What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[eddyramrod]

A Mercedes C63 AMG with a wifey driving it grumbling and snarling through Tesco's car park this afty. Looks from a Surrey golf club, soundtrack from a Alabama NASCAR meet. Fair play Mercedes!

When I first read this I thought you meant it was Wifey grumbling and snarling!  That would have fitted the stereotype rather closely...

[vulgalour]

Accounts up to date, new work coming in, business not looking as unhealthy as I feared after the past month of mostly being off work, sun is shining, there's money in the bank that I don't want to spend on another shitheap and there's a plan of action for sorting the Princesses out.  Flat paperwork organised, Councils spoken to and possibility of a grant to help with moving too.

 

Things are getting there quicker than expected, I just need to be able to get a decent night's sleep because these recurrent nightmares are really beginning to annoy me now, I feel like I'm coping other than that.

[overrun]

I followed a C63 AMG through south Brum a few days ago, one of the few moderns that it is worth opening the window for improved aural pleasure.

I remember one drawing up alongside me at a roundabout, once.

First thing I clocked were the huge stoppers, then 6.3L V12 on the wing.

 

My window also went down.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I yelled 'wanker!' in my sleep at 3am this morning, abruptly waking myself and the current ms_ba11s

[trigger]

Was you dreaming about Classic Car Rescue? That has the same effect on me.

[Bobthebeard]

I yelled 'wanker!' in my sleep at 3am this morning, abruptly waking myself and the current ms_ba11s

As long as it wasn't the other way round....

[dave21478]

Glad to hear things are looking up Angyl... its nice to get a break in a run of shitty luck.

[mercrocker]

The Cowley headlamps have not worked properly for a few weeks now.  Rather  than do the sensible thing with a circuit tester I condemned the giffer wiring extensions done when it was  converted to sealed beam in the 60s and tutted  at the state of the dipswitch wiring up under the car.    Having sorted all that  out I still had no nearside beam.   Five minutes today with a voltmeter located a dodgy earth six inches from the offending lamp.....I was so pleased I decided to treat Mrs R to a man-cook session in the camper out in the forest.   Would have gone spiffingly had I not forgotten my glasses and sliced the top of my finger dicing up a tomato.   Bugger, ouch....Never mind I am still  pleased  about the headlamps....

[mat_the_cat]

abruptly waking myself

 

I misread this...

[Gerald]

Dog: photo bombed (as I believe the yoof say…).

[cort16]

This is what happens when your kids have no boundaries. Any parent (even if you are will Smith) that lets their 15 year old kid go to a wedding dressed in a FUCKING WHITE BATMAN SUITE SOOOT needs to have a serious word with themselves. Us, well we can just sit back and laugh at him. What a wee fanny. LOL

 

[Ghosty]

Found a thread on Barryboys about that V8 Mk3 Cortina that keeps showing up on eBay:

http://www.barryboys.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=39322

 

Turns out it was for a charity rally thing, ha!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Check out the awesome job this guy has made of salvaging the terrible efforts of Panini Farina and making something half decent out of them.

 

 

Obv he had the massive tribals down the side, colossal unpainted white GRP side skirts and whatnot. Seen in Derby this week.

[Cavcraft]

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Isn't that Council Estate Car Sales Rd in Derby? We used to go down a road suspiciously like that on the way to Nottingham/back, and probably every third house had a car for sale outside. The majority of them were back-to-blacked, pound shop polished shit heaps with gaudy fluorescent cardboard stars stuck to them.

[Negative Creep]

Found a thread on Barryboys about that V8 Mk3 Cortina that keeps showing up on eBay:

http://www.barryboys.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=39322

 

Turns out it was for a charity rally thing, ha!

 

 

So close, yet so far from awesomeness

[vulgalour]

BAThroom suite accessories?

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Spent some time outside in the freezing cold this evening watching the international space station pass by. Wonderfully clear night, so the sky's full of white dots, aeroplanes and the police helicopter. Trying to decide if any of these dots is the ISS when suddenly it appears as an intensely bright object flying past at an amazing speed. Pretty cool!

[dave21478]

This site shows the space stations track....

http://iss.astroviewer.net/

[HillmanImp]

There is a streaming webcam from the ISS you can watch. I think I linked to it on here a few weeks ago but its blocked at my work for some reason.

[fordperv]

.....I was so pleased I decided to treat Mrs R to a man-cock session in the camper out in the forest.

EFA

[cort16]

[cms206]

Car insurance sorted; 850 T5, 940 Turbo and 740 2.3 fully comp for £311.84 all in. Third year with Footman James, happy days!

[Sloth in a bowl]

Accounts up to date, new work coming in, business not looking as unhealthy as I feared after the past month of mostly being off work, sun is shining, there's money in the bank that I don't want to spend on another shitheap and there's a plan of action for sorting the Princesses out. Flat paperwork organised, Councils spoken to and possibility of a grant to help with moving too.

 

Things are getting there quicker than expected, I just need to be able to get a decent night's sleep because these recurrent nightmares are really beginning to annoy me now, I feel like I'm coping other than that.

This post has made my day. After all the shit that has been in the recent past, to know that the clear skies are appearing for Angyl is really good.

[Louise2cv]

I have finished digging the allotment and harvested broad beans and garlic. The good life.

[daveb47]

Car insurance sorted; 850 T5, 940 Turbo and 740 2.3 fully comp for £311.84 all in. Third year with Footman James, happy days!

Wouldnt insure me cos  car was not kept in locked garage

[Cavcraft]

I have finished digging the allotment and harvested broad beans and garlic. The good life.

 

 

NOT FAIR.  I have my name down for an allotment, big waiting list I'm told. It must be ace having one?

[Louise2cv]

It isn't bad, about 3 years ago we (6 families in the village) approached the council to ask for land. We were helped by a local housing association but I think it is possible to go it alone.

 

We finally got the lease a year ago after all the planning and legal whatnots. It was a field rented out for grazing for years and a football field before that. Unfortunately for me it was also a rubbish dump for the railway so I have been digging up all kinds of shite, some photos of that in the gardener corner thread if you are interested. The biggest bonus is that it is right over the road from my house (well over a cycle track too, but you can see it from the front windows) so close by!

 

We also had a big fall out between plot holders over nonsense, which bubbles on, but all in all it is pretty ace, yes.

 

Except SLUGS. Bastards.

[Negative Creep]

The sister of someone at work has named their baby Samara. I did ask if it was after the car but got a blank look in response.

[dave21478]

.....

 

Except SLUGS. Bastards.

 

Find someone with a log fire and ask them for their ash. Put a line of ash around everything and it will keep slugs out. It can also be good for the soil if you mix some ash into it as you plant, but that depends of your existing soil chemistry. I try not to get too bogged down with that sort of thing though and just use it as a slug barrier.

[dollywobbler]

Welsh slugs are hardy buggers. Ash, grit, even holly leaves doesn't seem to stop the masochistic little bastards. Stamping on them works. Not pleasant, but it's our food they're eating. Mrs DW has sadly had to resort to this as all other techniques have failed. The frog that lives in the garden wall is quite happy though. He loves slugs and now no longer has to hunt for them.