What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Markeh]

Local McColls shop/Post Office is rebranding to a Morrisons Daily, and as a result is closing for 10 days to refurb. The shop signs said it is closed from today. The post office signs said it closes at 2pm. Went down this morning to drop a parcel off (although they couldn't take it as ParcelForce weren't collecting from that shop today), figured I'd have a look while I was in there.

Got this lot for £6.80. Almost all of which will freeze.

[beko1987]

Ours is doing the same, although it closed a week ago. 

We're down to a sainsburys local for 1 huge town! It's hateful, and the Morrisons that opens probably won't be much cheaper (and our post office will still be shit) 

As will the building, I had a nosey the other day and the ceiling tiles haven't been touched... Which means their probably not going to fix the roof issues the building has or it'd have been down and replaced and awaiting new tiles by now 🤔

[richardmorris]

Not only have private eye printed the guardian photo I sent them but they're paying me too!

[GrumpiusMaximus]

[richardmorris]

5 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Not only have private eye printed the guardian photo I sent them but they're paying me too!

Had a charming email  from his lops secretary this afternoon. She is sending a cheque. No idea how much as I wasn’t expecting £. Will pay for a nice bottle of wine anyway.

[High Jetter]

For 50p? 🤣 

[richardmorris]

2 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

For 50p? 🤣 

@£15  or £20 it says

[richardmorris]

Not to be sniffed at.

[myglaren]

Washing machine.  Was in the downstairs bog for years.  binned the dishwasher and used it to fill the hole in the kitchen.

For the past couple of years it has been unable to direct the incoming water properly, resulting in mush in the drawer and none in the machine.

It was also finicky about programmes, some would run for a few minutes then pause and have to be restarted.

When I connected it I didn't have a washer tap so bodged a load of adapters together in among a mess of pipes that made that operation both hard work and very time consuming.  Of course it leaked, had to really.  Not a big problem as I just turned the service valve off, but forgot so each time the machine wouldn't start, stood waiting for me to turn the water back on.

But it seems to like being in the kitchen and the leak has stopped, the incoming water does exactly as it should and all the programmes that I have used have worked perfectly.

It will probably implode next week and need replacing.

[TataBobu]

After buying the wrong tap yesterday (M10*1.5, and I needed an M8*1.25) for 9 RON, today I've got my hands on Lidl's finest Parkside tap and die set, complete with tap holder and die holder, in a metal case, for 50 RON (just over 8 pounds). Now I can clean the threadlock from the passenger seat's bolts and captive nuts, and fasten it so it won't rattle!

[Wack]

Having a few days away in Yorkshire,  just been to castle howard 

Nipped up to thornton le Dale 

Matthewsons is a just a shop full overpriced repro tat , museum is shut 

 

[DavieW]

At Alton Towers for a conference  and this sign is on my bedroom window. So tempted to disobey this and see how many squirrels will come in the window 😄

[Jenson Velcro]

1 hour ago, DavieW said:

At Alton Towers for a conference  and this sign is on my bedroom window. So tempted to disobey this and see how many squirrels will come in the window 😄

Not sure you’ll want them sneaking into your bedroom to nibble your nuts

[MikeR]

Finally got the phone to autoplay music in  the car via the BT thingy ..

Smug ....

No music left in the car overnight ...

[richardmorris]

Nice local pub in Chobham has a new toy.

[LightBulbFun]

Woo! although I still miss it when it would sit below your user-name, now its below your profile picture and not quite the same LOL (and its not even displayed unless you set a custom one)

[DSdriver]

On 7/10/2023 at 10:24 PM, 320touring said:

I think I may have a goal for a trip to do with the Oxford this year...

Caravan, canoe and 7 people in a 50bhp 4 speed...

A little story: A long time ago I bought a Citroen ID19 Safari, the chap I bought it from told me about a time he was driving in a queue up the Great Glen with a boat on the roof, a caravan on the back and the car full of family. It was a stop start traffic jam and after a couple of starts the chap in the car in front got out and asked if he would stop pushing him up the hill. My man was quite short and the bonnet of the ID disappears below eye level with two big pointy rubber bumpers so he didn't realise how close he was to the car in front!

