What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[320touring]

The main thing is the cost of housing. Down here 71k got me a 3 bed semi, up there it doesn't seem to get a studio flat. I'll need room for my bikes etc...

 

Any suggestions on local estate agents rather than just zoopla/right move to look at?

Why not rent for 6 months in Oban?

 

Rent out your current house so it's closer to cost neutral and see if you like living there?

 

Gives you time to get a deposit for house up, and to be sure the move is worth doing..

[yes oui si]

Look at Seil - an island but linked by a bridge and about half an hour to Oban iirc.

Big change from Doncatraz; hope you get sorted

[Guest Hooli]

Why not rent for 6 months in Oban?

 

Rent out your current house so it's closer to cost neutral and see if you like living there?

 

Gives you time to get a deposit for house up, and to be sure the move is worth doing..

 

Current house needs too much doing to be good enough to rent out. I'm looking at a few ideas but what I really need is the money I should have got out of my old place that my ex took...

[iainrcz]

Just had 4 new tyres fitted. Nexen n'fera su1.

Compared to the continentals and fucking Davantis that were on it it's comfier and quieter.

 

Must be turning into my dad, although he'd have keeled over on the spot if he'd had to pay over £400 for tyres.

 

I wonder if they'll do better on damp junctions than the continentals, all they did was wheel spin.

 

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[Aston Martin]

Fuel light bingo is lifes greatest game.

In the Cacti, at two bars left it brings up a warning every 30 mins... One bar, more frequent.... When all bars vanish, it flashes but doesn't beep anymore to save the fumes. (Probably)

 

I had to take my mum to opticians, I was going to risk it and get fuel on the way back. But had it broken down on the way she'd have stabbed me. So I went on the way 46.odd litres which I thought was impressive. Sadly it has a 50 litre tank.... The £60 wasn't fun.

[LightBulbFun]

https://www.carthrottle.com/post/this-81-year-old-has-driven-an-old-toyota-7500-miles-to-london/

 

im pretty sure I just found Autoshites grandma, check out that interior! its just perfect!  (mad props to the lady )

[Guest Hooli]

That is some interior!

[320touring]

Current house needs too much doing to be good enough to rent out. I'm looking at a few ideas but what I really need is the money I should have got out of my old place that my ex took...

Nae bother - just trying to think out the box a bit:)

 

Gimme a shout if you need owt re getting to interview etc (or if you're passing near Glasgow so can grab dinner or that)

[Guest Hooli]

Nae bother - just trying to think out the box a bit:)

 

Gimme a shout if you need owt re getting to interview etc (or if you're passing near Glasgow so can grab dinner or that)

 

Thanks, I'll be traveling via Bute to see my lass - hence part of the reason for trying to move up that way to start with.

[dollywobbler]

Back home after the Dutch trip. It did get rather epic in places.

[iainrcz]

Are you ever at home these days

 

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[320touring]

Thanks, I'll be traveling via Bute to see my lass - hence part of the reason for trying to move up that way to start with.

Ah, ye'll be passing mah door*

 

*Within an hrs drive, so literally next door.

[Alfamale]

I’m in Rome, the Peronis are perfectly chilled and are flying down, there is chod everywhere and AlfaFemale looks amazing.

 

I is a happy man.

[320touring]

I’m in Rome, the Peronis are perfectly chilled and are flying down, there is chid everywhere and AlfaFemale looks amazing.

I is a happy man.

Meh, I have a Farmers;)

 

Enjoy your trip!

 

[fordperv]

Saw this crown earlier, mrs fp was straight on the camera

 

 

 

[jumpingjehovahs]

 

Just found this in the front garden, barely buried under the surface! Expiry date: Feb ‘98!

 

 

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[wuvvum]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-leeds-44713074/pied-crow-with-yorkshire-accent-filmed-in-knaresborough

[Guest Hooli]

 

Just found this in the front garden, barely buried under the surface! Expiry date: Feb ‘98!

 

 

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How did they taste?

[Alanism]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-leeds-44713074/pied-crow-with-yorkshire-accent-filmed-in-knaresborough

This did make me grin.

