you forgot to say whether you passed the driving test or not?...lolQuote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
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you forgot to say whether you passed the driving test or not?...lolQuote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Wasn't a test Tinker, you just had to be there and listen for four hoursQuote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
is that all thats required for a UK license, severe tongue lashing?Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
JW I,ve just got back from Goodwood (pleasure for some,work for others!)........to find you are now a criminal!!
I suppose we are wondering how to address you did you have a number? and a stripy suit.
You never cease to amaze us with your antics.............Just be careful, the NHS is far too busy to be
looking after fellers your age....all them breast implants and tattoo's to be lasered are far more
important.......Phill.
Yeah well, what can I tell you-----if I'm honest, I think the speed awareness scheme is useful. It needs people like me to assist, and guide and offer help and suggestions, while they haven't got it quite right, it's a big step in the right direction. Was also a saving of £15 and zero points on my licence, so I'm still clean and the insurance company will not be having a field day.Quote:
Originally Posted by ron54
So Phil you can still address me as sir with a capital C!
[QUOTE=jackiewilson;2654908]Yeah well, what can I tell you-----if I'm honest, I think the speed awareness scheme is useful. It needs people like me to assist, and guide and offer help and suggestions, while they haven't got it quite right, it's a big step in the right direction. Was also a saving of £15 and zero points on my licence, so I'm still clean and the insurance company will not be having a field day.
So Phil you can still address me as sir with a capital C!
If you were at Goodwood for the whole time, were you there as a law dog or was it just for fun, security, or what? I thought you were out of being a plod long ago.
Your not alone in wishing me into a stripey suit, I got this far, it ain't gonna happen now.
all the family in Florida are heading for Sarasota come Friday , last race for six weeks I'm told,
at this stage of the season Craig and Gary should have sorted the gremlins OUT OF GEICO , props were sorted long ago . Happy 4th July everyone -----enjoy the break. J.
QTinkerbelle , I exceeded the speed limit a little----I didn't rob a bank----kill a cop -----or kick an old lady----slap a kids arse or anything criminal. Tongue lashing went out with Madame guillotine , the rack and dipping witches, what you want? My nuts on a platter for tapas?Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
JW.....Further to my last on my trips around the FOS (there where where many) That Cosworth Craft would have attracted
many an appreciative glance.. it really needs to come back to blighty any thoughts??.........Phill.
Phil, it took too much money and effort getting the boat over to the states to think about bringing the Cosworth back to England .Quote:
Originally Posted by ron54
Mark has things lined up together, to start restoration soon. It's a massive undertaking and will cost in excess of $250,000. A fresh built DFV is around $100,000 before we even begin the rebuild.
We are torn between leaving the paintwork exactly as is and a refresh. Both Mark and I are leaning towards keeping it totally original.
Would be tempting to slide an Ilmor V 10 in there, and a whole lot cheaper, but that would detract from the authenticity of the project.
Besides Rich and a few more stalwarts would not settle for anything less than the original.
Those are just a few of my thoughts (today that is).
I can hardly wait to see the Mighty KT in all it's glory. Glad you didn't break anything during your gymnastic event the other day.
Dave
Morning Dave, Yes I suppose it will come under KT rules-----just want to see her finished and up and running again.Quote:
Originally Posted by CNC_Guy
Can lift the right arm up to waist high already, so there is still room for improvement, and the ache has eased.
Keep thinking about the "Crooked Man who walked the crooked mile"------ain't got time for HUMPETY backs or crooked limbs, so I'll try not to keep falling over and stay upright (in the colloquial sense that is.
Old people who do gymnastics are either bored or misinformed, same as joggers, waste of good efforts, get a life.
MR Fun made some interesting comments in theOFF 2014 column---give yourself a treat and read it.
Tried to get him to switch to "TRICKS" column, then you can all get to commenting on it.
This"ll make you smile, just see if any of you old farts can relate?!?
