What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Pieman]

Receiving this made me grin today, along with a boxset of all the Carry On films which I'd been after for ages.

[maxxo]

Down seeing family today and at the grandparents house where I mentioned I was full of cold and stuff

so got offered a bath, yes please

in their delightfully 70s bathroom

i used the entire hot water cylinder worth of hot water in this bath

it was fantastic, absolutely fantastic exactly what I needed 

I do need to check their cylinder stat or immersion as I used both the boiler and immersion to boost it as it was absolutely insanely hot

anyway, feeling much better for it and it’s nice to actually be in a good sized deep bath for once

yes I did fall asleep

[loserone]

Hope the only toilet for the other 13 people was next to you 😂

[maxxo]

3 minutes ago, loserone said:

Hope the only toilet for the other 13 people was next to you 😂

Nah I stayed at their house when I ran them home for a bit for some peace of quiet instead of being at the mad house

[wuvvum]

Since the last time I visited my parents this beauty has appeared in their road.

Belongs to a youngish chap apparently, he uses it as his daily. 

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, wuvvum said:

Since the last time I visited my parents this beauty has appeared in their road.

Belongs to a youngish chap apparently, he uses it as his daily. 

Obviously you need to point his attention to this forum.

[reb]

1 minute ago, wuvvum said:

Since the last time I visited my parents this beauty has appeared in their road.

Belongs to a youngish chap apparently, he uses it as his daily. 

I have never seen one of those, it looks a bit like someone drew a 205 from memory

[comfortablynumb]

3 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Most of the reason my kids want to go to the FoD so much is they can drive my car 😂Eva got quite good last time, Charlie couldn't reach the pedals too well though

When MK1 son bought his first land rover, a series 2a lwb, his cousins came up and we went to a local field so they could all have a go.

They were all varying degrees of pretty bad, particularly my eldest nephew who was learning to drive in a fiesta, and couldn't get the hang of an old landy at all.

Best driver? Nine year old MK3 son, who'd never driven anything in his life before, and couldn't actually see over the steering wheel. We opened the driver's bulkhead vent and he drove looking through there 😁

[myglaren]

[myglaren]

[reb]

Thanks to another Christmas present, I have drunk 1.2 litres of strong coffee over the past two hours. I don't have a good reason for this. I fear I may not sleep for several weeks.

Major Reb to ground control my circuit's dead, tell my wife wibbly weebly woo

[morrisoxide]

[DodgeRover]

Unusual entry for the big bangers at Weaber Valley!

[Pieman]

I love that page, and if their images are made by AI they are the best I've ever seen!

[MikeR]

years of wiring experteese and software twiddling came to the rescue today to fit a cambell to the front door ..

the chinese english missed out a few things  including a trailing missing "space" at the end of the serno in order to register the device !!

the old doorbell xformer made for a charging source with its AC volts with the old doorbell now a housing for the wire connections from power to door push .

now I get a full colour view of the front garden  on my phone ....as well as every Alexia in the house shouting ding dong !!

[myglaren]

I read that as fitting a cambelt to the front door  

[Supernaut]

15 hours ago, reb said:

Thanks to another Christmas present, I have drunk 1.2 litres of strong coffee over the past two hours. I don't have a good reason for this. I fear I may not sleep for several weeks.

Major Reb to ground control my circuit's dead, tell my wife wibbly weebly woo

I have one just like that.

Except it's half the size!

[reb]

5 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

I have one just like that.

Except it's half the size!

This one is 600ml, I'd just had two goes of it!

It looks bigger than it is in the photo because my mugs are tiny, something like 220ml

[Back_For_More]

30 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

I have one just like that.

Except it's half the size!

I'm often told the same thing...... 😁

[DodgeRover]

1 hour ago, Pieman said:

I love that page, and if their images are made by AI they are the best I've ever seen!

The single moms class brings up some classics

 

[Pieman]

You could easily run a Single Moms class at UK short ovals, all racing Zafiras and similar!

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Screen wash tablet.  Probably given my washer jets an horrendous disease.

’Please put in children, cannot be obtained.’

[MikeR]

Found a long reach 22mm combi spanner lying in the road , bit rusty but cleaning up fine .

Joys of walking a dog in the fog ... 

[comfortablynumb]

2 hours ago, MikeR said:

Found a long reach 22mm combi spanner lying in the road , bit rusty but cleaning up fine .

Joys of walking a dog in the fog ... 

Found 2 long ratchet straps on the A141 on the way back from Hertfordshire this afternoon, and when I stopped to pick them up, got a bonus electrical screwdriver too,!

Happy days

[MiniMinorMk3]

On 26/12/2024 at 17:13, DodgeRover said:

The single moms class brings up some classics

 

Looks like Bethany does more than her car number would suggest.

[reb]

I have just spent three hours assembling a plastic working* model engine. 

I'm not really sure what the thunks are, probably the timing belt skipping or something. 

really it was more about something creative* to do for a while, so it's served its purpose 

 

[MikeR]

On 27/12/2024 at 14:33, MikeR said:

Found a long reach 22mm combi spanner lying in the road , bit rusty but cleaning up fine .

Joys of walking a dog in the fog ... 

Update , It's cleaned up nice with an overnight soak in vinegar, Halfords as well , goes next to my 19mm combi  ..   

[maxxo]

Out with my mate tonight

im having an excellent time, decided to grab some food, £6.10 for this and a whisky can’t complain

[Rustybullethole]

Dug out and dusted off my last remaining turntable. It spins so have ordered up a new head shell and stylus. Recon I can squeeze it in next to the tele in the front room. Have stacks of vinyl shall enjoy going back through them all. 

[Split_Pin]

I am really struggling to give away a free E46 bonnet on Marketplace.

I have had a string of time wasters.

This excuse takes the 2024 award:

Towing a Sprinter with an X5, no shit 😂😂

'I have lost my voice because of arguments with police'