What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[paulplom]

16 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Ooh, that's an early one!  I still reckon these make just about the best first car of anything on the road.

81k miles and loads of mot. Asking price was £795 and I got it for £700. It's also very clean but the sills are starting to scab though tadts. I'll smother them with underseal over the holidays. 

Only £600 to insure! They wanted a grand for splitpins audi cab for me.

[Rustybullethole]

This corner is on my job list to scrape clean as it's covered in mud. Have deemed it low priority  as been having great fun hand braking around it.

 

[richardmorris]

38 minutes ago, Rustybullethole said:

This corner is on my job list to scrape clean as it's covered in mud. Have deemed it low priority  as been having great fun hand braking around it.

 

 

[maxxo]

Lass next door has a 7 year old hoover obsessed autistic son

was chatting to her today and she mentioned about it all

so I said I’ll be back in a minute

so I’ve given him this

he was so happy and excited about it

worth so much more than any money I could have got for it and it’s really made me feel happy

[maxxo]

new wiper blades today

this car had brand new Bosch ones fitted upon purchase 

I was never impressed by the wiping performance, always juddery and smeary and I presumed it was the wiper arms weren’t that strongly sprung anymore

What transpired to happen was absolutely silent, smooth wiping with these blades, it’s perfect

Plus I managed to get all 3 for £13.50

which is much much much cheaper than I’ve been able to find blades online

[DavieW]

The TUI advert always makes me smile - especially the "plop" when the elf somersaults into the pool.

 

[richardmorris]

6 hours ago, maxxo said:

new wiper blades today

this car had brand new Bosch ones fitted upon purchase 

I was never impressed by the wiping performance, always juddery and smeary and I presumed it was the wiper arms weren’t that strongly sprung anymore

What transpired to happen was absolutely silent, smooth wiping with these blades, it’s perfect

Plus I managed to get all 3 for £13.50

which is much much much cheaper than I’ve been able to find blades online

I’ve just put a Bosch set on the TIPO. first time fitting the modern type connections-  in the dark and rain and cold.
 

The merc had Bosch too, but the 2cv Valeo.

[ruffgeezer]

Managed to leave my work keys at home yesterday, was already signed on for my shift so it was looking like a long shift with no brew to be had.

Luckily I had a pair of molegrips in the car, which showed me just how feeble the padlock on my locker is at work, under a minute to convince it open.

 

Why is this a grin?  Well during the search of the car for the missing keys, I did manage to find the service book for the Peugeot so it now has a sparkling partial service history as well as a new timing belt.  Proper clean up and advert to follow in the new year.

[Rust Collector]

I managed to persuade my son to ‘drive’ a car for the first time at the weekend. He’s usually nervous to be out of his car seat in the car (which isn’t a bad thing), but whilst we were up the stables on Saturday he decided that he was happy to sit on my lap and steer whilst we went along the private farm tracks at my parent’s house.

He was properly excited once we started moving and realised that turning the wheel steered the car - only had to correct him a couple of times to keep us out of the post and rail 😂

It’ll be nice to be able to tell him that the first thing he ‘drove’ was a Citroen XM at the age of two 🤣

Im looking forward to when he’s a bit bigger and can start doing the gears and pedals. I have really happy memories of driving an old 4x4 round my aunts land when I stayed with her in the holidays. I’m hoping he can make even better memories - after all, we’ve got enough shite to drive round in up at the stables!

[808 Estate]

Greggs Benedict.

[DavieW]

The new boss has let us finish at 12.30 today instead of the planned 4.30 and she  has also negotiated with head office to give us 2nd Jan off as it's a public holiday in Scotland. (Company is England based).

[maxxo]

Went out for a spoons breakfast this morning

large breakfast £5.99 I believe it was with a drink

actually very enjoyable, not award winning but for the money and with a drink I couldn’t complain at all

i don’t particularly understand the hatred of spoons, or maybe my local one is a very good one?

[captain_70s]

The owner is a knob. They're an example of big capitalism. Tories. 

The food and drink is decent and very cheap. The 'Spoons experience is pretty universal so you know what you're getting more or less at every location. 

