braaap
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It is now safely hidden under the squeaky floorboard behind the bedroom dresser. I am going to keep it as an investment and have a bowl of petrol instead because it is much cheaper. The Doc is away again next week, I don't know if I can afford to survive. A six pack of dog food was nine quid so both Fat Al and I are going to be looking thin in the skin when the Doc gets home. I was tempted to put this quote in the Justbecauseitmademesmile-fred. Always entertaining to follow Your thread, although I'm neither interested in porkers nor bimmers. Maybe I should read it from the start to find out about that tent, before I ask stupid questions like if the side "walls" can't be opened for less hotness?! |
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bstardchild
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One evening I decided that I fancied a tin of soup. French onion soup as it happens. I went to the supermarket, the one started by a mister Cohen I believe. A single tin of French onion soup was £1.65, which I thought was absolutely absurd, It isn't that long ago when a four pack was a quid. Anyway, despite the price, it was quick and simple to prepare and very nice to consume. The other night, when I was late home I thought I would have another. In the space of a week they have gone from £1.65 to £1.90! It is that expensive I daren't eat it so I displayed it on the mantle piece.  It is now safely hidden under the squeaky floorboard behind the bedroom dresser. I am going to keep it as an investment and have a bowl of petrol instead because it is much cheaper. The Doc is away again next week, I don't know if I can afford to survive. A six pack of dog food was nine quid so both Fat Al and I are going to be looking thin in the skin when the Doc gets home. Cheers. £1.90!!!!!! They clearly hadn’t sold any for a while, but you purchased a tin so clearly there was demand so price goes up - leave it a week or two and the price should come down Same as stock market Does’t work with BMW and Porsche parts unfortunately |
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The supermarkets and food proscesors deseve a good kicking, prices are going through the roof farmers claim they get no more for their produce and supermarket profits are sky rocketing, smells of a cartel to me.
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teaboy
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Jun 19, 2023 19:45:14 GMT
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The supermarkets and food proscesors deseve a good kicking, prices are going through the roof farmers claim they get no more for their produce and supermarket profits are sky rocketing, smells of a cartel to me. Apparently it is called greedflation. I still haven't been tempted to eat the tin of soup... The weekend came and went with no tent work. On Saturday I went over to Doncaster to see my parents. My dad has decided it is time for him to give up driving because he was struggling to do it properly and had started scraping walls, kerbs and other things. Obviously damaging the car was annoying enough but he doesn't want to injure himself or especially anyone else so he has given his car to me.  That's another old banger I have to fix up because my youngest daughter is going to have it. Sunday was Fathers day so my daughter took me out for lunch. Naturally she did the decent thing and let me pay for it. I did get lots of presents from both my daughters so I'm not complaining.  I need a bigger kettle to fill that cup.  Today has been a rubbish day because I was at the funeral of an old pal. To take my mind off that I went straight into the tent when I got home. More wire wheely stuff which covered me in this stuff.  When my arms had had enough of underneath I made a start on the passenger side wheel well.  So far it isn't too bad in there but there was some of that black schutz stuff sprayed around the rear shocker mounting point. Any schutz that I have found previously under this car has just been sprayed on top of rust and this was no different. Luckily when I cleaned it up it wasn't too bad and should be ok when treated.  I managed to catch my little finger with the wire wheel so that told me it was time to pack up. Luckily no injuries so I will live to wire wheel another day. Cheers. |
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You’re so lucky your Dad did the right thing and elected to stop driving. I have stories of relatives who refused to do so, despite them being logical folks earlier in their lives, but I won’t tell them here.
Sorry about the loss of your friend.
Kind wishes, John
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MiataMark
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I would think that the registration would be worth a bit to a Mountain Bike enthusiast.
Nice mugs, in size and sentiment.
