What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Tamworthbay]

Then it isn’t bubs problem and the garage can sort it.

 

Nice one Bub, hope it’s all you want mate.

[bub2006]

Thing is it's a motability car so a lot of stress is lifted off my shoulders worrying about repairs, insurance costs etc.

[eddyramrod]

You won't see me carping about you going for a Motability car Bub, that's exactly what we intend to do when the Blob reaches the end.  Top contender at the moment is Mazda CX3, because we need to be able to carry a wheelchair, and we need an auto box with "enough" petrol engine.

[bub2006]

From what I've seen it's not so much the size of the engine but the power output these days. The 1.4 in mine is 150 bhp which is same as the 2.0tdi

[fordperv]

Saw the south african import 3.0 v6 cortina that lives inside a car parts shop actually being driven, mrs fp was quick on the draw to snap a picture before it passed by

 

[Parky]

Made it to France and back to retrieve Parkette who was suffering on a school trip. Came home to find she had a £25 win on the premium bonds and Mrs P got a couple of hundred refund cheque from the inland revenue!

 

Have started new co tract and immediately another old colleague wants a chat about doing some stuff for him too so I might be fully engaged in the next week or so.

 

And finally I saw this in a front garden in Upminster nearby - looks like a 1.3s that failed its last MOT in March 2010. Tempted to pop a note through the door!

[eddyramrod]

That's good news!  How is Parkette now?

[xtriple]

Having had a grump about micro blister on the Mazda yesterday, today I have a grin about it. I have managed to get rid of about 90% of them by heating the area with a towel soaked in boiling water and left on the area, repeat a few times. Not completely gone, but good enough even for a fussy twat like me. Did involve a bit of rubbing action which fealt a bit like work but hey, can't have everything!

[DodgeRover]

Made it to France and back to retrieve Parkette who was suffering on a school trip. Came home to find she had a £25 win on the premium bonds and Mrs P got a couple of hundred refund cheque from the inland revenue!

 

 

Has the school got cover to pay for this eventuality - after all it was their failure to provide the appropriate staff that led to you having to retrieve her yourself? What would they have done if you couldn't have got her?

My kids aren't going on the France trip as their school isn't competent to look after a pet rabbit let alone kids in a foreign country.

[Parky]

Has the school got cover to pay for this eventuality - after all it was their failure to provide the appropriate staff that led to you having to retrieve her yourself? What would they have done if you couldn't have got her?

My kids aren't going on the France trip as their school isn't competent to look after a pet rabbit let alone kids in a foreign country.

This is something under discussion. The school are claiming we hadn't made them aware of Parkettes issues (basically yeah we have her file but hadn't read it) but to be honest getting her home and settled was the priority. I will consider if it is worth pursuing any sort of refund, I suspect it is pointless and I can't see turning the college tutors against her will help her future grades shall we say.....

 

EDDY - yup, she is much happier now. Being back in her usual surroundings helps heaps. Sometimes she copes so well we kind of forget her issues until one day they make themselves very much known again. This week was one of those times sadly.

[DodgeRover]

Parky I'm sorry for you and Parkette jnr, having to deal with the situation, not that that really helps

[Parky]

Ah no worries. 16 years of being the parent of an autistic child, shit like this is pretty much water of a ducks back!

[hairnet]

Nigel Slater doing a cooking visiting thing in Iran

 

405s everywhere

 

His taxi driver invited him for dinner

 

Slater in the back of a 405

[Stanky]

I seem to have developed a stomach ulcer. This is far from grin-worthy.

 

I drink to relax, it is very very rare I don't have a few beers or cans of cider or a bottle of wine in the evening. I'm probably dependent but whatevZ. I cannot drink any of these drinks it seems without the ulcer taking serious umbrage and putting me in agonizing pain for the entire evening and most of the night. Again, not grin worthy material.

 

However, I read on an NHS web page that while cider, beer and wine making it hurt like mad (yeah, I'd gathered); spirits do not.

 

So here I am with a bottle of rum, to sip without very much pain at all! I even got myself a mini bottle of Kraken rum that I'm about to try. Hooray! I can still drink!

[busmansholiday]

Tell me I'm sinical or sarcastic, but for the life of me I cannot remember ever seeing free range sausages roaming the fields anywhere.

 

[STUNO]

That Mustang in the street photo

 

1967 Mustang  first registered 28th June 1967   plate DH4993

Colour Yellow

4698 cc

last heard of 16th Dec 2009 when tested.....Failed

Seems to have been patched up for every test for several years previously. may still exist somewhere.

[hairnet]

fkin kiwis

 

love them

[Mr A Lawrence]

I thought it was Australia .

[STUNO]

An outdoor bred sausage

 

 

 

[155V6]

Just watching Motorsport TV.After this years WRC Sweden,they're showing the same event from 1986   .I was expecting the RS200s & 6R4s,but just saw the Citroen BX Group B Car 

[andy18s]

Just watching Motorsport TV.After this years WRC Sweden,they're showing the same event from 1986 .I was expecting the RS200s & 6R4s,but just saw the Citroen BX Group B Car

For sure,you too can live the dream

[cms206]

Just watching Motorsport TV.After this years WRC Sweden,they're showing the same event from 1986 .I was expecting the RS200s & 6R4s,but just saw the Citroen BX Group B Car

1988 tonight, 1991 tomorrow... just watched '86, got the other two on to record.

 

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[beko1987]

Watching cars 2 with the boy (which is nowhere near as good as cars 1...) and I saw this!

 

[greengartside]

Because of my photographic memory it means I retain useless/useful information so I did a little grin to myself when I saw this Micra on the bay of E's earlier.

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NISSAN-MICRA-1-0-PROFILE-1999-PAS-good-body-exc-inside-no-MOT-welding-exc-drive/222841695545?hash=item33e2666d39:g:TicAAOSwIDtahraL

 

Because of the 'ELK' plate and the fact it has the unusual front fogs I remembered that it was the very same Micra that I parked next to whilst visiting the Haynes Museum in 2014.

 

 

Madness.

[Eddie Honda]

Just watching Motorsport TV.

Retuned the generic satbox last week to find this had replaced the Bike channel.

 

[robinmasters]

Watching cars 2 with the boy (which is nowhere near as good as cars 1...) and I saw this!

 

IMG_20180217_124242.jpg

I identified the baddie fairly early on in the film from his inlet plenum.

 

[fordperv]

Mrs fps dad is a pain for not cleaning his car, today ive fitted some 10mm wheel spacers and a reverse camera to it for him, so twisted his arm to give it a 2 bucket right un and some polish while i was there so it looks good again, he is adamant that im trying to wear him out but is chuffed with the results

 

 

[hairnet]

Shoulda bought a brown one

[The Moog]

What sort of reverse camera did you fit?

[hairnet]

panda of much spinnage legal for another 12 months

 

edit and the old git be like i want to buy another bigger newer car id be all over an access dacia but she snob say dont like white

 

i say no youre 70 if they decide to not renew you or they call you in for eyesight etc

 

thatd be a waste - i wouldnt be using it if you stopped

 

plus the fact i didnt go anywhere long distance in it

 

cos of that its done less than 2k since last year