What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[STUNO]

One of my old high school mates has posted a load of pictures of himself on Facebook having climbed up a crane in the middle of Manchester. I wonder how long before he gets in some serious trouble

 

coincidence ? But not at all funny.

 

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11422404

[MrDuke]

It all worked too. This is a system designed and built (including the controller) by my good lady wife - using old radiators and caravan/house windows. What a woman! I only really helped with this last bit.

 

So just to get things straight - your wife designed and built an entire solar-powered heating system from scratch, using junk... and your 2CV has been gently rotting away for how long?

[vulgalour]

I get the feeling Mrs DW is a clever woman but she can't work miracles.

[STUNO]

This......towed. The mall broadcast messages for 30 mins for the owner to shift it then called the towies. The tow co. said they had to arrange special insurance before they towed it. Owner said " I only popped in for a couple of minutes! " .

I know who I believe.

 

 

 

[fordperv]

This happy scene is making me grin.

 

Using an old car battery (off the Green Tiger BX I think, possibly the silver TXD) to power a fluid transfer pump (bought for my bio-munching W123 Merc some years ago) to force OAT antifreeze into our DIY solar panel loop. The battery is (unsurprisingly since it hasn't been used for a few years) sluggish, so I had to get the jump pack on it. Yes, it is in the bathroom. Go figure.

 

It all worked too. This is a system designed and built (including the controller) by my good lady wife - using old radiators and caravan/house windows. What a woman! I only really helped with this last bit.

You have to put some pictures up of the system, Mrs DW sounds like a great woman

[Bobthebeard]

I ordered something online on Monday afternoon. From Eagle River, Alaska.

It arrived this morning! Impressed.

[dollywobbler]

I will get further pictures up at some point. By the time we were finished, it was dark outside. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that like car radiators, it's a good idea to put liquid that won't freeze into solar panels. The anti-corrosive properties are quite useful too given what rads are made from.

 

If you don't fancy waiting, or if you have a nagging feeling that I might not get around to posting anything further, there's always Lady Wobbler Blog. http://growingthingsandmakingthings.blogspot.co.uk/

[FakeConcern]

I will get further pictures up at some point. By the time we were finished, it was dark outside. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that like car radiators, it's a good idea to put liquid that won't freeze into solar panels. The anti-corrosive properties are quite useful too given what rads are made from.

 

If you don't fancy waiting, or if you have a nagging feeling that I might not get around to posting anything further, there's always Lady Wobbler Blog. http://growingthingsandmakingthings.blogspot.co.uk/

Just had a look at Lady Dollies blog about the solar panels & all I can say is "Blimey!"

[MrDuke]

I thought this would be disgusting, but it's verr verr nishe:

 

[bub2006]

I ordered something online on Monday afternoon. From Eagle River, Alaska.

It arrived this morning! Impressed.

Eagle river??!!

[fordperv]

Just looked at the blog DW bloody brilliant is what sprung to mind while I was reading through.

[Stanky]

After 18 months and 2 major redesigns my 'side project' is finally live! There are a couple of tweaks to do over the coming weekend but if any of you are interested in making your own craft beer, check out www.brewly.co.uk in my signature.

 

Shameless self promotion, but I'm really pleased with how it looks and works!

 

:-D

[beko1987]

I bought a brand new vacuum cleaner today.  Cost as much as 10 dysons though... 

[cobblers]

After 18 months and 2 major redesigns my 'side project' is finally live! There are a couple of tweaks to do over the coming weekend but if any of you are interested in making your own craft beer, check out www.brewly.co.uk in my signature.

 

Shameless self promotion, but I'm really pleased with how it looks and works!

 

:-D

I'll give it a go, I've got an arsenal of homebrew tackle - which is your favourite?

 

Number one thing is I can't see how many pints you get from a kit. I presume 40 ish like normal, but at £15 posted that's definitely cheap if its any good.

Second is the website looks good but it's all a bit big and scary on a decent size screen. Probably fine on a laptop but I've got a decent size screen on a desktop machine and I had to slide my chair back a foot to take it all in. You could literally half the size of it and it would still be probably slightly too big.

[beko1987]

Looks alright here on my 17" laptop screen with chrome at 75% zoom as it normally is.

[greengartside]

Another year older today - all good though because I got a pressure washer as a present! Finally can tackle wheelarch mud in the comfort that I haven't got 8 minutes to do it before the tokens run out.

 

Also found this clip on YouTube - John Virgo getting his Gotcha on Noel's House Party in 1991..

[Stanky]

I used to do lots of Coopers kits, but then branched out into making my own from spraymalt and hops (sort of the lazy person's all-grain) and not looked back, its dead easy to do and I can make beer better than anything I can buy in supermarkets now. I'm drinking a few pints of dark ale I made last autumn with nugget and cascade hops and its very nice, especially ready chilled from the shed!

 

Ah, thanks for the feedback re resolution and amount you can make from the kits - I shall make some tweaks later and say how much it makes. Having gone through the redesigns there are several things from the first iteration which have failed to move across. Some rubbish, some quite important!

 

I'll think about the site, its tricky to judge as if you want it to be legible on a laptop/tablet/phone then I agree the tradeoff is that it's a bit mega when viewed on a big desktop screen!

