What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Bren]

[Fumbler]

While I was doing some bodging, a wild Xantia V6 appeared and parked up to say hello.

Very nice chap who owns it. He recommissioned it, changed a strut top, sorted a plethora of leaks and so on.

He even gifted me one of these!

He had two in the boot! This'll be rather handy. Very, very kind of him.

[Wack]

Hi is that vehicle  recovery 

It is 

Are you fully legal 

Yes 

Great , how big a load can you handle 

Anything 

 

[155V6]

[STUNO]

New Zealand railways have lost a train, actually a bit of one. At the Picton rail yards they have (or used to have) a remote controlled engine. It was supposed to push a wagon onto the ferry to Wellington, So off it trundled over the ramp to the ferry. There was no ferry there and the result is ..... how do we lift a Locomotive out of the sea ? It weighs about 20 tonnes, the tank wagon can be seen floating happily.

Oil spill response operation underway after shunt train falls into Picton Harbour (msn.com)

Update.....Locomotive that fell into harbour back on dry land 'where it belongs' (msn.com)

[Austat]

 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

This:

😁

[Joey spud]

I was looking at my emails earlier and this second one caught my eye.

[Joey spud]

It was just this hilarious decal honest...

[Joey spud]

[Joey spud]

Protecting your Elephant from frost will make it much easier to start in the morning.

[Crackers]

Check out the size of my-

👀

....oil filter!

That's 1.6 Focus on the right, 3.5 Rover centre, and mug for scale. That's a chonky boi. Although not even a patch on a lot of others I've seen! 

[twosmoke300]

Some of the filters on tractors are just ridiculous in size. Especially when it slips through your fingers and rolls out between the rear wheels merrily emptying as it goes. 

[Wack]

Looks like some people have had enough of the e scooter 🤣 

 

[Joey spud]

I didn't know Bullseye was back on the telly..

[STUNO]

Seen personally by me. Granny ran out of electricity on her mobility scooter, so she needed to get home. What's better than having someone tow her home. why look! here comes little Johnny on his Harley. And someone had some rope. As I went past Granny and Harley/Johnny were setting off down the highway.  Granny was looking a wee bit apprehensive, but Johnny was behaving.

[hairnet]

ive just seen live pictures of a kiwi going shopping

@Parky how many brownie points is thit?

sweet bro

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

Going through divorce, moving country, looking for a new job, missing my kids.

these things make me sad.

luckily the little things in life make me smile.

It is good to be back.

 

[Parky]

10 hours ago, hairnet said:

ive just seen live pictures of a kiwi going shopping

@Parky how many brownie points is thit?

sweet bro

Live tweeting Pak N Save runs is the new Nora the piano playing cat

[Wack]

I've seen some amazing model railways built by skilled model makers , so realistic 

This isn't one of those 🤣 , I think he's overpriced it by 10x 

[STUNO]

Corporate head office, or someone else has sent us a new car to replace our Hyundai Sonata which was liked by everyone.

They have done well................................

 

 

It is a 1997 model Km's unknown but I will guess several hundred thousand.

EDIT.....A check on car jam shows it had done 270.000km in 2019

[New POD]

18 hours ago, Wack said:

I've seen some amazing model railways built by skilled model makers , so realistic 

This isn't one of those 🤣 , I think he's overpriced it by 10x 

Southport. 

That is all you need to know. 

[Neil clark]

22 hours ago, Sir Chocolate Teapot said:

Going through divorce, moving country, looking for a new job, missing my kids. 89.08 kB · 0 downloads

these things make me sad.

luckily the little things in life make me smile.

It is good to be back.

 

It gets easier mate 

[BorniteIdentity]

Decorating your old nail with straw so you can charge more money for it.

Fucksake.

[captain_70s]

In other pictures you can see the water stains and mould in the gutters showing it was clearly sat outside for ages.

[gm]

I wasn’t sure if this pretty butterfly was some kind of weird stick on tat but it flew away when I got out to take a closer look.

 

[omegod]

On 9/5/2021 at 11:43 AM, Wack said:

I've seen some amazing model railways built by skilled model makers , so realistic 

This isn't one of those 🤣 , I think he's overpriced it by 10x 

I once saw a model village catch fire, was awful to see, you could see the flames from 10 feet away 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, gm said:

I wasn’t sure if this pretty butterfly was some kind of weird stick on tat but it flew away when I got out to take a closer look.

 

Small tortoiseshell. Caterpillars like nettles, of which there are plenty

[155V6]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Small tortoiseshell. Caterpillars like nettles, of which there are plenty

I saw this beastie last week,look at the key for a size comparisom

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, 155V6 said:

I saw this beastie last week,...

Elephant hawk moth caterpillar, apparently. Still has some growing to do. Might change its colour later after shedding skin....