What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[hairnet]

35 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I think they had quite enough for a Tuesday lunchtime . Luckily they can get the bus for free from 50m away and the return stop is 5m from their house.

so it didnt matter if they got completely hammered

 

[richardmorris]

5 minutes ago, hairnet said:

so it didnt matter if they got completely hammered

 

Well two glasses of champagne , cocktails and a bottle of wine would put me to sleep.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

they got a free glass.

Used to get those with fuel. Yea, may still have some. Hope they had a great day.

[hairnet]

leeds

lmfao

 

[Sunny Jim]

[egg]

[auntiemaryscanary]

Back of Tesco Express 

Keep off the special* cigarettes folks!

 

[hairnet]

10 hours ago, Sunny Jim said:

so the typewriter and the car are older than you

 

[hairnet]

didnae ken perth had an airport.................

@320touring @Barry Cade

[Saabnut]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

didnae ken perth had an airport.................

@320touring @Barry Cade

Yes, it is at Scone and owned by Morris Leslie the auctioneers. Not many flights though, mostly private light aircraft

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, Saabnut said:

Yes, it is at Scone and owned by Morris Leslie the auctioneers. Not many flights though, mostly private light aircraft

I had a flying lesson there many years ago.

[Lord Sterling]

Wow, I have something to actually grin about! I'm more in shock than grinning.

I took the Jag to Kwik Fit to see about topping up the air-conditioning, and it only worked!!! 😮

So at the age of 41, I have, for the first time, have actually taken my own car to a garage to have an air-con regas and it's actually worked. Pathetic isn't it?

I mean, I have previously owned 3 cars (that I can recall) that actually had working air-conditioning already (BMW, old Jag and Zafira iirc) but to actually do something simple like this and have it actually work is just.....

Hhhhhhhh 😮‍💨

Oh. That and now the aerial fully retracts.

[Lord Sterling]

2 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Yes, it is at Scone and owned by Morris Leslie the auctioneers. Not many flights though, mostly private light aircraft

[somewhatfoolish]

2 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Yes, it is at Scone and owned by Morris Leslie the auctioneers. Not many flights though, mostly private light aircraft

Have they given up Errol, or are they spreading like japanese knotweed and building an empire of flogging old tat from aerodromes?

[New POD]

On 12/08/2024 at 20:45, Aston Martin said:

That's really quite cool and weird. 

[myglaren]

[Saabnut]

4 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Have they given up Errol, or are they spreading like japanese knotweed and building an empire of flogging old tat from aerodromes?

Errol is still the centre of their world enterprise. At least Morris and his son Gregor are true petrolheads, Morris has a fantastic collection which he occasionally opens to the public.

[The Moog]

On 10/08/2024 at 21:25, hairnet said:

I was about to look fir something and this was there

Wtf

@The Moog

 

Sadly my pink halter neck days are over ... 

[Stinkwheel]

21 hours ago, Sunny Jim said:

Ah Vert Jade, also know as AC539. I know thee well, but it looks weird on the bumper brackets and heat exchangers

[hairnet]

9 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Yes, it is at Scone and owned by Morris Leslie the auctioneers. Not many flights though, mostly private light aircraft

do the sctsch still get upset if you dont say scoon?

did a festival thing there a long time ago but cant remember what for

 

[Stinkwheel]

Having enough tool storage at last makes me grin (yea, it’s a big box. I am not rich, I am lucky, right place right time) 

[vulgalour]

Some bikeshite is about to happen in the near future.  Been after a simple town bike to get me to work and back and a friend has a nice blue Raleigh from the 80s that'll do the trick, a bit like this one.

Friend of mine has a whole host of salvaged old bike bits, so we've cherry picked the best bits out of the pile and I'll have a smart little old pushbike to get me about.  It's also light enough that getting it on the roof bike rack on the Princess shouldn't be too much hassle so I can drive to places for more enjoyable bike rides.  Friend might even have some spare cheap panniers kicking about too which will be really handy for those one mile shopping trips where you need a can of beans or whatever and don't want to walk or get the car out.

A skidlid and a lock and I'll be good to go.  Probably just enough good weather left in the year to commute on it too, I reckon my fitness level is up to it so I don't end up arriving at work a be-suited sweaty catastrophe.

[DSdriver]

1 hour ago, Stinkwheel said:

Having enough tool storage at last makes me grin (yea, it’s a big box. I am not rich, I am lucky, right place right time) 

Now you have to look through forty odd drawers for that little used tool instead of knowing it was in the heap at the end of the workbench. 🤪

[Stinkwheel]

Just now, DSdriver said:

Now you have to look through fourty odd drawers for that little used tool instead of knowing it was in the heap at the end of the workbench. 🤪

Probably, yep. I might just stick labels on the drawers so i have an at a glance system, maybe

[comfortablynumb]

It's actually keeping them in the correct drawers I have a problem with....😱

[GeorgeB]

6 hours ago, Stinkwheel said:

Having enough tool storage at last makes me grin.

 

You need more tools.

[Stinkwheel]

19 minutes ago, GeorgeB said:

You need more tools.

One of the few things I probably don’t need more of 😂

[myglaren]

6 hours ago, DSdriver said:

Now you have to look through forty odd drawers for that little used tool instead of knowing it was in the heap at the end of the workbench. 🤪

Every bloody day and it is usually under my nose.

[reb]

I googled my reg number to see if it had picked up any more photos of the cars it has been on.

It had picked up a photo of my living room with the plate on the wall from early march 2020 in this very thread.

I decided to keep scrolling through the thread for a bit...

March 16th, two days after dad died.

Anyone know what became of his 20v estate?

[Wibble]

1 hour ago, reb said:

I googled my reg number to see if it had picked up any more photos of the cars it has been on.

It had picked up a photo of my living room with the plate on the wall from early march 2020 in this very thread.

I decided to keep scrolling through the thread for a bit...

March 16th, two days after dad died.

Anyone know what became of his 20v estate?

I don’t know you, apart from my time on here but I am very sorry you lost him at such a young age. Hope you can track the car down. Losing my Dad is still raw for me and I’ve probably got 30 years on you, and far less intelligence! All the best.