What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[michiel]

I hope it has Elvis airbrushed on the outside.

[willswitchengage]

LOL at Chrysler monger, clearly Darwinism isn't working.

 

Enjoyed watching a fat man in a mk3 "slammed" Polo tackling the local rough roads from the sluggish progress of my bicycle earlier - not sure how it really improved its handling, I think he was just trying to use its high-amplitude vibrations to give his female passenger a lady hardon.

[Ross_K]

L0lz0rZ

 

Every PT Cruiser should have that done to it.

 

With the owner trapped inside...

[dollywobbler]

An odd one, but I'm very pleased that traffic wardens have returned to the streets of Aberystwyth. While it has never been the OMG TRAFFIK KAOS that the Cambrian News has suggested it was, finding a space was difficult because selfish arseholes like parking in stupid places just so they can waddle straight into the shop they want to visit. There was also widespread abuse of the "up to one hour" parking - you know, where you want to park up so you can quickly visit the town's shops rather than deal with the hideousness of supermarkets. People were just parking up all day so you spent ages searching for a space.

 

Went into town this morning, spaces everywhere! It's wonderful! Fuggin' annoying that you do actually need to have traffic wardens to make this happen, but made me happy nonetheless.

 

By the way, Aberystwyth does seem to contain some mouth breathers who even park up outside Morrisons and Halfords just outside the doors, despite huge and largely empty car parks being available a few feet away.

[TimothyClaypole]

I have only one question.... Where?

 

Where ever you need them.

 

(you do things for folk on here etc. so I'd rather help you out than some random stranger on Freecycle).

 

I'd sold a lot of stuff but people won't pay anything near what it's worth and the container is cripplingly expensive as it was the only one I could get with 24 hours access at the couple of hours notice I had to pickup the stuff.

 

These are solid oak:

 

 

 

A drawer unit, factory made not flatpack with Blum fittings with soft closing metal drawer boxes etc:

 

 

Probably have enough of these left for a larder style cupboard:

 

 

Might need to make do and mend as it were on sizes and quantities with what i have but I can see the unit in the photo you posted so know how you current cupboards are without being snobby or anything.

[Caffiend]

10 days not smoking, go me.

 

The realisation that shit is still shit whether I'm smoking or not and actually, I'd be equally pissed off whether I was smoking or not. I can deal, hooray Not smoking just makes me swear more.

[Craig the Princess]

We were given a Servo about 6 years ago. We were told it was Allegro but is wasn't so it sat in Mrs the Princess' old room at her parents house. Turns out to be a Manta B/Cav Mk1 one and sold for £24 + P&P on the bay, guy paid by paypal withing 30 minutes

[Cavcraft]

10 days not smoking, go me.

 

The realisation that shit is still shit whether I'm smoking or not and actually, I'd be equally pissed off whether I was smoking or not. I can deal, hooray Not smoking just makes me swear more.

 

Keep it up dude, it gets easier every day. 8 weeks today for me and I'm down to thinking about fags approximately once every 48 hours if that.

[scaryoldcortina]

 

Might need to make do and mend as it were on sizes and quantities with what i have but I can see the unit in the photo you posted so know how you current cupboards are without being snobby or anything.

 

Wow!

 

Our current kitchen was knackered 17 years ago when we bought the place, but it worked so it got left. What's left is now falling to bits and we were planning on making a custom fitted jobbie - I have collected some bits including a belfast sink but I was struggling to find doors and drawer units.

 

I'll send you a PM about getting it from thee to me but yay! thanks! You have made me grin!

[pompei]

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/bride-punched-ex-newcastle-star-wedding-132152814.html

[MrDuke]

the guests behaved "like peasants with money"

 

Snobbery aside, what exactly did they expect from a footballer?

[ashmicro]

Ex footballer. The Toon gave him the push.

[Negative Creep]

Isn't it customary for a wedding to end in a dust up?

[Mr H Sceptre]

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/bride-punched-ex-newcastle-star-wedding-132152814.html

 

 

Newcastle players - always have been scum. Barton, Dyer, Bowyer etc. Filth.

