What made you happy today?

[Sparky]

You know I keep her in the attic.

[swindon_alan]

How can she make an hissing sound if she is wearing a gimp mask?

[Chillidoggy]

43 minutes ago, Sparky said:

You know I keep her in the attic.

You've moved her from the 'garden shed', then?

[Sparky]

There were complaints about the howling.

[Alfa2Evora]

After 4 weeks confined to sickbay whilst a clutch master cylinder was sourced and couriered from the USA, the Evora is now back gracing my driveway. Yeh! Withdrawal symptoms now subsiding.

[DaveyT]

Starting to rebuild...

 

just a bit of vanity, really, as it will likely have to come out again to sort the electrics, but it DID feel like I'm finally making progress.

Funny how you can spend ages rebuilding bits of the engine and feel like you've done sod all, but a few bits of trim clipped into place gives you such a huge boost!

[mdw]

I found the cause of the damp under the bath !!!!  It can be added to a dripping stopcock, and a leaking cistern I had already sorted out.  This bathroom looked great initially .  However the plus side is  is its so small I repiped the lot in copper and the waste in plastic in an afternoon.  Almost makes me look back fondly at days fighting the esprit.

 

[swindon_alan]

I was coming back from Castle Combe a couple of weekends ago and some young bloke in a BMW 116 in the outside lane screamed away from the lights on the dual carriageway leading to the M4. Normally I just ignore it and can't be bothered but this time... I ambled gently away from the lights, let him get well ahead then floored it. Caught him up in a blink, slowed down a bit and matched his speed (probably around that nine-zero number) for a few seconds then hit it again. He disappeared into a dot in the rear view mirror. Shouldn't do that, it can be very detrimental to the licence!

[swindon_alan]

Yeah, nil point at the moment to quote that funny 70's game show and it does bother me. I tend to hit it hard in short bursts and get it back down quickly. I'm not sure how reliable the speed cameras are on clocking you during acceleration and deceleration. Well that's my hope anyway!

[Sparky]

Gin, gin, gin.  Nuff said.

[Steve V8]

3 hours ago, swindon_alan said:

Yeah, nil point at the moment to quote that funny 70's game show and it does bother me. I tend to hit it hard in short bursts and get it back down quickly. I'm not sure how reliable the speed cameras are on clocking you during acceleration and deceleration. Well that's my hope anyway!

That would explain the hole in yer fifth gear casing. 

Deceleration in fifth gear overrun is the route of all UN1 evil, wack it down into forth and let the big gears take the strain.

[Barrykearley]

 

reckon someone slipped - that's what did that back cover in....

[swindon_alan]

1 hour ago, Steve V8 said:

That would explain the hole in yer fifth gear casing. 

Deceleration in fifth gear overrun is the route of all UN1 evil, wack it down into forth and let the big gears take the strain.

Got the GTO upgrade Steve. I have no fear...

[calvan]

May as well give this thread a bump - happy to be be back home after a ~1200 mile road trip. The excuse this time was the Calgary MG club putting on an annual British car show in the Village of Radium Hot Springs (I know, the very name is enough to give the health & safety types a fit).

Anyway, Radium is about 600 miles from home on the more mountainous and scenic route, so off we went. The initial plan was to drive the Europa but as the date approached my wife and I decided it would be a bit daft to drive that car. We did the same route in the Europa when younger but who wants a few days of shake and bake now that we are comfortably into our 60s. Thus we succumbed to the creature comforts of 1200 miles in an Elise. 

We decided to split the journey and only went as far as Osoyoos the first day. Some mountain driving and on to semi-arid wine country for the stop. The second day took us across the Kootenays where there was still some snow at the roadside, although not on the road, at the summit of the Kootenay Pass (elev. 1775 m.) through the Selkirk Mountains. The last hour or so of the journey took us north up the Rocky Mountain Trench past Skookumchuk, seeing the headwaters of the Columbia River and on to Radium.

We didn't encounter wildlife on the trip there, other than some interesting roadside statues of various creatures, including a sasquatch lurking in the woods. There was more on the return trip as we saw bighorn sheep and various deer on the roadside. The biggest excitement was just before the Kootenay summit on the way home when I had to do some heavy braking from 120 km/hr when a moose decided to trot across the highway just ahead of us. That was a bit of a dodgy situation as mama moose left her calf behind when she crossed and I am quite aware that moose are very large, very strong, generally ill-tempered and very protective of their young. As soon as I saw that junior had doubled back behind us and mama had gone into the trees it was down to second gear and get out of there. 

All in all a god trip but, as I said, happy to be home.

[Sparky]

So happy that the NHS recognised my 55th Birthday this year with a surprise fun pack.  I used it this morning (jolly japes) and am now in the Endoscopy Unit awaiting the second half of my gift.

[Bibs]

4 hours ago, calvan said:

including a sasquatch lurking in the woods.

See them all the time here in Kent.  

[Barrykearley]

50 minutes ago, Sparky said:

So happy that the NHS recognised my 55th Birthday this year with a surprise fun pack.  I used it this morning (jolly japes) and am now in the Endoscopy Unit awaiting the second half of my gift.

[theelanman]

thats a fancy paperweight......

[Sparky]

More like:

However, I was 'seen to' by four very nice ladies.  In and out in a flash, so to speak.

[Kimbers]

I had an endoscopy after a Colonoscopy in the same "sitting". I never did ask if they used the same camera!!!

 

[theelanman]

I remember having the camera in the bladder.......via the 'todger'.......

it wasnt so much the camera that bothered me......than the entire class of student nurses watching........

[Dave Eds]

With binoculars......

[Sparky]

Years ago, I do remember a nurse telling me they only had the one camera and an overworked autoclave.  I always push for an early morning appointment.

[Chillidoggy]

Camera in the bladder? Done that. It's like having a Granada clutch cable shoved up your Jap's eye.

Sparky's the only bloke I know who's got a season ticket for such procedures.

5 hours ago, Sparky said:

More like:

However, I was 'seen to' by four very nice ladies.  In and out in a flash, so to speak.

 

Really? You must be even more slack than I thought.

[Sparky]

'Tis a route well-travelled.