Mundane News

[tyred]

I fitted the replacement exhaust section to the Czech patient this morning. Typically, the cheap pattern part needed modifying to fit properly. The threads holding the mounting bracket to the floor of the car were a bit iffy too, suggesting someone else had been working here in the past. I couldn't get one of them to start so I ran a tap through them and used new bolts which seems okay now, hopefully it will hold.

At least the engine is quiet now, shame about the road noise at speed.

It is much harder to work under a car in your forties than it was in your twenties for some reason! I had been planning to cycle this evening but don't feel like it now.

 

[postman]

Well the excitement is over.Last night was a meal out,then a local bar not a pub.Chocolate cake in the afternoon.Today lunch with the kids at a local posh cafe.Saw them off then back home,changed into sitting about clothes.Now waiting for a latte more cake and i might have a whisky,WHAT in the afternoon someone might ask.Tomorrow is painting for the church.A few places to go over again,we tried to do too much before Xmas with not enough people,the finished product shows that,so me being me i am going to touch some areas up.Then finish off the rest m-f-m-f over the next two weeks should do it.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Pedant moment. A Methodist minister lives in a "manse" not a "vicarage." Having grown up in a succession of them I can also say with some expertise that they tend to be big and somewhat poorly repaired.

A Catholic priest may be a "Reverend Father" but a Methodist minister is just a reverend, not a "father" (although he was in my case, obviously).

We called it a parsonage, here. Episcopalians call it a rectory, but in The States it is rare to see one on the church grounds, usually the priest gets a housing allowance and owns his own home, although in my home parish we did have a rectory, a large old rambling one, right on the church grounds.

 

[Hebe]

Same sofa, new coffee. But I have been for a ride. I’ve cancelled the chores until tomorrow, it’s just so nice to not have to be anywhere and to sit with a book instead.

 

[PeteXXX]

Quite a lot of the bottom of the garden has been dug over, and de-stoned, in preparation for growing some vegetables soon .. 👍

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Trimmed a front mudflap to stop it sweeping speed bumps

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Went for ride this morning

 

[Reynard]

A mild, breezy and mostly sunny day here chez Casa Reynard.

I apologise about my non-appearance yesterday, but I spent the entire day and much of the evening immersed in that archive doing research. Been paying for all that today as I didn't get much sleep as my brain was too busy processing information. I have, however, scanned all my notes, as that's what links the file numbers to the publication and date. I really should put it all into a spreadsheet, as I have the best part of 200 articles to now peruse through at my leisure.

The majority of it is relatively mundane stuff, race reports from Formula Ford, Formula 3 and Formula 3000 and the like, but I also now have a section of interesting stuff on the 86 and 90 Birmingham Superprix meetings, a couple of Derek Warwick interviews that are new to me, a handful of articles on Paul's stock car exploits, some bits from the inquest and subsequent safety campaign, and an incredibly rare photo of Paul's Oulton Park crash.

The reason the latter is so very rare, is that the police confiscated film and videotape from the spectators and media at the Knickerbrook after the meeting was abandoned. There is conflicting information as to what actually happened to it, but I suspect it was all destroyed after the inquest. No images of the actual accident were ever published in the national press at the time, nor in the specialist press for that matter, but there was always the off chance that something would have survived the cull.

I have a few photos of the aftermath of the incident - those are plenty rare enough - but this is the first time, in thirty six years of collecting, (and nearly thirty two years since the crash) that I have actually seen a photo of the incident itself.

I'm off to find some chocolate after writing that. I need it...

 

[Illaveago]

I fitted the replacement exhaust section to the Czech patient this morning. Typically, the cheap pattern part needed modifying to fit properly. The threads holding the mounting bracket to the floor of the car were a bit iffy too, suggesting someone else had been working here in the past. I couldn't get one of them to start so I ran a tap through them and used new bolts which seems okay now, hopefully it will hold.

At least the engine is quiet now, shame about the road noise at speed.

It is much harder to work under a car in your forties than it was in your twenties for some reason! I had been planning to cycle this evening but don't feel like it now.

Could you please tell us what it will be like in your 60's ?

We can't wait !

 

[Hebe]

I have repotted a Monstera that was way too big for its pot. I had to cut the old pot off it with scissors. I hope it‘s going to be ok.

 

[Mike_P]

End of ride kit removal became problematic today with a broken zip on a shoe cover. Eventually removed but a shoe cover is it no more.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I have repotted a Monstera that was way too big for its pot. I had to cut the old pot off it with scissors. I hope it‘s going to be ok.

We had one many years ago, eventually it out grew the house and we gave it to a friend, he called me a couple of years later to help him repot it, by that time it was seven feet tall and had almost outgrown his porch, if i remember right we potted it on into a large bucket.

 

[Grant Fondo]

The pork crackling has crackled

 

[mybike]

I bought MrsPete a rather large Toblerone for Valentines Day.. (romantic, I know 😂)

It turns out that it's too big to fit and I can't find my Toffee Hammer anywhere to wallop it into bite-size pieces!

 

[oldwheels]

I'm up. Tea's brewing. Dog's piddling (in the garden)

One house we lived in had what was called a" feature" This was a 10ft stretch of the exterior wall left when the front of the house was extended and formed a part of a sitting/dining area with a view. We had a labrador which came to visit as we took him for long walks since he was owned by an elderly couple who could not give him the exercise he needed.
One day since this was a bare stone wall he forgot himself and lifted his leg and splashed the wall. He looked suitably ashamed when he realised what he had done but the wall was easily cleaned and we just laughed.