What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Mr Lobster]

^ And then some.

 

If there are a supply of pre '73 Fiat 124 Coupes available with 12 months test for £600 then put me down for a dozen

[trigger]

We had a street party on the green outside my house today, It was better then i expected it to be even if it did rain the whole time, I got asked to get my Cortina out and play with my horn.

 

[Cavcraft]

Didn't that KeithRG fella used to keep trying to sell an Alfa that had different problems according to who asked him and the price changed almost daily?

 

Anyhow making me grin today was(is) the Queen's Diamond Jubilee on BBC1. I reckon we're the best in the world when it comes to ceremonies/shows of pride like this and the RPO performing (albeit briefly) on a boat was top draw stuff.

[ChinaTom]

 

Good God!!

 

http://1st-carreviews.blogspot.com/2010 ... w-car.html

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Didn't that KeithRG fella used to keep trying to sell an Alfa that had different problems according to who asked him and the price changed almost daily?

 

just had a look through his previous posts on RR. he has attempted to sell about a dozen cars in the last 12 months, but no alfa

 

from his posts he comes across as a first class prick.

[messerschmitt owner]

Driving a 1 litre Metro Mayfair though Birmingham five-up the way God intended.

 

When was this? If your passing through Brum again, give us a shout!

 

Someone at work was trying to remember what "Z" stood for in the phonetic alphabet, to which one of the girls confidently replies

 

"xylophone"

 

 

When I worked at the garage I learnt the phonetic alphabet quite quickly as I got fed up of trying to spell out registrations or using spontanious things like 'M' for mother

 

Well, I've got sounds in my car so thats making me grin ear to ear, I can now select Classic FM for relaxing journeys. Its also one more thing making my car more complete.

Spent yesterday and today diving through Birmingham and Wolverhampton. My current choice of vehicle is an open top and it's been raining all day. Central locks have failed and they seem to have Been spread out all the way through Wolverhampton. Am now parked next to a sewage works and the m54 motorway. Tomorrow is a 20 mile trip to just past Stafford in the rain, outside.

[Cavcraft]

Am now parked next to a sewage works and the m54 motorway.

 

 

Ah yes, how is Telford these days?

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blue nylon rope

[gallondrunk]

reminds me of washing lines

[morris_ital_lover]

Alec Issigonis

[Guest]

Broken Arrow's on the telly.

[scaryoldcortina]

yeah, for some unfathomable reason mrs S is watching it even though she has it on DVD.

 

Tayne, it reminds me that I should take the capri rostyles off my cortina because they don't fit properly...

[Lord Sterling]

Am now parked next to a sewage works and the m54 motorway.

 

Ah yes, how is Telford these days?

 

I can tell you, I was there today

 

Had a nice-ish roll up there and back down, with my new/old radio playing Ma's Tears for Fears cassette, as it was a relatives birthday I donned on my 'Arthur Daley' camel-overcoat, that and driving my comfortable British cruiser brought a smile to my face.

 

Only problem is, my trousers were loose due to me seemingly dropping in weight and therefore size.

[Pete-M]

Just discovered the Impreza has electric folding mirrors. Didn't expect that.

[Cavcraft]

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/04062012/ ... fight.html

 

Shame it was just a fist and not a lump hammer, but it's a start.

 

*Edit: also just back from a 25 mile bike ride, a new 'personal best' in terms of mileage. Six of us went, most of us hopelessly overweight/unfit, looking like some sort of horrible 'care in the community' scheme which had gone badly wrong and it was absolutely ace.

[Pete-M]

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/04062012/58/premier-league-barton-hit-face-street-fight.html

 

Shame it was just a fist and not a lump hammer, but it's a start.

 

*Edit: also just back from a 25 mile bike ride, a new 'personal best' in terms of mileage. Six of us went, most of us hopelessly overweight/unfit, looking like some sort of horrible 'care in the community' scheme which had gone badly wrong and it was absolutely ace.

 

I do that most Sundays, but it's closer to 15 miles around Delamere Forest. It is rather good fun.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

*Edit: also just back from a 25 mile bike ride, a new 'personal best' in terms of mileage. Six of us went, most of us hopelessly overweight/unfit, looking like some sort of horrible 'care in the community' scheme which had gone badly wrong and it was absolutely ace.

 

I just broke my personal best last week - a comparatively pitiful 17 miles. I usually give in about ten.

