Dave Hunt

I remember seeing it run at the Rainhill 150 and it just seemed to float along the track - a beautiful thing to watch. Dave

And some attempts at humour fell on stony ground 😕 Dave

I only did woodwork at school for one year aged 11-12 and all we did was make a load of different joints in bits of 2x4 IIRC. Not exactly fascinating stuff really. For the second year I had to choose one of art, woodwork or music and chose art. Dave And before HH intervenes, I refute the suggestion that I then became a p!ss artist.

Aren't most of the maps the Navy use just all blue? Dave

I am led to believe that the greatest threat to the stability of Venice's buildings is the wake from cruise ships. Dave

She doesn't know my wife does she....... does she? Dave

If mine ever saw it I'd be singing falsetto. Dave

I've got one already. I call it the wife 😂. Dave

My finest hour when I first went to work in San Diego in the mid-80s was to ask a buddy in a bar one Friday evening in quite a loud voice, "Terry, can I bum a fag?" The place went silent until my mate said, "He's a Brit - it means can he have a cigarette." Even then, though, I still got a lot of funny looks. Dave

I think it means a local landlord* Dave * French letter

When we lived in Boston (Lincolnshire) there was a works just outside the town where telegraph poles were pressure treated with creosote (and, I believe in earlier times railway sleepers were treated as well). You could smell the creosote a mile away. The works stood alongside what had been the Boston - Grantham railway line and had its own narrow gauge system. It closed in the mid-80s. Dave

Although the loos on the cruise ship we went on were vacuum operated, I didn't try seeing what would happen if the flush mechanism was operated whilst I was still sitting on it 😫. Dave

A friend of ours is fanatical about closing the loo lid before flushing as she claims that otherwise there are zillions of widdle and/or poo particles ejected into the atmosphere. Dave

Personally I think that if it is desired to hide appliances there must be something wrong with the appliances. When we were rebuilding our kitchen the salesperson made great efforts to persuade us to include new, built in appliances. I told her that as we already had extremely good, reputable brand appliances we would stick with them. She then tried the 'ah but it will look classier if they are built in' approach, to which I replied that we wanted a new kitchen, not a 12 inches to the foot scale doll's house. At that stage she gave in (and obviously accepted that her commission would be lower). Dave

A nice day here in rural Hipposhire so I’m just off for a walk - only about half a mile this morning as I‘m feeling a bit sore after doing over a mile yesterday but I’ll do another short one this afternoon. I’ve also got a Zoom meeting with some friends later and I’ll be baking a cake for a friend’s upcoming birthday. So, best get on with it after I’ve finished this muggacoffee. TTFN Dave