Tell us something really trivial about your life Volume 40
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Bomma R1 said:
Many Happy Returns P5B old chap 
Hang on, I thought you were a roughty toughty ex military type!!!!Indeed, what the devil are you doing with that thing old boy?
Few pounds of C4 would have that bloody lot comfortably in orbit by now
If he'd stood the bugger up straight and got out the futtin way, i could have reduced that to rubble with one well placed round.Bobberoo said:
Byker28i said:
Hang on, I thought you were a roughty toughty ex military type!!!!
Few pounds of C4 would have that bloody lot comfortably in orbit by now
Bobberoo said:
Byker28i said:
Hang on, I thought you were a roughty toughty ex military type!!!!
10 mins of complete distruction. Marvelous
I've now cooked tea, fresh Hake, a whole side, with local new potatoes, brocoli
It was as big as me Bobbers. I think the hire place were having a laugh as I lugged it out to the car
Edited by Byker28i on Friday 22 September 19:43
Byker28i said:
Bobberoo said:
Byker28i said:
Hang on, I thought you were a roughty toughty ex military type!!!!
10 mins of complete distruction. Marvelous
I've now cooked tea, fresh Hake, a whole side, with local new potatoes, brocoli
It was as big as me Bobbers. I think the hire place were having a laugh as I lugged it out to the car
Edited by Byker28i on Friday 22 September 19:43
slopes said:
P5BNij said:
Ta chaps, the falling down water tinged with essence of grape is going down rather well 
Work free weekend coming up, a mate is coming round tomorrow to have a shuftie at my '68 Cooper and have a ride in the Maser...
Happy hatchling day good sir and i lived not too far from where you took that picture for the better part of 20 years.Work free weekend coming up, a mate is coming round tomorrow to have a shuftie at my '68 Cooper and have a ride in the Maser...
Trivial news, a lad i knew once got involved with a girl who didn't reciprocate his feelings, so he decided to end it all by jumping off the footbridge a bit further behind where you took the picture. Off he went, climbed onto the parapet and sat and waited.
Silly bugger chose a sunday when there was very little traffic except freight but even worse, there was engineering works on the line from Leicester to Peterborough, so all the freight traffic was diverted a different route.
So our depressed soul waited....and waited....and waited...decided to jump anyway in the hope he would break both legs and then he would lie there until a train did come past and slice him up etc.
Off he jumped.....not realising he was made of strong stuff and bounced.......
So now very cross, he managed to climb back over onto the bridge and started the walk home even more sad and depressed than before, got to the top of the steps into the estate, tripped, fell and broke an arm and his ankle
Oh he was mad when everyone eventually found out
To add insult to injury...while he was being loaded into an ambulance about an hour and a half later - before the days of mobile phones so someone had gone looking when he hadnt come back after several hours - a fully loaded freight train thundered through
Edited by slopes on Friday 22 September 17:42
Edited by slopes on Friday 22 September 18:32
Happy Birthday Nij! bounce:
Sounds like you've got the evening sorted for you.
Enjoy, you've earned it!
I got caught out in the deluge this afternoon.
Wetter than an other's pocket as they say.
When I got home I took off my shoes and tipped the water out, and stripped off in a big puddle on the kitchen floor. Even my wonderpants were soaked, and this time it wasn't for lack of Tena Gents!
A good all-over towelling down and a fresh set of clothes later, I was ready to go and collect Robbopoppetlet after school. With wellies, my old Goretex waterproof jacket and two umbrellas.
I felt that what I really needed was paua's all-over body condom, but luckily the seas parted somewhat, and the falling of Nissan gearbox parts eased up a bit. Thank goodness.
I'm so glad we don't live on a flood plain.
Witters, thanks for posting Bill Boddy's 1977 article on Wyn-Owen and Babs.
Very interesting.
bounce:Sounds like you've got the evening sorted for you.
Enjoy, you've earned it!
I got caught out in the deluge this afternoon.
Wetter than an other's pocket as they say.
