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Luxury!

 

My dad had a mini van that he put bucket seats in, so we got the front seats loose in the back. Taught me to read the road to know when to hang on though.

 

LUXURY!!  ;)

 

Some kids don't know they're born!  We didn't even HAVE seats in the back of Dad's 850 van from 1967 to when he bought an Avenger in mid-73; once we graduated from carry-cots we were just left loose!  :o

 

Good point on the road-reading.

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Popped to drop crimbo presents off at my mates house, ive not been down for a little while and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw whats appeared in his neighbours drive

 

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Safe to say i want it

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Yes, that’s the one that sets me off on a killing spree.

That's the one one my 3 year old grand daughter sings very loudly and very badly......

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Yes, that’s the one that sets me off on a killing spree.

Maybe you should just let it go...

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Daughter has bought herself a little house.

She has stripped out everything and fired it into the garden,  three feet deep in wood, metal and carpets.

Spent a while this afternoon cutting a lot of it up into car-sized bits to cart away.

After a while I noticed something missing, around two tons of metal rails and decking, access for a wheelchair that I dismantled and dragged from the front to the back of the house and dumped in the garden, with a view to taking to the scrappers and exchanging it for pound coins.

 

Seems someone else has had the same idea and nicked the lot.

Shame they didn't take the rest of the crap as well.

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And that's a grin?  Surely it's only Part One.  Part Two, containing all of the actual grins, is the one where you find the scrap on a pickup, lock the miscreant inside it and fire it into the nearest deep dock!

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Daughter has bought herself a little house.

She has stripped out everything and fired it into the garden,  three feet deep in wood, metal and carpets.

Spent a while this afternoon cutting a lot of it up into car-sized bits to cart away.

After a while I noticed something missing, around two tons of metal rails and decking, access for a wheelchair that I dismantled and dragged from the front to the back of the house and dumped in the garden, with a view to taking to the scrappers and exchanging it for pound coins.

 

Seems someone else has had the same idea and nicked the lot.

Shame they didn't take the rest of the crap as well.

 

They seem to have google earth but live when it comes to scrap metal, a mate of mine was fitting a kitchen, took the old fridge out the front to let it dry out before putting it in the car, it was only out there an hour and it was gone

 

 only twice have I ever ordered a skip , scrap metal guy is round within a day or so looking in it so either they follow the empty ones to see where they go or more likely somebody gives them the customer list

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I love Agents Of Shield, but couldn’t they use a better prop for a cryo chamber than a Thule roof box?

 

I missed the last few minutes, due to laughing.

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Fridge? They did you a favour if it was going to the tip.

The only bit worth coin is the compressor. The rest is thin aluminium, foam and plastic so nobody's going to pay for that.

 

Unfortunately the fridge is probably in a rural layby somewhere with the compressor cut out.

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A few years (actually nearly ten years when I think about it) ago I got a pair of new wings and doors for my 106 xsi. It was a long day and I'd been miles to fetch them - I got home at about 11pm. I can't remember why I didn't just leave them in my car, but I put them up the side of the house, hid behind bins, a good 40-50 meters away from the road and completely invisible.

 

Next morning at 6am I was awaken to the sound of someone walking up the gravel down the side of the house. By the time I'd got out of bed and looked out of the window I saw 3 blokes throwing the lot onto the back of a transit tipper and driving off down the road.

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A few years (actually nearly ten years when I think about it) ago I got a pair of new wings and doors for my 106 xsi. It was a long day and I'd been miles to fetch them - I got home at about 11pm. I can't remember why I didn't just leave them in my car, but I put them up the side of the house, hid behind bins, a good 40-50 meters away from the road and completely invisible.

 

Next morning at 6am I was awaken to the sound of someone walking up the gravel down the side of the house. By the time I'd got out of bed and looked out of the window I saw 3 blokes throwing the lot onto the back of a transit tipper and driving off down the road.

I had two VW Type 3 doors go off my back garden. End of an alleyway, over a 6ft fence, there's no way anyone could happen over them. Annoyingly they had one piece windows in them, quite rare.

 

I reckon there's some sort of magnetic detector they use. A light goes off in the cab of their untaxed, red dieseled transit if anything made of metal is put on the ground within 5 miles.

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They seem to have google earth but live when it comes to scrap metal, a mate of mine was fitting a kitchen, took the old fridge out the front to let it dry out before putting it in the car, it was only out there an hour and it was gone

 

only twice have I ever ordered a skip , scrap metal guy is round within a day or so looking in it so either they follow the empty ones to see where they go or more likely somebody gives them the customer list

Unless this is indeed an urban myth, I believe a day's hire of a light plane from a rural aerodrome more than pays for itself in unguarded farm equipment in remote fields etc.... which can be spotted from the air and to which a suitable tow vehicle can be guided, carrying some blokes with boltcutters and a slender grasp of the concept of ownership. And I guess drones will come into play in this practise soon enough too.

 

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Drinking. It's for winners.

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It is, isn't it?

 

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Currently on the right hand side, will swap sides when desperate. It's branded stuff, none of the cheap shit for me.

 

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Inclusions in this years are timing points for Naughty Kid but shown as not stopping.

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My dad died in November, and I was left the contents of his workshop. He was a great wood worker, and I found a bread board that he was making for my mum. I got the tools out out and have just finished it. Not his best work, but he had an imbecile finishing it for him. Will wrap it and give it to mum from the both of us :-)

 

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Couple of years ago someone in Alton commuted in a year round filthy R19 on a h plate.

Went to Alton today and it drove past me. Chuffed to see it again.

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Family recipe Christmas fruit cake made well in advance and has been maturing a while, tastes great and my aunt is really pleased someone is carrying her recipe on.

2nd (backup) cake made a few days ago for the family get together.

 

Late father in laws Salmon moose recipe made up and setting in fridge.

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