Remember I told you I had to attend a speed awareness session at the Hilton in Walberton, ok so far. Well, they wanted to see your driving licence on the way in, me being me pulled out my Visa Debit card with a gentle " will this do " -----for a start the lady was not best pleased and the look would have stripped paint. Quickly showed her my best side, big smile, bent close so she got a whiff of my ALLURE SPORT by Dior, For all the good it did I could have farted and would have been treated better? If we fast forward to Thursday morning ----as you mostly know, I trundle to the airfield to the flea market making sure I have a few quid of JUST IN CASE,! Looked in my wallet, lo and behold , the cupboard was bare. Went smartly to the paper shop ( nearest ATM), opened the said wallet only to find ------no debit card!!
Time to phone the Hilton, nobody found anything. It's 7am ' Phone the bank, get put through to Calcutta which is now Mumbia and got put through to this lady who spoke like Peter Sellars in "Brown Windsor"-----simply could not understand her----she asked me if I spoke English, and when I said "yes but you don't) things just went downhill. In the end took a trip to Barclays Littlehampton and was met by a very smart girlie bird who said , "if you had called, we would have sent you a new card". No you wouldn't sez I. That's when the trouble started!!! An hour later, she realized it was a DEBIT card and not a credit card and told me I did right to come into the store and what was my mothers maiden name???? I am a very patient person, mother has been dead nigh on twenty years so what the hell has that got to do with the exchange rate in Bangladesh .
it took most of the morning and I have a sleep lunchtime so that was Thursday down the tube and I never did get to the car boot sale!
good morning Jack, the hull I am referring to is a speed skiff. doing some reading on the subject on various sites pertaining to these hulls I saw a "family tree" of lineage and Burgess I belive was at the top. it's been a couple years since I spotted it and will go back and look again. the mold I have is a Frahs, Terry Frahs lived and built boats here in Jacksonville Fla. In further research I spoke with a fellow from NJ that builds, I belive ,JS (which is the "big daddy") boats named Sked, and said Terry copied a hull he bought from him. So that is the reference to Burgess, as all or most fiberglass skiffs are derived (splashed) from an original built by them. an interesting turn in the history of these craft as they were originated in new jersey and someone from England made an early version from fiberlglass. with that said I will begin reading all the posts in this thread and get cought up as I saw a mention of your KT and that is what truly intreaged me as to your past experience as I have some old models and ideas on those arrangements in the pursuit of this illness I so enjoy. Keith out
And a good day to you too Keith on this wonderful afternoon , pool temperature just hit 30 C for the first time ever and I have not even switched the boiler on this year. It's swallowing chlorine tablets like Clinton eating jelly beans( or was it Nixon---I forget , anyway they both had addictions)Quote:
Originally Posted by mr fun
Saw the Jersey Speed. Skiff for the first time in my life at last years OFF in Tavares---genuine spectator boats as they slap their way round a turn. Problem is -------you gotta have melon size cajones ( and you don't get many of those to the pound these days, and when you do they join the SEALS,,!)
We are all suffering "the disease" to one degree or another----some of us are incurable while others seem to manage it very well with the right treatment------annual trip to Key West----Tavares----Hooters? But we all know "GOLD MEMBERS WITH OVER 5,000 POSTS" don't just walk in off the streets do they Keith------would like a name pilgrim,! Make an old man happy --------.
I could ask Rich or WILLABEE , but they would probably lie, just to piss me off.
PS. I was once a freakin screaming, so for LAWDIES sake do not upset the establishment S&F !!!
Jackie you seem to have two identities in the post above you are jackiewilson no gap between first and last name thus senior member
in your freaking screaming persona you are jackie wilson with gap maybe you are logging in on two separate computers ? . i would be interested to know by how much you exceeded the speed limit to get away with the speed awareness course.
Rob
that would be Hughett, and the jelly bean impulsive POTUS was Reagan, to stop smoking :iagree:
Rob, like I told S&F ----there is only ONE me---the only thing wrong is a lack of COMMON SENSE,Quote:
Originally Posted by robert j garner
frickin. Screaming and a useless member are just categories to put pundits in.
