What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Lord Sterling]

Wow, I have something to actually grin about! I'm more in shock than grinning.

I took the Jag to Kwik Fit to see about topping up the air-conditioning, and it only worked!!! 😮

So at the age of 41, I have, for the first time, have actually taken my own car to a garage to have an air-con regas and it's actually worked. Pathetic isn't it?

I mean, I have previously owned 3 cars (that I can recall) that actually had working air-conditioning already (BMW, old Jag and Zafira iirc) but to actually do something simple like this and have it actually work is just.....

Hhhhhhhh 😮‍💨

Oh. That and now the aerial fully retracts.

[Lord Sterling]

2 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Yes, it is at Scone and owned by Morris Leslie the auctioneers. Not many flights though, mostly private light aircraft

[somewhatfoolish]

2 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Yes, it is at Scone and owned by Morris Leslie the auctioneers. Not many flights though, mostly private light aircraft

Have they given up Errol, or are they spreading like japanese knotweed and building an empire of flogging old tat from aerodromes?

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On 12/08/2024 at 20:45, Aston Martin said:

That's really quite cool and weird. 

[myglaren]

[Saabnut]

4 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Have they given up Errol, or are they spreading like japanese knotweed and building an empire of flogging old tat from aerodromes?

Errol is still the centre of their world enterprise. At least Morris and his son Gregor are true petrolheads, Morris has a fantastic collection which he occasionally opens to the public.

[The Moog]

On 10/08/2024 at 21:25, hairnet said:

I was about to look fir something and this was there

Wtf

@The Moog

 

Sadly my pink halter neck days are over ... 

[Stinkwheel]

21 hours ago, Sunny Jim said:

Ah Vert Jade, also know as AC539. I know thee well, but it looks weird on the bumper brackets and heat exchangers

[hairnet]

9 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Yes, it is at Scone and owned by Morris Leslie the auctioneers. Not many flights though, mostly private light aircraft

do the sctsch still get upset if you dont say scoon?

did a festival thing there a long time ago but cant remember what for

 

[Stinkwheel]

Having enough tool storage at last makes me grin (yea, it’s a big box. I am not rich, I am lucky, right place right time) 

[vulgalour]

Some bikeshite is about to happen in the near future.  Been after a simple town bike to get me to work and back and a friend has a nice blue Raleigh from the 80s that'll do the trick, a bit like this one.

Friend of mine has a whole host of salvaged old bike bits, so we've cherry picked the best bits out of the pile and I'll have a smart little old pushbike to get me about.  It's also light enough that getting it on the roof bike rack on the Princess shouldn't be too much hassle so I can drive to places for more enjoyable bike rides.  Friend might even have some spare cheap panniers kicking about too which will be really handy for those one mile shopping trips where you need a can of beans or whatever and don't want to walk or get the car out.

A skidlid and a lock and I'll be good to go.  Probably just enough good weather left in the year to commute on it too, I reckon my fitness level is up to it so I don't end up arriving at work a be-suited sweaty catastrophe.

[DSdriver]

1 hour ago, Stinkwheel said:

Having enough tool storage at last makes me grin (yea, it’s a big box. I am not rich, I am lucky, right place right time) 

Now you have to look through forty odd drawers for that little used tool instead of knowing it was in the heap at the end of the workbench. 🤪

[Stinkwheel]

Just now, DSdriver said:

Now you have to look through fourty odd drawers for that little used tool instead of knowing it was in the heap at the end of the workbench. 🤪

Probably, yep. I might just stick labels on the drawers so i have an at a glance system, maybe

[comfortablynumb]

It's actually keeping them in the correct drawers I have a problem with....😱

[GeorgeB]

6 hours ago, Stinkwheel said:

Having enough tool storage at last makes me grin.

 

You need more tools.

[Stinkwheel]

19 minutes ago, GeorgeB said:

You need more tools.

One of the few things I probably don’t need more of 😂

[myglaren]

6 hours ago, DSdriver said:

Now you have to look through forty odd drawers for that little used tool instead of knowing it was in the heap at the end of the workbench. 🤪

Every bloody day and it is usually under my nose.

[reb]

I googled my reg number to see if it had picked up any more photos of the cars it has been on.

It had picked up a photo of my living room with the plate on the wall from early march 2020 in this very thread.

I decided to keep scrolling through the thread for a bit...

March 16th, two days after dad died.

Anyone know what became of his 20v estate?

[Wibble]

1 hour ago, reb said:

I googled my reg number to see if it had picked up any more photos of the cars it has been on.

It had picked up a photo of my living room with the plate on the wall from early march 2020 in this very thread.

I decided to keep scrolling through the thread for a bit...

March 16th, two days after dad died.

Anyone know what became of his 20v estate?

I don’t know you, apart from my time on here but I am very sorry you lost him at such a young age. Hope you can track the car down. Losing my Dad is still raw for me and I’ve probably got 30 years on you, and far less intelligence! All the best.

[reb]

44 minutes ago, Wibble said:

I don’t know you, apart from my time on here but I am very sorry you lost him at such a young age. Hope you can track the car down. Losing my Dad is still raw for me and I’ve probably got 30 years on you, and far less intelligence! All the best.

The last four years has somehow both felt like no time at all but also literally forever. I don't think it ever really gets any easier, it just changes. Honestly tonight is the first time I've really thought about it properly for a while, normally I keep it shoved way down because I feel the need to be there for others and I can't do that if I'm deeply sad myself. As I remarked to a psychiatrist I bumped into on a walk round the hospital grounds the other day, it was just yet another one of those things that I was sure was the end of the road and yet here I am. I was pretty fucked up already, to be honest. The hardest part is that the number of people who understand what it's like to lose your dad in your 20s out of nowhere on a random saturday afternoon is basically zero.

