Do it.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 8:18 pm Tried to persuade the wife to let me sell the Enfield and buy a T140 instead.
She's worried the T140 will be too fast in comparison
If I got a 1978 one it would fill the requirements for a bike from my year of birth.
Yep, make the most of it. It is hard when they all leave, takes some readjustment. And, after that, getting them all together in the same place at the same time with you is maddening.Potter wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 1:59 am
One of the nice things about family is you've got decades of history to talk and laugh about, and I'm lucky enough at the moment that all five of us live in the same town so we can get together often. When the boy goes off to the army and me and the Mrs move back to the UK then I'll miss days like that.
Green things on the plate and a distinct lack of the important fat groups.
Dono in Englandshire but here in Jockland its not illegal. Only illegal to block you in your drive.Taipan wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 7:10 pm Came home to find a car parked on our front drive and its not ours or anyone we know. All the neighbours have room on their drives, so its not one of them and thye'd ask anyway. Contacted Plod as its a keyless Fiesta thing and they get nicked a lot, but it's not been reported stolen (yet?) and is registered to someone in the next town.
There's an app now where you can rent out parking spaces to whomever wants them, including your own drive. It's popular in that London, as you might expect. I came across it when I was googling parking in Kew gardens.Felix wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 8:00 pmDono in Englandshire but here in Jockland its not illegal. Only illegal to block you in your drive.Taipan wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 7:10 pm Came home to find a car parked on our front drive and its not ours or anyone we know. All the neighbours have room on their drives, so its not one of them and thye'd ask anyway. Contacted Plod as its a keyless Fiesta thing and they get nicked a lot, but it's not been reported stolen (yet?) and is registered to someone in the next town.
Did you remove their wheels yet?Taipan wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 7:10 pm Came home to find a car parked on our front drive and its not ours or anyone we know. All the neighbours have room on their drives, so its not one of them and thye'd ask anyway. Contacted Plod as its a keyless Fiesta thing and they get nicked a lot, but it's not been reported stolen (yet?) and is registered to someone in the next town.
Did Mrs.TiePin tell you that?
Nick the plates! It's cloning payback time!ogri wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 8:39 pmDid you remove their wheels yet?Taipan wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 7:10 pm Came home to find a car parked on our front drive and its not ours or anyone we know. All the neighbours have room on their drives, so its not one of them and thye'd ask anyway. Contacted Plod as its a keyless Fiesta thing and they get nicked a lot, but it's not been reported stolen (yet?) and is registered to someone in the next town.
Mine now both open in the same direction...backwards (I had two packs of valves). (Which is fine as I'm not OCD - otherwise I'd swap them round 
).
) Facebook appeal to find the owner in case it was stolen, worked out. Turns out the owner was at his Uncles wake at the bottom of the road. They said they didn't know it was a private road and thought the drives across the front of the properties were okay to park in. No big deal, just glad it wasn't a stolen car.Count Steer wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 4:42 pm Changed a tap valve. Changed the valve in the shower a while ago. Ditto the sink mixer-tap cold valve in the shower room because that was dripping too. (I assumed it was the cold supply that was dripping being higher pressure...but, naturally, later realised the hot water supply is mains pressure too...because it continued to drip).
I now know why tap valves come in pairs. One with a red seal and one with a blue. When I did the cold tap I used the first one out of the pack, which was red, but they look identical otherwise. Meh, think I, no-one is going to see it for a year or two.
Did you know that one colour opens in one direction, one in the other so that you pull both tap handles in the same direction to open them, not one forward, one back?
Super Mario's job is safe.
(I mowed the front verge and lawn too...I am a hive of industry
PS @Taipan - what happened with the mystery car?
Awesome coordination and story by Mrs.TP's mates to pull that one out of the fire.Taipan wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 8:14 pm Facebook appeal to find the owner in case it was stolen, worked out. Turns out the owner was at his Uncles wake at the bottom of the road. They said they didn't know it was a private road and thought the drives across the front of the properties were okay to park in. No big deal, just glad it wasn't a stolen car.
If that's true, then her indignation acting at the illegal use of our driveway was Oscar worthy!Skub wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 8:50 pmAwesome coordination and story by Mrs.TP's mates to pull that one out of the fire.Taipan wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 8:14 pm Facebook appeal to find the owner in case it was stolen, worked out. Turns out the owner was at his Uncles wake at the bottom of the road. They said they didn't know it was a private road and thought the drives across the front of the properties were okay to park in. No big deal, just glad it wasn't a stolen car.
Shouldnt you get up and give skub a slap?Taipan wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 8:54 pmIf that's true, then her indignation acting at the illegal use of our driveway was Oscar worthy!Skub wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 8:50 pmAwesome coordination and story by Mrs.TP's mates to pull that one out of the fire.Taipan wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 8:14 pm Facebook appeal to find the owner in case it was stolen, worked out. Turns out the owner was at his Uncles wake at the bottom of the road. They said they didn't know it was a private road and thought the drives across the front of the properties were okay to park in. No big deal, just glad it wasn't a stolen car.