[autofive]

and the brides family are scousers

[vulgalour]

Today, although overcast, has been okay enough outside for me to actually get out and do some gardening. This is massively important for my mental health and one of the things that really does help me, I don't know why, but I'm not going to question it.

 

Click for the day's progress in full

 

Mister Bunny was supervising, as always.

 

He made sure I got things from this.

 

To this in a couple of hours.

 

I was delighted to discover the hydrangea that was dying last year because of the other plants near it crowding it out is now sufficiently stable enough to produce flowers. Hydrangeas are one of my favourite plants.

 

On the front I have a very unusual aquilegia, apparently it's a Nora Barlow type.

 

Gardening is a passion of mine and one of the selling points when it came to renting this house. The garden has been neglected for a few years before I moved in but it was clearly much loved, if strangely planted in places. The house is an end terrace and the large number of roses has led to my housemate and I naming the place Row's End, because puns.

 

I need to pester the Council again, clearing the lane and keeping the foliage and dumping under control is hard work on my own and it's more than ready, especially since someone emptied a wheelie bin into it recently. Still, it's an absolute haven for the local wildlife and full of some pretty interesting wildflowers, wild hazel trees and brambles. Hydragas is a blessing on the lane, especially further down where it's breaking up.

[Ross_K]

Guests began throwing lobster thermidor...

 

In the words of the great Ron Burgundy: "You stay classy Newcastle".

 

At least the staff at the venue had the sense to keep the scum in a marquee, and not the building itself...

[Cavcraft]

I heard that when interviewed the best man said the trouble started when the bride was kicked in the fanny. A reporter apparantly said, 'wow, I bet that hurt' to which the best man replied 'too right, it broke three of my fingers.'

 

 

 

*Reaches for coat.

[philibusmo]

Britain in a Day which was on at 9.00 today on BBC 2. If you didn't watch it then I suggest you watch it on iplayer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0 ... _in_a_Day/

Possibly the most interesting and beautifuly put together pieces of televison I have seen in a long time. I can also see this being of greater interest in years to come.

[DSdriver]

I admire your patience Volksy, my gardening method is more "slash and burn". You really have to keep on top of it, which being self-employed is not always possible. Fortunately our garden is tiny and Mrs D can manage most of it on her own and I just cut the hedge a couple of times a year.

Talking of potholes, according to Mrs D there are some around here that are taking on the characteristics of wells. Very deep and full of water.

[Louise2cv]

Hey Volksy!

 

I inherited some Nora Barlow Aquilegia at our house, and despite thinking doubles were sterile or something they seeded everywhere and the second year they took over the front garden. Last year I thinned them out as they appeared to a much more acceptable number and then found this year I only have two

 

This is our 4th year in the house and I've made a real effort with the gardens, they were just patches of weeds before now. I'm trying to get a cottage garden look in the front (although the snails have destroyed the lupin, hollyhocks and snapdragons) plus I've buried a belfast sink and turned that into an alpine bed. Also got a couple of alpine/succulent specimen pots.

 

In the back I've built a bench (actual bricklaying, go me!) got the lawn sort of "in shape" and tidied the beds, plus the neighbour and I cut a lot off the huge sycamore, which might go altogether this year. My current projects are creating a camomile and thyme lawn under the bench and using another belfast sink as a mini pond. Hope to find some small British natives to go in the pond, maybe some Frogbit, a water forget-me-not and possibly a small rush. Next to the pond I hope I can introduce a few bog-type plants eg an iris or two and some ferns. I'm lookinh for a ceanothus and an orange golf-ball buddleja to fill up the beds. Got more bricklaying to fix the steps (its a terrace garden) and create another alpine bed on the top of one of the retaining walls.

 

A possible future project will be turning a pallet in to a vertical herb garden for the yard. Plus we and about 6 other families in the villiage have applied for the council to lease us a field to turn into allotments.

 

Sorry, I've gone off on one in summary I've really enjoyed gardening this year too.

[vulgalour]

Louise, you're fast becoming my ideal woman (and I'm not even into women) what with the gardening and the old cars... I hope your fella knows how lucky he is! You should get some pics up of your efforts, sounds like just my sort of thing.

