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old? I'm not old and still have my own wood
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Originally Posted by CNC_Guy
Tread carefully my friend WILLABEE never naps and has elephantine memory glands.
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Originally Posted by mr fun
Twas the ROAD I WAS MAKING REF. TO.
Attachment 301150Sunday lunch at the Half Moon---my mate Nigel and Pauline with Jilly and me.
Nigel also built the American Air Force Museum at Duxford Cambridge.
Attachment 301152Paulines new jam jar
Been farting about all morning with one of the bits of spalted beech, thought it might make a base for the winners trophy ----the more i carved the more detail was exposed. (Nothing like a bit of exposed detail ). Upshot of all this is----it's too good to use as a base, it deserves to be a piece on its own, but haven't worked out which direction I'm going with it. Could be a hanger or a stander or a layer or a leaner----many possibilities.
Both back and shoulder started to play up so I called it a day about noon, slept for an. Hour, now were off to the local pub ( the holly tree ) down the village with a couple of friends Clive & Jane for lunch.
Clive used to run the floor at the London Stock Exchange, he had a 100 whizz kids running for him at any one time.
Had a very nice lunch with a couple of great people, quaffed a pint of Woody's best ale, which slid down quite nicely I must say. Came back to the house for a coffee and to reminisce -----made for a great day.
Never did go back into the workshop----nothing's burning-----nothing urgent, still my own boss, can open and shut whenever I feel like it and I got time to enjoy my friends.
Turns out I don't have to sweat cobs to enjoy every one of those 84,600 gifts I got given today.
Think I could-be mellowing a tad after all these years, not before time I guess.
Ex law lady running the "speed awareness course" made an interesting comment------"trouble with over 70's is they never learn anything new, they are creatures of habit" ----I just could not sit quietly and let that pass-----so I asked her in the nicest possible way THEN WHY THE HELL AM I HERE?
Nose to the grinder tomorrow , time to get back to norm. Thursdays out ---Jilly and I are invited to a posh wedding----refused to wear the undertakers gear, it might be all the rage in the knobs alley crowd, it still looks ridiculous to me. They'll just have to poke up with me in my Armani best. (Had it 18 years and still wear it to weddings and funerals, for what it cost, it has to make 25years to break even). MYGGWY. sleep well, j.
Wednesday already, can't believe how time flies these days. Like being on the time roller coaster, gets a hell of a lot faster the longer you stay on it. I try and dodge the time thief every time I see the old bastard, he keeps wanting to shake my hand while robbing me blind with the other. Trouble is , I know I can't beat him-----only outsmart him, just keep him at bay as long as I can.
Have all the trophies finished for the Golf Tourney------need a sponsor to put some icing on the cake, smell of dough will get to old fart golfers every time. Need five grand to start off with,! Any takers?
No----that's what I thought !!!
As expected I was unindated with offers of finance from all over the globe, will try and pick out just the ones that are good for the Off image------Hertz-----Virgin----Westinghouse -----Nestlé ------only blue chip companies, can't be too careful who we let sponsor us, don't cha know!!!
So what if I do tell porkies (Occasionally )
Did I ever tell you about my brother in law Fish! He skippers the "Pamela Jay" a 35' day tripper out of Hamble?
Last December he was putting her on to the mooring for the night, reached a tad too far and tumbled into the river. He had just stored the life jacket and the river is not exactly lukewarm in December, he's quite I character is Fish and very quick thinking, so he reaches into his pants pocket, pulls out his Sonim phone and dials my sister , conversation goes like this------
Ange, I'm in the river,
Yes Fish, I know you are,
No Ange, I'm IN the fecking river,
Yes Fish tell me what you want I'm busy serving customers,
so Fish says very composed like as his life blood drops to unacceptable levels
Ange, I have fallen into the river whilst mooring the Pamela Jay, get the water taxi quick as you can
they say the scream could be heard in Southampton
The lifeboat station is just next door to the cafe where Ange is working, so she picks up her piny and alerts the coastguard and the harbourmaster, phones Cliffy on the water taxi, but he's a mile up river so of no practical value to the situation. A passing yachtie sees fish clinging to the mooring buoy and sez, You all right sir?.
