mpbarrett Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 On 8/20/2023 at 3:20 PM, JohnD said: In contrast, I have just finished a very NOT bollocks weekend, hosting my children and their families, nine of us. They all came so that we could go to the the Duke's Theatre Lancaster Play in the Park. This year with no lack of ambition, it's "Around the World in Eighty Days". With scenes in India, America and on the High Seas, when asked afterwards which bits they liked best, said, "All of it!" That plus two 8yo boys racketing around the house, this time having chosen to print out wanted notices for criminal cats (???) and play in the race car, "Grandpa, be a policeman!" And two 4-5 yo's with as much energy, I'm now collapsed! GREAT weekend! Love it! John We have had the grandchildren this week and agree its completely knackering, I fully understand why you have children when you are young! They found my engine crane in the garage (I was using it to lift a OD gearbox onto a workbench), they thought this was great and spent ages lifting stuff up and down. They then wanted to use the garage tools to make a wooden bed for a toy bunny which I helped them do. We have had a lovely time with them, they are only 5 and 8 once and seem to grow so quickly we have to enjoy it while we can. mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John I Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 12 hours ago, Nick Jones said: Yesterday…. At work. Toy car amongst modern behemoths. Honey I shrunk the........that’s just mental why do they need to be so huge. When we were kids my parents had a herald estate, we’d go on camping hols, two adults 14 and 11 year olds Great Dane and camping gear. Think the two tents and assorted gear went on roof rack. It was cosey and fragrant especially the dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Yeah…. Remember all 5 of us driving from London to northern Scotland in a Herald saloon. Long day…. We (the kids) we’re fairly small then. Later on all five of us would often go camping in a Mk3 Cortina saloon. That was a very full car. We even spent the night in it once in no man’s land between the border posts of Zambia and Tanzania. That was a long night. Probably should have paid the bribe….. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escadrille Ecosse Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 3 hours ago, John I said: Honey I shrunk the........that’s just mental why do they need to be so huge. They don't.. of course I was up north at the house doing some surveying (sorting land registry issues). Weather was a bit showery but I also managed a couple of very decent rides on the bike. And tried out our new access gate. Needs a bit of work where it joins the track as the second attempt separated the joint on the left exhaust pipe And I filled up with petrol at the local garage before I left. This was to full from a little more that a quarter of a tank. Jeez! Did a little shy of 400 miles, with a fair bit of give and take on the smaller roads and got a little under 28mpg overall. Which I thought was pretty decent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 A car to envy that one. Glad you are getting some payback from recent efforts on it! Engine management should get you well into the 30s…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 so that’s who keeps dumping on my grass - dirty dog! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 For fox sake! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escadrille Ecosse Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 41 minutes ago, JohnD said: For fox sake! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escadrille Ecosse Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 (edited) Been back a couple of days now but last Monday I was up at Croabh Haven to a pal's yacht which the three of us sailed back to his winter mooring at Fairlie. Been a long time since I have done any offshore sailing so I was very much looking forward to it. Down to Crinan and through the canal to Ardrishaig and Tarbert. Then down Loch Fyne (of herring fame) and back up past Tignabruaich and through the Kyles of Bute. South past Rothesay, with an overnight at the Holy Loch (where the US used to keep their nuclear subs). Then as man three lives on the Rosneath peninsula we sailed over to drop him off before heading down past Largs to Fairlie. Superb weather and the West Coast was as stunning as ever Craobh Haven heading for Crinan On the canal Sunrise over Tarbert Arran Looking up the Clyde estuary to Loch Long and the Arrochar Alps in the distance. What a stunning entry/departure point. Morning at Holy Loch and our home for the few days Edited September 3, 2023 by Escadrille Ecosse 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 Oh yeah! Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 Gorgeous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 Beautiful and interesting to have a keel boat on the canal !! reminds me of sailing/racing with my dad never did get over seasickness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escadrille Ecosse Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 55 minutes ago, Hamish said: Beautiful and interesting to have a keel boat on the canal !! reminds me of sailing/racing with my dad never did get over seasickness Nice boat that Hamish. Spinnaker out Crinan was built as a ship canal for the coastal trade around the West Coast - as imortalised in Para Handy and the Vital Spark - to avoid the extremely long and somewhat exposed route round the Mull of Kintyre. So it has the locks and depth to take the bigger 'outside' puffers that could get out into the Minch and the Outer Hebrides. My pals boat is a 36' and you'll fit four of them in the Crinnan locks. They are very big if you are used to narrowboat canal locks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrookster Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 5 hours ago, Escadrille Ecosse said: as imortalised in Para Handy and the Vital Spark One of these, for those who haven't seen one. Sorry, I only have a pic of the stern lol. Ohh, and this is moored in the basin at Crinan btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escadrille Ecosse Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 5 hours ago, thebrookster said: One of these, for those who haven't seen one. Sorry, I only have a pic of the stern lol. Ohh, and this is moored in the basin at Crinan btw. More steam McPhail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRooster Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 Think I got the use out of this strimmer head, ground down so much it started to cut it's own wires. In it's defence it's done a hell of a lot clearance. Time for a new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 Sometimes….. you just have to let go…. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 On 9/3/2023 at 7:10 PM, Hamish said: Beautiful and interesting to have a keel boat on the canal !! reminds me of sailing/racing with my dad never did get over seasickness I went to see the new Top Gun movie the other night, at the Duke's "Sunset Screening", open air in the Park- fun! Amazing flying sequences, natch. How do they do that? Cruise, famously, "does his own stunts", but flying an F-35? Do they superimpose his face in another's helmet? Anyway, and unexpectedly, there is a sailing scene! He's out with a girlfriend, who instructs him to pull that rope - Afterburner on! and the spinnaker goes up. Less realistic than the flying, but then what do I know of flying a jet fighter? No life jackets! Tut! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escadrille Ecosse Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 The red rope. Difficult to see but looks like it is the traveller for the the jib sheet, not anything to do with the spinnaker as that isn't set yet and anyway it is set on the opposite beam when you see Mr Cruise hauling it up later. However when the spinnaker fills running downwind there is a very definite 'afterburner effect' They are American, and like motorbike helmets lifejackets are for wimps... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 Yes, Mr.Cruise rides his motorbike in the film, as he did in the original, in donor mode. The film is an awful example of American foreign policy bombast (Excuse me, any cousins reading this) but is full of exciting flying. Worth a visit, IMHO. JOhn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 On 8/13/2023 at 9:53 PM, Nick Jones said: No doubt the throttle has become unhooked from the governor..... Nick, you are not only a steely-eyed engineering man, but you are an ace diagnostician! Today, collected mower from the shop I bought it from. What was the problem? "Governor spring". Was it broken? No, it was missing. What??? Yes, it happens. Do you mow under bushes, the branches can reach in and hook it out. Well, I don't, but surely a design fault somewhere. Anyway, I know who to call, and it's not Ghostbusters! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRooster Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 1 hour ago, JohnD said: The film is an awful example of American foreign policy bombast Exactly that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escadrille Ecosse Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 10 minutes ago, RedRooster said: Exactly that. I take it the pair of you have list that loving feeling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRooster Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 Brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 "Great, Then I Won't Have To Worry About You Making Your Living As A Singer." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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