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1 minute ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Is Ravenhead the manufacturer?

Yup, I think - just checked actually - factory was in St Helens.

[Rust Collector]

A summary of today:

• I oversaw the launch of a new software system at work, which I’ve been responsible for overseeing from concept and has taken forever to get to implementation. I’ve had huge anxiety in the run up to this day, and feared failure. It actually went fairly smoothly despite my apprehensions, and I only messaged a bug report to @rob88h by accident once. I’m calling that a result.
• I came home to find that my mrs has reversed the disco into the Proton, smashing the indicator on the proton and damaging the bodywork of both vehicles. Not ideal, but nobody hurt so not worth worrying about.
• My Labrador, who at 12 should be old enough to know better, for some reason rammed his head in the hole of his feeding table. In panic he then ran amok with the table still attached, damaging the house and breaking his feeding table in the process. It was a bastard to pull him back out of it and wasn’t enjoyable for him.
• My father in law and his wife put our kids to bed, cooked us a fantastic dinner and are now filling me with beer and gin.

It’s been a bit all over the place today.

[scaryoldcortina]

3 hours ago, egg said:

Now, if I know anything about the demographic on here, I won't be the only one who enjoys a beverage from a Ravenhead Siesta? Daughter broke one, but found some more.

My dad bought a complete set of those in 1977. I shall ask mum if any survived. 😂

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3 minutes ago, scaryoldcortina said:

My dad bought a complete set of those in 1977. I shall ask mum if any survived. 😂

They are durable, been using a set for 20 years and they've been in the family since new, this eBay lot had one missing so not bad to get 5 as new for £8 + postage.

[rob88h]

17 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

and I only messaged a bug report to @rob88h by accident once.

I find other peoples problems are always so much more interesting than your own, haha. I was of no help though. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 28/04/2024 at 12:42, MJK 24 said:

But saving the best for last.  Car of the show for me by a long long way…

Pristine!  In the condition you used to see them in when they were 6-12 months old!

And it’s got the big block fitted:

 

 

some had green carpet!

[Dyslexic Viking]

Got temporary registration plates (stickers) for the Vivaro which are on similar to the UK Sorn so I could drive it today and get the rust off the brakes and take it to MOT tomorrow morning.

I don't know why we still have temporary registration plates when we no longer have to hand in the registration plates at Sorn but we do, Norway is strange.

[Split_Pin]

4 hours ago, egg said:

Now, if I know anything about the demographic on here, I won't be the only one who enjoys a beverage from a Ravenhead Siesta? Daughter broke one, but found some more.

Ah crikey those bring back memories! Even as an under 10, it bothered me a lot that my parents didn't really clean them properly and there was residue in all the dimples. Ever since, I've wanted to go back in time with a dish brush and some washing up liquid and give them a good scrub, using a brisk rotary motion.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

4 hours ago, egg said:

Now, if I know anything about the demographic on here, I won't be the only one who enjoys a beverage from a Ravenhead Siesta? Daughter broke one, but found some more.

I remember those! Weren't they free* if you saved up 50,000 Texaco fuel vouchers or something? 

Edit:

Apparently you could buy tall versions of the same.

My parents had several of the smaller ones like yours- I'll have to see if any have survived the last 40  years. 

Edit again:

Turns out it was Esso Tiger Tokens. Seems like yesterday...

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11 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Apparently you could buy tall versions of the same.

yeah, at least 6 different types including 'sundae dishes' and 'goblets' - very 70's!

[loserone]

Who remembers these leaf glasses?

 

 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

@egg Every day's a school day! Never knew there were so many versions of them.

I've checked and apparently none of my parents glasses have survived. I'm sure I remember at least one within the last decade, so they provided sterling service over the years. 

[loserone]

Well, I found this a few weeks ago.  9th anniversary present 

Will fill a dozen of the glasses

[vulgalour]

I remember those Siesta glasses as always being in ones and twos at the back of cupboards as  a kid, sometimes being dragged into service at village hall events when they ran out of the regular glassware.

For me it's Arcoroc.  I spent a few years scooping up enough to make a full set and spares from various charity shops and have enough that it should see me out barring catastrophe.  Got the clear pressed glass for tumblers, hiball, red wine, white wine, sherry, champagne, and continental lager (they were the hardest to find).

Then I've got the brown glass for teacups, saucers, coffee cups, dinner plates, and tea plates.

Got a few extra bits of brown glass arcoroc for flans and the like, but those are a bit harder to find in the right style to match.  Not as easy to find now as they were, though you do still get the odd one in charity shops, and some listings online for frankly laughable sums punted as 'rare' and 'vintage' when they're nothing of the sort.

