Guppy916 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Blood test booked 15:10 tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted June 26, 2018 Author Share Posted June 26, 2018 Ok...... good luck! Had one this morning. Fair bit taken too. Another due Thursday. They're taking it out faster than I can make it! Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerguzzi Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Good luck to you both I hope the results are good Roger P s I think my liver is shot already on this trip! Still hey ho nearly 73 and had a good innings (been lucky and know it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted June 27, 2018 Author Share Posted June 27, 2018 Alcohol as a preservative? Didn't they ship Nelson home in a barrel of rum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerguzzi Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Bring on the barrel is it like the man that died when he fell in a vat of whisky? But got out 3 times for a pee ! Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulAA Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 2 hours ago, Nick Jones said: Alcohol as a preservative? Didn't they ship Nelson home in a barrel of rum? Brandy, Nick, which evidently did not make him randy. On that occasion, at least. You can just imagine the marketing opportunity the event would present to today's big distillers. Not only syphoning off and selling the stuff itself ("Nelson's Body Brandy"), but the re-branding of the stuff itself - "Nelson's Blood", "Oakheart Brandy", etc... D'oh, this could keep an entire industry workforce in pocket money for the rest of their lives. Now, here's a thought: imagine the boost to the British distilling industry if Boris was shipped back from Afghanistan for that Commons vote, by slow boat, sealed in a barrel of whisky... Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted June 27, 2018 Author Share Posted June 27, 2018 Anything that ends Boris....... Though frankly the notion that a particular spirit had been used to pickle his chubby carcass would not encourage me to buy it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulAA Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 (edited) Just realised that my second paragraph made about as much sense as a Boris statement. I meant that once the stuff he was pickled in had been flogged off, the distiller could re-brand future production, etc., etc. Sure you got the spirit of it........ hic! MEANWHILE, Roger, doing what you're doing at your age... I'm in Awe (it's a nice little village, half way between Loggerheads and Confusion). You're making me excited about getting older and being able to do the things I can't do now. Edited June 27, 2018 by PaulAA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted June 27, 2018 Author Share Posted June 27, 2018 Why can't you do them now.......? Life is uncertain, eat desert first! Like your description of Awe. I always thought it was long, skinny lake in Scotland...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulAA Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 D'oh, you're pushing me towards the philosophical, Nick... I was in Blighty at the weekend, taking part in the celebration of a life. I have to confess that I usually return from (my not-so-frequent) visits to UK with, initially, relief at getting back to home turf and then, as I mellow over a glass of something back home, the black 'what if..?' clouds gather over me. This time, the cloud is really black and I am frustrated that I have let so much time pass by and achieved so little of a 'parallel nature' in the meantime. Truth is, I really need a shed. And a lathe. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted June 27, 2018 Author Share Posted June 27, 2018 Yep. Mind you, I have a shed and a lathe and mill, yet rarely seem to get to use them. The excessive amount of grass surrounding the shed is factor - but only one of many. There's been plenty of time for contemplation of late, some of it quite dark. Time for some adjustments methinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulAA Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Sorry, Nick, my monologuing was a little insensitive. The chap who's life we were celebrating packed a lot into his mere 62 years, including the rebuilding of two quite fabulous cars - a truly brutal TR6 and a sublime '73 Beemer 3.0 CSL, which he took the better part of 30 years to get from tin-worm colander to stupendous. The '6 was a remarkable car, unrealistically low, ludicrously fast (unbelievably, he once took a picture of the speedo as it nudged 125mph), which committed the double heinous crime of having 16" rims and 205-section rubber. Needless to say, Rick was not a TRR stalwart. The '6 was regularly driven to Portugal (and back) and, irritatingly for us lesser TR6-owning mortals, everything about it was just right. I've never seen a more sorted, powerful yet drivable '6. Bugger the 'survivor' and 'concourse' malarkey - this was the car that the TR6 should have been all along. Apologies for the thread drift! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted June 27, 2018 Author Share Posted June 27, 2018 That's fine. I remember you mentioned him before and I'd looked him up. Thoroughly interesting man who I'd like to have met. Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerguzzi Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Hello All You just have to go for it and not worry to much as this is not a rehearsal in my book! (JC people think different!) You will get losts have massive arguments with the Mesahib which will be forgotten over dinner and wine etc Plus the Grim Reaper can call any time So get well Nick and we could go on a trip? Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerguzzi Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 (edited) 11 hours ago, PaulAA said: Just realised that my second paragraph made about as much sense as a Boris statement. I meant that once the stuff he was pickled in had been flogged off, the distiller could re-brand future production, etc., etc. Sure you got the spirit of it........ hic! MEANWHILE, Roger, doing what you're doing at your age... I'm in Awe (it's a nice little village, half way between Loggerheads and Confusion). You're making me excited about getting older and being able to do the things I can't do now. Hello Paul Age is a mind set thing it just takes all night to do what I did all night now as the oldest swinger in town said I have built a quicker engine I think but I do not know why other than the challenge! I can not drive that fast now but I know the car is capable! Mad isn,t it? Roger Edited June 27, 2018 by rogerguzzi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulAA Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 3 minutes ago, rogerguzzi said: Hello Paul Age is a mind set thing it just takes all night to do what I did all night now as the oldest swinger in town said I have built a quicker engine I think but I do not know why other than the challenge! I can not drive that fast now but I know the car is capable! Mad isn,t it? Roger I like it, Roger - the intersection of the power you can afford and power you can handle set against time would appear to be like the intersection of BHP and torque set against rpm. I think this is something that Nietzsche failed to cover adequately... In terms of a Triumph 2.5, I hope I'm not much more than 4,500rpm. I especially like your approach because my much-loved and very frustrating MIL has a very different outlook. When I was fitting out the house the in-laws had been building for nigh on twenty years, I was scolded for trying to put a child-safe balustrade on the open side of the dog-leg staircase. "How will the undertaker get the coffin out?" demanded my fifty-five year-old mother-in-law. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted June 28, 2018 Author Share Posted June 28, 2018 Landmark day today. Testing my own repaired plumbing. If all goes well the temporary plumbing can come off tomorrow. An unusual but fairly special birthday present! So far, so good...... Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkshire_spam Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 6 minutes ago, Nick Jones said: Landmark day today. Testing my own repaired plumbing. If all goes well the temporary plumbing can come off tomorrow. An unusual but fairly special birthday present! So far, so good...... Nick Fingers crossed for a positive result Nick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulAA Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 All the best, Nick. Bit concerned about the ambiguity of 1 hour ago, Nick Jones said: Testing my own repaired plumbing. Have you been doing the bending and welding yourself..? Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted June 28, 2018 Author Share Posted June 28, 2018 Yeah, could have phrased that better. The repairs are entirely the work of a very talented specialist surgeon and in a different league to my usual level of bodgery. So far they seem to be working very well N Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtuckunder Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Darn, I was hoping to quote for that Job have a lot of Silicone Tubing left over from the crank case breathing project (nice colour yellow as well), mind you John.D could have probably installed you a neat rear mount system with loads of plumbing! Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Like this? It does come from a site called "Going with the flow", so shouild be right. I presume the black thing underneath is a handle, so so you can, er, direct it. John PS Good news, Nick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted June 28, 2018 Author Share Posted June 28, 2018 I'll spare you pics of the plumbing to be removed........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerguzzi Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 3 hours ago, Nick Jones said: I'll spare you pics of the plumbing to be removed........ Hello Nick Save It will be useful for bleeding brakes etc Roger P s just give it a quick swill first! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted June 29, 2018 Author Share Posted June 29, 2018 22 hours ago, Nick Jones said: Yeah, could have phrased that better. The repairs are entirely the work of a very talented specialist surgeon and in a different league to my usual level of bodgery. So far they seem to be working very well N Should have kept my big mouth shut. All went pear-shaped in the evening when my own works stopped working for no obvious reason followed by the bastard catheter blocking. Spent a fun evening in A&E having my bladder flushed out. Another first. Now stuck with the catheter for at least another 10 days and feel like I've lost a week in the comfort and energy level stakes too. Getting so very bored with it all...... Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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