Typical Fish. Reply. Well of course I'm alright I like a swim in December.
Yachtie did not even slow down, just waved a fond farewell and wished him a merry christmas
Fishies nuts are by now exceedingly blue, so he puts the Sonim back in his pocket and strikes for shore, took him five long minutes to reach the jetty. Willing hands helped him to land, just as the water taxi pulls up alongside , closely followed by the coastguard, then the lifeboat, then the ferry boat . That's how life is, make of it what you will.
Thats a true account of what happened to my brother in law, he was 67years old at the time.
The phone was a Sonim Force and is totally waterproof----I was so impressed, I went out and bought one-----no it is not a smart phone-----just a phone that works when it' s wanted.
JW The beauty of old suites is that eventually they come back into fashion,I'll wager when the other guests spy you striding in with that vintage number
clinging to you you'll be the talk of the town!!
When the snapper's hovering round you waiting for that "special" shot, try to take up a kind of "celebritylike" pose possibly holding a glass of
something or lighting a ciggy
I find a ciggy parked into the lip area none too appealing, plus I know that "tabs" are not for you,but it might form a smoke screen!!........
thanks for the kind thoughts Phil, no chance of a coffin nail between my lipsQuote:
Originally Posted by ron54
The Armani always makes me feel like Alvin Caprioni------fat and happy with a touch of panache.
Not much tonight-----been watching the Argies V the Dutch, highlight was still seeing Robbens rehearsing for swan lake, he's a great player-----doesn't need to act like a big girls blouse.
No way can I stay awake for extra time, talk to you tomorrow , MYGGWY,J.
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Bristol Embassy Grand Prix 1978
Not even Sophia Loren, Garbo or Gabor could sport shades the GG way, awesome!
There you have it the two ugliest guys in Bristol 36 years ago.
Whenever Gary came to England we would try and get out for a meal, or a show, or the Suzuki headquarters. Remember getting his boy his first set of leathers via Suzuki.
Think he topped up running a boat shop in Islamodora down in the keys.
Stayed at GG's house on numerous occasions, even went to a Greek wedding .
( with a beak like that it had to be a relation)
Somebody should write a book about that guy, he lived life at 100 mph every day
His other claim to fame was he had WILLABEE as his ramrod, so I have to tread lightly here.
Refuse to discuss football any more-----it's a done deal, the Argies don't have the firepower to match the Germans , take out Messi and it's all over.
Finally got to speak to Mark, told me it was stinking hot over the weekend in Sarasota and humid with it.
GIECO did the biz and managed to last the course.
Says he's off to Atlanta next weekend 240 boats entered in the poker run, that sounds like trouble.
Reckons he's propped about 40 of the rigs and wants to see how they perform.
had one of those "Best Forgotten" days-----nothing went wrong, but didn't get bugger all done.
Was at the car boot just gone seven, found a couple of boxes of slotted brass screws, 2" and a large box of assorted sizes (£3).
An old box of brass , alloy, and steel shims, a full set of vanadium metric wrenches, and a set of letter and number punches, all for a fiver, can't be bad.
Got a free weekend with no visitors (expected that is) should be able to clean the workshop, it's a downright bloody disgrace.
TIS said time and tide wait for no man----and if I don't clean up the mess in the workshop, no other bugger will.
theres not not much to tell you so I'll finish with an old joke, it can be Irish, pollock,neufy or tassy
Two Irish guys at a bar in Dublin -----
Paddy if I was to sneak into your house and make mad passionate love to your wife while you were off fishing and got her pregnant------would that make us relations?
Well Murphy, I don't really know about dat -----but it would make us even!
You just gotta love the Irish !!! Sleep tight, MYGGWY, J.
