What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[scaryoldcortina]

this pic is phake- everybody knows gingers are male

Someone better tell next door's cat that she's a man then!

[johngarty]

LOL. I want one of these, very discreet, not... 

 

[daveb47]

It came as a kit with the wooden bird house, camera unit and a long length of cable. The bird house has a window cut through one side with a opaque perspex cover over it to let light in but keep weather out. The camera sits up inside the roof of the bird house and just aims down covering the entrance and nest area.

It's screwed onto a sheltered wall of our house and the cable simply plugs into the camera, runs down the wall into the building and plugs into one of the spare plugs on the back of the TV. When you want to watch it just change the TV from the SKY input to the external input and that's it!

We had it last year too but the birds began making the nest, we watched the pair pick up bits of moss and twigs etc from the garden then fly up to the the bird house. You can then see the bird appear on the TV and start building it's nest. For some reason though last year they got half way into the build and abandoned it. This year it's worked perfectly.

We've encouraged them to come to the garden with bird feeders and little piles of straw and that lining stuff you put into hanging baskets, they like that sort of stuff as it's easy to pull lumps off to build a nest out of.

 

Our one is similar to this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gardman-A02049-Camera-Nest-Box/dp/B001F3CW8Y/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1463219465&sr=8-2&keywords=bird+house+camera

You can get wireless ones now too.

 

I use Contacam which is free to automatically detect movement and record to pc.

http://www.contaware.com/contacam.html

[beko1987]

Had a bit of time today, so vacuumed out the car, filled it with the rest of my cabbage juice, cif grease and grime'd the rear quarter free of veg residue and filled the screenwash up finally after a week of being empty.

 

Good day today! I would have vacuumed the meriva out but Amy went out and took her keys with her, so it didn't get done

[catsinthewelder]

this pic is phake- everybody knows gingers are male

You had best tell our kittens that their mum is a male.

 

[purplebargeken]

Female ginger cats are a bit rare. Lovely pic by the way ^^

[beko1987]

I washed the zx this morning! Then I polished the boot, rear bumper and drivers side before getting bored and packing up. Lobbed some wax on the boot and rear bumper too, looks good.

 

Whole thing needs a de-tar and clay though, covered in shit it is, my polishing pad was black at the end

[DVee8]

A mate of mine has just posted this on my faceache,Like my youth except i knew the skins.

 

Some chod and busses.

 

[beko1987]

Ive just out a 1200w motor in one of these

 

 

It floats now!

[bramz7]

I managed to get the radio in the ZX working today, after worrying that the guy I bought it off of had blocked it with multiple incorrect attempts. Obvs had to pay for the code but a) it works b)is cheaper than a replacement and c) keeps the car that bit more original.

I'd originally come on here to grump as somehow a rear light has ended up cracked but I managed to source a replacement on eBay for £10…. A tad cheaper than the £75 one also on offer.

[HillmanImp]

Mrs Imp just got in from taking Imp Jr swimming. 15min later I went out to the garage and saw this:

 

 

Fucksticks. So I got down on my knees and had a look under the car to see where it was coming from and made my way all along the width of the car......

 

 

Thank fuck for that. The neighbours have just been pouring something down their drain.

[myglaren]

 

A mate of mine has just posted this on my faceache,Like my youth except i knew the skins.

 

Some chod and busses.

 

 

That brings some memories back.

We used to do our shopping there every weekend and take the kids swimming & ice skating to Crowtree.

Haven't been in twenty years and it is only seven miles away.  If it is still there.

[DVee8]

That brings some memories back.

We used to do our shopping there every weekend and take the kids swimming & ice skating to Crowtree.

Haven't been in twenty years and it is only seven miles away.  If it is still there.

I think it is still there,i remember the ice rink closing.

 

 

I used to play a lot of squash there.

 

I was just old enough or (maybe not)to drink in the upper deck.

[Landy Mann]

Saw a silver mondeo estate in a layby near Sleaford, nothing unusal about that but it had an orange flashing light and a new yellow bettle on the back of an A frame. A fellow shitter?

[DeeJay]

Makes me chuckle.

 

 

[scruff]

A mate of mine has just got a job full time in the workshops at the Nene Valley Railway so we popped down to see him today. While there we explored a bit and on this crusty old Swedish loco I found a new favourite nerd fitting. Made by AGA the cooker people, check out these electric lights for shining on the water gauge glass at night. Cool as!!

 

 

[Stanky]

My wife was out in the Saab today so I spent 3 hours washing, claying and then waxing the Nissan by hand. My hands are now broken, but the Nissan now looks THE FUCKING TITS - so much so my wife both noticed, and subsequently complimented me on how good it looked on her return.

