GRIZZ’s Chevy S10 - Random Rambling NEXT ROADTRIP 27/10/23

Got home today from getting the Focus serviced.

Mickey shouted over the fence…… “Got a parcel for you”

So he hoiked a 19 pound box over the hedge.

It had a Home Office pass tape on it, so I guess inspected and passed.



Dennis had sent me a parcel with some treasures.

I actually only got to unpacking it at about 8.00pm and it made me laugh out loudly, tears in my eyes.

Generous yes, and crazy for sure.

Just reminded me that family is a lot more than blood.

Karma is a strange mistress, but I love her and know she balances the books at all times.

Unpacked the parcel, T-shirts for me and Craig and Sally from Clem in Arkansas and Dennis in St Louis.

I sent some cash to Clem’s Tuba Trucks Toy Drive via Dennis’ daughter in law Hanna on Paypal (you see we can all be kind and contribute to worthwhile charities) and in return I got a T-shirt.

Also included was some Oatmeal cream cookies, an all time favourite, and what had me laughing loudly was some of Roger Orf’s hunted smoked deer sausage.

The sausage was wrapped in bodyshop panel paper and masking tape to keep the wrapping together.

Just perfect.



Then parcel no 2 in a Rural King bag delivered a hoody for Sally and I each.

Way too generous.



And then, for the Rezin Rockit a pair of high end, 5 point racing harnesses.

Simpson.



And one for the passenger.



So there you go.



Karma bucket overflowing.


Life is good.

Roll on the weekend.

LOL…..


Mostly a screaming girly seat that will have that harness.

Those years’ cars were indestructible for sure.

SSS models were hot.

"A Change is as Good as a Rest"

Remember the stables I went to help mate Craig pull down along with Fil from Cambridge.

That came down to allow for “redevelopment” as a residence.

In the mean time groundwork and foundations have been done.

Yesterday at 09.00 the new homes stud walls came onto site.

Pics from Craig.





We all need a strong long arm.





By 3.30 pm this was the status.



And this morning the chilly sunrise brought this view.






Not sure when exactly I or we will get the call to go help Craig raise the walls on the stables and get the roof on top of them.

Hopefully the weather will be kind when the time comes.

Thanks for pointing out that this terrible disease can affect men too, a few years ago someone I vaguely knew was devastated when on being directed to the breast cancer unit in our local hospital, was told by another patient that he had 'no right to be there!'
Asif he wasn't dealing with enough anyway....🤬

Donated to a good cause

Quick change of direction.

Two day heavy duty business meeting in London this week.

31 years later, I have never forgotten my roots or the privilege of my life, even though I know I have paid my dues.

Lunch view on Tuesday.



Later……. London.



In the evening a walk along the Thames river, a boat cruise and another walk.

Eventually leading here……

Bloody freezing yes.







Where are we then?



Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which halted as steamships took over their routes.

After the big improvement in the fuel efficiency of steamships in 1866, the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 gave them a shorter route to China, so Cutty Sark spent only a few years on the tea trade before turning to the trade in wool from Australia, where she held the record time to Britain for ten years.[5] Continuing improvements in steam technology meant that gradually steamships also came to dominate the longer sailing route to Australia, and the ship was sold to the Portuguese company Ferreira and Co. in 1895 and renamed Ferreira. She continued as a cargo ship until purchased in 1922 by retired sea captain Wilfred Dowman, who used her as a training ship operating from Falmouth, Cornwall. After his death, Cutty Sark was transferred to the Thames Nautical Training College, Greenhithe in 1938 where she became an auxiliary cadet training ship alongside HMS Worcester. By 1954, she had ceased to be useful as a cadet ship and was transferred to permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London, for public display.

Cutty Sark is listed by National Historic Ships as part of the National Historic Fleet (the nautical equivalent of a Grade 1 Listed Building). She is one of only three remaining original composite construction (wooden hull on an iron frame) clipper ships from the nineteenth century in part or whole, the others being the City of Adelaide, which arrived in Port Adelaide, South Australia on 3 February 2014 for preservation, and the beached skeleton of Ambassador of 1869 near Punta Arenas, Chile.

The ship has been damaged by fire twice in recent years, first on 21 May 2007 while undergoing conservation. She was restored and was reopened to the public on 25 April 2012.[6] Funders for the Cutty Sark conservation project include: HLF, DCMS, Sammy Ofer Foundation, Greenwich Council, Greater London Authority, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Berry Brothers & Rudd, Michael Edwards, Alisher Usmanov.[7]

On 19 October 2014 she was damaged in a smaller fire.[8]

Cutty Sark whisky derives its name from the ship. An image of the clipper appears on the label, and the maker formerly sponsored the Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Race. The ship also inspired the name of the Saunders Roe Cutty Sark flying boat.


Walking down into the dry dock for dinner.



Not so much a request, but an opinion when you are sober and would rather be at home with a mug of tea and a sandwich.




Two days of hard work underscored by a nice reward.


Did I mention that Life is Good?

Very interesting Rian,
Never made it to the Cutty Sark (yet) but visited the Victory and Warrior many times,
Also got taken to the SS Great Britain as a birthday present,
I find history fascinating,
Nigel