When I got home I took off my shoes and tipped the water out, and stripped off in a big puddle on the kitchen floor. Even my wonderpants were soaked, and this time it wasn't for lack of Tena Gents!
A good all-over towelling down and a fresh set of clothes later, I was ready to go and collect Robbopoppetlet after school. With wellies, my old Goretex waterproof jacket and two umbrellas.
I felt that what I really needed was paua's all-over body condom, but luckily the seas parted somewhat, and the falling of Nissan gearbox parts eased up a bit. Thank goodness.
I'm so glad we don't live on a flood plain.
Witters, thanks for posting Bill Boddy's 1977 article on Wyn-Owen and Babs.
Very interesting.
Happy Birthday, Nij.
Babs was originally built for Count Louis Zborowski as one of his Chitty Bang Bang cars. I'm not making this up. He had two quite distinct views on cars, the Chitty Bang Bangs had huge engines but he could also see the sense in small, lightweight cars with much smaller engines. For the 1922 season he commissioned a pair of 1.5 litre Aston Martins to race in the French Grand Prix. They were both doing well in the race but neither finished. Zborowski drove one and Clive Gallop the other. Both cars still exist. One is in Beaulieu and the other is in private hands and is still raced. At the 2022 French Grand Prix it was driven by Sebastian Vettel. Not during the race, no
Like most works Astons of that period it had a nickname. It is called Green Pea. Did I mention I'm not making this up?
Babs was originally built for Count Louis Zborowski as one of his Chitty Bang Bang cars. I'm not making this up. He had two quite distinct views on cars, the Chitty Bang Bangs had huge engines but he could also see the sense in small, lightweight cars with much smaller engines. For the 1922 season he commissioned a pair of 1.5 litre Aston Martins to race in the French Grand Prix. They were both doing well in the race but neither finished. Zborowski drove one and Clive Gallop the other. Both cars still exist. One is in Beaulieu and the other is in private hands and is still raced. At the 2022 French Grand Prix it was driven by Sebastian Vettel. Not during the race, no
Like most works Astons of that period it had a nickname. It is called Green Pea. Did I mention I'm not making this up?
DickyC said:
Happy Birthday, Nij.
Babs was originally built for Count Louis Zborowski as one of his Chitty Bang Bang cars. I'm not making this up. He had two quite distinct views on cars, the Chitty Bang Bangs had huge engines but he could also see the sense in small, lightweight cars with much smaller engines. For the 1922 season he commissioned a pair of 1.5 litre Aston Martins to race in the French Grand Prix. They were both doing well in the race but neither finished. Zborowski drove one and Clive Gallop the other. Both cars still exist. One is in Beaulieu and the other is in private hands and is still raced. At the 2022 French Grand Prix it was driven by Sebastian Vettel. Not during the race, no Like most works Astons of that period it had a nickname. It is called Green Pea. Did I mention I'm not making this up?
Back in the day I did quite a bit of business with a firm called Vintage Wings. They occupied a rambling old mill building in Delph, just outside of Oldham. The place was a hive of activity, fabricating all manner of panels and bodywork for vintage and classic vehicles.Babs was originally built for Count Louis Zborowski as one of his Chitty Bang Bang cars. I'm not making this up. He had two quite distinct views on cars, the Chitty Bang Bangs had huge engines but he could also see the sense in small, lightweight cars with much smaller engines. For the 1922 season he commissioned a pair of 1.5 litre Aston Martins to race in the French Grand Prix. They were both doing well in the race but neither finished. Zborowski drove one and Clive Gallop the other. Both cars still exist. One is in Beaulieu and the other is in private hands and is still raced. At the 2022 French Grand Prix it was driven by Sebastian Vettel. Not during the race, no
Like most works Astons of that period it had a nickname. It is called Green Pea. Did I mention I'm not making this up?On one visit the proprietor, Phil Sergeant,mentioned that they were doing the bodywork for Babs. This would have been in the 1980s IIRC, but I did not see the car.
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