Good morrow all ye of little faith, a lot of "compus mentis"out there but very little in the way of feedback. It's ok to comment, be it good, bad, or indifferent. Would very much like to hear how my friends and acquaintances spend their time and things they get up to!! Have a guy who built a most magnificent workshop and posted pictures here on this site, then he went quiet after he posted the last piccy of it three quarters finished!!!
Donmac must be up to his fetlocks in preparation for the holiday season, wonder if he ever finished the guitar?
Even WILLABEE is lost for words----rare happening I can tell you.
You expect no response from the old farts, so I'm not disappointed there, just sad.
I'm still in need of a spot welder if anybody has one at a sensible price, haven't come across one , even on ebay they seem to fetch daft money.
Time to rise and shine and change the babies nappy ( diaper to the colonials), get back to you later with more stuff and nonsense, how did you like the Irish joke anyway ??????
poker run with 240 boats..Darwin should sort a few of them out as usual...
good joke
Glad you liked the joke tinker, only stick them in when I have sod all to talk about
Worked like a demented dingleberry clearing out the crap that had accumulated in the shop.
Shavings around the wood lathe were knee high, had to clear it as I was close to getting splinters in me privates and that would never do.
Amazing the stuff that gets left over, and the stuff you might need sometime, and the stuff you kept over the years because it's a shame to throw that-----might come in handy.
Pleased to tell you it's all been binned, have nothing left from yesterday, if it hasn't been used in the last two years, well that's going also. That includes tools and machinery.
Fish asked if I had a soldering iron he could use on the boat, he doesn't have power on board, had a look for one you heat up, remember the old wedge of copper on a rod with a wooden handle, found eleven of them in the cabinet-----they can all go, I haven't used them in ten years, he can have both blow lamps too. I've gone all modern and have a self igniting gas canister with a fearsome little device on top.
Still tittering to myself that we have a "free" weekend coming up-----don't get many of those in the year, let alone in high summer. Warm weather forecast, may crank the pool up to 30C then take a dip myself. Like to do fifty lengths before breakfast ------then again I'm a born liar!!!
You got enough for today so you won't have to suffer any jokes, you got off lightly, so get your heads down and sleep soundly, MYGGWY, J.
just had a chance to read your july news and it seems like your production is dwindling, must be the lazy days of summer!maybe I need another guitar body? I haven't touched the first one yet[that's a project to be done when I have time to concentrate]. I've been walking a fine line on time availability for all the chores at home and at the resort! I did get my viking in the water twice so far this summer! My daughter was home for her birthday dinner so I dropped the boat in for a ride to the resort to close the pool for the night. She says "I"ve never been in this one before". I quickly realized how time passes so quickly without notice.[she'd been in it before over 90 mph]she wasn't impressed with the boat over 80 mph,but I wasn't wasting the effort launching it without at least a bit senses exhileration!We had a nice uneventful ride to the resort and wandered the grounds,chatted! I had a very enjoyable time father/daughter catch up with whats happening in her life and how she's coping with her job[booming tattoo artist]/boyfriend[very entertaining lad ,but useless in the home and about to get the boot]/cat[wild thing]/car[working good,didn't need me to fix anything]!
She's become a very sensible/responsible lady [a teenage nightmare turned to a dream]! I'm sure you know how that is with one of your own!
I know very well about the stuff that doesn't get thrown out because you might need it in the next century! I need to do a shop purge myself,but that will have to wait for a day when I'm really pissed about something and I can throw it out the door!
Real sense of Des-Ja-Vous there. Don, had four real hard to handle daughters, but as they grew up, God worked his little miracle with them , the three that are left would be a credit to any dad, but I never will understand what him upstairs was thinking when he took the first born!
Glad to see your not lolling around taking in the waters as they say in. Bath and. Harrogate.
Tell me around Michaelmas whether you had a clear out ---or were just trundling down the road to hell, have to go, delivering a lawn mower this afternoon' tell you the story on that tonight.
