Chris116

Anything, including a blank screen is better than the TV being switched on!

I missed the Mildenhall one but will make sure I see the Skegness meeting this evening. I was racing manager for Vince Moody for six years from 1994 to 2000 so spent a lot of time at Skegness as well as Swaffham, Kings Lynn and Sheffield during those years. Saddest thing was the failure of the Speedway but it should have been run in the Conference League for at least the first couple of seasons.

During one of the Iran Wars I was commentating at Mildenhall on the Stock Car racing. Each time the heavy transport planes took off I just put the microphone down as I could not hear what I was saying let alone anyone else in the stadium hearing the speakers! One meeting featured the BriSCA F1 Stock Cars and the sound of 20 454 cubic inch Chevy engines without silencers was totally drowned out by one of the planes taking off.

They sponsor the Edinburgh Monarchs Speedway team!!!

Be careful that her aim with something heavy at your neck does not improve!

I just wondered when the madness of isolation had got to him!

When did you carpet the ceiling?

Following my wife having her hip replaced on 27th February she has to do two walks a day. I take her wheelchair with us and she walks as far as she can before making use of the wheelchair. We go towards our local Co-op most days on one of her walks and pick up a few things like milk, cheese, bacon, eggs and her cigarettes. Met two charming(!!) ladies today on the way home who refused to move away from us as they walked in the opposite direction. My wife asked if they could keep to the two metre rule but was told that the lady did not believe in it and as my wife was being rude to ask people to move away she hoped my wife caught the virus and looked forward to attending my wife's funeral in two months time. I just stopped myself from giving her a smack in the mouth and walked away as quickly as possible. First time I have witnessed such stupidity and has left us both rather upset.

Sounded like Essex to me!

A very brave man!

Put a poached egg on the crumpets and they are great anytime of day.

The old one on the flyover made of concrete sections. As an aside I once moored under the M6 on the canal and it was only in the morning that we found that we were next door to a rather large prison!

Still smoother than the M6 through Birmingham!

My wife just sent me this!

Thank you for your very interesting photos on this thread. It is a ray of sunshine in the situation we find ourselves dealing with. Stay safe Jim, we need you more than ever at present.

The toilet paper company went to sh1t. The second toilet paper company was wiped out and are no longer feeling flush.

So the Houses of Parliament must be a successful corporation! What is even worse is that an election is normally won by the most convincing liar.

Another two runners on their mobile phones looking as if they were texting would have run into me if I had not jumped out of their way. Many years ago I worked with a guy who upon seeing a runner coming towards him and not paying attention on who they might bump into used to kneel down to tie his shoe laces up. Twice I saw a runner going head first over him! I think I may try the same thing if the runners don't start to pay attention on where they are going although I think I will wait until after the virus has done a runner as I don't to catch it from them.

Pleased to say that my wife and I have not suffered from bad drivers. She had her hip replaced on 27th February and has to do two walks a day around the local area as part of her physio to make sure the new hip works as it should. Before lockdown most drivers just kept going if we were waiting to cross the road but for the past two weeks we only have to look as if we might want to cross the road and cars come to a halt and the drivers wave us across, which is very nice. Most pedestrians we pass keep well away from us with a cheery comment but the exercise enthusiasts just run past everyone almost pushing people out of the way, paying no attention to the 2 metre rule, a bit like some cyclists with traffic lights in more normal times.

My wife who is 66 had her right hip replaced on 27th February and what is number one on the list of those most vulnerable? Solid transplant! No letter from the government and no delivery help from the supermarkets. One bus driver said I should not be travelling as I was not working and when I pointed out that to get to any of the larger shops I had to use the bus, he told me I should be getting my shopping delivered. I wish TfL would get the supermarkets to deliver but they won't. Seems that between them they think starvation is the best way to avoid the virus. Rant over, have a lovely weekend at home and stay safe.

Or spent three times as much and Dysoned it!

According to the Colin Marsden book DMU and EMU Recognition Guide the Derby Lightweight DMBS (79008-79046) were 27 tonnes. The Class 107 DMBS (51985-52010) were 35 tonnes and the Class 108 DMBS (50599-50629) were 29.5 tonnes.

About 40 years ago , one of the utilities that dig up pavements were replacing their pipes and outside each house used a spray can to show where the connection to the property left their main pipe. My parents had white painted gate posts, one of which had a large splash of the spray colour on it. My mother complained to the company (I can't remember if it was gas or water) and about three days later two men in a van arrived to repaint the gate posts, my mother having insisted that both were done so they matched. What she had not mentioned was that one post was very rotten and it fell over when they bumped into it while doing the painting. Cue company having to replace both posts as my mother said they had caused it to fall over! My father and I could not believe how she had done it but she was very pleased with herself!

I must have been lucky at school. The milk was normally cool and I liked it but a lot of my class mates hated it. School meals were dreadful so I refused to eat them much to the annoyance of the teachers. They said I would be hungry and not having any food during the day was bad for me! What they didn't know was that I used to swap my empty milk bottles for full ones from my class mates so at the end of morning break we all had empty bottles and I had drunk around two pints of milk. Guess what I had when I got home after school? A pint of milk, I lived on the stuff and ate very little even at home. I am now 65 and still drink at least two pints a day but now I also eat well which shows on my waist line!

In that case turn the Mobile Data function to OFF! Or take the battery out of the phone and the computer. No one can contact you except by coming to the front door and we are not doing that at the moment.