Delta's Earl Grey Break 2014

[terence]

PG Tips Gewinner!

[Mike Bell]

Yorkshire tea, although at odds with Delta's place of birth....... Any Cornish tea about?

I know at least one historic racer that has historic aircraft as well. Helps with Revival entries. Not a Bristol driver though, modern thinking gentleman's carriage is an Alpina diesel......

[midgetman]

What about Streeter's Larkins Interlude given the amount of bar-room ramblings here ��?

Can't wait for the racing season and a dose of sanity to break out!

[GORDON STREETER]

Originally Posted by midgetman

What about Streeter's Larkins Interlude given the amount of bar-room ramblings here ��?

I resemble that remark !

[Tim Falce]

[QUOTE=grantp;3488010]

Originally Posted by Nick JM

Well, I suppose one could consider a Flying Boat and really go for broke. There are a few Catalinas still around I believe. I always had a soft spot for the Catalina for some reason.

I think a Sunderland may be unrealistic.





I can't think of a 3 in 1 option at the moment but no doubt someone will come up with one.

I have a photo of that flying at an air show at West Malling in the early 90s, I'll try and dig it out and scan it.

[delta]

You have got me worried now GP . Must this been the worse bout of flu I have ever had .

[grantp]

Originally Posted by delta

You have got me worried now GP . Must this been the worse bout of flu I have ever had .

Be careful then. If in doubt ... see if you can find a doctor to prescribe some antibiotics. Preferably the right ones of course ... not just any old dodgy stuff!

I had a fairly mild "cold" for 2 weeks but a darned annoying cough that I could not shake off. Not bad, just a tickle I could not get rid of or easily control. Normally with colds my head goes "fuzzy" and thinking about anything for more than 5 seconds becomes a challenge.

The last one was nothing like that - just a slight head cold and a tickly cough that eventually made me sound hoarse.

Just as that seemed to have gone the next one started. Just a head cold, no persistent cough (the original seems to have gone) but a running nose. Head not "fuzzy" (well, no more than usual) and otherwise I feel OK.

Whatever they are there seem to be a lot of them about. Maybe the predicted colder spell for the next week will help to move things along and return the nation to the level of "health" we are used to. Whatever that means.

[Tim Falce]

Originally Posted by delta

You have got me worried now GP . Must this been the worse bout of flu I have ever had .

Is it proper flu or a bad cold? I get a real dose of flu about every 5 or 10 years, by flu I mean where I go off food and sex and really really can't get out of bed for a week or so let alone post on the interweb, everything else is man flu which means sniffles and generally feeling poorly. With real flu I wouldn't care if I died.

[delta]

I don't want to die Tim .

[GORDON STREETER]

Originally Posted by Tim Falce

I go off food and sex and really really can't get out of bed for a week

I once went out with a posh bit of totty who thought that sex was something that the coal came in

[Tim Falce]

Was she Australian gordon

[Nick JM]

Originally Posted by Rudernst

have we picked a tea variety for next years Delta thread ?

Early Grey gets boring after a year.

Darjeeling, anyone ?

peppermint ?

Hagebutten ?

Rudolf

Bitburger

[GORDON STREETER]

Originally Posted by Tim Falce

Was she Australian gordon

I don't think so, although she did mention that I was big down under !

[zefarelly]

I thought Sex was what posh people put rubbish in ?

[GORDON STREETER]

This could "easily" be Iain and I discussing how to make a cup of tea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kVHdWjb7qo

[delta]

Very good Gordon thanks. Here are a couple of Tea making stories from the past. I can remember getting a telling off from my Dad once when a lad, I washed up his Mum's my Granny's T Cup..
Her cup never got washed up. She would love some of the Delta Tea mugs.
When I got shown how to make tea ,I had to boil the kettle "gas stove " then use some of that water to warm up T Pot. Can't remember how much tea I put in, "no tea bags in those days". Boiling water was poured into Tea pot then after a few minuits poured via strainer into tea cup I think from memory the milk and sugar were poured into cup before the tea???. Think this operation took about half an hour way back then.
Now, not even Mrs Delta is allowed to make my tea in the morning, and I will not have the drink out of a tea pot as it needs to be piping hot..
Just thought of another story ,every year we would holiday in Bude Cornwall at my Grandads house,We all got up first day one year and Dad was chomping at the bit to get down to the sea side. Grandad offered him a cuppa. Problem was all he had was this old stove to boil the kettle. Took about an hour for the kettle to boil. Dad was too polite to refuse. Happy days.

[Clive Brown]

Originally Posted by Nick JM

Bitburger

"Delta's Lapsang Souchong Levity".

