What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Guest Hooli]

She's got talent

[Pillock]

So as I posted elsewhere, I went to Truxx Factor today. There was truck racing, a show and shine, some traction engines and tractors and stuff.

And there was a truck pull. We went to watch, me and the good lady, thinking it would be a spectator sport.

"Anyone in the crowd want a go?"

 

And this happened. This is Mrs_Pillock, and an eight tonne Scania.

 

[320touring]

^^between winning the Cannock auction game and truck pulling, it looks like you have a keeper!

[dollywobbler]

Nice one Mrs Pillock.

[beko1987]

Is this going to be your new standard for collection threads? I'd lob a tenner in if you went to buy and collect dollywobblers Daimler in this fashion... Even if Mrs pillock pulled it straight to a scrap yard!

[Ditchfinder General]

We've got a mention in this months PC!

[AlabamaShrimp]

[The Moog]

Blimey the vel satis is only worth£100!

[barmatt]

Took the CF camper in for it's mot this morning, I was slightly nervous because of it's lack of use over the winter that I really should have given the brakes a clean before taking it but time didn't allow that. Initially they were a little unbalanced but holding the pedal lightly on the rolling road saw them straighten up quite quickly.

 

Everything else was spot on, no advisories and I think my tester really wanted it as he kept going on about how good and solid it was.

 

Now it's got a full ticket on it I'm taking a few days off next week to give it some well deserved attention.

 

 

 

Driving this thing makes me smile every time.

 

[andy18s]

This popped up just now.

[Roobarb]

Sons 8th birthday party yesterday.

I didn't really think it through when he said he wanted a nerf gun party.

 

18 kids, 500+ bullets and multiple guns...

 

It's not that getting shot by one hurts, but a barrage of 10 or more at once gets a little wearing(!)

 

I'm just thankful it wasn't raining and they could spend most of the time outside shooting each other from at least some distance. Everyone went home with the same amount of legs, arms and most importantly eyes, that they arrived with.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Blimey the vel satis is only worth£100!

 

Crikey... The pound has really started losing its value !

 

Sorry.

[HMC]

At a resort in menorca. Was last here 10 years ago. They still have the very same battered smiley transit on the fleet, 10 years back I thought its days were numbered, and had automatically assumed it would be long gone. Made me smiley too that they'd kept it!

[HMC]

Ps will pap it next time I see it

[puddlethumper]

Blimey the vel satis is only worth£100!

Quick! Flog it. 

Worth approx 2 units for your new kitchen. Ay  Ay ?

Hey! Its a start.

[hairnet]

roll on june

 

oh wait.....

 

the view is out the front of the b and b in the brecons this morning

 

 

 

 

[twosmoke300]

Is it always sunny in Devils Bridge ? Last two three times I've been there it's been glorious

[clayts450]

Super excited as looking to buy my first shite car for 18 years (not owned anything since a crapped out Cavalier, which lasted me a week)

 

Gonna go and view this tomorrow (Micra K11c, super rare 1.4 SE+, top spec, Y reg). Been after one of these for ages, with this particular spec, seller wants four bar for it, very low mileage, seems to sale through MOTs (he sent me a load of other photos, and aside from some rust on one of the doors - and some bird shit on the wing by the looks of it, he assures me it's solid)

 

[strangeangel]

I was rummaging through some old memory cards earlier and found this, which to me represents pretty much complete contentment in one photo:

 

[hairnet]

Is it always sunny in Devils Bridge ? Last two three times I've been there it's been glorious

lucky i think - rained friday the hour before i got to newport and coupla sprinkles yesterday and a threaten today

 

but all sun today - rained about 15 mins ago for 2 mins which made me bring the fkin washing in

[Tamworthbay]

[richardmorris]

20170514_111541.jpg

I was disappointed with PC stand at beaulieu- no promised Ami, just a DS.

[wuvvum]

You may possibly have read elsewhere that I'm having a major clearout of my house at the moment.  It's a less than edifying task, although it does have its moments when I discover something I thought I'd lost years ago.

 

Today though I had some help, in the form of three (female) colleagues from work, who pitched up at my house at 8.30 this morning (they'd wanted to turn up at 8, but I dissuaded them by saying that I might not be dressed yet) to help out.  Two of them got on with sorting the kitchen (which is now the cleanest it's been in years), while the other gave me a hand turning out the cupboard under the stairs, which is quite large and was pretty much chockablock with stuff.  Got rid of a shedload more crap (I'm going to have to do another dump run next weekend) and found some stuff I'd been looking for (like my old SLR camera) and some stuff I'd forgotten I had, including photos of my HB Viva and Humber Sceptre.  Only annoying thing was that I chucked away an old model car tyre early on in proceedings, then later found the car it belonged to (a 1:18 scale Bburago Bugatti), by which time I'd forgotten which rubbish bag I'd put the tyre in.

 

The money may be shite where I work but I do work with some GR9 people.  (They all offered to come and help, I didn't ask them.)  Although quite what the neighbours must have thought seeing three females under the age of 35 turn up at my house I have no idea...

[Pillock]

They probably thought the French Maid's outfits were a bit underdressed that that time of a morning.

[DodgeRover]

Lucky sod is what I would have been thinking

[bub2006]

I was rummaging through some old memory cards earlier and found this, which to me represents pretty much complete contentment in one photo:

 

2013-08-30 19.43.10.jpg

I remember that. Was it you overtaken by a complete numpty in a blue reliant Robin on that straight Road up by Carsington?!

[strangeangel]

I remember that. Was it you overtaken by a complete numpty in a blue reliant Robin on that straight Road up by Carsington?!

 

That bike was overtaken by most of the western world as I recall

[bub2006]

That reliant overtook a few cubs, couldn't catch swampy as much as I tried though!

[strangeangel]

couldn't catch swampy as much as I tried though!

 

Well no, but his bike had a bit more up its sleeve than my scabby oil-cooled 110. IIRC he was running a modified YX140.

 

He was a properly nice chap, most of the modded stuff on his bike he made himself in his shed/machine shop. I've still got a couple of his special carbs in the garage, but he moved house & I lost touch with him, sadly.

[bub2006]

That reliant of mine was daft quick with some tuning mods fitted, give me a long enough Road and I'll catch him, just not in the bends and takeoff. He really was a engineering wizard. And I miss my old reliant!