Well, sorry .'bout your bad luck,never even opened the iPad last night----stayed up longer than I should watching the Samba's V the Cloggies---------Dutch V Brazil, afraid the brazilians have lost their way, which means Scolari will get the chop------ Robbens will get the best actor award and move to Manchester United. Rupert Murdoch and Skye will hike the fees up 10%, just so players wages can rise from a mere £250,000 per week to £350,000 each Feckin week. I wouldn't pay them in penny washers, bunch of spoilt overpaid prima donnas . Too many of them got the fever (gambling) and many more are crackheads, so no, I am not enamoured with soccer players.
Thats enough "sermonising" for one Sunday.
Back to the lawn mower tale. When we sold the house with 5acres in Avignon, I also sold the ride on mower, so when we arrived back in blighty to a house with a nice little lawn, I decided I would buy a real state of the art 36V lawn mower by Bosch!, Went to the local B&Q and purchased the top of the range all singing and dancing ---almost silent---£400 worth ----unpacked and carefully assembled said device and parked it on the lawn and pressed the trigger-------the blade rotated----that was it -----no forward movement, spent the next half hour searching for a drive switch----upshot was-----there is no forward movement until you PUSH the bloody thing------82years old and I have to push a frickin lawn mower for the first time in my life, when it said 36V I imagined it was like golf cart------never imagine , read the small print, except nowhere in the comic did it tell you to PUSH THE BLOODY USELESS PIECE OF KIT.
It had to go----put it on ebay and got £203 for it------snatched the guys hand off----delivered it 100 miles for free yesterday.
I suppose this is what NORMAL people do on a hot Sunday in July ------get up late, (7.30), bacon tomato toasted breakfast-----do the INTELLIGENT crossword. Potter about in the garden, trim a few bushes, dead head the roses, pick a bunch of sweet peas, backwash the pool filter and think " what the hell am I doing"
Gaze longingly at the locked workshop door ( out of bounds today) not allowed to enter 7days a week says " mien Fuhress" ----bad back, bad shoulder, and bad temper being the given reason for said punishment.
Cannot believe we have NO visitations -----dammit it's 25C out there, pool temp is 27 and the bloody covers still on it, I would call on the odd passer by, except we live at the top of a dead end lane and there's not many of those about!!!
Was mellowed a tad by the extra large PIMMS at lunchtime in the conservatoire, sun blazing in and Murphy on my lap, is this what's known as domestic bliss?
Had an hours nap ---now I'm piddling about on the iPad doing nothing in particular----I'll let you know if there's a nuclear attack on Walberton .
Time for tea, lemon zest cake and pills!!!!!!!
this is a normal sunday, get up at 6, check the boats are floating because of the torrential downpour overnight,go to resort clean and open 25x50 pool, check all water systems for proper operation and chlorine levels,empty all garbage containers and recycle bins around grounds,paint new office,come home and remove boat from water because tractor got stuck previous night and the boat stayed in for it's first overnight ever,head 30 miles south to pick up new fuel tank for truck,doddle along in weekend traffic,give up and return home,argue with wife about mess in shop[son and now wood working girlfriend left behind]!and do it all again tomorrow and the next day!etc.
life isn't idle that's a fact!
C'mon Don, it keeps you out of mischief-------besides, what else would you do?Quote:
Originally Posted by donmac
It's Monday morning after the night before, World cup dreams are all over. It finished with a subdued but predictable ending, more of a fizz than a bang. Tight rein on Messi, grab a goal and its all over.
All thats left is to award "The Oscars" for the best biter, shirt puller, diver, Head back arched back scream to the heavens actor, ankle tapper, head butter, longest spit, loudest swear.
There must be some football in there somewhere but we were not treated to much of it. thank god things are back to normal.
