What Cheered You Up Today?

[at6]

Great stuff Hugh ! Now, about this constant pain in my shoulder............
My good stuff happened on Sunday, when my youngest daughter came up to Duxford from London, and spent the day with me at Flying Legends, got soaked in the two rain storms, and then enjoyed a BBQ back at the camp site, before getting the train back from Cambridge.
Been looking at the 'family snaps' we had taken, by friends on the camp site, and it's clear she was happy and enjoyed herself!
I now have to send her details of all air shows in the UK ............. seems it runs in the family!!
Oh, and it was her idea that I wear the hat backwards! Shame, as the peak hid the lines and creases in my face!!

A beautiful girl who camps and likes airshows? You sir have brought up the perfect woman.

 

[fastmongrel]

I got to drive and tinker with a 1929 Bentley 6 1/2 litre open top tourer. Its a customers pride and joy and he wanted to take it to a show at the weekend but it was misfiring and taking a lot of cranking to fire up. The boss asked me to look at it partly because I am the only one old enough to know what a magneto is and I am the only one with a set of Whitworth and BA tools, I fitted new spark plugs and retimed it. Of course it needed a test drive and someone had to do it It was hell and I suffered in the sunshine

I did stall it twice though kept forgetting the clutch and brake pedals are reversed from a modern day motor.

 

[GrauGeist]

I did stall it twice though kept forgetting the clutch and brake pedals are reversed from a modern day motor.

Sounds like that was the toughest part of the work day!

As far as the "old school" controls, try driving a vehicle that has the points advance and throttle in the center of the steering wheel (and a limited hand-clutch on the gear shifter)

 

[Gnomey]

If I should ever end up in Canada, please don't suggest a prostate exam. I only allow female doctors to do those as their fingers are so much more gentle. Congrats on passing your exams.

I'm told I have a gentle touch my most of my patients so far...

 

[vikingBerserker]

I got to drive and tinker with a 1929 Bentley 6 1/2 litre open top tourer. Its a customers pride and joy and he wanted to take it to a show at the weekend but it was misfiring and taking a lot of cranking to fire up. The boss asked me to look at it partly because I am the only one old enough to know what a magneto is and I am the only one with a set of Whitworth and BA tools, I fitted new spark plugs and retimed it. Of course it needed a test drive and someone had to do it It was hell and I suffered in the sunshine

I did stall it twice though kept forgetting the clutch and brake pedals are reversed from a modern day motor.

Pics man, where are the pics????

 

[fastmongrel]

Pics man, where are the pics????

Guess which day I left my phone at home

If I had thought on I could have borrowed a phone off one of the other guys but I just threw the tools in the work van and went round to the customers house. I have been kicking myself at regular intervals since

 

[fastmongrel]

My reward for Bentley fixing yesterday has just been dropped off. Timothy Taylors Landlord is one of my fave beers glug glug glug

http://timothytaylor.co.uk/

 

[Wayne Little]

nothing cheered me up today....but then nothing annoyed me either....

 

[Gnomey]

BBC Sport - Rory McIlroy wins third major title at 2014 Open Championship

 

[N4521U]

Sure isn't my ISP connection!

 

[fubar57]

Last nightshift tonight, home in the morning and then 21 days vacation.

Geo

 

[javlin]

Last nightshift tonight, home in the morning and then 21 days vacation.

Geo

Now that would be sweet!!!

 

[fubar57]

Too true. When you work 7 on/7 off, a weeks vacation turns into 21 days. Still have to use up another 21 by Xmas.

Geo

 

[vikingBerserker]

Good for you, sounds like you guys really earn it!

 

[at6]

My reward for Bentley fixing yesterday has just been dropped off. Timothy Taylors Landlord is one of my fave beers glug glug glug

Timothy Taylor's Championship Beers

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Never heard of that brand before. With what we have to settle for here in the states, that would probably knock me on my a$$.

 

[fastmongrel]

Never heard of that brand before. With what we have to settle for here in the states, that would probably knock me on my a$$.

Its 4.1% alchohol so easy to drink. I prefer beers around 4% to 5% anything more is too much and leads to wobbly knee syndrome, anything less is like drinking water out of the cats bowl.

I am pretty sure you could get hold of it in the US but it would possibly have to be mail order from a specialist beer seller. Try the link I put up to the Timothy Taylors website they might have links to a US importer.

 

[yulzari]

That this post means there are more things cheering us up than annoying us.

 

[T Bolt]

First day this week I can walk without a limp due to an ingrown toenail

 

[at6]

Went to the store for some supplies last night. Saw this fat thing that I thought just had be the ugliest woman I had ever seen, it was a man.

 

[Wayne Little]

Happy that my daughter arrived safe and sound in Tokyo Japan and headed off to Osaka by train, her first trip overseas by herself to see some concerts....and the scenery.

And as a goalkeeper for my Lacrosse team I scored a goal from the defensive end of the field today when the opposition goalie strayed too far from his goal!