones]

4 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

That's right, it's the glorious 4E-FE 1.3 lump that only has a titchy oil capacity of something like 2.6 litres - so not much margin for burning!

It's very much a twenty-footer - lots of giffer-dings and laquer peel, but so long as you don't look too closely it's simply lovely...

The 4-E-FE is perfectly capable of burning some oil, probably because they are neglected by some owners to the extent that over a long period of time even a negligible consumption means that there's only a litre left in the sump. By that stage it will burn oil even when filled up again. But they will still soldier on for years if constantly topped up. If regularly serviced they are pretty indestructible. 

A very high quality piece of engineering.

[hairnet]

4 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Well, cometh the hour, cometh the (testing) man.

It was in and out pretty much before I'd managed to make my way over to the Waiting Shed of Shame - I'd say less than two minutes.

Well worth the £30 retest fee, you'll agree. 🤡

But hey, a pass is a pass...

And now the Corolla can get back to being a car, rather than a driveway ornament.

Still a lovely, eager little thing - I've a lot of affection for it. I really should give it a cosmetic tidy-up this summer, it certainly deserves it.

many harry fergusons involved?

[Noel Tidybeard]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

It's very much a twenty-footer - lots of giffer-dings and laquer peel, but so long as you don't look too closely it's simply lovely...

but compared to the yaris its mint 🤣

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

many harry fergusons involved?

Yes, a fair few - but all to Robert the Welder, none to the DVA boyos!

[Dyslexic Viking]

3 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

It's very much a twenty-footer   but so long as you don't look too closely it's simply lovely...

People have said similar things about me also.

But great you got it through another mot.