[Remspoor]

 

[Rustybullethole]

After much trying on all our parts for the last two years my youngest child has got a place and as I type currently back in school. Was so happy I cried. 

[High Jetter]

Liked for the success, not the fact that it was so difficult.

[Remspoor]

 

[hairnet]

fackin ell bad man

Spoiler

 

ners can can

 

how was buster such a fat fecker (kidding cos he didnt stand still ever lol)

[jakebullet]

Thought this would be a grumpy thread one for sure. The Mrs. doesn't want to wake up this morning. Rolls round to 12:30 and I finally get her jump started. At which point she says it's her mother's birthday and she'd like to send her flowers. Yeah, that's going to work out well. Interflora etc all say you can sod off. Discovered a florist about a mile away from mums, who's website also says sod off. You could try ringing them and see if you're lucky?

Amazingly despite them closing in 20 minutes, the man from delmonte, he says yes. So a shout out to the flowerpot Whitby for saving me from driving to the coast.

[320touring]

*LONG POST ALERT**

 

After a year of trying and 4 previous attempts (Leaking caliper, clutch failure, slitting my thumb open and a power steering pump failure) I finally got the Clio 182 on a hillclimb!

 

I booked it on Tuesday but told no-one until yesterday. Mildly superstitious but it seemed to work.

 

A gentle tootle to the track got some decent MPG

I arrived early, and the weather was perfect*

That Anglia was amazing - an ST170 Lump and some fancy tuning..

The Clio was in some esteemed company - two true sports cars and an Elise!

After a safety briefing, I put my helmet on and hung about until the other competitors had made their way down to the start.

My thinking was to not mess up anyone's day on the first run, and take it as a steady sighting run - having never even walked the course.

Here is the first ever run. Traction control cutting in at the start and all!

According to my Racechrono app (no idea how accurate it is at all!) - the first run was a 1.10.93. That set a benchmark for Subsequent runs as it was at least a consistent distance being measured. I wasn't looking at the times on the runs, just using completed runs to see how I was progressing.

Picked up about 10secs over 4 runs. Reckoned that was all the easy stuff out the way😀 

I stopped for lunch now and gave the car a check over before going back out.

I was trying to get the confidence in the car and myself, but not be over confident. Later braking/harsher acceleration are where those 10secs have come from. There was more to be had but don't want to take too much!

Changing into first at the mid course hairpin, and being more aggressive on power and braking got an (ALLEGED) 55.1 run as per below.

You can hopefully see how i improved over the course of the day in this side by side video created by @Skizzer (Cheers!)

Times were coming. I was now at the point where you think too much. I stopped again for a break.

 

Certainly getting more confident. Decided to quit at 1.45pm after 10runs.

Never pushed a car or myself that hard. Didn't want to overdo it, but that's 15.2secs (according to the app!) shaved off the time from first to fastest.

Hillclimbing is thirsty work!

Here's some of the cars that were taking part

this Mini decided to undo a tappet adjustment locknut and pop it into the top of the head. Luckily no damage done!

 

The run home got good MPG

and , randomly, the oil light and stop light came on for about 300yards.. I was less than a mile from home so I just carried on driving🤣

Lights went out and it sounds ok.

 

 

[Rustybullethole]

When I was little my mum and dad bought stars for the ceiling off our room. Grown and got my own kids, well one's technically an adult and the other not far off though point is the stars I bought for them are in my room now as we had to give them the big room and divide it into two. 

Night all sweet dreams.

[jakebullet]

I've been chopping wood in between the rain. A huge bee crash landed next to my wood pile and it was obviously knackered out. So I gave it some sugar water, the sun came out and dried it out and 20 mins later it buzzed away. Yay, go Mr. Bee!

[High Jetter]

Got 2 answers right on UC tonight! (Yes, before they did)

[Rustybullethole]

Thiis winter we shall be heating the flat with solid oak flooring. 

Spent the last hour of the paid day chopping and woman/child helped me hoof it upstairs. Winter heating sorted.

[myglaren]

Civic flew through the MOT   Nothing needed.

Trying to tax it online not so easy.

[High Jetter]

32 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Civic flew through the MOT   Nothing needed.

Trying to tax it online not so easy.

Liked for the pass, obs. Why taxing so ...taxing?