[Mr Lobster]

Theres a Jubilee street party just up the street from us so we popped long just to be sociable like. Actually rather enjoyed it, oldest Lobster_Jnr had a great time playing and Lobster_baby slept the whole time. And there was cynical old me thinking the entire thing would be a PITA.

[Pete-M]

[Lord Sterling]

I wouldnt say very grin-worthy but it did make me smile a bit - After clearing up the bastard water in my car I removed one of the vents to see why it was rolling so freely, the foam surround wouldnt stay in one place when putting the vent back, so I opted for some double sided tape. As the double sided was clear I decided to use it re-stick my tax disc holder and a sticker I found on a cooker that Ma_Sterling bought sometime back:

 

 

Its not a stick to stick on windows, orignally it was stuck to the cooker, but I removed it, added some clear double-sided tape to the front a stuck away.

 

Looks ok on the Rover and makes a bit of an obvious statement that alot of our fellow country people seem to have forgotton.

[willswitchengage]

That's brilliant, half the cars I used to see in Brum were from All Electric too. Love the ones on old Ladas that had "Made in CCCP" on them

[Lord Sterling]

That's brilliant, half the cars I used to see in Brum were from All Electric too. Love the ones on old Ladas that had "Made in CCCP" on them

 

My car isnt actually from 'All Electric' despite it being a Birmingham registered car according to the plate, it was sold by Evans Autos in Surrey and lived mainly in Kent for pretty much most of its life. I got the 'All Electric' tax disc holder from a scrapyard, incidently, the All Electric Rover garage it advertises wasnt far from me in Harborne. Sadly the Harborne All Electric garage in Harborn has since been turned into faceless "excutive" flats and resturants.

[willswitchengage]

If you want to know of some more senseless redevelopments akin to that and the stupid new library in town, then read any of the planning notices around the old SO hospital - knocking it all down for some boring housing and retail project. Epic shame, the original wing is lovely, why can't they just renovate it into some student flats or a care home or something?

 

[Cavcraft]

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/04062012/58/premier-league-barton-hit-face-street-fight.html

 

Shame it was just a fist and not a lump hammer, but it's a start.

 

*Edit: also just back from a 25 mile bike ride, a new 'personal best' in terms of mileage. Six of us went, most of us hopelessly overweight/unfit, looking like some sort of horrible 'care in the community' scheme which had gone badly wrong and it was absolutely ace.

 

I do that most Sundays, but it's closer to 15 miles around Delamere Forest. It is rather good fun.

 

 

I'll give that a bash one Sunday I think, perhaps an Autoshite cycle tour would be in order sometime?

I'm getting quite keen on this cycling malarkey now and have designs on a fancy Boardman hybrid on the cycle to work scheme. Quite a saving to be had over the list price (£500) and it looks a damned nice bit of kit.

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Ice Road Truckers series six has started

 

pm me for d/load link

[TimothyClaypole]

If you want to know of some more senseless redevelopments akin to that and the stupid new library in town, then read any of the planning notices around the old SO hospital - knocking it all down for some boring housing and retail project. Epic shame, the original wing is lovely, why can't they just renovate it into some student flats or a care home or something?

 

It will have reasonably sized rooms etc. so a loser for the developers moneywise.

 

People are that stupid they will buy any shit as long as it's new.

 

I took this off a former workmate's faceache:

 

 

 

That's THREE houses there - makes an old terrace look roomy, sold off plan too...

[Ross_K]

Wow. That's um, cosy. The kind of place housing development where you could hear your neighbour reading the paper on the toilet.

 

Are people still buying stuff off plan? That's soooo pre-recession.

[vulgalour]

I've seen some of those new terraces in Sheffield and they are tiny, the gardens even more so. If I'm going to get on the housing ladder, that's not the way I'd plan to do it that's for sure!

 

On the blue forum, a description of lads on scooters made me chortle: Hells Bumblebees.

[Lord Sterling]

If you want to know of some more senseless redevelopments akin to that and the stupid new library in town, then read any of the planning notices around the old SO hospital - knocking it all down for some boring housing and retail project. Epic shame, the original wing is lovely, why can't they just renovate it into some student flats or a care home or something?

 

Its a big shame. A lot of lovely buildings with character that makes induvidual towns/cities what they are being lost to developers who replace them with faceless, boring Tescos/Asdas flats and restaurants. Sadly that is they way things are these days. I know this has been happening for years where whole towns/villages have been bulldozed to make way for new towns and cities, I just (IMO) think that the last bits of any kind of character is being squeezed out.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

You think that's bad, look at this picture from the future: