What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[MarvinsMom]

had a grin today, thanks to the youngest niece.

thanks to the yorkshire vet, the yorkshire farm and all creatures great and small, Lucy has decided (realised?) that the north riding is the promised land.

well she is living in Grantham, even in the posh bit is i think, crap. and the kids when they were younger "liked" skegness.....

but i've been able to live here all my life,and i won't be living anywhere else! 

anyhoo, watching all farm-vetty things on the telly has  inspired her want to be a vet. (she is 10 i think)

though she won't "do" cows. she WILL NOT be putting her hand up a cows arse! no, no cows, not ever!

 

[Joey spud]

[High Jetter]

  On 15/09/2020 at 20:17, MarvinsMom said:

had a grin today, thanks to the youngest niece.

thanks to the yorkshire vet, the yorkshire farm and all creatures great and small, Lucy has decided (realised?) that the north riding is the promised land.

well she is living in Grantham, even in the posh bit is i think, crap. and the kids when they were younger "liked" skegness.....

but i've been able to live here all my life,and i won't be living anywhere else! 

anyhoo, watching all farm-vetty things on the telly has  inspired her want to be a vet. (she is 10 i think)

though she won't "do" cows. she WILL NOT be putting her hand up a cows arse! no, no cows, not ever!

 

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Calves come out of arses? Never knew that. Good for her, though 

[MarvinsMom]

she's 10 - the actual mechanics of "the miracle of birth" are still unknown to her!

[somewhatfoolish]

I'm pretty sure vets need to learn about cows even if they don't want to do large animal practise; much like Maxfacs surgeons and ENT docs need to learn about arses.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 15/09/2020 at 20:17, MarvinsMom said:

had a grin today, thanks to the youngest niece.

thanks to the yorkshire vet, the yorkshire farm and all creatures great and small, Lucy has decided (realised?) that the north riding is the promised land.

well she is living in Grantham, even in the posh bit is i think, crap. and the kids when they were younger "liked" skegness.....

but i've been able to live here all my life,and i won't be living anywhere else! 

anyhoo, watching all farm-vetty things on the telly has  inspired her want to be a vet. (she is 10 i think)

though she won't "do" cows. she WILL NOT be putting her hand up a cows arse! no, no cows, not ever!

 

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As long as she remembers that all creatures grunt and smell.

[Wack]

Toyota dealer saves 400,000 mile one owner rover 216 from the crusher

You'll have to type the link out as it won't let me copy n paste it

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 16/09/2020 at 17:12, Wack said:

Toyota Mazda dealer saves 400,000 mile one owner rover 216 from the crusher

You'll have to type the link out as it won't let me copy n paste it

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FTFY.

Link here

[busmansholiday]

Wandered back from my local early evening with a couple of carrier bags of curry I'd collected from Torquay's finest South Indian restaurant / takeaway, Ritchie's. That's a smile in itself, but when I got home, there were half a dozen pigeons having a serious committee meeting on the roofes and gutters of the various neighbours houses. 

You could see them saying "some bastard has not only painted the eves and beams they roost on (and trust me, my triple section ladders only just reach the eves), but has fitted some "fook off and shit somewhere else anti bird spikes"". Boy they looked indignant, hope another neighbour enjoys them shitting everywhere!

[Wack]

  On 16/09/2020 at 20:32, busmansholiday said:

Wandered back from my local early evening with a couple of carrier bags of curry I'd collected from Torquay's finest South Indian restaurant / takeaway, Ritchie's. That's a smile in itself, but when I got home, there were half a dozen pigeons having a serious committee meeting on the roofes and gutters of the various neighbours houses. 

You could see them saying "some bastard has not only painted the eves and beams they roost on (and trust me, my triple section ladders only just reach the eves), but has fitted some "fook off and shit somewhere else anti bird spikes"". Boy they looked indignant, hope another neighbour enjoys them shitting everywhere!

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Some friends of ours had a static caravan , next doors was rented out , usually ok but one family were arseholes , up until all hours playing music , after 2 nights of it somebody threw a broken up loaf of bread up there , as soon as it was light they had 50 seagulls on the roof 

[mk2_craig]

  On 16/09/2020 at 17:12, Wack said:

Toyota dealer saves 400,000 mile one owner rover 216 from the crusher

You'll have to type the link out as it won't let me copy n paste it

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Four hundred thousand miles!! Thats flipping amazing. Most of these things had fallen apart before 100,000. Must have been mega effort getting that through each MOT with minimal fails/advisories over the years. 
 

Fair play to the dealer for giving it another chance to live on. 

[dozeydustman]

  On 15/09/2020 at 13:05, dozeydustman said:

Sorting through my inherited stamp collection and I have found this beauty.

 

anyone know what the car is (not the model T)

 

Then I come across this fantastic piece of history.

 

 

A letter from June 8 1717, someone asking the local Lord or Laird for coal clinker

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Doing some rudimentary googling it would appear the writer of the letter came from Leadgate, of which there are at least two - one in Durham and one in Yorks; there is or was a Stow House (There are rental cottages called Stow House cottages) near there so I may contact a few museums and historical society in the north east to see if they have any record back then of local landed gentry. It has got me rather intrigued.

 

[Cavcraft]

I absolutely promise you I've just been following an Arnold Clarke supplied red Vauxhall Mokka with the number plate 'A1 MUG'.

[Zie]

A mates just dug this up in the garden, no idea what its off. 

[Tayne]

Front marker light from an 1899-1902 Horsey Horseless. 
Later models had cheaper, less intricate lights.

[Stanky]

Working from home today and my Skype meetings keep getting interrupted by the Spitfire taking off and circling overhead from the airfield 400m away. Trying to get a picture of it thats not potato-cam tastic currently

[Wack]

  On 17/09/2020 at 13:02, Stanky said:

Working from home today and my Skype meetings keep getting interrupted by the Spitfire taking off and circling overhead from the airfield 400m away. Trying to get a picture of it thats not potato-cam tastic currently

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Sywell ? 

[Wack]

Just won a hens teeth large disklok on ebay for the opening bid of £40  because you don't spell it disclock , result

[Stanky]

  On 17/09/2020 at 15:19, Wack said:

Sywell ? 

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Fareham, just by HMS Daedalus/Solent Airport. Its been based here for at least a year and flies a couple of times a week. 

[wuvvum]

I find it amazing that there are so many 80+-year-old aircraft still roaring around the skies.  Most of them are probably a bit Trigger's broom by now, but still.

[face]

  On 17/09/2020 at 13:02, Stanky said:

Working from home today and my Skype meetings keep getting interrupted by the Spitfire taking off and circling overhead from the airfield 400m away. Trying to get a picture of it thats not potato-cam tastic currently

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Pleasantly off-putting.

I live in a village near to Duxford and there is a chap living here who owns a Spitfire, so one flies over frequently.

Never anything but a treat to see them.

[Sunny Jim]

Swift Water Rescue Training at work. I get paid to do this.

[PhilA]

Stopped and stared at the sky this evening. 

Someone louvered the clouds

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 18/09/2020 at 03:59, PhilA said:

...Someone louvered the clouds

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Makes a change from forest fire smoke. 

[paulplom]

Took the day off to do invoicing which I despise. Must be months since I had a payment and funds are getting low. Bollox to that. The sun is shining and this is filthy from the weekend. Full wash and wax with a hoovering and interior freshen up.

 

[Borsuq]

I took time out of my day today to ponder a noble* steed called Proton Wira. Nobody remembers them these days, but thinking about random chod makes me happy.

To be fair, I wouldn't remember Wiras either if it wasn't for them being in a game I played a lot as a kid.

 

[paulplom]

I can remember them. Didn't they do a gti version?

Edit it was the satria gti. Mitsubushi engine iirc.

[Aston Martin]

  On 17/09/2020 at 15:23, Wack said:

Just won a hens teeth large disklok on ebay for the opening bid of £40  because you don't spell it disclock , result

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We're you searching for Dick lock again?

[Wack]

  On 18/09/2020 at 10:35, Aston Martin said:

We're you searching for Dick lock again?

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I saw enough dick on my IOM TT trip last year, wasn't expecting rugby club showers at the campsite, walked into the changing room to see an exhibitionist (80% happy) drying his back while waving his cock about at the front , once seen can't be unseen.

It looked like he'd borrowed it off a horse, might have well have been shouting , have you fucking seen the size of this

Luckily on day 2 I found a portakabin shower block, so it was a 6am shower and a block of wood to jam the door

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 18/09/2020 at 10:47, Wack said:

..... an exhibitionist (80% happy) ...

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I'm curious as to how you calculated the 80%.....