I would just like to say

WhiskyLassie said:

Compared to June the price of oil has gone right down. I hope it won't be as painfull. Do you have a wee oil coop in your community. See if you can get together and get a trade account and order oil and get it a bit cheaper.

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Not if you live where I do! Only three of us own our own homes - one is still renovating the chapel, one has gas and I'm oil, the other eight are owned by the same 'not very poor' farming family and use a biomass boiler system.

Dippypud said:

Still raining here ....

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And 'ere. I went away and it rained almost constantly for five days, I drove home in the rain and it's been raining ever since with plenty more promised.

See Waffen is back from his holidays…

Colthebrummie said:

Since @Stanleysteamer has buggered off somewhere, I wish you a speedy recovery from him as well.

Col

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Ta mate!
i have been incommunicado till today as bno wifi nor phone signal oop norf, so left lappy behind!
so yes @WhiskyLassie hope you have recovered by now!

kevstar said:

wots the yellow fing on the cont@iner ive seen somit like th@t before

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Judges Dread special i think, and I am replying wivout going to t end of thread cos I have been trawling through this forum since getting back, (well it feels like it!) and am being lazy!

Hippo said:

Tis a judge dredd body. Lr were asked to make a viccul for the film. There's a full one at the gaydon motor museum.

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Hee Hee. i love it on the rare occasions when i get summat right!

Hippo said:

My turn to heat fings up ter nite. Chopped up spud covered in baked beans. Eated while watching telly. Rising damp. Which reminds me. Wonder how far @Stanleysteamer got before breaking down on ollyday.

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I'll tell you when I get to the end of reading all I''ve missed on this thread!!

Colthebrummie said:

I sometimes think, the way people act when they are drunk is what they are really like, only social conformity makes them behave themselves when sober.

Col

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In vino veritas!!!!!!

kevstar said:

my wee bro w@s @sked to go to his works night out he told the l@ds i dont like working with yous
why the fk would i go drinking with yezz.

yer better in the hoose in the w@rm you dont h@ve @ll the cr@p @t the end of the night
peeps were s@ying its @ nightm@re getting t@xis home.

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One works Xmas do, i never went for all the reasons mentioned above.
Regretted it later though, as all my work mates told me how a really hot secretary kept coming up to them asking when I was coming!
She worked for a really sh!te boss and then went off with shingles, never came back.
Still, it kpet me faithful!

Hicap phill said:

Evening.
I have the sickness bug… been trying to get rid of it since Monday. Mrs also has it so that means a quiet Christmas at home.
We have put a the celebrations back a few weeks.(other extended family are sick as well)

Now to find some food for the next few days off. Have asked the mrs if she will cope with a Christmas with me at home…. So far this is number 3 in 30 years

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Will break off from my perusal of all the weeks posts I've missed to simply say, whata sh!t and i hope things are better for you both now.

Turktowner said:

Off to the bolthole in the Forest today, see you all at Stan's later?

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LOL!!!

My Old Landy said:

Indeed, I will be there to polish off the soft drink section

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Yuo'll be thirsty then!!!

kevstar said:

Theres lo@ds of stell@

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No there feckin ain't!! Lager? no chance!!!

swisstoe said:

Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas.
Sorry i have not not been around for a while, i'm very ill.

swiss

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I'm sorry to hear that.
Do hope you had a good Christmas , or as good as possible.

kevstar said:

Eye is in the good books c@use I bought @ new suite, gets delivered on frid@y.

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Hope you got new shoes and a tie to go with it

Not long back in lovely Renfrewshire, it’s 4 degrees and I think I’ve got a bout of hypothermia. My own fault for arriving back wearing only a pair of speedos I suppose

God ain't there a load of posts on here when you go away for a week?
Still, had a great time! the weather amazingly was good every day until the day we had to drive from where we were, near Ingleton, to Hull then back home. Feckin rain most of the time and motorways closed all over the place, or just jammed up wiv Lunduners going home. (See M40 on which we only wanted to do 1 section, A 43 to A34.)
So, food good, presssies nice, couldn't plug the Humax box into the aerial as it had the wrong end fitting on it, so just watched what was on or the tons of stuff already recorded.
It rained at night and the Disco let rather a lot of rain in from the front of the sunroof so had to put a bin liner and washleather over the electric stuff we connect to the cigar lighter.
W did a magnificent job mapreading with a torch to get us round the traffic jams and off the M ways.
Gawd my bruv has changed over the past 30 years. But seemed remarkably chipper considering the bits of his bod that are missing. His doc tells him he is clear of cancer so he's chuffed as you'd expect. Just hope it lasts.
And did the Disco break down?
Weeeeeeeeeeell.....yes and no. Driving back to the cottage on the first day there there was a sort of pop then a lacking in power. No smoke, no steam, no rise in temp. I told W I thought it was an intercooler /turbo pipe had popped.
Twas interesting driving, on the flat it was OK, but coming out of Ingleton towards Hawes there is a good steep incline and it really crawled up it. But it made it back so I could pop the bonnet and have a look-see.
Sure enough the new silicone hose had decided to pop one of the ends off.
Searched in my stuff until I found a pack of jubilee clips and there was one that would replace the missing one. Fixed the following morn, (bettern I'd done it the first time) and off we went!
So didn't spoil the hol one bit.
Went to the west coast for once. Morecambe bay etc.
The Tan Hill Inn was pretty crowded even though we avoided the days closer to Christmas.
Saw snow, ice, wind, hail, and rain, of course, but nothing to bother us. Lots of flooding though.
I'll look through my pics later and put up any that may be of general interest.
Sleep tite folks and I hope you all had a Happy Christmas, you seem to have, mostly.
Stan

kevstar said:

my misses boils em

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Since we had this convo a week ago or so, W tells me that peeps used to boil their bangers in the old days cos the skins were "animal" to put it politely and boiling made em easier to cook and eat!
Maybe this tradition still carries on although largely no longer needed.

One funny thing that happened while we were away.
The cottage came with a dishwasher, which isn't often the case.
W loaded and put it on once but this DW has a button marked "tabs" and we got it wrong, pressing the button at the wrong time. (No manual) so I fished the tab out and the next time I managed to get it to release on time, then she did it again, then the third time I loaded it and looked into the base of the machine to find...........

Two unused tabs.!!!!!
Turned out the ones that came with the place, you have to actually open the little packet up before putting them in.
Haven't had to do that for ages.
Surprising how well a DW washes even with no detergent! (didn't feckin notice except for the glasses!)