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10 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

Morning all.

 

Anyone going to the Bristol show tomorrow ? 

 

Rob

Stranger things have happened.

Adrian

10 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

Just when I thought it was safe to start looking at this thread again look what you go and do.

 

Can't you at least post some sort of warning. You know like they do for things that previously were ok, but are now deemed unsuitable for poor innocents.

Dear Mr. Boy.

It seems that you are suffering from Chronic Pannier Deprivation Syndrome.  This is an illness that seems to be spreading, but can easily be cured.  There are many sources on line who can supply you with a pannier, which once you've had it delivered, you can lovingly gaze upon it, and indeed cherish it.  However, do be wary of @MrWolf's rule of pannier ownership.

Adrian

3 hours ago, JustinDean said:

SWAG is nearly done. Plenty of electrical issues to sort out when the layout is back in the workshop!!!

 

Thanks to @NHY 581 for organising a brilliant day again and also to all those who came and chatted about the layout. 
 

Jay

 

 

With or without the gremlins, it was a pleasure to see it in the flesh.

Adrian

Another vote of thanks to Rob for organising an excellent show, and to Muz and co for running the catering.

Adrian

13 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

 

Would it be contentious for me to respond with:

 

Whereas politicians would prefer us to be sheep..

 

? 😁

You might think that ...

Adrian

10 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

I'm a tad concerned. I like to be able to see the panniers if for nothing else to make sure there not up to trouble. It's when you can't see them that I start to worry.

You clearly need to buy some, then you can keep an eye on them.

Adrian

It seems that the Prince of Wales thinks that we ought to talk to sheep.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/04/25/prince-william-visits-birmingham-high-school/

I thought ewe would like to know that.

Adrian

12 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

And there is No CAKE!

Rumour has it that hospitals think that cake is a Bad Thing.

Adrian

7 hours ago, cctransuk said:

 

Not Virgin Media, but we have a contractor for Wildernet ripping up every street in and around Bodmin at present!

 

G*d knows why - Bodmin was the first place in Britain to get BT Highspeed Broadband, some twelve years ago, and we are now fully fibre connected.

 

I cannot believe that a significant proportion of users are suddenly going to switch suppliers to Wildernet, but the works going on must be costing a fortune!

 

CJI.

That drags me back 30 years.

I forget who the company was (they eventually ended up as part of Virgin), but they spent ages digging up all the pavements in the area putting in cable.  At the time, I had a flat, so a group of us asked the freeholder if we could get connected up.  He came back some time later and said no.  We assumed that was because he couldn't work out how to make something out of it.  I subsequently got talking to a colleague who's girlfriend worked for the company.  It turned out that they had spent so much money on digging the road up, that they couldn't afford to make any complicated connections, which we would have been.

Adrian

12 hours ago, Gilbert said:

 "star attraction".....we all know its the pasties folk come for....

And the cake.  Do not forget the cake.

Adrian

2 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Bear's Postie told me a few months back that they're not allowed to do such tactics anymore.

Last year, our usual postie asked me to take in a parcel for next door.  The resident genius had left a note on the door asking for parcels to be left in the recycling box.  When he came around to collect it, I asked him why he thought it was a good idea.  "I couldn't think of anywhere else" was the answer.

Adrian

24 minutes ago, rockershovel said:

The Golgafrincham B Ark must be refusing bookings daily... 

Just remember where the B Ark ended its journey.

Adrian

3 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

If he's got a lorryload of spare tarmac he's probably the chap being paid by the council to mend the potholes.

Almost true.

40 years ago, the local council had the privilege of employing me.  We had a parking area at work resurfaced, and there was more on the lorry than they needed.  That evening, chatting to my father, he mentioned that someone had turned up late that afternoon with some spare tarmac, and did he want his parking area doing.

Adrian

1 hour ago, NHY 581 said:

 

Wisbleat and Tupwell does have a nice

sound to it............

 

R

Presumably not to be confused with the neighbouring Wisbleat and Upwool.

Adrian

10 hours ago, Stubby47 said:

Considering this as a possible outfit for the day. 

 

So you're going for the toned down look this year.

Adrian

7 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

It must have been catching. In the same period I worked with a chap who used to buy cheap bangers at car auctions, at which his brother who was an AA patrolman would accompany him to give them the once over so that he didn't buy anything dangerous or liable to die in short order, then run them until they became uneconomical, scrap them and repeat the process. Generally they could find cars with valid MOTs at knock down prices and when the time came to dump them it was surprising how much he got for scrap. He used to keep a record of everything and he claimed that the sums came out quite favourably compared with buying more expensive cars and keeping them for longer. 

 

Dave

Known as "Bangernomics"

Adrian

4 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Ah, yes, the MRJ approach to exhibition advertising...

Cruel, but often true.

To be fair, the latest edition is advertising events that are still in the future.

Adrian

8 minutes ago, Vistisen said:

Oh Cod, not again! nothing but fish puns for the next few pages. 

Don't carp about it.

Adrian

31 minutes ago, Gilbert said:

Everywhere I go.....sheep....

Usually less trouble than bears and hippos.

Adrian

6 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:

 

The only "proper" music I don't get is Jazz.

 

I don't mean like swing or traditional, but all that improvised stuff. Not that I particularly like the normal Jazz either....

 

 

"There are three kinds of jazz.  Hot, cool and when does the music start"

Jill Swinburne in The Beiderbecke Connection.

Adrian

3 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

 

 

Sorry to break this to you, Jason. But those aren't cats. They're people pretending to be cats. 

 

No, 'tis true. 

 

Rob. 

Why would people pretend to be animals ?

Adrian

Heading into London last night, it looked as thought Dominique's London end was resting on the first pier after the canal span, so perhaps they've started moving it across for the next section.

Adrian

I'm pleased to report that my subscription copy arrived at the Manor House this morning.  That accounted for this afternoon's lack of activity.

Adrian

27 minutes ago, cctransuk said:

 

I think that the container on the crane is precisely that - a container.

 

Such 'boxes' were loaded into and unloaded out of narrowboats by crane - look carefully, the boats have several heaped boxes in each one.

 

CJI.

Looking again carefully, the narrow boats don't appear to have cabins.  That strongly suggests that they are BCN day boats (used for short haul journeys), in which case the photo is somewhere in the Black Country.

Adrian

8 hours ago, Tim Dubya said:

I embrace being not normal

I used to have a colleague who wore a badge saying "Define Normal".

Adrian