[High Jetter]

8 minutes ago, loserone said:

Well, I found this a few weeks ago.  9th anniversary present 

Will fill a dozen of the glasses

We have 2 or 3 of those, somewhere...

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Rust Collector said:

A summary of today:

• I oversaw the launch of a new software system at work, which I’ve been responsible for overseeing from concept and has taken forever to get to implementation. I’ve had huge anxiety in the run up to this day, and feared failure. It actually went fairly smoothly despite my apprehensions, and I only messaged a bug report to @rob88h by accident once. I’m calling that a result.
• I came home to find that my mrs has reversed the disco into the Proton, smashing the indicator on the proton and damaging the bodywork of both vehicles. Not ideal, but nobody hurt so not worth worrying about.
• My Labrador, who at 12 should be old enough to know better, for some reason rammed his head in the hole of his feeding table. In panic he then ran amok with the table still attached, damaging the house and breaking his feeding table in the process. It was a bastard to pull him back out of it and wasn’t enjoyable for him.
• My father in law and his wife put our kids to bed, cooked us a fantastic dinner and are now filling me with beer and gin.

It’s been a bit all over the place today.

At least the cock-ups aren't of your making! Plenty of mileage there, with Mrs and the Lab.

[Wibble]

1 hour ago, loserone said:

Who remembers these leaf glasses?

 

 

Were these the BP token ones? You wouldn’t believe the amount of this people claim as crystal.

[Split_Pin]

8 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Arcoroc

My parents replaced their Siesta glasses with a full set of those. I seem to recall they got the tumblers from a petrol station but they also had wine glasses and champagne flutes. I'm sure some of the latter survive at my mums house, I'll need to check!

[PicantoJon]

Didn't think I'd be driving home in a different car than I set off in... 

[Dyslexic Viking]

The Vivaro didn't pass the Mot, there were some small defects and the biggest was that the winter tires it was on had the wrong load rating, but the most frightening thing was that one of the brake hoses I changed 2 years ago has started to bulge under pressure now.

So it wasn't too bad, a new set of summer tires and fix the other and it's road legal again for 2 new years. And since it is not road legal, I left it at the garage so they can fix it when they have time in the next few weeks.

[Cavcraft]

Turns out an elderly ML320 petrol does exactly 16mpg round the doors, that's running on E5. It does seem to run better on that (and people say it'll be more economical) but I'll try it on E10 to see how the numbers stack up, as the latter is shit loads cheaper.

[andyberg]

6 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

Turns out an elderly ML320 petrol does exactly 16mpg round the doors, that's running on E5. It does seem to run better on that (and people say it'll be more economical) but I'll try it on E10 to see how the numbers stack up, as the latter is shit loads cheaper.

Despite this, I miss this car.

[MorrisItalSLX]

The glassware of my childhood would have to be Anchor Hocking Fire King Peach Lustre mugs.

My grandparents had a set and I always enjoyed watching the tea slosh around through the shiny transparent mugs, so much better than these boring non-see-through mugs everyone else had.

I have the one remaining mug from the set.

[Cavcraft]

1 hour ago, andyberg said:

Despite this, I miss this car.

Honestly not surprised, plus it drives a thousand times nicer than the outside suggests. Still haven't had the starting 'thing' looked at, but it's not got any worse. 

[Cavcraft]

14 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

I remember those! Weren't they free* if you saved up 50,000 Texaco fuel vouchers or something? 

Edit:

Apparently you could buy tall versions of the same.

 

My parents had several of the smaller ones like yours- I'll have to see if any have survived the last 40  years. 

Edit again:

Turns out it was Esso Tiger Tokens. Seems like yesterday...

There was a 'competition' at the tyre place I worked as to who could get the most Tiger Tokens. One lad was the absolute king, he got thousands of the things somehow.  Often wonder if the Transits we had are still about somewhere, most of them hardly ever saw top gear as we ragged the arse out of them and tried to avoid 5th to burn more fuel.

[grogee]

On 27/04/2024 at 23:17, catsinthewelder said:

That looks ace, please bring it if we have wet weather!

Car park recovery vehicle, £20/tow

[purplebargeken]

Ha, my parents had the tall Siesta glasses when I was a kid.  Ace.

[stuboy]

Highlight of my day was charging the hired renfault ambulances that we waiting too use , the battery's don't seem to want too stay charged for more than couple days...

[Dyslexic Viking]

A couple here today woke up to a Skoda entering the living room.

[Tayne]

22 hours ago, vulgalour said:

 

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The glasses of my childhood.

My father was a mobile plant glazier so managed to get 1000s of tiger tokens driving a VW Lt with a luton body workshop on the back, in additon to all the glasses he got the power tools and the garden strimmer and almost the whole catalogue.