 

This is literally unheard of.

 

I'm so pleased with it, I was really skeptical about clay, asked for some from the 'bay for christmas, and got some clay lube (fnarr) from amazon with a gifted voucher so actually cost me nothing.

 

I can see exactly why people do this now, even just clayed it looked superb, but the wax (another freebie) gave it a really deep shine which hopefully ought to last a little while.

 

1/4 of the clay bar is a total write-off, but thats no bad thing. I can't recall who said it but it is very similar to blu-tack for cost-conscious shiters.

 

Phailed to get pics because 'tard. Will try and get some tomorrow.

[beko1987]

 

Cleaned the cable too, thats always satisfying

 

 

I also wire woolled the worse of the rust off the base and spray painted it with a can of poundland wheel silver. Looks ok, could get the hang of this spraying lark, wonder what colour I should make it...

[danthecapriman]

Eddy's co-operation thread makes me grin! Absolute madness!

[anonymous user]

 

If so, would it not have been a lot more efficient to just put some wheels on it?

 

Yes, but hovercrafts are cool. I have had a few Constellations over the years, including the flatter/wider flying saucer shaped one; unfortunately I have sold all of them including the orange one;  like many things in my life it's form over function, look great but not that useful

[bramz7]

Forgot to mention, another grin is the 4 nights I just spent in Amsterdam. A really welcoming place, with perhaps the friendliest locals I've known thus far. A nice varied spread of classics there too, with an emphasis on unusual stuff, everyone seems to to want to out weird one another with their daily transport. I also saw this:

1988 Austin Metro Automatic. by Sam Osbon, on Flickr

 

I'll update my spotting thread in due course. Everyone should go to Amsterdam at least once, you really don't need to experience the cliches of the city to have a good time.

[fordperv]

Mrs fp's aunt and uncle live not too far away from Amsterdam I too think it's a quality place

[myglaren]

Never been but youngest daughter recently spent a couple of months in Rotterdam and Amsterdam and was well impressed.

Gobsmacked when she was presented with a medal by the Dutch prime minister.

[beko1987]

Yes, but hovercrafts are cool. I have had a few Constellations over the years, including the flatter/wider flying saucer shaped one; unfortunately I have sold all of them including the orange one;  like many things in my life it's form over function, look great but not that useful

The Celebrity! In the US, the celebrity has wheels (and other cool stuff).

 

It does have it'd flaws though, the original 550w motor stayed quite cool, the 1200w I put in gets fooking hot! Cos obv the exhaust air is blocked as it hits the carpet. Lift it up and suddenly the suction improves loads. The hose restricts it too somewhat.

 

It will make a cool upstairs hoover though. At some point I'll put a bead of silicone around the base skirt as loads of air is coming out of the gap. One day I'll find a way to fix the original motor, or find another motor and put it back to stock, if I get a Henry that needs a motor for ££ I'll have it back out, but for now, it can stay.

[beko1987]

Yep, just exhaust air

[gm]

The Flying Scotsman just went past my bedroom window no pics, I'm afraid, as its was a bit too dark but i was close enough to see the glow of the firebox as it gently puffed by on its way to its overnight stay at Bo'ness.

[hairnet]

froze me bits off coming back from clit hero on the bike

 

the happy is can haz tea and fig rolls now that i bought and didnt eat at the gig

 

also pulled a 75 mph past a rozzer on m61 (all x5s are shit) and they did nowt (looking for donuts maybe )

[hairnet]

the other lol is this

 

after 12 years these have finally died

 

 

 

 

so went to pound shop and got the only one that the lenses were ok and that fit

 

wonder if the opticians will put current prescription on them

 

actually will have to buy some as the arms are too thick and intefere with vision on the bike

 

but ROFL etc

 

[Urko]

Luckily I didn't get my head kicked in for laughing so much at the VW that passed me whilst I was waiting at the lights.  It was a slammed in da weeds Passtit with rust/sticker paintwork, pink banded rims, a roof rack and a fat evil looking oaf driving it with his hat on the wrong way round.  He looked murderous when he saw me giggling at his car.

 

Before anyone has a go at me, I quite often hear and see people laughing at my old AMC, and occasionally people saying how shit they think it is, and it doesn't make me scowl or want to kill them. 

[Urko]

the happy is can haz tea and fig rolls now that i bought and didnt eat at the gig

 

Bastardos! I could murder a fig roll - but I don't have any and the coop is shut.