juular Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 2 minutes ago, iainrcz said: Just done 150 miles hooning around the back roads around Stirling. Found "the Duke's Pass" fucking ace, did it twice it was that much fun. Maybe, possibly, sort of did a few slides. Fun in pretty much anything that road. Also fun, B827 between Braco and Comrie, then to Crieff and up over the Sma' Glen to Amulree and Aberfeldy. dome and iainrcz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainrcz Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Fun in pretty much anything that road. Also fun, B827 between Braco and Comrie, then to Crieff and up over the Sma' Glen to Amulree and Aberfeldy.Don't encourage me to waste more fuel juular 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saabnut Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 3 minutes ago, iainrcz said: Don't encourage me to waste more fuel It will not be wasted, it will be invested! iainrcz and juular 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 16 hours ago, Tayne said: Did you watch the Nigel Bickle episode? 'nim nim' ( Sorry Nigel) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juular Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 8 minutes ago, Saabnut said: It will not be wasted, it will be invested! Yep, smiles per gallon in a car like that. Wasted fuel is when you have to return the wrong stuff to Euro Car Parts for the 50th time. ? myglaren and iainrcz 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
320touring Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 33 minutes ago, iainrcz said: Just done 150 miles hooning around the back roads around Stirling. Found "the Duke's Pass" fucking ace, did it twice it was that much fun. Maybe, possibly, sort of did a few slides. I once drove the Dukes Pass from Callander end to Aberfoyle in a 535i manual e34 during winter. Sheet ice all over, new (at the time, she's still here now) Burd in the passenger seat and wheelspin barely above idle in 4th. Was on the last 1/2 mile found down into Aberfoyle when I spied they had put a "road closed" sign on the carriageway in the other direction. There was no sign at the Callander end. Mildly skittery. It's an ace road though - the Burd's Clio 172 is the right size for it and has enough poke for climbing the hills! iainrcz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarvinsMom Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 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! eddyramrod, myglaren and Roobarb 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey spud Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Lord Sterling, myglaren, Amishtat and 11 others 4 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 1 hour ago, 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! Calves come out of arses? Never knew that. Good for her, though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarvinsMom Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 she's 10 - the actual mechanics of "the miracle of birth" are still unknown to her! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 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. cort1977 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 15 hours ago, 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! As long as she remembers that all creatures grunt and smell. MarvinsMom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wack Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 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 Joey spud, Shite Ron, Austat and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 2 hours ago, 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 FTFY. Link here Vantman, adw1977, Shite Ron and 2 others 2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busmansholiday Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 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! S2000, myglaren, somewhatfoolish and 5 others 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wack Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 6 hours ago, 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! 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, Shite Ron, somewhatfoolish and 6 others 5 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 14 hours ago, 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 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. Wack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 On 9/15/2020 at 2:05 PM, 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 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 I absolutely promise you I've just been following an Arnold Clarke supplied red Vauxhall Mokka with the number plate 'A1 MUG'. Stanky, stonedagain, Jerzy Woking and 13 others 3 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zie Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 A mates just dug this up in the garden, no idea what its off. adw1977 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Front marker light from an 1899-1902 Horsey Horseless. Later models had cheaper, less intricate lights. myglaren, Remspoor, Stanky and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanky Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 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 eddyramrod, Cavcraft and richardmorris 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wack Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 2 hours ago, 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 Sywell ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wack Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Just won a hens teeth large disklok on ebay for the opening bid of £40 because you don't spell it disclock , result cobblers, puddlethumper, paulplom and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanky Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 51 minutes ago, Wack said: Sywell ? Fareham, just by HMS Daedalus/Solent Airport. Its been based here for at least a year and flies a couple of times a week. Wack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 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. LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
face Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 5 hours ago, 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 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. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunny Jim Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Swift Water Rescue Training at work. I get paid to do this. VID-20200917-WA0013.mp4 privatewire, Jerzy Woking and Vantman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Stopped and stared at the sky this evening. Someone louvered the clouds busmansholiday, Tickman, Jerzy Woking and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 4 hours ago, PhilA said: ...Someone louvered the clouds Makes a change from forest fire smoke. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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