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[dollywobbler]

Tomorrow. Girl. If I win, you must call her Peugeotina.

[richardmorris]

So, we've reached the due date and MrsH hasn't popped out the sprog.

Now taking an internet cookie sweepstake on the date it finally comes out, and as a bonus, what gender. (We didn't find out)

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Talk on five live this morning was using curries and sex to bring things to a conclusion.

[fatharris]

Talk on five live this morning was using curries and sex to bring things to a conclusion.

Already had the curry tonight, I'll strictly remain "no comment" on the second suggestion

 

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[stuboy]

So, we've reached the due date and MrsH hasn't popped out the sprog.

 

Now taking an internet cookie sweepstake on the date it finally comes out, and as a bonus, what gender. (We didn't find out)

 

 

 

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my missus 9 days over due

[Timewaster]

Whichever bloke made up the curry and sex idea did us all a huge favour.

 

[Kiltox]

Whichever bloke made up the curry and sex idea did us all a huge favour.

 

Some bloke pissed off with no shagging and shite food sorted it right out

[BorniteIdentity]

Talk on five live this morning was using curries and sex to bring things to a conclusion.

 

All of our children arrived in a timely fashion - which meant, last time, my wife was in no mood for waiting even a day.  The hippy woman next door suggested shoving coffee up her arse - apparently the caffeine or something or another.

 

Writing this down now, four years later, I'm starting to think she meant my wife's bottom - and not her own.

 

Maybe that would have worked? Who knows.  Too late now.

[Parky]

Both of mine were two weeks late. Parkette was asleep during the process so Mrs P couldn't have any pain relief in case it slowed Parkettes breathing down. Ow!

 

Parky Jr had to be induced, the Nurse refused to believe he was coming until I forced her to double check. By that point Mrs P was too far advanced for pain relief so all she had was gas and air. Which promptly ran out and Jr arrived before the replacement NOx cylinder. So no pain relief for number 2 either!

 

Tough cookie is Mrs P, I often forget about that.

[Liggle]

My missus did hipnobirthing so no pain relief what so ever! It might sound a bit fluffy (I was sceptical at first) but it was immensely effective... until our daughter turned and got distressed, you can’t breathe your way out of that!

[egg]

I tell ya, emergency cesarian is... interesing. Especially racing to hospital at 1am in a Corsa B.

[Parky]

I really don't think I could have coped with that!

 

(The Corsa B that is)

[mrbenn]

Was out cycling the other day as per, 2 degrees max in early afternoon and a decent frost still around. Spotted a Corsa B parked on a busy roundabout with the hazards on with a guy in his 70's-ish at the wheel reading a bloody map in a live lane! Quietly rolled my eyes and carried on.

 

30 minutes later I come back and the Corsa is still there, this time a lady of similar age is in the passenger seat. I ride past then think better of it, turn round and come back. Turns out the clutch cable had broken and they were waiting for the RAC. I offered to push them off the roundabout to a quieter place but the guy was worried that the RAC wouldn't find them. I said I'd go home and bring them a flask of tea but they wouldn't hear of it (should have just done it, really). At least they could run the engine to keep warm, and I made sure they had a phone.

 

Just makes me wonder how many people passed them in the 30 mins I know they were there, probably there much longer. Thousands, I should think. This roundabout is right on the A34. Lady told me I was the first to stop and see if they needed help

[BorniteIdentity]

Just makes me wonder how many people passed them in the 30 mins I know they were there, probably there much longer. Thousands, I should think. This roundabout is right on the A34. Lady told me I was the first to stop and see if they needed help

 

I hear you brother.  I will always stop just to see if people need owt - even if it's a run up to the services for a wee - and just ask that people pass it on.  Good on you.

[Coprolalia]

Spent plenty of time at work at the business end (as opposed to the head) during crash c-sections.

Turned me grey, the look in a parents eyes as I perform CPR on their newborn. Resuscitated plenty of bairns and never lost one.

 

Now utterly terrified of the thought of my future wife/ little one in that position, but will trust to my colleagues and the fact that I've only ever got involved in the worst cases.

[egg]

I was a wuss and stayed out of the room until my daughter was out.

 

However, my squeamishness was enhanced when I was 21 and had a hernia op under local anesthetic. The kindly* surgeon sat me up a couple of times during the op to show me what he was doing. Oh lovely!

[cobblers]

Aye, the thought of having any kind of surgery absolutely terrifies me. I broke my toe years back by driving a mini over it and it gives me grief now and again to the point where I can only just walk, but I daren't get it fixed, I'm a right wimp.

[Junkman]

Now here is a barn find you don't find every day:

 

https://carbuzz.com/news/original-bullitt-mustang-rediscovered-after-more-than-40-years

 

 

Some arsehole will restore it.

 

 

What I didn't know hitherto is that they only used two of these for filming.

Both survived and are now accounted for.

[iainrcz]

Today's entirely irrelevant news, I summoned up the enthusiasm to wash the car .

Two people walked past and said "nice car", I knocked a mug of tea over.

And later I'm going on a beer and curry tasting trip.