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Darkspeed
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I would think that the registration would be worth a bit to a Mountain Bike enthusiast. It may also be worth something to Mark Tea Boy to put on his Porsche 934 replica ETA - found one in White  |
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Darkspeed
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I would have an orange one though
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teaboy
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Jun 20, 2023 23:48:48 GMT
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You’re so lucky your Dad did the right thing and elected to stop driving. I have stories of relatives who refused to do so, despite them being logical folks earlier in their lives, but I won’t tell them here. Sorry about the loss of your friend. Kind wishes, John Thanks John I would think that the registration would be worth a bit to a Mountain Bike enthusiast. Nice mugs, in size and sentiment. I'm not sure that you need a number plate on a mountain bike.  I love the mugs, thanks. I would think that the registration would be worth a bit to a Mountain Bike enthusiast. It may also be worth something to Mark Tea Boy to put on his Porsche 934 replica ETA - found one in White Funny you should say that, DS. I bought that plate about thirty years ago when I was thinking about making a 934 rep. I stuck it on my dad's car because they were charging something like a pony a year to keep it on retention. I don't think the 934 will happen now though. I would have an orange one though But if it did, orange would be a good colour to go for. The grounds of TB Mansions are really starting to look like a scrap yard with all the old bangers so I really need to do something before I incur the Lovely Doctor's displeasure. Starting with this. If you look to the left of the number plate you might see that the bumper is damaged. This is where Dad got a bit too close to a tow bar on the back of a van. I managed to get hold of a bumper locally tonight for twenty quid.  It came with the fog lights too, which is good because one on the car is smashed. I stripped it down and gave it all a good clean.   I know it isn't the same colour but silver and silvery green are close enough that it won't stick out like the balls on a dog and for twenty dollars I can't really complain. I also got a headlight for a tenner.  I was hoping to get it all swapped over tonight so that my daughter can start using it sooner than later so I stripped off the damaged stuff.  But if you look where the hole was on the bumper.  The crash bar also has tow bar shaped ding in it, so I can't put it back together until I get another one of those. The place looks even more like a scrap yard now the front is missing off that car. Oh well, you can't win 'em all. As I mentioned last time, my daughter was here for the weekend. As she was leaving today to go back to York she messaged me to say that she had got me something and it was in the fridge.  Yay lemon meringue! How lovely of her. I have eaten the missing bit, BTW. Cheers. |
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I would think that the registration would be worth a bit to a Mountain Bike enthusiast. It may also be worth something to Mark Tea Boy to put on his Porsche 934 replica ETA - found one in White That is sex on wheels !! Beautiful, Nigel |
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Nearly as good as the lemon meringue !
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teaboy
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Jun 21, 2023 19:41:35 GMT
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That is sex on wheels !! Beautiful, Nigel It is nice of course, but the large rear wing and wider rear arches mean that is an IMSA spec car known as the 934.5 That doesn't fit in with my number plate I prefer the look of the original group 4 version as in DS' video. Nearly as good as the lemon meringue ! Almost... Meanwhile, back at the scrap yard...  I picked up another crash bar on my way home from Skeg Vegas.  Which I fitted when I got home.  It has the radiator pack screwed to the back of it which was a bit of a faff to get to but not that bad. I also got some replacement plastic radiator air guide things which were also broken.  It started raining then so I came inside for a lemon curd muffin.  My man is about half way through machining my metal lumpy things.  When they are done I will be able to do some stuff which is more interesting than working on this scrapper and far more exciting than wire wheeling sealer off the bottom of my car. Cheers. |
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Darkspeed
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Jun 21, 2023 21:36:48 GMT
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I don't think the 934 will happen now though.  ] |
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glenanderson
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Jun 21, 2023 21:53:03 GMT
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I am still doing mental cartwheels from the day my mother finally gave up the car. It wasn't that her driving had deteriorated that badly; she used to terrify my father forty years ago, and as a young motorcyclist with a broken hand thirty years ago I felt safer with my neice driving me around on L plates than I did when my mum offered me a lift. Like a lot of old people she carried on driving for several years beyond the point she should really have stopped. I don't know for certain, but I suspect she had an "event" that prompted it. Her (then) 12 year old Corolla didn't have a straight panel on it.
We are currently having similar issues with my mother-in-law... another individual whose competency levels behind the wheel have never been particularly high, and time is certainly not improving them.
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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thomfr
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Jun 22, 2023 11:05:17 GMT
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My mother in law totalled already one car this year and she agreed with her daughters that if she crashes her current one she really must give up driving... Becoming old is not bad but being...
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Jun 22, 2023 12:48:23 GMT
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I recovered lots of crashes caused by elderly drivers. A few standout: As I pulled the car off the entrance barrier, and the crew loaded the old dear into the ambulance, her daughter arrived and the first words out of her mouth were it's the third time she's done that, perhaps it's time she stopped driving. Perhaps?  I got another off a traffic island. Signwritten courtesy car from the bodyshop who were repairing her own car that she'd crashed into the same island! Another was hanging off the top of the garage(the property was built into the side of one of the many steep hills around here). She couldn't explain how it got there. The worst one had smashed the brickwork out of the garage wall, gone along the side of the house, down the drive, across the road, down the neighbour's drive, through a hedge, across the lawn and into their swimming pool. Aside from the drivers' ages, all these cars(and most of the similar incidents I went to over 15years) were automatic. The problem is that an auto will keep changing up even if the driver is too terrified/confused to lift off, and will still be running once they've hit something which leaves the possibility of continuing the crash elsewhere(four separate hits was the worst I saw). So if you feel Great Auntie Violet should replace her manual car with an auto to keep her mobile, that's the time to insist she should stop driving altogether. My own family had similar issues; Mum officially quit driving a couple of years ago, but had barely driven for the previous couple. She'd never been a good driver. They had to take the keys away from her father who by then was utterly terrifying(I can remember him going up the wrong side of the road and round the roundabout the wrong way  ). My other Grandfather retired early because he could no longer see well enough to do his work, and gave my aunt the car when he got home after posting his licence back to the DVLA. I hope I'm responsible and aware enough to do the same when the time comes. |
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glenanderson
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Jun 22, 2023 12:58:41 GMT
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My parents only had two arguments in my earshot. The first was after my dad had bought a motorcycle for me while I was still at primary school, the second was when my mum thought my dad’s illness had progressed to the point where he should stop driving. I remember raised voices, doors slamming and dad disappearing for the rest of the day in his van. He got home late, well after dark, and just put the keys on the table in the kitchen. There was never ever any further conversation about it, but he never drove again.
