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[ruffgeezer]

3 hours ago, New POD said:

Spoke to my mother yesterday.  She informed me that last week she went to the funeral of an old friend.  Said the funny* thing was that it was exactly a year ago we buried your father. Same day. 

Ah... well I remembered the anniversary of his death 3 weeks before, but do we need to remember the anniversary of his funeral too ?  

To quote Kae Tempest:-

"It’s true if you believe it
The world is the world
But it’s all how you see it
One man’s flash of lightning ripping through the air
Is another’s passing glare, hardly there"

Edited 18 hours ago by ruffgeezer

[comfortablynumb]

On 11/02/2026 at 11:25, reb said:

On Friday I went to the funeral of my dad's lifelong best friend. We'd lost touch over the last couple of years, I'm feeling a certain amount of regret over not staying in contact. The attendance was good, and we completely filled the hotel the wake was held at. His family owned said hotel back in the day.

Dad was mentioned by name during the eulogy, which surprised my mum for some reason.

The floral arrangement on the coffin was in the shape of a Talbot Sunbeam. There was a Class 43 on the cover of the programme.

He had almost as much influence on me growing up as dad did. Some of my earliest memories are hanging out with the two of them at his cottage fucking around with cars. He's probably a big part of why I live on a farm today.

 

I don't know how to wrap this up, other than to quote his Instagram bio:

"You only live once. If you do it right, once is enough."

I went to my Godfathers funeral, who was my dad's best friend, about 6 months after dad died.

They were a pair of jokers

During the service, which had a screen in the church with the words of the hymn scrolling past, it suddenly froze, went blank,and then a grinning pic of my Godfather appeared!

My mum and dad were both mentioned in the eulogy too..

After the service, I was chatting to his daughter, about how they were playing tricks, and she told me that wasn't half of it. When they were putting together the order of service, they'd put a pic of my Godfather on the front, and once they'd completed it, and gone back to the front page, his pic had disappeared, and been replaced with one of my dad!

Thing was, she didn't have that pic on that computer...😱😁

[Fat_Pirate]

Remember that time we all missed the Supreme Cat Show?  Bad times.

[bunglebus]

Saab weld-a-thon continues. NSR needed a patch on the bottom of the sill and in the adjacent area under the floor near the suspension mount. There was already a patch at the sill end and in the inner arch, had to put a small plate in there I forgot to photograph. The patch was an omen...

That was last week. All I had to do today was fix a 50p size hole in the OSR inner arch. Of course that grew to a big hole that needed a two stage repair

That looks quite flat in the pic but it curves in multiple directions and was a pain to make the repair piece for. Unfortunately this fix revealed the end of the sill where it joins the inner arch to be a bit crumbly, so I gave it a tickle with the clean up disc

Oh, that's a quarter inch of filler over another patch

Oh dear

Oh dear oh dear

Cutting the "easy to repair" section out revealed the inner arch is rotten too

All fixable but the corn flakes inside the sill indicate there's more to come, only the centre of the sill is available and the end looks like a right bastard to make, I'm no metal worker and only have basic tools to try and shape stuff 

[beko1987]

On 09/02/2026 at 08:15, beko1987 said:

We have a teaspoon shortage in the house. I'm 96% sure the kids are throwing them in the bin whilst scraping plates or eating them but either way we're down to 3 and their shit ones.

After a beer or 2 I went onto ebay and found the perfect replacement set

Should last for a while, their all different places in the uk apparently (seller has tons of listing for different countries of spoon in job lots too. I assume someone's undiagnosed adhd gran sadly passed not long ago...)

They came! Their a bit smaller than I'd like, but they'll all be lost by the summer so 🤷

I used the Arundel spoon to stir my coffee tonight, will let Charlie open them all up and see what there is tomorrow 

[Snake Charmer]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

All I had to do today was fix a 50p size hole in the OSR inner arch. Of course that grew to a big hole

Ten Bob soon grows to £200 today in welding terms!