why me? and "buggrit"

Apr 18, 2004 15 Replies

Well, the intentions were good!



finally got round to organising to get the burned out shell of my '74 rangie removed. Bloke coming tomorrow - "is it easy to get at?" he asks, "no, but it will be by then"



I should have given up when I put the phone down!



After a battle with one of the horses with the farrier yesterday afternoon, i decided to move the wreck today- you can just see those warning signs springing up cant you.



So, today, wet, windy, generally horrid.



Get to field, find one of the D shackles is missing from my recovery bar - arse. OK, no problemo, plenty of webing around, improvise.


30 minutes later in car on way to halfords.

no Shackles - well, not a surprise, so get a towrope.



Managed to move wreck 2ft before tow rope snapped - arse, buggrit, why me???



SWMBO then pointed out that the nice, not overly muddy "yard" was now very muddy, and had some mighty deep ruts - oops, buggrit



another 30 minutes in the pouring rain, and I have given up. Wreck slightly better positioned, but unless bloke from recovery firm has a really good winch, its staying where it is.



oh well



Time for a hot tea and a sarnie



Si


Twas Sun, 18 Apr 2004 16:27:06 +0100 when "simonk" put finger to keyboard producing:

I took one look out of the window today and decided I was staying put.

The kids have since driven me to within an inch of my sanity.

-- Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.) ___________________________________________________________ "To know the character of a man, give him anonymity" - Mr.Nice.

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On or around Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:59:18 +0100, Mr.Nice. enlightened us thusly:

amazingly, it's been dry and intermittently sunny all day here. Nice blatt out on the bike this afternoon, if a tad chilly.

koff Shackles - you're making no friends here in the cold and kin wet Norf...

I had the very best intentions of awakening at the crack of Noon and getting a full arternoon in underneith Grumble, hitting bits that need to be hit in the build up to show season, with my hammer...

After failing to fit my diff guard I admired QrizB's Unimog whilst QrizB got increasingly wet in the rain. Indoors for the afternoon. Although it's just stopped raining.

D

I've been out in mine. P'raps you're just a poncey Suvverner...

Spent the weekend at the nucear bunker museum at Hack Green, Nantwich with the EMLRA, it was persisting down during the night but usually OK during the day. Seem to have got a tan on me shiney head anyway.

My excuse, such that it is, will have to be that I had to resize some pics for a mates site...

Sneak peek available here:

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Well why didn't yer say.... I would have popped over.. Any news on whats happening with the Beverly files yet? Me needs to get my Moprh History sadly I'm soooo slow by the time I sent the cheque they had folded.

Lee D

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Crumbs, sounds dangerous...

And for those watching in Black and white.....

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:-)

I had a rather nice 5 days in Dorset which encompassed a burnt bonce too , got a visit in to the Tank Museum at Bovington will bung the pictures on later in the week :-)

Lee D

and you got an atari ST to play with! :) I'm all in favour now round at my parents cos they saw me taking things away rather than dropping them off...

That museum was pretty interesting too, didnt have time to sit and watch all the videos though as i wanted to get home and get the 101 going :(

What was particularly frustrating was that the QT diff guard was within a gnats wotsit of fitting, but just wouldn't quite go ...

I reckon the Disco II that QT modelled it on must have shrunk in the Cornish rain.

On or around Sun, 18 Apr 2004 21:10:51 +0100, Mother enlightened us thusly:

now that's a seriously kitted out expedition vehicle.

wonder what that lot were doing pushing the truck? it doesn't seem to be stuck. Mebbe it's one of those which start by the direct application of manual labour...

Twas Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:37:04 GMT when snipped-for-privacy@dev.null (QrizB) put finger to keyboard producing:

more likely the glorious cornish sunshine has heated and streched the diff-guard between them making it and sending it to David.

OK, there's only been a few days sunshine so far but it's getting there.

-- Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.) ___________________________________________________________ "To know the character of a man, give him anonymity" - Mr.Nice.

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Only if you were taller than me.

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