Today.

[noddy]

Did you fix the problem?

I long for the driving standards of the UK, which are well known for being... not great. Driving on the highways here is absolute insanity. The road designs are flat out dangerous - the intersections are designed in such a way that the people joining and people leaving have to swap paces in relatively short stretches.

I love the DVP - like the Nürburgring played for keeps.

 

[Beachlover]

Van passed the MOT with no advisories today.

 

[Oldtimer]

Congratulations. Mine passed yesterday, with the same minor advisories as last year. Always a relief.

 

[bushwacker]

landrover didnt pass. needs chassis welding back together. Works for me.
As a bonus, my boss offered to pay for it.

 

[Andylaser]

Decided to pull the titanium end can off the Yamaha and put the original exhaust back on ready for selling it. The titanium one will head off to ebay. Looking at the clamp, the bolt head had rusted so much, there wasnt anything left to put a spanner onto. Luckily the bolt itself was down to about 2mm in diamteter and a large chisel and lump hammer provided the necessary persuasion to release it. Stainless steel my arse.

 

[ElThomsono]

Ooft, I'd send that to the lab for analysis.

 

[ElThomsono]

Actually now that I think of it the standard Mikalor is part stainless, with a zinc plated bolt. The full stainless ones are uncommon, and expensive (moreso).

 

[Andylaser]

Thats my assumption too. "Stainless" being the marketing lead part of the design. Not worth worrying about it now its off. A new one was only £3.50 posted from the bay.

 

[ElThomsono]

Laura's mother has booked what appears to be a cross between a garden shed and flying saucer, in the garden of a pub that's so desperately trying to be fancy. I've almost dried out from a trip to the pub last night (you drive please darling), and I'm back on it. Of course, we arrived and Sandra says she'll be an hour late?

 

[bushwacker]

Laura's mother has booked what appears to be a cross between a garden shed and flying saucer, in the garden of a pub that's so desperately trying to be fancy. I've almost dried out from a trip to the pub last night (you drive please darling), and I'm back on it. Of course, we arrived and Sandra says she'll be an hour late?

just time for 3 pints before she arrives

 

[5teep]

 

[Beachlover]

Senility kicked me up the arse twice today.

Ordered a pair of Teva sandals as the sun had come out and I was persuaded we might get a summer after all. Got home and opened the ottoman at the bottom of my bed looking for something else and yep, a pair of Tevas that had been worn once at the end of last year.

At the allotment I decided to make mint tea so went and picked some bits from the herb patch and put some in a mug while chatting to a mate. Once he’d gone, I decided I’d have coffee. Now mint coffee would probably not have been too bad, but for anyone yet to try oregano coffee, just don’t bother!

It’ll be y-fronts over my trousers next…..

 

[Saint-Just]

Senility kicked me up the arse twice today.

Ordered a pair of Teva sandals as the sun had come out and I was persuaded we might get a summer after all. Got home and opened the ottoman at the bottom of my bed looking for something else and yep, a pair of Tevas that had been worn once at the end of last year.

At the allotment I decided to make mint tea so went and picked some bits from the herb patch and put some in a mug while chatting to a mate. Once he’d gone, I decided I’d have coffee. Now mint coffee would probably not have been too bad, but for anyone yet to try oregano coffee, just don’t bother!

It’ll be y-fronts over my trousers next…..

Don’t forget the knotted handkerchief on top of your head

As a side note, what’s your shoe size?

 

[BorderReiver]

Senility kicked me up the arse twice today.

Ordered a pair of Teva sandals as the sun had come out and I was persuaded we might get a summer after all. Got home and opened the ottoman at the bottom of my bed looking for something else and yep, a pair of Tevas that had been worn once at the end of last year.

At the allotment I decided to make mint tea so went and picked some bits from the herb patch and put some in a mug while chatting to a mate. Once he’d gone, I decided I’d have coffee. Now mint coffee would probably not have been too bad, but for anyone yet to try oregano coffee, just don’t bother!

It’ll be y-fronts over my trousers next…..

All this and more is my daily lot. At least at 77 it's to be expected, but not at your tender age

 

[ElThomsono]

Today I helped my father-in-law fit a 50kg aircon unit to his caravan.

Strapped it to a ladder.

Hoisted it.

Dragged it up.

Fitted.

Went ok in the end but it took a bit of head scratching to come up with a plan that didn't involve us dropping it or falling off a ladder. Got to say I wasn't sure the roof was up to it but once I was up there it was completely solid, impressive TBH.

 

[Greg]

D’ya like dags?

 

[5teep]

What to expect from tonight's eclipse.

 

[Greg]

2 days of bright blue sky preceding the total eclipse happening today, total cloud cover at the moment.

 

[Oldtimer]

Pleased to see that French guards are guarding the King and British guards are guarding the French president. Vive l'Entente Cordiale. Any truth in the rumour that the British guards have been gifted a guillotine to bring back in their luggage?

 

[Diamond Dave]

This time next week we'll be in Budapest then Vienna then Prague. Only 3 days in each city. Never been to any of them. Any ideas?

Wow, you jammy bugger…..Budapest is brilliant which ever way you turn it’ll be exciting…..and Vienna is stunning …try the american bar, the albertini, Stephanplatz and the Belvedere the café central and go to Karlplatz to the Musesm and if you have time visit the military museum by the station…then Prater Park where the film the third man was filmed…..a true adventure. All these are accessible by the metro system

 

[Jaggededge]

You're a bit late Dave. We're home now. Had a great trip. Loved them all.

 

[noddy]

For no determinable reason, I spent a chunk of last week and most of this weekend brushing up my Welsh. Reading, listening to the farming news on radio cymru, that sort of thing; which i can't really recommend. Anyhow, this to the extent that my accent has reverted to it's earlier vernacular form and no one in Canada can understand me anymore. It took me a while to realize what had happened. Work meetings going off the rails, conversations ending in blank or bewildered stares. Welsh fucks up your vowels, is the main problem, I think ... and it encourages a tendency to speak either lugubriously or like a machine gun; nothing in between

 

[CaptainBeaky]

Knackered all day, after getting woken up at 3am by a call from the Management, who was downstairs midwifing a litter of kittens.
Mum cat had nipped off the umbilicus on a kitten way too short, and it would NOT stop bleeding.
Took an note and a half of pinching on the cord to it to slow down enough to trim back the fur and get some thread knotted around the cord. All cleaned up and given back to mum.
Another hour and we reckoned she had finished at four.
Came down this morning around 9.30 to find six kittens, all active and feeding well.
We think she was just waiting for us to bugger off so she could get on with having her litter
Her ladyship then had a long lie in, as she is on her Easter holiday, while Muggins had to go to work...

 

[Beachlover]

Up at sparrowfart this morning to meet my youngest daughter and drive / sail / drive to Brighton for my grandson's sixteenth birthday as a surprise. Rare to see the lad lost for words but he was speechless when he came home and found us sat in their lounge. Lovely family day and even had time to replenish my stock of wholemeal rotis along with a few spices at Taj the Grocers, probably my favourite shop in Brighton, before repeating the journey in reverse. Glad we weren't doing it tomorrow or a couple of days ago in the gales.

 

[Greg]

The clouds didn't dissipate for the eclipse but still pretty fun to experience one again.