What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[messerschmitt owner]

two Viz knackersack pencils arrived today from Geordie land!

 

[Richard]

Excellent! What did you do to earn them?

[autofive]

small grin, but....

 

I have been able to cut the huge expanse of grass in my back garden using the mower blade on number 3.

 

The first time this year that the rain forest has been tamed, now looking like it did last August.

 

surely this means summer has arrived

[Timewaster]

Baby tops number 2 arrived yesterday

A boy this time which is good because there was going to be a scalextrics this christmas either way!

[Albert Ross]

Excellent news. Have a beer!

[Cavcraft]

Baby tops number 2 arrived yesterday

A boy this time which is good because there was going to be a scalextrics this christmas either way!

 

Excelsior news, congrats to you and your bread. You'll never stop doing lad/dad things either, my son is 19 and we still do daft things together!

[Ross_K]

Baby tops number 2 arrived yesterday

A boy this time which is good because there was going to be a scalextrics this christmas either way!

 

Well done sir, and congrats.

 

Enjoy bottle-making, sleep deprivation and arse-cleaning.

[messerschmitt owner]

Excellent! What did you do to earn them?

a top tip ...

it's so long ago that I sent it, I forgot what it was now!

[cms206]

Congrats Mr & Mrs Tops, tops work!

[Cavcraft]

Excellent! What did you do to earn them?

a top tip ...

it's so long ago that I sent it, I forgot what it was now!

 

I had two or three at least entries into Riger's Profanisaurus (one of which was Fanny Batter) and never got a tap!

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Congrats for the new family member!

[messerschmitt owner]

Excellent! What did you do to earn them?

a top tip ...

it's so long ago that I sent it, I forgot what it was now!

 

I had two or three at least entries into Riger's Profanisaurus (one of which was Fanny Batter) and never got a tap!

I'll sell you a pencil for £50 - lol

[eddyramrod]

Tontops: brilliant news, congratulations.

[fotorabia]

My 1st eva driving job..a new Daihatsu van with load of swimming pool maintenance supplies lobbed in the back..so i get to see all the great shite dumped in the suburbs whilst i muck out their spa-pond..

[rml2345]

Congrats Tontops! Father/son car based bonding will be a must in years to come...

[vulgalour]

Congratulations both to the Tops for making a new minitops and to fotorabia for landing a job with shite potential.

[pompei]

Well done & congrats Mr & Mrs TT

[eddyramrod]

Yay Rab! Let's keep the good news coming folks!

 

In other news, I don't know whether to be Grumpy about this or Cruelly Triumphant; probably the latter as at least it includes the name of a shite car. Last year I finally got offered a job with a private ambulance service here in Paphos, then I couldn't start because of Mrs Ramrod's illness. Now a For Rent sign has appeared on the yard gates, which are closed; several of the vehicles remain behind them. On another forum today, I've seen a thread which suggests the service has been taken over (I believe a "hostile takeover") and pretty-much closed down. So they probably won't be wanting their uniform back then...

[Cavcraft]

Actually overtook some other vehicles in the 306 and almost reached 90mph (private test ground) at one point. 646.7 long, slow miles, just over half of which was with no radio (we broke the aerial adjusting it) and some CDs selected by my 16 year old daughter-you can probably imagine how 'enjoyable' that was.

However car did the job, no sign of breaking down or spitting it's dummy out and was dirt cheap to use. I'm giving it a 8.7/10, only the (lack of) performance letting it down.

[trigger]

Congrats guys, It's good to hear some good news on here for a change!

[morris_ital_lover]

Seth's (formerly of this parish?) Hillman appearing on the topgear site:

 

[vulgalour]

I learned today that you can make a petrol lawn mower backfire. Still not sure how I managed it.

[trigger]

Us kicking the world's arse in the Olympics is making me seriously grin tonight!

 

Well done Team GB!

[skattrd]

Ginger winning the Olympic long jump ... big up the Bedford Rotary Club

[Spiny Norman]

Us kicking the world's arse in the Olympics is making me seriously grin tonight!

 

Well done Team GB!

 

As a grumpy Glaswegian beer monster I never thought I'd get caught up in the Olympics but there have been some really good events so far, Mo Farah winning the 10Km was ace as well.

[Cavcraft]

Us kicking the world's arse in the Olympics is making me seriously grin tonight!

 

Well done Team GB!

 

As a grumpy Glaswegian beer monster I never thought I'd get caught up in the Olympics but there have been some really good events so far, Mo Farah winning the 10Km was ace as well.

 

Absolutely, it's been brilliant to watch a lot of stuff I never thought would appeal. Unfair to single people out but Ennis and Farah were just superb and you could see how much it meant to them. If it inspires others to copy them and take up the sport (as cycling seems to have done) then all the better.

[The Moog]

Sitting in koh tao thailand. My life weighs 20 kg. No car. 10 days of relaxation before the next phase of my life begins in Cambodia. Scary but also excellent

[dollywobbler]

Sitting in koh tao thailand. My life weighs 20 kg. No car. 10 days of relaxation before the next phase of my life begins in Cambodia. Scary but also excellent

 

Good stuff. Bet you're currently feeling glad that you didn't follow the Scottish hotel thing up!

[Richard]

Sitting in koh tao thailand. My life weighs 20 kg. No car. 10 days of relaxation before the next phase of my life begins in Cambodia. Scary but also excellent

 

Good stuff. Bet you're currently feeling glad that you didn't follow the Scottish hotel thing up!

 

I think most people who buy hotels end up with considerably less than 20kg of possessions.

[cms206]

At risk of splitting the room again... I've got a hire in about an hour. 53 seat coach, three Orange halls to Govan, drive to Shieldhall, wait for the walk to finish, church service, then return to the three orange halls.

 

 

Torrential rain, thunder and lightning have just restarted.

 

 

Is it wrong that I'm grinning just a tiny, tiny bit?