Swift engine shuffle

I've just ben politely reminded that the village is having its Bi-annual skip delivered AND THERE MUST BE SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN PUT IN IT, this discussion we have on the odd occasion, so I sell something to appease the gods and when she's not looking I slip something by the back door, making sure that she cant fall over it. :-))

Mart> I am cream crackered, I've just spent most of the afternoon and the

i imagine the gods of the viking warrior, furrowing their collective brows at the thought of one of their own, cowing under the gaze of his wife. i cant have thought it was so in days of yore....lol chris.

Constantly! A garage full of engines (overflowing into the back garden) a dead Alfa Romeo (blew up last week) and now an expired Discovery (packed up in sympathy with the Alfa I suppose) in the driveway means that I am currently a bit short on the transport front and madam has to park outside! There is only one brownie point available and my misfortune with cars recently has counteracted any gains I might have made from re-tiling the kitchen floor ( a task I haven't managed to complete as I've been trying to resolve the transport situation)!

Obviously, my choice of the two most unreliable cars in the world today is entirely my fault and if I'd chosen German and Japanese as she did I wouldn't be in the predicament I am now!

The fact that is was p****ing with rain and the garage is full of engines meant that fixing the Discovery was not really a possibility. I can only presume that she is right, I am wrong and my brownie point will be noticeable by it's absence for the couple weeks it will take to get the cars repaired and to finish the kitchen floor (although the bank balance recovery may keep my brownie points in the red for longer than that!).

As they say; you are always in the sh**, it's just various levels of sh**. I appear to be up to my neck in it! I get no sympathy for the fact that I'm supposed to be rallying some engines this weekend but can't because my towing vehicle is defunct! I had thought of chucking a small Norman in the back of her Be Em but I suspect that would put me so far into the red (brownie-point wise) that divorce would be the only way to recover !?!

Mark.

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As they say; you are always in the sh**, it's just various levels of

Mark, What you have failed to notice is that the various levels of s**t make no difference to you when you are standing on your head. We are on a hiding to nothing, thats why we develop selective hearing especially as we get older, we cant stop the ranting we just dont here it :-))

Martin P

Nah, Life: some days, you're a pigeon, other days, a statue..

Tom

Old Chinese saying. When it's that deep - don't make waves.

John

Good advice!

I seem to have gained half a brownie point! (Or maybe I'm just not in the red at the moment) Nearly finished tiling the kitchen floor, which gave me a full brownie point, but blew some of it - being moderately fearless - by buying another car, only temporary whilst the others are being attended to, you understand!. The lack of a full brownie point seems to be due to a) having too many cars / engines (4 cars, 10 engines), b) the time it is taking me to get a round-to-it (can you get them on e-bay?) and c) until all of the above are sorted, Madam is still parking outside. Still, the spare room is quite nice and the associated peace and quiet is particularly well appreciated! Life's not so bad in a funny sort of way!

Mark

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Sixty five engines & rising - but most of them are not that big - a defunct Volvo estate, an unsold Volvo 340, a current BMW 535iSE & a Nissan Micra. An XBR500 in use and another spare in the conservatory. The VF750 arrives tomorrow.

Two CB250N's filling the back garden & the zero feedback winning bidder turns out to be in Dublin!! The 340 played up and the vendee gave it back (it was a gift). I had it all planned, this weekend would shift two bikes and a car - but all my plates fell off their sticks.

Fresh out of moral highground, brownie points and washing up tokens. Poo up to the eyelids and I'm on tippy-toe. Anyone got a couch spare?

- and it's raining .................

regards,

Kim Siddorn.

When I advance, follow me When I fight, support me When I fall - RUN!!

I've got some points I can lone out if that is of any use to anyone. :-))

Mart> Sixty five engines & rising - but most of them are not that big - a

Round Tuits are in short supply at present. It is believed that some people have been stock-piling them with little or no intent on using them for anything worthwhile. Probably trying to stimulate a black market or something. ;>

Blimey Kim!

From your list, I suspect being in the sh** must be an entirely relative proposition. Does your wife do demonstrations to other's wives the art of tolerance? :))

At least I've managed to keep the source of my brownie point deficit outside of the house (well, other than my 50+ clock collection which, by my own admission can get a bit intrusive at times)!! :))

Mark

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Well, the worst has past. I had a busy day today - into town & out again by

10.30, home to clear the e-mail traffic. Done by 12.30. Off to collect the hired trailer (booked & paid for on Friday before all my plates fell down on Saturday) & so across town to collect the Honda VF750. The previous owner was there to meet me & we wrestled it onto the trailer - it was bourn upon me that I was not going to get it off on me own! I scrounged some very sturdy steel tube & angle from his skip (a modern steel bed frame), strapped the Honda down & gingerly made my way home. It only lurched once & was soon hauled upright again.

I'm not the world's best trailer reverser, but I manage to reverse it through a narrow right angle & into the front garden without too many hastles. I spied a sturdy looking chap drilling holes in his wall up the road and walked up to request his aid. "Ah!" he said " Viking Biking man!" This was the name of the bike shop I ran for the better part of ten years and old customers still turn up. He was up for it & we had it off in short order. Took the trailer back.

I tanked up the car for my run to Canary Wharf tomorrow first thing and, returning, found petrol, jump leads and car battery. I wasn't sure, but I suspected that the vendor had not actually turned the petrol onto reserve when I went to look at it ten days ago. It didn't fire at all then & this is unusual in my considerable experience of Japanese bikes - it might not run, but usually there will be some signs of life.

I was right, a splosh of petrol, find reserve and it was running as sweet as a watch within the minute.

Ya- hey!

Better still, a squidge with a drop of Pledge brought up the red paint, unfaded from ten years in a dark garage, to a beautiful shine. It is actually in pretty good condition. Needs a front tyre, fix the seals on the RH front calliper & a pair of fork seals.

Hazel arrived about then and was actually pretty civil considering, probably mollified by the Trade it "for sale" ads I showed her. Quick bite, then off to see a new member, a violin maker and no mean swordsmith! Dropped in at Vincent Owners club night for a swift pint & so home in time for ER.

Got all my war gear ready for the morning & so to bed - well earned today, I feel!

regards,

Kim Siddorn.

Read your mythology - I think they understood this. Norse society was much less patriarchal than most others of the period - it had to be, with the menfolk sailing off to viking rallies all the time.