[Nick JM]

Mrs Morrison can only drink real tea leaf tea and even then if not made to exacting standards it will be refused.

Trouble is I'm kinda following her thought process here. Once proper tea leaf tea from a pit has been sampled everything else is just waiting... To misquote a phrase

[Nick JM]

Originally Posted by Clive Brown

"Delta's Lapsang Souchong Levity".

DLSL has a creating ring to it

[grantp]

Originally Posted by GORDON STREETER

This could "easily" be Iain and I discussing how to make a cup of tea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kVHdWjb7qo

There's a short section of the video that, in the context of your observation above, is slightly worrying.

[Lancsbreaker]

Not been on for a bit as been away at our studio in Tenerife since early December - came back Boxing day.....It was a bit traumatic arriving at Manchester airport to lying and falling snow, and temperatures some 25C less than when we'd left Tenerife less than 5 hours earlier.........

The 147 showed its displeasure at being left in the APH car park for nearly 3 weeks by needing a jump start as the battery just didn't quite have enough oomph to fire it up.........but coped admirably with the snow and slush on the way home.........with only the glowing low-fuel level light to disturb the Boxing Day evening..........

So what can I say? - I was cold and tired and wanted to get home, so thought I'd just press on stop at our local filling station where I could also pick up a pint of milk........only it was closed early on Boxing Day night.......and so it came to pass, that just about 1.5 miles from home, there was a slight cough, followed by the EML glowing and the car coasting to a halt as the snow continued to fall........

Fortunately the day before we left for the holiday I'd been marshalling on Le Jog, so still had my Hi-Viz orange jacket in the boot, so I hoicked it out and set off to walk home to collect one of the other cars to get Blanche and the luggage home.............even more fortunately, Blanche managed to raise one of our neighbours who was saintly enough to turn out and met me as I was about quarter of the way home through the slush, and then continued to collect Blanche and the suitcase and deliver us home........

So which car did I use to nip out and get some milk? Well the first thought was the 4WD Honda CRV......but its battery was flat, so I hopped into the 156 V6 which purred into life and sure-footedly took me out foraging......

Rescued the 147 today, but it was a bit of a pain - got a gallon of diesel, but I could only get about 3 litres in before it started pouring down the wing......and of course the car wouldn't start......I was getting a bit cold by this time, so as I happened to have the A-frame in the Honda I hitched the 147 up and dragged it home. By the time I'd got home I checked and as I took the filler cap off there was a hiss and the neck was clear of fuel - so I put in the rest of the diesel from the can - but it still wouldn't start. Went off, got another gallon of diesel, and the same palaver - only about 2-3 litres before it was "full to the brim".........Eventually, after repeatedly turning the ignition on for a few seconds, listening to funny gurgling noise, then turning it off again, the level in the filler neck dropped and I got the rest of the can in....further on and off action, and eventually some prolonged churning over was rewarded by the happy rattling of the 1.9 JTDm bursting into life - to much relief from me.........

So top tip from me - don't let your Alfa diesel run out of fuel...........especially not when its snowing!

And having caught up with the 10 pages or so of this thread I'd missed, I reckoned the Bristol was a 405 - reminded me of a "Spot-on" model I had in the early 60s.......I seem to recollect that the late-lamented LJK Setright was a great advocate of Bristols, and used to wax lyrical in Car magazine about them in the 60s and 70s....

[GORDON STREETER]

Originally Posted by Lancsbreaker

So top tip from me - don't let your Alfa diesel run out of fuel...........especially not when its snowing!

Not only an Alfa but any "modern common rail" diesel car or van ! they can be a sod to restart after changing fuel filters without using vacuum pumps or pressurizing the tank as most mechanics will tell you.

[gary396]

Out for a quiet walk on the moors and some 'oik' goes and parks right in the middle of the path. And you racers think you have problems with paddock parking!

P.s. Happy New Year everyone.

[GORDON STREETER]

Originally Posted by gary396

Out for a quiet walk on the moors and some 'oik' goes and parks right in the middle of the path. And you racers think you have problems with paddock parking!

P.s. Happy New Year everyone.

Great picture by the way !

[GORDON STREETER]

We were walking about in Carboneras yesterday and they were erecting a memorial to Eddie Fowlie who was the effects man for the great David Lean.
Not many people know that the originalDr Zhivago was filmed in and around Caboneras and the snow scene (before CGI) was created by using tons of local marble dust.
Eddie lived in Carboneras and ran a hotel until his death a while back and was a larger than life character who didn't suffer fools gladly !!!!