I was doing 70 in a 60 zone --------there were mitigating circumstances------so what -----,guilty as sin -----3points and a £100 or awareness scheme and £85 ------no contest!!!
not a problem on this end, I just put them in a burlap bag and stick them in my shirt pocket. :cheers:Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
We got another for the "Modesto" club Ethel!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by mr fun
Yeah well it's Saturday again, after Thursdays fiasco with the credit card, decided to do the weekend car boot sale.
Crack-a-sparrer I'm off like a long dog---trouble is, it's chucking it down, don't know about the colonials, but folk from the mother country get downright mis arsed. When they have to don rainwear. About half the normal turnout, but it makes for forraging a whole lot easier, and it's all over bar the shouting around 10 am.
Picked up a really nice De-Walt jig saw that I bought for a tenner, albeit with a fault to the electrics which I am confident I can fix fairly easy.
An unopened case of brand new rifler files and a dozen cutters for the lathe for another £2.
On the way out, saw a see through plastic carrier with a rake of farmyard animals and farm buildings with half a dozen tractors thrown in for good measure, bid a fiver and it was mine.
Charlie ( one of my eight great grand kids) will be well chuffed with those. Lunch coming up, I'll get back to you later-------it's qualifying for the British GP today.
Hamilton blew it again,------it's bloody near time he got his act together, if he wants to win the worlds then he has to stop farting about and get SERIOUS.
It will have to rain hard tomorrow if he is to stand even half a chance, I see yet another second to the German !!!
workshop is in a shambles-----not touched for over a week-----her indoors has firmly stamped her feet and threatened to hide the key and cease all sexual activity if I attempt to gain entry to the workshop.
You know I am going to listen and obey don't you------ageing ------yes ------stupid, never.
Sunday in Sarasota sounds like fun----should be testing about now----let you know tomorrow how things turn out------hope everyone has a great July the fourth weekend.
Same to you Jackie.
Dave
J.W...At our age (65+) its only right fellers should have innerests.. a shed and a hobby seem about enough.
Casually mention to Jilly you've bin thinking about a stag vacation to Thailand (for you)...that should
get you the shop key back in some style........
Phil, are you out of your mind? The first thing Jilly would say is " there's your airline ticket buster".Quote:
Originally Posted by ron54
I know my place in the peckin order. I pull faces and let off firecrackers now and again, never-never-ever, do I " casually" mention I just might trot off to Thailand . The risks of being found face down in a bowl of cornflakes under mysterious circumstances or being found suffocated on the synagogue steps under a heavy jewess or simply disappearing without trace is just too great.
My great sense of survival says-----stay away from the workshop IDIOT!
Watched the Netherlands V. Costa Rica, thing that struck me most was the olympical quality of Robbens dives------he had to have been a ballerina in an earlier life----outstanding oscar winning performance----- best in the world at trailing the left leg, then reach for the sky, arms aloft and imitate a swallow.
Going out for lunch with another old friend of mine, Nigel Warnes, he built "THE SHARD" europes highest building among other things. Let you know tomorrow night what sort of frollicks we get up to. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. MYGGWY,J.
Attachment 301006Attachment 301007Wokeat 5am to violent thunderstorms anda sky as black as Newgates knocker, with torrential rain hammering on the windows------somebody somewhere has upset him upstairs my sainted mother used to say!!
Its a quiet Sunday here so thought i would post you a couple of piccies of nothing in particular.
That there in the stars is one of WILLABEE'S hot singles.
Thats Murphy !!Bosscat.Attachment 301008 The plank is Murphs gangway to the bedroom when she gets chased by visiting hounds.
Maybe more interesting things happen later----will keep the signal fire smouldering.
How long till the start of the race?
Dave
Which one Dave ?Quote:
Originally Posted by CNC_Guy
Silverstone starts in five and a half hours----Time now 8.30
Sarasota-----I have no idea-----probably 10---maybe 12 hours.
Sons and grandsons tend to be too busy to talk to the old man, ( until they need something ).
