Kick Those Shoes Off and Relax. It's the Delta 2017 Tea Break

[bauble]

Originally Posted by Tim Falce

Best all round car I've ever had has been a 1995 Corsa with a 1500 Isuzu diesel in it that's been in the family nearly 20 years now. My daughter hit a BMW up the backside with it and flattened the front. A new rad, bonnet, slam panel and wing and £350 later it was up and running again. Sadly the engine is now dying and where the cheap front panel has rusted badly so not worth repairing any more.
The newer Corsas I've been looking at have every conceivable bit of modern convenience and safety feature as standard and specced well above my top of the range Ghia X Mondeo. The downside is they seem to depreciate more than say a VW

Depreciation is good when you are buying Tim, and if you hang on to a Corsa as long as the old one you mention, who cares about residual value.?

Over the last few years I have hired Astra, Focus, some Citroen (don't know what) and a Corsa, and much preferred the latter. Simpler to drive without too many gadgets telling me what to do.

[Mike Harte]

Originally Posted by bauble

Simpler to drive without too many gadgets telling me what to do.

Or, as referred to in the divorce courts, a wife.

[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by bauble

Viv, you truly are a complete dummy (no offence unintended) a bucket is simply a hole surrounded by tin. A bucket without any hole would be a tin.

Bauble BSC, BA, PHD, SoF.

baub, after wiping the tears from my eyes formed as a result of reading your Eulogy to the Vauxhall marque, I have a couple of questions for you as an obviously well read man and subsequently a tin expert:
1. Why is it when you open a tin of evaporated milk there is still some in there, surely it should have evaporated away?
2. Secondly, when opening a ½ pint tin of condensed milk do the contents only measure ½ pint, surely it should be more out of the tin?
I look forward to your expert, erudite explanation & solution to these problems which have troubled me for some time...

[delta]

Challenge for someone. Reading are in the final at Wembley 29th May. I'm racing at Pau that weekend and had planned to drive up to Zandvoort for the race the following weekend . What I. Red to do is leave the truck somewhere on route Sunday night or early Monday . Fly over for the game then fly back and continue to Zandvoort. Over to you for a plan . Thanks

[midgetman]

Dammit i'm working that weekend otherwise I'd love to be your "truckie"

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by delta

Challenge for someone. Reading are in the final at Wembley 29th May. I'm racing at Pau that weekend and had planned to drive up to Zandvoort for the race the following weekend . What I. Red to do is leave the truck somewhere on route Sunday night or early Monday . Fly over for the game then fly back and continue to Zandvoort. Over to you for a plan . Thanks

What is the size of your truck, Iain?

[bauble]

Originally Posted by VIVA GT

baub, after wiping the tears from my eyes formed as a result of reading your Eulogy to the Vauxhall marque, I have a couple of questions for you as an obviously well read man and subsequently a tin expert:
1. Why is it when you open a tin of evaporated milk there is still some in there, surely it should have evaporated away?
2. Secondly, when opening a ½ pint tin of condensed milk do the contents only measure ½ pint, surely it should be more out of the tin?
I look forward to your expert, erudite explanation & solution to these problems which have troubled me for some time...

I too weep Viv, but for your complete lack of knowledge of Particle Physics, Thermonuclear Dynamics, Advanced Metallurgy, and cooking.
Clearly once milk has evaporated there is no milk left except as an invisible vaporous discharge, however, there remains a cream coloured residue of sticky, glutinous 'tin filler' which as the name suggests is used for filling tins. Therefore when you purchase from your local grocer a tin of Evaporated Milk you are indeed getting evaporated milk that has evaporated prior to the tin being filled with a cream coloured, sticky ........ Oh! What's the use, you wouldn't understand.

[bauble]

Do I read it aright? Delta wants to rush from some part of Europe to get back to, of all places, Reading in order to watch a togger match?

Well apparently Luton Town FC are also involved in some 'crunch' meeting tonight that will decide their fate in some obscure competition, so I shall be rushing off to Silverstone Village to spend an evening in convivial company at a hostelry there.

Maybe I am just as mad as Delta, after all.

[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by bauble

I too weep Viv, but for your complete lack of knowledge of Particle Physics, Thermonuclear Dynamics, Advanced Metallurgy, and cooking.
Clearly once milk has evaporated there is no milk left except as an invisible vaporous discharge, however, there remains a cream coloured residue of sticky, glutinous 'tin filler' which as the name suggests is used for filling tins. Therefore when you purchase from your local grocer a tin of Evaporated Milk you are indeed getting evaporated milk that has evaporated prior to the tin being filled with a cream coloured, sticky ........ Oh! What's the use, you wouldn't understand.

Thank you for trying Baub. Obvious to me now why you were asked to join the children's TV programme HOW! in the late 60's with jack Hargreaves, Fred Dineage and Jon Miller. (Why did you call yourself Bunty James in those days? Was it just your stage name or was there more to it at the time?)
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[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by VIVA GT

Thank you for trying Baub. Obvious to me now why you were asked to join the children's TV programme HOW! in the late 60's with jack Hargreaves, Fred Dineage and Jon Miller. (Why did you call yourself Bunty James in those days? Was it just your stage name or was there more to it at the time?)
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Think you might have missed a word Viva. Should there be 'being' in front of trying in the first sentence?

[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by John Elwin

Think you might have missed a word Viva. Should there be 'being' in front of trying in the first sentence?

Thanks for the tip John, but to be fair, Baub always is so I didn't see the need to emphasise the point...

