The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

I'm not have a lot of luck, the parcels I waited in for never came
my Dremel tool broke
and I can't get anybody to pick up this dam hire car.
And sad day tomorrow my car goes to the scrap yard "rust in peace" old girl you served me well

Maybe it's their way of saying they don't want it back.

Hide it somewhere, away from the house, then ring them up and ask what do you do with the keys they left.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Our eldest is down from Warrington for a few days, first time we've seen him since Xmas, picked him up from the station just before lunch, they're refurbishing the station and its a right mess, got home and his brother had popped round. I went down the local take away for batches and sandwiches for lunch and found myself behind a 1965 registered Wolseley 1500 at the lights, it looked tiny compared to my Suzuki Swift and thats not a big car. I also managed to get a line full of towels dried before it clouded over and started looking threatening.
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[oldwheels]

@oldwheels you may be interested in this YouTube video. It is from " Big Clive " , the brother of Ralphy who does the Malt reviews. He has a water purifier / distiller which is basically a miniature Still, ostensibly for purifying water by distillation, but used by nefarious people for making hooch
He has redistilled cheap supermarket whisky, but in this video he redistills a Laphroaig single malt...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wRwi2oJDik

Will look at it later but initial comment is why?

 

[oldwheels]

Maybe it's their way of saying they don't want it back.

Hide it somewhere, away from the house, then ring them up and ask what do you do with the keys they left.

When my son had one way hire cars he left the keys on the back wheel and usually it was parked in his driveway but sometimes out across the street. They eventually vanished and nobody ever complained so they were not stolen. Sometimes it was a week or more before they were collected.

 

[12boy]

Yes ebike, rubbers and faggots or fags mean different things in the US.
Here's a pic of the fugly watering thing I've been playing with. I had a spray can of paint left so painted it in hopes it could be less ugly. I will let it cure for another day and then see if she works. It has 8 faucets for 8 soaker hoses although I may only use 4.
Be safe and well.

 

[oldwheels]

Got my phone call sorted and went out on the trike for a run as it is a nice warm sunny day. What a contrast from yesterday.
Quite a lot of traffic but I have decided since I live here I am not going to defer to tourists any more and they can just wait. Local traffic I always give way to as they have jobs to get to mostly.
The latest menace are motorbikes. I know we have some bikers on here so nothing personal.
One of two could not wait for the few seconds for me to get into a passing place and had a very close pass from behind. He had no idea I could see him but squeezed past anyway. Several convoys gave me very little clearance.
The most dangerous one was when I was driving home on a series of tight bends on a single track with poor forward visibility. A few hundred yards further on there was a good area for passing where I intended to pull over. The leader clearly tried to harass me into stopping between passing places and was practically attached to my towbar. Inevitably a car came round a blind bend and I had to slow sharpish. I thought the idiot was going to come through my back window bu he did manage to miss by swerving on to the verge.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Will look at it later but initial comment is why?

I expect it is to get more views on each others YouTube channels. Having said that, Big Clive is a very knowledgeable electrical engineer with a dry sense of humour.
I was quite surprised with the results, and of Ralphy's appraisal of the outcome.

 

[PaulSB]

Well thanks to @oldwheels @Tenkaykev and @Flick of the Elbow for filling me full of confidence ahead of my timekeeping baptism. Good news though. The organiser has spotted a couple of people from our kit supplier are turning up as sponsors........................I'm the club kit man and he's decided I should do the glad handing. Yeah! Rock 'n' Roll.

We did a familiar route in reverse today. Turned out to be 36 miles and 2800 feet. I hadn't expected that. We usually turn it in to a 50 miler but felt something shorter ahead of the hill climb evening appropriate. I've seen a few names from our club who are turning out. Proving once again organising is far preferable to competing.

 

[Juan Kog]

It's club hill climb championship tonight, part of a series of five between ourselves and two other local clubs. We host this one and it doubles up as the club championship. Some idiot has designated me Start Timekeeper. Never done this before. I've gently protested, gently hinted at my nervousness, all to no avail. I really do not want to do this for fear of screwing up big time. Get it wrong by a second? I hate to think.

Hill climbs in May ,you do things differently in Lancashire. Early May to early August it’s evening 10’s . October for the club hill climb competition ( a single event) . This is followed 2 weeks later by my specialist event the freewheel competition ,for which I train enthusiastically .
In 2019 I thought I was in peak condition for the freewheel competition , then I realised I was up against a club mate who is also a member of CAMRA ( campaign for real ale ) . In the event we were both beaten by some one who looked like they needed several good dinners in them .

 

[oldwheels]

I expect it is to get more views on each others YouTube channels. Having said that, Big Clive is a very knowledgeable electrical engineer with a dry sense of humour.
I was quite surprised with the results, and of Ralphy's appraisal of the outcome.

What I meant was why would anyone want to redistill Laphroaig?
I tend to be a bit spare with words which leads to misunderstandings. Sorry.

 

[gavroche]

In the end, I went for the hilly ride, only 18.5 miles at 12.8 average mph but legs are a bit tired now. Rest for 2 or 3 days before next ride .

 

[classic33]

Well thanks to @oldwheels @Tenkaykev and @Flick of the Elbow for filling me full of confidence ahead of my timekeeping baptism. Good news though. The organiser has spotted a couple of people from our kit supplier are turning up as sponsors........................I'm the club kit man and he's decided I should do the glad handing. Yeah! Rock 'n' Roll.

We did a familiar route in reverse today. Turned out to be 36 miles and 2800 feet. I hadn't expected that. We usually turn it in to a 50 miler but felt something shorter ahead of the hill climb evening appropriate. I've seen a few names from our club who are turning out. Proving once again organising is far preferable to competing.

You're now the Meet N'Greet Shake.

 

[oldwheels]

I expect it is to get more views on each others YouTube channels. Having said that, Big Clive is a very knowledgeable electrical engineer with a dry sense of humour.
I was quite surprised with the results, and of Ralphy's appraisal of the outcome.

I found it quite interesting and amid all the bullshit there was a lot of truth.
At Littlemill we were distilling peat for the flavours and quite illegally adding them to the still before distillation so experimentation was built into my job there which was basically General Manager. I also used gas chromatography to analyse the various stages of distillation. We were a decidedly offbeat outfit and the Managing Director was known in the trade as The Mad American. He had been a bootlegger in an earlier life. I was starting to experiment with the prospect of fish farming using some of the by products but unfortunately the MD and principle shareholder died and all that had to stop and the fun went out of the job.
I noticed also a mention of Ledaig I think tho' he mangled the pronunciation I could not be sure. If it was the early stuff which was not unlike an Islay malt I probably made it. Later under new ownership standards were ordered to be different and the later production was not the same.
The pronunciation is difficult to put down on paper but Lejag with the emphasis on the Le is the nearest I can get.

 

[Mo1959]

Going to give the new 6 part crime drama on Channel 4 a go.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

No @Dave7 today? I hope all is well.