Sunday the 6th was the pinnacle of stupidity with ------Tour de France, British GP, Wimbledon final AND the world cup all rolled into a Sunday afternoon,------i did think it was all a bit too much -------or is it just me unable to take it all in?
right ----on with the modley as my sainted mother used to say, life is back to normal, workshop is open for business and this lad is a happy bunny.
Just great to be alive------
Best piece of advice i have ever had was from a tight arsed Welshman when i was a tad upset with guy i was buying some timber from in France and he upped the price. Took me to one side and asked if i Really wanted the timber----- course i did.
Right Jack he said-------------
NEVER LOSE SIGHT OF THE OBJECTIVE,
Blame S&F management for that-----I did post it , honest to murgatroyd -----'twas the management that cocked it up .
Day of normality, shop is clean and tidy, have a good stock of stainless and various degrees of wood I can fiddle with, sun was hot today, but the shop was nice and cool, should have been churning stuff out but could not get my rear in gear for some reason.
sold a bunch of stuff on ebay-----jig saw, carving chisels, air tools, chucks, grinders and belt sanders------it's ok selling things, but it's a right royal pain packing and posting and then you get hassle with pay pal------the price they charge I reckon I should be treated like an Arabian princess!
Started on some of the spalted beech I picked up last week, a hell of a lot of moisture in it , so whatever I make is going to crack wide open from asshole to breakfast time. Looks good when it's turned or carved, then polished, stand back and admire, close the door, job done. Open the shop and the piece is full of splits.
Show you a couple of bits I did today in the next post.
Most of you know I help run the old farts golf tourney------so as not to interfere with the smooth running of the Tavares classic, I decided to run it a day early and throw a Barbee at Bill and Betty's place in the evening. Thought things were going too well-----couple can't make it on the Thursday .
Jesus wept, their all long since retired, not like they have to clock in any more, you would think they would grab the chance to make a fool of themselves for another day, then go play boats on Friday.
i need all you who intend to participate to send your $50 entree fee to---
Betty Baker
3269 yellow grass crescent
Apopca Fl.
Let me know how you feel about Thursday or Friday for the golf?
Good morning Jim, long time no see, every time I see a boat that needs identifying, I say to myself -----Olegater would know who that is!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by OLEGATOR
You and Kenny going to Tavares?
Was going to Key West but that clashes with Jilly's birthday, did it last year, but the fall out is still resonating around our house. Haven't got the balls to do it two years on the trot, anyway there's only so maNy times you can walk down Duval!!!
I don't know if it's just me----but my iPad has a strange idiotic program in built called "Spellcheck" it depicts how APOPKA is spelt , must have snuck up on me when I wasn't looking, you have to remember I'm one one of the one finger brigade-------I have to look at the keyboard.
Correct address for Betty is in the Off 2014 thread.
Apologies to all concerned and enjoy the day. J.
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Just some of the spalted beech I've been farting around with, the figuring is spectacular, particularly the yeti foot? This a genuine specimen from the Jurassic period, had a carbuncle on his heel and a sockin great bunion------that's the right foot.
other two are "HEYLANGO'S originally from Sweden-----these two came from st Leonard's forest in West Sussex, they are remembered by the swedes in their celebratory toasts at the dining table whilst quaffing vast quantities of AQUAVITE .!!
SO-----I exaggerate a little, everyone worldwide knows the "HEYLANGO'S " were a ferocious tribe that did more than their fair share of rape and pillage, caused a fair old rumpus wherever they landed-------women were glad to see them , but menfolk were a tad miffed on the odd occasion and tended to pull the jolly old cudgel out from under the stairs and go in for a bit of head banging now and again------mostly when they'd been at the AQUAVITE.
To move on to today's happenings-----got most of the ebay stuff labeled and ready for collection.
Reset the sailboat piece I did last year "Rounding the mark", never much liked it for some reason, think it's improved it a little.
Enjoyed my time in the shop again, will think of something to get the little grey cells working overtime.
Lassie is going to come out of the undergrowth-----suspect he's related to the HEYLANGOS .