 

Edited to add: I can get you a cutting of the buddliea you're after, my Dad's a dab hand at getting them going from theirs. Be warned, they do get rather large.

[MrDuke]

Blimey Louise, that's some serious planning - next time Mrs_Duke visits her mum in Ffordd Iago she'll probably come round to swap battle plans. She's scarily obsessed with the minutiae of gardens and obscure plants. Sadly, although I love sitting amongst the greenery with a cold one, I utterly detest actual gardening.

 

 

Edit: Volks, I'll get some pics of the stuff in our back garden for you, it'll probably make you unreasonably excited. I wish I 'got' it, oh well......

[myglaren]

Those Aquilegia are certainly rather spectacular.

Normally I do about 20 minutes gardening each year. Used to enjoy it but it fell by the wayside.

Have put rather more effort into it this spring and bought another load of bedding plants on Saturday - to replace the ones gobbled up by the slugs

 

In retrospect, observing the garden as it now is, I think I should have invested in waterlilies.

[Louise2cv]

Blimey Louise, that's some serious planning - next time Mrs_Duke visits her mum in Ffordd Iago she'll probably come round to swap battle plans. She's scarily obsessed with the minutiae of gardens and obscure plants. Sadly, although I love sitting amongst the greenery with a cold one, I utterly detest actual gardening.

 

 

Edit: Volks, I'll get some pics of the stuff in our back garden for you, it'll probably make you unreasonably excited. I wish I 'got' it, oh well......

 

Is she still in Ffordd Iago? If you are ever about, and wanted to, we'd happily invite you in for a cuppa, I'd love to know what this place used to be like!

 

Volksy, thanksfor saying that, but I reckon I get a much better deal than Matt (I do some epic tantrums). I'd love a buddleja, and big is what I want; ideally the "top garden" just needs a couple of shrubs to fill it up and get on with their own thing. The front garden is the one I see most so that's the one I'm happier to "tend" to.

 

And now you've asked, there's no escape, I'll put some pics up tomorrow!

[DSdriver]

...I'd love a buddleja...

Very brave, us old Londoners call them bombsite plants due to the fact that we are old enough to remember when there were gaps in rows of houses caused by Hitler's urban redevelopment plan which had said plants growing up through twenty feet of rubble. I worked at a very posh advertising agency in Teddington which had a sack of building sand left outside the back door for some reason. A buddleia somehow took root in it and in no time it was over ten foot tall. We thought it would just be a case of moving the bag of sand to get rid of it but the bugger had its roots going through the bottom of the bag and through the solid concrete base that it was on.

[Volksy]

I keep getting confused with Volksy as I scan through the threads!

 

Garden looks great Volksy!

[DSdriver]

Ooops, sorry about that.

[vulgalour]

Which is why people on forums usually end up calling me VA... which confuses me because my brain connects that with the Victoria & Albert museum. I think I'll keep folks updated on gardeny progress when substantial stuff is done now I know there's some green-fingered types here as well as the black-fingered ones. Like Louise, my front garden is in the process of being revamped as a cottage garden, I'm just waiting for things like the wild Lupins near the house to go to seed now I know about them and to get some plants from my parent's garden in exchange for some in mine when they're not flowering and able to be moved safely without killing them... the plants that is, not my parents. I'm not into the Fred West school of gardening... yet.

[Guest]

Britain in a Day which was on at 9.00 today on BBC 2. If you didn't watch it then I suggest you watch it on iplayer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0 ... _in_a_Day/

Possibly the most interesting and beautifuly put together pieces of televison I have seen in a long time. I can also see this being of greater interest in years to come.

 

A tiny piece of footage I shot made it into the final edit of Britain In A Day, my name's in the credits and everything. The weird thing is, when the shot cuts to the BBC Radio Cumbria DJ there's a connection there for me as well - I read stuff for them at work

I got invited to the Bradford Media Museum to see a preview of it a couple of weeks ago. I won't give anything away to the folk who haven't seen it, but there are certain sections (and I'm sure you'll know the bits I'm alluding to) that had me in tears.