What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[SteersWithThrottle]

40 minutes ago, SRi05 said:

Is this a previously unknown member of the McGann acting dynasty?

[808 Estate]

[808 Estate]

[MiniMinorMk3]

17 hours ago, 808 Estate said:

You're gonna need a bigger van!

[richardmorris]

On 11/4/2022 at 6:04 AM, SteersWithThrottle said:

This just popped up on my farcebook feed:

I have a framed copy somewhere at the parents.

[eddyramrod]

I've been out today to a classical-music concert.  One of @Dobloseven's offspring now lives up here with his OH and they are both classical musicians, so they have started offering free concerts in a town centre church.  The pieces they played today were pieces I didn't know, but it was a pleasure to watch (and hear!) them work.  Cello and piano in perfect harmony.  90 minutes very well spent!

[Asimo]

Best movie car chase I’ve seen for years!

[MorrisItalSLX]

Canberra car boot sale delivered the goods today!

[Spottedlaurel]

It's a miserable wet Sunday and the rest of the family are still in bed*, so an ideal morning to sit down with a cup of tea and catch up on another episode of "Public Eye". Although screened on TPTV back in the summer it's taken me a while to get through the rest of the series and this is one I was particularly keen to see.

*Their own beds, we don't share one big bed.

It was the final episode of the 1971 series and this Oldmsobile appears in several scenes. Our hero Frank Marker even reads out its plate when he does a slightly dodgy trace of its owner.

The Oldsmobile is significant to me because quite by chance I'd scanned this photo from a 1976 issue of What Car? magazine:

Someone on Flickr recognised it and put me onto Public Eye, which I've then enjoyed watching in its own right. It's an excellent series, well worth watching even if just for the wonderful period detail.

Sad to see the Oldsmobile ended up like this - wonder what sort of a mess it made of whatever it hit.....

This episode also has some great footage of a Guy Salmon dealership, which is going to send me down another rabbithole of hunting through old magazines to find where it was - given the Aston Martin and Jensens on display I'm hoping they will have an ad in one of the big magazines of the day.

Edit: My Flickr friend tells me it was Guy Salmon in Thames Ditton, strangely not especially local to Windsor and Eton where the series was set and a reasonable amount of location filming took place.

[3VOM]

On 11/1/2022 at 7:47 PM, chaseracer said:

 

Don't they take you back to the village?

[danthecapriman]

🤣 Poor little fella!

[Wack]

23 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

You're gonna need a bigger van!

if he kicks off you're going to need a bigger copper

[Ghosty]

 

 

This man is clearly into scatology. The only man in the actual world, that wants a Maestro Clubman D. 

 

 

[Wack]

If anyone ever spots this the driver needs help, direct them towards the nearest hospital 

[mitsisigma01]

Looking at the state of that he's beyond help 😱

[MiniMinorMk3]

23 minutes ago, Wack said:

If anyone ever spots this the driver needs help, direct them towards the nearest hospital 

Newcastle United Footballer Limited Edition!

[Noel Tidybeard]

54 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

 

 

This man is clearly into scatology. The only man in the actual world, that wants a Maestro Clubman D. 

 

 

don't diss the D- if you know how to drive properly they are not as slow as you think!

[Andyrew]

Bloody cats. 

I spent ages* cleaning it,so moved and parked the allegro in another open ended barn while it was raining and find a bloody big cat resting on the bonnet!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[hairnet]

Bigger than they look in the photos

[Bren]

I'm a celebrity starts tonight.

Last time Hancock ventured into the bush it cost him big time.

[ETCHY]

6 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

It's a miserable wet Sunday and the rest of the family are still in bed*, so an ideal morning to sit down with a cup of tea and catch up on another episode of "Public Eye". Although screened on TPTV back in the summer it's taken me a while to get through the rest of the series and this is one I was particularly keen to see.

*Their own beds, we don't share one big bed.

It was the final episode of the 1971 series and this Oldmsobile appears in several scenes. Our hero Frank Marker even reads out its plate when he does a slightly dodgy trace of its owner.

The Oldsmobile is significant to me because quite by chance I'd scanned this photo from a 1976 issue of What Car? magazine:

Someone on Flickr recognised it and put me onto Public Eye, which I've then enjoyed watching in its own right. It's an excellent series, well worth watching even if just for the wonderful period detail.

Sad to see the Oldsmobile ended up like this - wonder what sort of a mess it made of whatever it hit.....

This episode also has some great footage of a Guy Salmon dealership, which is going to send me down another rabbithole of hunting through old magazines to find where it was - given the Aston Martin and Jensens on display I'm hoping they will have an ad in one of the big magazines of the day.

Edit: My Flickr friend tells me it was Guy Salmon in Thames Ditton, strangely not especially local to Windsor and Eton where the series was set and a reasonable amount of location filming took place.

Public Eye was excellent. One of those grim down to earth offerings that show so much about how real life was. No glamour just a bloke scratching a living not reallybenjoying what he does..very late 60s early 70s but well written & well acted. Also superb for passing chod.

[hairnet]

 

woohoo

[hairnet]

Erm......

[hairnet]

Bastard

[hairnet]

DIY brulee 

Fuck you Lidl lmao

[808 Estate]

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, hairnet said:

DIY brulee 

Fuck you Lidl lmao

All brûlée is diy. I have a blowtorch appropriated for these.

[richardmorris]

Drove down to aldershot this morning in torrential rain to go for a walk. Did 10km in two hours and the only other person I saw to say hello to was an old guy in an early willys jeep who slowed down to a crawl when he saw me looking .  Too wet to take a photo though.

walked past the hogs back brewery too, but being 8.30 on a Sunday morning it was understandably closed.

[hairnet]

24 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

All brûlée is diy. I have a blowtorch appropriated for these.

nope not the cheapo ones in tesco

also am travelling - wold be arrested if found carrying blow torch ask that gadge in kent from the other day

also magnum ice cream do a ice cream with a choc hard top

if they can do it this lot can brulee their brulee

[goosey]

Went into Euro Car Parts Oldbury earlier to grab some H7 bulbs, 4 staff on the tills, virtually no queue. Whole transaction took less then 2 minutes.