 

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[captain_70s]

Doloshite booked in for an MOT on Monday.

 

 

Handbrake now maxes out on 3 "clicks" and the car can be held on a mild/moderate slope, it might be good enough to pass. I was correct about the timing, it was steadily retarding itself, this is now sorted to the point where the car runs and drives... Oil light now flickers when it gets warm. Fuck it, it's as good as Its gonna' get...

[xtriple]

Just been and started the dollop for the first time in months. Supposed to be used frequently to stop the hydraulics going fubar but I can't be bothered... which is sad. It started first time and after the pump stopped clattering (blowing up the back suspension) sounded lovely and quiet. Was going to bring it home after giving it a run and even got as far as opening the windows for the dogs before I changed my mind, shut everything again and put the cover back on it. I want to get the MX5 out to do some stuff to it but it's behind dollop and I can't be arsed to move it.

 

I shall see what the weather forecast is for the weekend and maybe try again. The weather, while mild is effing terrible with gale force winds and horizontal rain and I think it's safer locked away.

 

Then went to the vets to get Phoebes pills and rescued a worm from the floor by the door (a proper worm the kind that lives in the garden and does good stuff for drainage etc, not the kind that drops out of dogs bums, which could be forgiven for thinking as I was in the vets surgery afterall) and everyone now thinks I am even wierder than before. Who rescues worms for Gods sake?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apart from me obviously

[mercrocker]

First MOT of the year done today.   190E all good for another 12.95 months.   Couple of advisories (one a cracked headlight I have already replaced once, grrrr) and a bit of a bollocking from the tester.   Apparently I have only treated two of the four areas needing paintwork underneath and I should not leave it for another year.....   

 

As penance I had to spend 15 minutes under the ramp while he work-lamped the areas of concern.   "Next year you won't get it back until we have waxoyled the whole car and charge you £0000s!" he warned.  

 

He's right of course, been a bit lax plus Mrs Rocker never stops using the bloody thing longer than it takes for me to fill it up again.   They are great lads, all Merc-schooled and fight over any W201 that comes in because "so much easier to work on than all this other stuff...."    

 

So, I have now subbed the Minor out for brake repairs so I can get on and do the necessary - only have one set of stands, one carport, one pair of hands and a very tiny piece of willpower....

[mrbenn]

Who rescues worms for Gods sake?

 

I moved one on the drive the other day after I convinced myself he was heading for the drain.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Now here is a barn find you don't find every day:

 

https://carbuzz.com/news/original-bullitt-mustang-rediscovered-after-more-than-40-years

 

 

Some arsehole will restore it....

 

Should really leave the thing as it is - that patina is just right and that car has some stories to tell.

[SiC]

Who rescues worms for Gods sake?

 

I've rescued some from the road outside too. Even if they did make it to the otherside, there is no soil for them to go back underground again.

[dollywobbler]

Two days ago, I set off for a business trip to Cornwall.

 

Some hours and many mucky miles later, I was in Devon to visit my sister.

 

Then I went to my parents' in Bideford and watched quality* telly.

 

Yesterday, I was in Cornwall, at Twosmoke's gaff. This parcel had been sent by Mrs DW, because it contained a part that had landed at our house half an hour after I let (Parcelfarce's pitiful 'tracking' system reckoned it was still in Shrewsbury).

 

Twosmoke extracted a knackered cam cover stud from the Honda, and fitted the new one. Must remember to pay him...

 

Then FPB7 reckoned I should seek out a bloke with some sheds. This turned out to be an excellent tip-off.

 

That's part of the Moseley Museum, which is basically a few sheds full of model railway, old stuff and a narrow gauge railway, which operates in his garden in warmer months.

 

Then my Sat Nav decided this was a road.

 

A short time later, having found tarmac again, I found this happy scene.

 

Part of the same collection.

 

Garage owner died, family seem in no rush to do anything at all.

 

Today, I drove home, but this is about as exciting as things got. Crusty Setra dot com.

 

Now back home, after nearly 600 miles in three days. Honda was absolutely fine, unsurprisingly.

[RobT]

Looks a good trip DW. 

 

The A-team is also being shown on telly again, and bears up well.  Knight Rider on the other hand is a bit shit IMO, which is a shame as I loved it as an 8 year old.

[DodgeRover]

Then went to the vets to get Phoebes pills and rescued a worm from the floor by the door (a proper worm the kind that lives in the garden and does good stuff for drainage etc, not the kind that drops out of dogs bums, which could be forgiven for thinking as I was in the vets surgery afterall) and everyone now thinks I am even wierder than before. Who rescues worms

You never know if you might be reincarnated as a worm, better to rescue it.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

You never know if you might be reincarnated as a worm, better to rescue it.

I think you can get ointment for that.

[Skizzer]

Then my Sat Nav decided this was a road.

If you were anywhere west of Crediton, that IS a road.

[sierraman]

Wow the XJS has been off the road since 1983. Laid up at 5 years old, it must have been a right nail. Bring some rubble sacks and a broom it ought to say in the ad when it appears on EBay.