The idea that he recognised his driving skills had deteriorated to the point that it was safer for my mum to drive must have been a bitter pill to swallow because, as I said before, she was a dreadful driver.
I hope that, when the time comes, I can also recognise it.
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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Many years ago I was fishing on the bank of the river Chelmer for those that know the area opposite the canoe club next what was then Kings head Meadow car park, here the river bank was raised 4 feet with a flood protection bank and the car park at the bottom of the bank. All of a sudden there is a roar and a crash and an allegro auto with an elderly driver is balanced on top of the flood bank next to us, seems she had somehow got the brake and throttle mixed up and just kept pressing harder to slow it down!
I do wonder what is going to happen with electric vehicles, I had the use of a MachE GT for a few days recently, a quick dab on the throttle in that and you are in the next county!
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teaboy
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Jun 23, 2023 19:47:08 GMT
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Maybe I should read it from the start to find out about that tent, before I ask stupid questions like if the side "walls" can't be opened for less hotness?! Sorry dude, forgot to answer you about this. There is only one 'door' at one end, nothing else opens. Seems like there are quite a few old folks driving stories... My dad did leave it probably six months longer than he really should have but I suppose it is a hard thing to give up your mobility. My mum doesn't drive, my sister doesn't drive and I live fifty miles away so he has nobody who can take him anywhere. Last night I was about to load up the fiesta bumper into my van to drop it off to be painted the correct colour but in a moment of clarity I thought F-it, it's a waste of money. When I got home tonight I was thinking intitot*, I'm not sure I want to do anything so I had a cuppa. I eventually summoned up a bit of enthusiasm and I stuck the 'new' bumper on.  Honestly it doesn't look that bad, does it? Anyway, Once the bumper was on I went to screw the wheel arch liners to it but only the top screws on each side would go in. I ended up taking the thing back off again. The screws go into these little plastic bushes.  But the bottom ones had been ripped off.  This called for a quick bodge job so I retrieved the bushes from the old bumper and gobbed them in with some fibreglass.  Hardly the most elegant repair but it did the job.  It is now all nailed back together but it needs a really good clean. More importantly than all this is that my mate Nige has machined my metal lumpy things.  Hopefully I will be able to collect them this weekend. Cheers. *if you are from Yorkshire and somebody says intitot to you, your reply would be tizot. |
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teaboy
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Jun 24, 2023 22:48:30 GMT
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I went for breakfast this morning at Ten Acres cafe then I went to the tip, sorry, recycling centre to get rid of the old bumper and headlight from the Fiesta. I had googled where to dispose of it before I went and the information I saw was that it should go in the non-recyclable thingmy. It seems that the remit of recycling centres is to make things as difficult as possible for people to do the right thing and to encourage fly-tipping. With this in mind, I pulled up at the thingmy and as quickly as I could move I slung the bumper and the headlight into the crusher. Sure enough, one of the hi-viz geezers rushed over and said, 'You can't dispose of car parts here'. I said, 'Oh, sorry, would you like to get them back out of the crusher for me?'. He didn't want to do that and just told me not to bring any more. Mission accomplished and I didn't have to chuck it in a ditch down some deserted lane and it was far less traumatic than my old mattress disposal story. I also got a phone call from my pal Nige this morning to say my metal lumpy bits were ready to collect so after I had been home to give Fat Al his sausages from the cafe that is where I went. We ended up drinking tea and talking about things all afternoon so I didn't get home until tea time*. It was actually the hottest part of a very hot day so I decided to do something not too strenuous. I'm getting a batch of stuff ready for the zinc platers so I got out the blast cabinet.  With zinc plating, the better the condition you send stuff in, the better the results are so what I do is this. Starting with the part as found, this is a bolt from the trailing arm bracket by the way.  First I blast the rust off.  If I were to send it in as a just blasted part it would come back with a rough texture and a dull finish so...  Once blasted they get burnished with the wire wheely thing on the bench grinder. I now have a box full of them.  If you remember I cut off the rear silencer bracket.  I might still buy a new one of these, depending on how it turns out but as I had the blaster out I gave it a quick going over. First I cut off the old studs.  I'm pretty sure I have some replacement studs in my stash somewhere. So I'll have a look for them tomorrow and stick them on to the cleaned up bracket.  Oh, as I mentioned earlier, I got my metal lumpy bits back.  Have you guessed what it is yet? *Tea time is after dinner time and before supper where I come from. Cheers. |
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). My other Grandfather retired early because he could no longer see well enough to do his work, and gave my aunt the car when he got home after posting his licence back to the DVLA. I hope I'm responsible and aware enough to do the same when the time comes.