[Bren]

A mouse infestation at Old Trafford.

Will the new owner charge extra for the mouse shit? Will we see official MUFC mouse shit in the club shop?

[hairnet]

nerd in full effect

close encounters

theyre in mongolia and the helicopters have N numbers on them (yes i know it wasnt filmed on location apart from the india bit)

 

[hairnet]

 

[omegod]

2 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

I managed to persuade my son to ‘drive’ a car for the first time at the weekend. He’s usually nervous to be out of his car seat in the car (which isn’t a bad thing), but whilst we were up the stables on Saturday he decided that he was happy to sit on my lap and steer whilst we went along the private farm tracks at my parent’s house.

He was properly excited once we started moving and realised that turning the wheel steered the car - only had to correct him a couple of times to keep us out of the post and rail 😂

It’ll be nice to be able to tell him that the first thing he ‘drove’ was a Citroen XM at the age of two 🤣

Im looking forward to when he’s a bit bigger and can start doing the gears and pedals. I have really happy memories of driving an old 4x4 round my aunts land when I stayed with her in the holidays. I’m hoping he can make even better memories - after all, we’ve got enough shite to drive round in up at the stables!

I used to let my 5 yr old steer my 190e  auto around Knowsley safari park , we went every Sunday so she got pretty good at knowing the route 

[maxxo]

1 hour ago, captain_70s said:

The owner is a knob. They're an example of big capitalism. Tories. 

The food and drink is decent and very cheap. The 'Spoons experience is pretty universal so you know what you're getting more or less at every location. 

had some research i agree

not going to change my patterns as well, i can have a night out in there for £20 including food and be pissed with half decent drinks and it's always immaculate in the local one

[High Jetter]

8 hours ago, DavieW said:

The new boss has let us finish at 12.30 today instead of the planned 4.30 and she  has also negotiated with head office to give us 2nd Jan off as it's a public holiday in Scotland. (Company is England based).

How generous. My staff finished on Friday, back on the 30th. A week off seems ok?

[richardmorris]

[richardmorris]

24 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

How generous. My staff finished on Friday, back on the 30th. A week off seems ok?

I was working today until 2.30ish. We are now closed until the 6th.  But will keep an eye on emails and will pop in later In the week to make sure it’s still there.

[Skut]

Walking back to this after a Tesco visit made me grin.

[wuvvum]

On a vaguely similar note, driving along the A47 earlier I overtook a mid '90s Chevrolet Caprice.  Expecting to see the usual rockabilly type behind the wheel, I was quite surprised to see a giffer couple who must have been at least 75.  Unusual choice of transport for retirees, at least in this country. 

[hairnet]

flicking thru the epg to see if theres good shit to watch tomorrow (the guide on this tv is crap)

its a wonderful life is on again at 5am (!) but then its on again later on

was it on today or yesterday??

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

flicking thru the epg to see if theres good shit to watch tomorrow (the guide on this tv is crap)

its a wonderful life is on again at 5am (!) but then its on again later on

was it on today or yesterday??

When  is the Great Escape on?

[hairnet]

it was on last week at lunchtime (!)

[danthecapriman]

Went out for a walk earlier with my sisters dog, got a few streets from home and found a new friend about to get run over!

Baby hedgehog! It’s tiny too. 
It’s not a good sign if you see them out in the day like that and not good at all for them to be next to a busy main road so we scooped him up and took him home. 
Definitely under weight (probably why it’s not hibernating) but looks good otherwise with no parasites etc.

We've got him a dish of water and he’s just been tucking into some leftover turkey, shredded and mashed up. Hopefully we can fatten him up a bit and let him out.

 

[reb]

My granny knitted me a jumper

I had asked for a jumper, I wasn't expecting one made just for me!

[loserone]

That's lush.  I hope it's made of nice wool and you can treasure it for years.

[108]

55 minutes ago, reb said:

My granny knitted me a jumper

I had asked for a jumper, I wasn't expecting one made just for me!

That’s splendid. 
I have one from my mam tucked away. Great on a windy day.