At least I can derive comfort from the fact that I am very much like him, and very few people ever had a bad word to say about him.

[Wibble]

6 minutes ago, reb said:

The last four years has somehow both felt like no time at all but also literally forever. I don't think it ever really gets any easier, it just changes. Honestly tonight is the first time I've really thought about it properly for a while, normally I keep it shoved way down because I feel the need to be there for others and I can't do that if I'm deeply sad myself. As I remarked to a psychiatrist I bumped into on a walk round the hospital grounds the other day, it was just yet another one of those things that I was sure was the end of the road and yet here I am. I was pretty fucked up already, to be honest. The hardest part is that the number of people who understand what it's like to lose your dad in your 20s out of nowhere on a random saturday afternoon is basically zero.

At least I can derive comfort from the fact that I am very much like him, and very few people ever had a bad word to say about him.

I completely understand what you’re saying. It’s  less than two years since my Dad went, it doesn’t get easier, you just learn to live with it. I also understand keeping it shut away, for other’s sake. I haven’t properly grieved for the same reasons, others grieving need to lean on me, siblings, wife, kids, not easy but there we are. They loved him too and, apparently, I remind them of him, which doesn’t help, to be honest, as proud as it makes me feel.

Back in the 90s, a mate lost his Dad at your age. We all went to his funeral and it was hard, very hard. It’s never easy, no matter what age you are.

Be proud that you’re considered to be like your Dad and lean on us when you need to. There’s a lot of us rooting for you.

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8 hours ago, Wibble said:

I don’t know you, apart from my time on here but I am very sorry you lost him at such a young age. Hope you can track the car down. Losing my Dad is still raw for me and I’ve probably got 30 years on you, and far less intelligence! All the best.

Grief is still a thing that has both no logic and lots of logic, and age probably makes it worse. 

I struggle to understand my wife's grief. Her parents died in Nov 20 and March 21, and almost every other day, she still breaks down in  tears. She was very close to them, and I think that makes it worse. They were both pretty old, but that's no excuse for not grieving.  

[comfortablynumb]

Lost my dad just after Christmas 2022, he was 87 and not in the best of health.

Still was a huge shock tho, and I randomly fall apart occasionally over silly things.

The worst is when I see something, or need something that makes me think ' oh I'll just ask dad.....oh'🥺

[reb]

33 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

 

The worst is when I see something, or need something that makes me think ' oh I'll just ask dad.....oh'🥺

The photo above was taken just before me and my mate tried to take an 850 bonnet out of his V70. It got hopelessly stuck. Both of our first instincts was to phone my dad. That was the first moment that it really sunk in.

[EyesWeldedShut]

6 minutes ago, reb said:

The photo above was taken just before me and my mate tried to take an 850 bonnet out of his V70. It got hopelessly stuck. Both of our first instincts was to phone my dad. That was the first moment that it really sunk in.

Maybe just wonder to yourself "How would Dad deal with this? What would he tell me to do?" 
I never had any kids but ended up with an 8 year old and a 10 year old rocking up when I married the Child Bride - I then spent at least a decade asking myself those two questions. 
It worked - neither of them ended up that warped  actually, maybe,  less warped than your bonnet? 
Rather than missing/regretting the departed think of the good times celebrate*/cherish/grin about times you had with them- time softens the rough edges (honest).

*personally I dislike the 'celebrate' moniker attached to farewell services - just feels too much like 'dancing on a grave'
p.s. pinky/red V70 estate went past us on the M49 yesterday - fine looking beasts

 

[reb]

Just now, EyesWeldedShut said:

Maybe just wonder to yourself "How would Dad deal with this? What would he tell me to do?" 
I never had any kids but ended up with an 8 year old and a 10 year old rocking up when I married the Child Bride - I then spent at least a decade asking myself those two questions. 
It worked - neither of them ended up that warped  actually, maybe,  less warped than your bonnet? 
Rather than missing/regretting the departed think of the good times celebrate*/cherish/grin about times you had with them- time softens the rough edges (honest).

*personally I dislike the 'celebrate' moniker attached to farewell services - just feels too much like 'dancing on a grave'
p.s. pinky/red V70 estate went past us on the M49 yesterday - fine looking beasts

 

That's what I try to do these days. It's funny because even though he never smoked his advice when I was stuck was often "step away and have a fag" and it is amazing how often it works!

I wouldn't quite go as far to say I'm glad he died when he did, but in a way... I don't know, it's probably worth something to have had the literal worst year of my life so early if that makes sense? I made it through 2020 alive, so I can make it through anything.

I feel very blessed to have had him as a dad. Much the same as him I seem to be fairly universally recognised as a kind bloke that will do his best to help basically anyone, just because. Not even because it's "the right thing to do". Just because it's what you do. (I know I'm a cunt on here sometimes, but aren't we all)

[Wibble]

2 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

Lost my dad just after Christmas 2022, he was 87 and not in the best of health.

Still was a huge shock tho, and I randomly fall apart occasionally over silly things.

The worst is when I see something, or need something that makes me think ' oh I'll just ask dad.....oh'🥺

Dad died October ‘22, Mum 23/12/23. I completely understand how you feel.

[myglaren]

 

[Soundwave]

Saw this whilst on a walk earlier. The residents of Canal Street in Oakthorpe might want to consider trimming this hedge... 

Yes, I am a massive child. 

 

[vulgalour]

So am I because I stopped to take a mileage picture this afternoon.