[New POD]

I've got a job interview in Oban....

 

Now I need to do some serious thinking about if I could afford to live up there etc

 

WE spent a night up there on the way to MULL (at the end of May)

 

Despite that it was pissing down, I could tell it was a decent town. The people I met were GREAT. 

 

Oban fish and chip shop was GREAT too. 

 

Take a few days - go to the distillery. Bring a couple of bottle home. 

[New POD]

It was going to be a grump as the clutch hose for my Seat has got to come from Spain and I was going to take it to Le Mans. This has now turned into a grin as I will have to take the 806 and have already got two motorbikes lined up and waiting on a third. If it all comes off ok I will make enough on the sales to cover my weekend away and hopefully the cost of fixing the bloody Seat. If anyone fancies a 1983 Suzuki 125dr thats been off the road in a French barn since the 90's let me know as it is the only one I haven't got a home for yet.

 

I had a TS125ER - I suspect the DR had the same frame, but the engine was 4 stroke. 

I'd FUCKING love it, but erm ........lists excuses........How much ? (If very cheap I'll need to think of more excuses. 

[gm]

With all this lovely weather we've been having of late, it seemed perfectly normal to be buying a set of Fricking Winter Tyres !

 

 

Look at the tread on the buggers, they're virtually brand new

 

 

And because no right minded bugger is looking for winter tyres just now, I got them for a bloody bargain

 

And it gets better - the guy selling them wasn't home so I met his wife who turned out to be from the same town as me, we went to school about a mile (and about ten years) apart, we both moved to edinbur to study, worked bar jobs, drank in the same pubs, had all night lock ins after work then drank in seriously dodgy bars such as the 'penny black' that opened at 5am (you can imagine what kind of folk that attracted). Excellent nostalgia, and a cracking coincidence.

[Floatylight]

Saw this crown earlier, mrs fp was straight on the camera

 

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Stafford - He works at the tip..

 

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[fordperv]

Yep Stafford

[kinkersaab]

I was browsing the local free ads and spotted "FREE. 24ft REFRIGERATED LORRY BACK". Obviously i bagged it beofre i fully thought it through. £200 later my *free lorry back arrived. Due to the limited access it had to come in from a neighbouring field and the crane was lacking in reach to put it where i wanted

 

A quick call and £20 later a local old boy turned up with this and put in a "that will have to do " position

 

As it was roughly a cars wodth away from the other shed it seemed a good idea to build a roof between the two amd create another shed. so a few quids woth of timber and my wee brothers diy skills we transfomed it to this

A quick lick of green paint cos paint it green and it cant be seen

 

So whilst it wasnt a *free shed, it was a not very expensive 2 sheds.

[Guest Hooli]

Good shedology. If the refrigeration still works then it's the ideal workshop this weather.

[kinkersaab]

Cheers. I like the affect of lots of half arsed wonky sheds, nothing is quite square and no shed matches the one joined to it.

[Guest Hooli]

It's like a budget survivialist's wet dream.

[Pillock]

Fitted a new dash cam to Mrs_Pillock's car. Got a dual one, Aukey DR02D which has decent reviews.

 

Now I'm no stranger to plugging things in so it seemed a doddle - as well as running the power MiniUSB lead there's a weird 10-pin looks-like-MiniUSB plug too for the rear camera. Tuck cables under trim and sorted.

 

Plugged them both in, went to position the camera on the screen (with the cables in to make sure there's enough clearance) and the rear camera lead just fell out. Take the camera back down and the connector has just torn off the board and fallen inside. WANK.

 

Grin?

 

Swerved Amazon's returns policy and went to the Aukey website. Fill out a form that includes the Amazon order number. Emailed back an hour later asking for a photo of the fault. Sent photo. Emailed back and said they'll send a new one out.

 

That's pretty good customer service. I'm damn sure there was a fault, but equally that issue could have been down to me ragging the connectors around like a neanderthal so it was nice they took my side.

[DodgeRover]

It's like a budget survivialist's wet dream.

Only if you bury the fridge unit (just don't do the calculations for load etc when the soil is wet, it ends badly)