[Tim Falce]

Originally Posted by delta

Challenge for someone. Reading are in the final at Wembley 29th May. I'm racing at Pau that weekend and had planned to drive up to Zandvoort for the race the following weekend . What I. Red to do is leave the truck somewhere on route Sunday night or early Monday . Fly over for the game then fly back and continue to Zandvoort. Over to you for a plan . Thanks

As you'll be pushed for time on the Sunday, could you leave the truck at Pau, get yourself to Toulouse and fly from there. Google maps says it's 2.39 hours by bus, alternatively use one of the cars and leave it in Toulouse airport or park the truck there

[delta]

Think that's the best option Tim . Thankseveryone the Delta truck is 11 meters

[delta]

I should be able to leave in railway station

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by delta

Think that's the best option Tim . Thankseveryone the Delta truck is 11 meters

Too big for my drive! My thought was to find you somewhere secure here then could take you to Eurostar at Calais Frethun.

[Tim Falce]

Originally Posted by delta

Think that's the best option Tim . Thankseveryone the Delta truck is 11 meters

Just wondering if you could find someone who could arrange some parking on one of the many estates at the airport like here

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@43.64...2!8i6656?hl=en

[grantp]

Originally Posted by delta

Think that's the best option Tim . Thankseveryone the Delta truck is 11 meters

Iain,

Surely you know someone or someone who knows someone with a helicopter or private plane?

They could fly out a relief truckie to babysit while you are away, bring you back to see the match, then take you back to the truck and fly the relief truckie home.

Simple.

Time to go through your phone book and call in some favours ...?

[bauble]

Originally Posted by grantp

Iain,

Surely you know someone or someone who knows someone with a helicopter or private plane?

They could fly out a relief truckie to babysit while you are away, bring you back to see the match, then take you back to the truck and fly the relief truckie home.

Simple.

Time to go through your phone book and call in some favours ...?

To watch a FOOTBALL MATCH?

The world has gone mad. Mind you I suppose that would not be too much trouble to avoid having to watch one.

[andy97]

Originally Posted by delta

Challenge for someone. Reading are in the final at Wembley 29th May. I'm racing at Pau that weekend and had planned to drive up to Zandvoort for the race the following weekend . What I. Red to do is leave the truck somewhere on route Sunday night or early Monday . Fly over for the game then fly back and continue to Zandvoort. Over to you for a plan . Thanks

Sky TV mobile app, subscription to Sky Sports, a wi-FI connection and an IPad.

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by andy97

Sky TV mobile app, subscription to Sky Sports, a wi-FI connection and an IPad.

Wouldn't that lot actually cost more than flying from Toulouse to London & back? Not to mention ruining your eyesight playing 'spot the ball' on a tiddly ipad screen...

[Tim Falce]

I finally got the new car for Mrs Tim, I just need to sort out what to do with the surplus 5 or 6.

[Tim Falce]

Still on the subject of we've got a new-ish car. So no spare wheel, just a bottle of tyre weld and a compressor which could be a disaster as my wife gets a puncture at least every two months. I just fished all the CDs out of the loft so she could listen to them in her car, it has no CD player although it has DAB radio, blutoof, mp3 capability (whatever that is) and a USB port.

[grantp]

Originally Posted by bauble

The world has gone mad.

Well, yes Bob, obviously.

However seriously rich people probably don't think that way so to them it would mean little.

Anyone who can consider a £1billion bid for Arsenal, for example, must know a lot that I don't.

And the Japanese chap who has just paid several tens of millions of $s for some graffiti designs daubed by a young, long dead, junkie artist that hardly anyone is likely to have heard of, must know stuff about other matters of which I am entirely ignorant.

To settle on world madness as an explanation of everything seems like a perfect result of some measured reasoning to me.

World madness does indeed seem to be endemic these days.

[grantp]

Originally Posted by Tim Falce

Still on the subject of we've got a new-ish car. So no spare wheel, just a bottle of tyre weld and a compressor which could be a disaster as my wife gets a puncture at least every two months. I just fished all the CDs out of the loft so she could listen to them in her car, it has no CD player although it has DAB radio, blutoof, mp3 capability (whatever that is) and a USB port.

You don't need to worry about the tyre weld stiff Tim, just have a new wheel and tyre stored somewhere. No one realises tyre are punctured on new cars so a complete replacement system is likely the best option.

As I recall DAB radio may or may not be obsolescent and I read an headline yesterday that suggested the same for MP3 files - whatever they were.

We have the opposite problem. The daughters bought Management an iPod a couple of birthdays ago and with some considerable effort on their part "borrowed" and encoded all of Management's CDs that they could get hold of and loaded them on the said device ready for presentation.

On the day a load of other CD's were mentioned and these too were encoded and added to the device after some further effort by all.

The idea was to make a portable music collection - mainly for the car since that is the only place Management ever listens to music as far as anyone can tell. The car, being of an older generation, has a CD player and no socket for an iPod. So far as I know the iPod has not moved out of its box since it was returned with the updated (and now out of date) collection loaded.

We live in strange times.

[Tim Falce]

Originally Posted by grantp

As I recall DAB radio may or may not be obsolescent and I read an headline yesterday that suggested the same for MP3 files - whatever they were.

We have the opposite problem. The daughters bought Management an iPod a couple of birthdays ago and with some considerable effort on their part "borrowed" and encoded all of Management's CDs that they could get hold of and loaded them on the said device ready for presentation.

After you mentioning MP3 files the penny dropped and the last time I copied CDs on to my computer, itunes decided it didn't like them and either deleted the lot of hid them in some clouds somewhere.
Bring back 8 track, life was simple then