[PhilA]

 

If they thought their brakes were making a noise before, I hate to think what they were like after their car deposited one of the brake backplates (all friction material gone and metal with a nice blue to it) and the heat shield shim onto the ground in the grocery store parking lot...

 

Phil

[Negative Creep]

[Louise2cv]

Popmaster finished and immediately, with no intro or explanation, Richard Burton starts chatting about spacemen.

 

I love it when Ken needs the loo and chooses War of the Worlds.

[cms206]

Down at the local tyre fitters getting some drive tyres for our Dennis Dragon... didnt expect to spy these words on anything, let alone on the windowsill in the office of a tyre shop in Paisley.

 

[steve_earwig]

Awww, they've abandoned it. They must have all had to squeeze into the one car to go to the bar.

And today it is gone, hopefully it's been crushed.

 

Which reminds me, this was their old minibus (or maybe the one before, who can tell?)

 

 

I think it was a TAM. They just dumped it out the back (i.e. in front of my wife's house), I had a look at it and it seemed quite solid, although someone had been playing with the electrics and it looked like a fire hazard. I think someone saw me sniffing around it as the wife got a message from the fireman that I wasn't to touch it and buying it off them wouldn't be possible as it was only registered as a fire tender (which still sounds like complete bollocks) so it sat there for a year or so and then just vanished.

 

The pictures are from a sequence that could be titled "The Horrendous Bloody Mess The Firemen Left For Us To Clear Up On Boxing Day 2006". Festivities included letting fireworks off and drunken screaming until the early hours and this piece of crap

screaming around and around the firehouse (including the stretch of grass between the firehouse and my wife's front garden) until 4 am.

 

 

One day I will throw a Molotov cocktail through one of the broken windows at the back.

[xtriple]

Not a whole lot at the minute to be honest but....

 

Met a young lady today that I have been hearing a lot about for the last few months. She works in the new Vets and is regarded by everyone I've spoken to as 'the BEST reason' to go to them! She's mid 20s, tiny and really pretty but had a brain tumour (malignant) in her teens, lots of ops and eventually lost her eye right eye but gained a clean bill of health.

 

She is everything I've heard and more. Properly gorgeous lass in personality and looks. Getting married in two weeks and I'm jealous of the lucky bastard that's won her - hope he treats her REALLY well.

 

She spent ages chatting to me and the mutts, Chester took a real shine to her and wouldn't let her stop stroking him (I'd heard that most dogs fall in love with her) and she spent ages telling me off for giving him too many treats - I thought one a day was fine, but apparently it should be accompanied by a reduction in normal nosh. She also explained how fattening various things were (stuff sold for mutts that I thought was okay!) including the ones I'd just bought from her!

 

She really brightened my day.

[vulgalour]

I spoke to one of our neighbours and got chatting cars.  He was really interested in what conversion (hah, what conversion) I'd done to make the Xantia run on veg as he'd seen me filling up but not had opportunity to ask about it.  He seems a decent sort, migrated up here from all the way down in that there London.  Proper cheered me up as I've been feeling a bit lonely today rattling around the house while Blake sleeps soundly on his new bed the new sofa.

[oldcars]

The Santa Fe transfer box is fixed, mate has it all done. He said it needs a wash, but with my ocd he uses a brush so politely said no 

 

Its been off the road for about 2 months so will treat it to a wash tonight and it can get a polish and wax in a few weeks time.

[Angrydicky]

I was reading the 'Buying Warning signals' thread on here, and someone mentioned to be very careful about buying a car advertised as having lady owners, as women tend not to maintain their cars very well. That is certainly true in my experience. My mum's Zafira is filthy inside and out with kerbed wheels. She refuses to clean it, and it smells inside because there's some mouldy fruit or something gone off in there.

However, a few doors down from us is an immaculate bungalow, owned by a lady in her late 30s early 40s I'd say. I don't think she's married, as I've never seen a man there. She drives a BINI, with a personal plate that reads "Helen". However, this thing is absolutely immaculate. It's probably about ten years old but it looks like it drove out of the showroom yesterday. Literally every other time I go past her house, she's outside cleaning, polishing, blacking up the tyres or hoovering the inside. Makes a welcome change as it seems like most women just don't care about their cars. I think I'll compliment her on its condition next time I see her.

[oldcars]

I would complement her on her car. Chap and they tyre shop said "really clean for its year mate" about my Kia the other week. Made my day/week/month!

[Skizzer]

I think I'll compliment her on its condition next time I see her.

 

Indeed you should, sounds like she'd appreciate it (assuming you don't come across as some sort of nutter sex pest, which I'm sure you don't). 

 

Although

cleaning, polishing, blacking up the tyres or hoovering the inside

is not the same thing as maintenance, so our generalisation is still safe for now

[cms206]

Asked SWMBO to marry me.

 

She said yes.

 

BRB M8S ND 2 GET COUNCIL ESTATE MESURED 4 WHITE RIBONNS

[twosmoke300]

I've got one woman customer with a 318 compact which is like new . Has it serviced every 5000 miles ( at her request not my recommendation )

It's her baby and doesn't bat an eyelid at paying for anything for it . Too end tyres/ brakes etc . And all on a 2001 car with 120k

Good on her