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Kent.  Frigging Kent.

 

Bearsted, to be accurate.  The only consolation is I keep being misheard and people think I live in Bastard.

 

Bearsted's nice, I worked just down the road from there for a while.  Couple of ok pubs.  Locals pronounce it 'beer sted' rather than 'bare sted' which might help...but possibly not depending on where the people you're talking to are from.

 

Edit:  Beaten to it by Rusty Rocket.  #TooSlow #TooOld

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I'm just going to embrace it.  "where do you live?" "Bearsted"  "okay, alright, I was only asking, geez"

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Tried my Reliants towbar out for the first time today with a trailer that weighs 460kg empty. 

No problem at all, no nuns or kittens died :)

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I wasn't brave/stupid enough to go out on public roads, just used it to shift stuff about at Frogchod towers. Honestly.

 

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We've found a house, and the only mark against it is no bath (shower only, not ideal when my back plays up).  It's so perfect in every other regard that we're willing to overlook this since a bath can always be fitted.  Now the nailbiting agony of finding out if they accept offers, etc.  Trying very hard to not be too excited, all the same.

 

tin bath in front of the range FTW

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tin bath in front of the range FTW

Cast iron bath in the garden, fill with water, light fire underneath, sit on a board to avoid a burned bottom.

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Cast iron bath in the garden, fill with water, light fire underneath, sit on a board to avoid a burned bottom.

 

now you're just being silly :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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We've found a house, and the only mark against it is no bath (shower only, not ideal when my back plays up).  It's so perfect in every other regard that we're willing to overlook this since a bath can always be fitted.  Now the nailbiting agony of finding out if they accept offers, etc.  Trying very hard to not be too excited, all the same.

 

 You can have ours, being thrown away to fit a shower cabinet. FREE.

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You can have ours, being thrown away to fit a shower cabinet. FREE.

Does it come with free water?

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not so much of a grin but a nice, warm feeling inside......

 

dave numbers thread, through all the banter and the swearing that thread just shows how this place can be full on compassion when needed.

 

makes me smile in the wake of some truly shit news.

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Does it come with free water?

I imagine it will but to save weight it will be dehydrated. Just add water to revitalise it.

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From Stuno in NZ to Kent? Should be some road/rowing trip.

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I imagine it will but to save weight it will be dehydrated. Just add water hydrogen dioxide to revitalise it.

 

Fixed for sales talk.

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They float, so just point it in the right direction and give it a shove.
Bonus, take the plug out and it'll be full of water when it arrives.

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Hey Frogchod, how did you get your Reliant onto French numberplates?

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I imagine it will but to save weight it will be dehydrated. Just add water hydrogen dioxide dihydrogen monoxide to revitalise it.

Fixed for scientific accuracy.

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Fixed for scientific accuracy.

 

Good spot, I was obviously less awake than normal on a monday morning.

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Bucketeer Towers I believe.  Are you delivering or collecting?

I'm sat in the office* receiving the most amazing sequence of pictures.

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If anyone's interested (I wasn't):

 

PC: 0

WC: 1

 

No splashback though, apparently.

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Now I want to go to the Karawanks for my next holiday.

In a slammed and pineappled VW camper? :)

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Sounds like an upmarket* version of centreparcs doesn't it?

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Autoshite -  Reading the last few, hilarious may I add, posts from Dave21478 and the sense of togetherness and concern for his wellbeing before the awful news of his untimely death, all from people that have never met the guy. Strangers on the internet for most part. I was and still am shocked at the news.

I'm happy to have Autoshite as a little corner of the internet and will continue to enjoy peoples musings be they fixing old Dysons, welding up rusty shite, or bike buyage, here we have a huge collective of people from varied backgrounds and if you know it or not your posting to strangers on the internet inspires people in more ways than you'll probably ever know. 

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“Hello Parky, Margaret here, anyway that job interview last week. They liked the cut of your jib and thought you had good ideas. Anyway, upshot of it is that there will be a second interview but you are the only one of the five candidates who has been invited back”

 

So that’s quite good I think!

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