Tell us something really trivial about your life Volume 40
Discussion
Mrs C and I are enjoying cocktails in the East Wing.
No.
Mrs C and I are enjoying pre-dinner drinks in the orangery.
No.
Mrs C is having a G&T and I'm having a beer. We're in the extension watching some masterful flying by the local red kites. They've driven away the sparrowhawks. And eaten everything else.
My dad, a lifelong aeronautical wallah, enjoyed watching birds flying.
No.
Mrs C and I are enjoying pre-dinner drinks in the orangery.
No.
Mrs C is having a G&T and I'm having a beer. We're in the extension watching some masterful flying by the local red kites. They've driven away the sparrowhawks. And eaten everything else.
My dad, a lifelong aeronautical wallah, enjoyed watching birds flying.
Byker28i said:
DickyC said:
The council have finally settled from our claim from 15 months agoIt was dark, if that helps.
/self-professed idiot
Thanks everyone. It was a bit weird, really. Yesterday I checked the tyres, found the bulge, had a think and remembered the awful clunk as the car went down the pothole some nights before but not only couldn't I remember where it was, I also can't remember why I didn't investigate it when I got home. Or stop and have a look the first chance I had. My phone has a light, I didn't need a garage or a row of shops to see what had happened. Years ago I would have made a right drama out of it. This time, I was glad it hadn't punctured and just carried on.
Standards are slipping.
Mrs C isn't averse to 4x4s. While I've known her I've had a Range Rover and two Discoverys. More to think about.
While I was contemplating how low profile tyre aficionados must be suffering, I remembered an incident ten years or so ago in traffic waiting at some lights. It was a junction with a right filter. In front of me was a Lamborghini. In front of him was an empty right filter lane. He couldn't join the lane because there were cars in front of him and a kerbed area beside him (median? is that right? sounds a bit legalistic). Eager to get on, he bumped up the kerb. Gordon Bennet. Why would you do that? Watching it made my blood run cold. At best he scraped two alloys, at worst he wrote off two wheels and two tyres. Anyway, the lights changed for straight on but the filter stayed red. He would have done better to wait and not damage anything.
Standards are slipping.
Mrs C isn't averse to 4x4s. While I've known her I've had a Range Rover and two Discoverys. More to think about.
While I was contemplating how low profile tyre aficionados must be suffering, I remembered an incident ten years or so ago in traffic waiting at some lights. It was a junction with a right filter. In front of me was a Lamborghini. In front of him was an empty right filter lane. He couldn't join the lane because there were cars in front of him and a kerbed area beside him (median? is that right? sounds a bit legalistic). Eager to get on, he bumped up the kerb. Gordon Bennet. Why would you do that? Watching it made my blood run cold. At best he scraped two alloys, at worst he wrote off two wheels and two tyres. Anyway, the lights changed for straight on but the filter stayed red. He would have done better to wait and not damage anything.
Bobberoo said:
Good morrow fellow Trivialities everywhere
A day off today to get over the weekend, but we still have cleaning and shopping to do!!
At least the weather looks good for the day, so we might sneak in lunch out too!!
Dicky, as Magoo has already said, I'm afraid that tyre is toast!!
Enjoy your day whatever you're doing!!
Yes, I appreciate that, thanks, Magooeroo. It wasn't an Is This Safe? post. It was a Look What I've Done post. Shortly to be followed by a How Much? post and then by an I've Replaced All Four (4) post. A day off today to get over the weekend, but we still have cleaning and shopping to do!!
At least the weather looks good for the day, so we might sneak in lunch out too!!
Dicky, as Magoo has already said, I'm afraid that tyre is toast!!
Enjoy your day whatever you're doing!!
I know myself well enough to make these predictions.
Perhaps caterpillar tracks are the answer, Bobbers.glenrobbo said:
Flippin' 'eck, Dicky, that tyre of yours looks totally Bibendemmed! 
It's lucky you didn't attempt the drive oop norf to partake in the Brassington, for it may have decided to totally give up the ghost whilst you were proceeding at the approved rate of leptons and sent you hurtling into Oblivionland.
I would advise you to choose a random suitably severe pothole, photograph it with a measuring stick included, and send it with a pic of your tyre damage and a quote or bill from a supplier of black circles to the appropriate authority with a claim for full restitutionness.
Something needs to be done.
I shall write a stern letter to the Trivton Bugle and Gazette.
"He went doing what he wanted."It's lucky you didn't attempt the drive oop norf to partake in the Brassington, for it may have decided to totally give up the ghost whilst you were proceeding at the approved rate of leptons and sent you hurtling into Oblivionland.
I would advise you to choose a random suitably severe pothole, photograph it with a measuring stick included, and send it with a pic of your tyre damage and a quote or bill from a supplier of black circles to the appropriate authority with a claim for full restitutionness.
Something needs to be done.
I shall write a stern letter to the Trivton Bugle and Gazette.
"Being upside down in a field?"
I was cooking a lot of red meat in a pan on a barbecue, which seemed odd and unnecessary. It was all very hot and sizzling but the meat wasn't cooking. The pan was full and I kept turning over the pieces of meat but when I turned them over they were still raw.
And then I woke up to a world where I don't eat red meat anymore because of me old ticker.
It's okay, I wasn't all that keen anyway.
And then I woke up to a world where I don't eat red meat anymore because of me old ticker.
It's okay, I wasn't all that keen anyway.
I drove to the tyre place.
"Hello, you sent me an email yesterday offering 15% discount on Michelins. "
"Yeah, that's online."
"Which means?"
"We can't see the discount codes."
"Okay, er, could you give the full price and I'll work out the discount and see if I want go ahead."
"No, you have to do it online."
"How about, I drive round the corner, order them online and then drive back?"
"Suit yourself."
They used to be really good. I shall take my custom elsewhere.
"Hello, you sent me an email yesterday offering 15% discount on Michelins. "
"Yeah, that's online."
"Which means?"
"We can't see the discount codes."
"Okay, er, could you give the full price and I'll work out the discount and see if I want go ahead."
"No, you have to do it online."
"How about, I drive round the corner, order them online and then drive back?"
"Suit yourself."
They used to be really good. I shall take my custom elsewhere.
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