What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[dave j]

Hit a mileage milestone in my brothers van yesterday... 

[DeeJay]

Shouldn't that be in the spotted thread?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll get my coat as well.

[MrDuke]

Today I left work early, got in my C*rsa and tooled down the high street with Brand New Heavies blaring out at eleventy dB. I stopped outside the record shop and spent 20 minutes buying old vinyl which I shall be playing on my 70s Sanyo music system later on. Once home, I changed into some nice 34" jeans and am currently waiting for my Mum to cook dinner.

 

I am literally 18 again. 

But bald. 

[MikeR]

48 minutes ago, DeeJay said:

Shouldn't that be in the spotted thread?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll get my coat as well.

bit of a woof joke ...

gets coat ....

[MikeR]

just got a pile of 4 spare wheels with  rubber rings  for the Focus ........ 

 

sorted

[Cavcraft]

47 minutes ago, MrDuke said:

Today I left work early, got in my C*rsa and tooled down the high street with Brand New Heavies blaring out at eleventy dB. I stopped outside the record shop and spent 20 minutes buying old vinyl which I shall be playing on my 70s Sanyo music system later on. Once home, I changed into some nice 34" jeans and am currently waiting for my Mum to cook dinner.

 

I am literally 18 again. 

But bald. 

Don't worry about the hair bit, now you have a Corsa you'll be knee deep in MILF.

 

 

 

 

[Cavcraft]

Oh aye, as of today at the grand age of 55 and 50.5, we have become home owners for the first time.  Thatcher can still FRO, mind.

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, DeeJay said:

Shouldn't that be in the spotted thread?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll get my coat as well.

*chases with matches...................

[hairnet]

xmas swerved

woop

ahh leafy cheshire.........

just gotta find a non festive menu place now for eaties

Edit Xmas lunch 3 courses in the pub Xmas day 46 quid now you know what lool

 

 

[xtriple]

I got my first Christmas present today, a calendar. Friend has done all the photography for it  (dogs home/rescue/rehab centre) free of charge and so ordered a few for loved ones. They charged him a tenner a time for them even though he drove out to their premises multiple times and spent hours getting dogs to pose/sit still/look photgenic and then sorted out prints, organised printer and got the whole job done for them all for the grand sum of zero. Zilch. Nada.

I know it's a charidee etc but seems a bit unfair to charge the bloke full price when he has effectively already paid for the whole run!

[ChrisWilliams]

Just returned home from a works trip to North Wales, with 3 colleagues in a rented Ford S-Max. A top of the range thing with a diesel engine and automatic gearbox - the Ford version of the VW DSG box. And you'll never guess what happened... 

It lost loads of power going up a hill in the middle of nowhere in North Wales, the gearbox started hunting around but we crept over the brow, and somehow managed to coax it another 100 miles home. Maybe turning it off and on again would have sorted it, but maybe it wouldn't, and I didn't fancy risking it with three colleagues in the middle of nowhere. Anyway, the point is this: IT'S NOT MY PROBLEM ?

 

[The Moog]

^And if you don't like the Poppies that's your tough luck'. Have they reformed (again) then ?

 

Been back for years. Only normally Graham ..  

 

It was a Sunday of Stourbridge finest - pwei, neds and stuffies.

 

 

Highlights of weekend include the legends that are the Sultans of ping, sice, Jim Bob, Tony Wright (including flogging me vinyl from his car boot (Corsa for those that care)) and the wedding present

 

Disappointed by Bob Mould, cast, lighting seeds and Babybird.

 

 

 

I now seem to have misplaced my jumper

 

 

 

[myglaren]

[cobblers]

Thick frost tomorrow according to the news. Luckily I brought the Talbot camper home today. Bring it on, I've got a bottle of gas I need to use up! That van is probably warmer than the house,

 

[twosmoke300]

Off to look at a 45k Fiat Cinquecento later today. £250 and looks bloody minty and lovely MOT history - genuinely excited.

[Kiltox]

6 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Off to look at a 45k Fiat Cinquecento later today. £250 and looks bloody minty and lovely MOT history - genuinely excited.

That’s got to be one of those cars where finding a minty fresh one is rare - cheap small car that would’ve been worked hard all it’s life usually. 

[twosmoke300]

45k , two owners , MOT til sept 20 . 

Lovely deckchair pattern seats too 

[wuvvum]

I do like a Cinquecento - proper sweet little things to drive.  Best in bASe 899cc form imho, fun though the Sporting is.

[loserone]

16 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Off to look at a 45k Fiat Cinquecento later today. £250 and looks bloody minty and lovely MOT history - genuinely excited.

Not yellow is it?

[HillmanImp]

10 hours ago, snagglepuss said:

Disappointed by Bob Mould, cast, lighting seeds and Babybird.

With the exception of Bob Mould, those were all pretty disappointing back in the 90s weren't they?

I assume Clint is too busy making millions doing Hollywood film scores to bother singing classics like Beaver Patrol and Not now James, we're busy anymore? What about Richard March? 

[twosmoke300]

1 hour ago, loserone said:

Not yellow is it?

Nope , Silver . My garage info package says its a BASE but in the pics it says sx on the back and looks like it has leccy windows. 899cc tho

[The Moog]

1 hour ago, HillmanImp said:

With the exception of Bob Mould, those were all pretty disappointing back in the 90s weren't they?

I assume Clint is too busy making millions doing Hollywood film scores to bother singing classics like Beaver Patrol and Not now James, we're busy anymore? What about Richard March? 

Probably - nostalgia aint what it used to be ... 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, twosmoke300 said:

45k , two owners , MOT til sept 20 . 

Lovely deckchair pattern seats too 

It's the seat patterns that sell it 

 

[Wack]

Just in time for Christmas too

I think the expression is bat shit crazy

 

[busmansholiday]

The middle of Lidl has turned up trump's again.

Two quid each, except the sanding belts, a quid.

[anonymous user]

3 hours ago, Wack said:

Just in time for Christmas too

I think the expression is bat shit crazy

 

I generally have a Black Christmas, not a huge fan of the forced jollity, so whilst I put up a tree it is black, with blackbirds and crows in it for decorations. I have a Christmas hat which usually goes on the least annoyed dog, or the skeleton, or the bear. (It looked stupid on the shark)

[HillmanImp]

 

[hairnet]

fast and loud

61 ford falcon

oh my how do i now clear up this mess i made

ooofffffff hnnnnggggg etc

[Floatylight]

Popped into a scrap yard I used to go to 20 years ago (Jenkinsons - Sandon Bank), still the same, still brilliantly chaotic and somewhere you can wonder I with your own tools and set about getting your bits..

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[Skizzer]

Christ, that Daimler XJ looks less rusty than mine.