Was out down the lane with the hedge clippers at 7.30 am this morning, ( manual of course, her who demands, will not allow me mechanised assistance) lopping off all the blackberry Tendrils that can grow two feet overnight and scratch the paintwork on any passing car,
leading to strained relations and stressful comments like "GET YER FECKIN HEDGE CUT JACK"
Its stopped raining by the way so unless Hamilton gets his rear in gear it will be a Mercecdes 1/2 with him chasing Herr Rosberg----no rain promised, but that don't mean a thing-----weather " forecasters" get paid big bucks for guessing with a 20% chance of getting it right. My old granny with her length of seaweed tied to a nail by the back door got it more accurate than today's pundits, especially if she called on her arthritic and lumbago aches.
Haven't heard from her lately, maybe she left???
here's and extream version, imagine the set this fellow must tote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIioNasDu04
Silverstone. I had to do some digging to find what channel it was on.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
It had to be on one of the hundreds of channels you have over there----even though you only get to see two out of every ten minutes of actual racing .( we interrupt this program while the camera man takes a leak) or Have you been injured in the last thirty days, We can ----------etc,Quote:
Originally Posted by CNC_Guy
Missed the actual race, but somebody at the lunch shouted Hamiltons won.
Recorded the event, so not fair to comment before perusal.
Enjoy the last few hours of the July 4th weekend break . Talk tonight.
that would be, the "Batiallion De Confindincia" :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
You wanna go down that OLD road Dave?Quote:
Originally Posted by mr fun
Try -----CAPUT CAPITAS MAXIMUS-----------une grande tete, putetre? ----soufflé votre clarion?
just pulling your chain Dave ! Have a good week, I'm going to.
Just off to the wood yard-----he let's me look around and choose in exchange for one of my pieces.
Gotta get a wriggle on, well discuss Hamiltons Silverstone win later in the day Woodyard waiting.
Attachment 301118Attachment 301119Took me a while to find the wood yard, 'twas in the middle of a forest in deepest Hampshire not far from Rowlands Castle due north of Portsmouth . Even with sat nav guidance it was hidden better than MI5.
Had a great time forraging through piles of logs and stacks of timber. These boys are true forest management on a rather large country estate. End product is firewood (logs). Searched for a decent burr but didn't strike lucky this time. Did come across a nicely spalted beech log , a piece of which I made into another trophy for the "Off" golf competition . Will post a couple of picks in the next post.
Well, Hamiltons fortunes took a turn for the better, he drove like he was hungry again, anybody's guess as to whether or not he would have taken Herr Rosberg after he suffered his first failure of the season. But I do wish he would take that bloody sparkler that decorates his left ear lobe to the local pop shop.
Looks to me like it's going to be the survival of the least failures in the Mercedes camp----two to hamilton and one to herr Rosberg .
Attachment 301123One of the guess what that's for pots.
Some of you must be wondering why there are five trophies to shy at in the 2017 Off Tourney.?
Keep wondering---------What I will tell you is, it will be the BEST and funniest tourney you ever partook of, and if 95% of the participants don't pay next years entry before the end of the tourney I will run buck naked round the practice green.
Bill & Betty are devising all sorts of interesting schemes around the course, surprises galore and a T shirt for life.
You are all aware this is to be held on the Thursday , so as not to conflict with any of the established festivities. Will publish times right here on the the Off 2014 thread.
If you take a close look at the nearest the pin award, you may notice it is not as it used to be, that's because I dropped it and smashed the 007 base!!!
winners of this award will have their names printed on the two golf balls.
There will be NO cash awards until we find a sponsor daft enough to want to put his name to an old farts fun day, but if any of you know of one such fool, he can get me on here or the Tricks thread.
Cannot believe how stupid I'm becoming , .post 667 was supposed to be in the Off2014 .
I'm waiting for Willa.
Must be napping quite soundly today.
Oh no, not you as well Dave----give a chap a break.Quote:
Originally Posted by CNC_Guy
Sorry Jackie ,I meant Willa was napping.
Dave