Enough of all this I'm turning over, MYGGWY.J.
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Thats the "Rounding the mark" piece
Still hasn't happened, nobody yet told me what a crock of sh-t that was, keep expecting it, feel free to comment. There's very little of my stuff that Jilly even likes, but she paints some really good stuff, I can't even draw Pluto.
In fact I will post you a piccy of a couple of her paintings.
Beautiful day again today, good to be alive, have to make the most of this, summers here at last.
I don't comment on stuff I know nothing about! Maybe some rag hangers would have something to say about the piece but I don't think there's many of them near this site! you could always put some handles on and go play Zelda! [you need 20 year old kids to get that one]
J.W. It doesn't matter what we think....If we did think it was cr*p we wouldn't tell you- far too polite.
You enjoy do'in it....we enjoy lookin at it....come sundown that's all that matters.
That snap from Bristol was in the Old Mud Dock pit area now a car park,used it a while back to show an old car racer pal
the Docks course.
Now Terry Sanger was a long serving sort,BRDC member since the '60's worked his way up from 2 wheels to F5000 but he said
he'd have to swallow hard to venture a lap round on the $3 ferry let alone a race boat..........Brave Men All.
Jackie: What appears to be brass mounting screws and nut don't mix well with the stainless. Fact the nut/bolt seems out of place. Maybe attach a mounting piece in SS will give it a more finished look. Other than that, I'm impressed.
Ran out of stainless rod Johnno, so I just use what's in store, wish I could get the hang of the tig, then I could do much neater stuff .Quote:
Originally Posted by Rotary John
That your impressed is high praise indeed, world is suddenly a much brighter place, thank you!
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Originally Posted by ron54
Bristol always worried me----it was an accident waiting to happen, I think four dead drivers and a bunch of drivers still hurting from doing the rounds tells me I was right.
i watched from the banks for the first five years it was held, it was like drivers had left their brains in bed.
It was Scottie who told me "it's not as bad as it looks", so I had a go, must confess I never did race the course balls hanging out, I was always in total control and mindful of the fact I had a wife and five kids and a job to go to on Monday morning.
Seebold was the king of Bristol without any shadow of a doubt, he showed this when running against the V8 s with inferior horsepower and a much smaller boat that he could handle with confidence and knew it's limitations.
Never came across ANY driver that could run and control the V8 and tell me he was happy with it, and I knew most of them.
That could stir up a hornets nest.
With hand on heart I can tell you I never once drove the ,"Cosworth " to the limit. I took it to the limit of my ability to control it, and I'm certain the V8 drivers would tell you the same thing.
Jackie: If the V-8's and your KT were difficult, just imagine the Rotary on the back of a 1970 Scottie built for a V-4. I believe the only time they really got hung out was the initial run at Parker. Some say they were running in excess of 140 MPH on that first lap. Would be fun to see one run on todays boats.
If I could have got the Hodges over the hump, I am certain there was 150 mph to be had, the boat was not capable of those sort of speeds, the motor was running 125 @ 8,000, motor gave 400 hp at 10,000 as far as I remember.
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This is the trophy for the winner of the Off golf tourney, it's a pot I got given in Palamos Spain in 1968 ---solid silver---double skinned rose bowl.
Saves me a lot of work and gets rid of another old trophy.
Reason you haven't gotten any pictures of Jilly's paintings is, I can't remember where I last had the camera----have done this twice before, rushed out and bought a new camera and a week later found the old one. It'll turn up---has to, I ain't been anywhere to lose it-----damn thing!!!
No fool like an old one!!
Yeah, I know dull as ditchwater today, car boot tomorrow, I may find an all admins lamp or a long lost Rembrandt .
That lousy rotten "spellcheck " came up with ALL ADMINS for ALLADIN, told you it was a simple minded piece of kit. Don't worry about it, I'll be fine tomorrow. Good night and may your god go with you. J.