The Night Mail

[Tony_S]

37 minutes ago, PupCam said:

 

Blimey what classic vehicle do the Hunts drive I wonder!    And how many wires does the magneto have?  

 

(I've just checked;  no mags on a Hunter, Hillman or otherwise 🤣)

I think @Winslow Boy had been watching a recently broadcast Agatha Christie’s TV programme where the Lagonda being driven by the amateur sleuths was sabotaged by having the magneto wires cut. 

[polybear]

47 minutes ago, PupCam said:

And how many wires does the magneto have?  

 

Why does a posh choc ice on a stick have wires??

Bear confused.

 

[Happy Hippo]

14 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Why does a posh choc ice on a stick have wires??

Bear confused.

 

Hippo would suggest to Bear that licking the end of Dirty Harry's Magneto would probably end in tears (foe a microsecond)

[SM42]

What a pleasant  if damp day pottering up and down the SVR in good company. 

Managed to travel behind every loco on the roster but avoided the pannier

 

Didn't have to wait more than 30 minutes anywhere, didn't get too wet, met several people I know and chatted to a few I didn't. 

Nice pint of Worcestershire Way on thd train and home to coffee and cake. 

 

Mrs SM42 has gone out with her friend for dinner and so it's hhe chippy for me. 

 

Andy

Edited April 14, 2023 by SM42

[polybear]

19 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Hippo would suggest to Bear that licking the end of Dirty Harry's Magneto .......

 

That conjures imagines that Bear is gonna need bleach to get rid of......😱

[Winslow Boy]

4 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

That conjures imagines that Bear is gonna need bleach to get rid of......😱

 

I know Bear I know and to think we're a 'family' orientated thread as well.

[Tony_S]

38 minutes ago, SM42 said:

Nice pint of Worcestershire Way on thd train and home to coffee and cake. 

We went for a pub lunch today on our way over to keep MiL company. I was driving.  I usually have something like diet Coke when driving but I tried the no alcohol Guinness today. It isn’t quite the same as normal Guinness but I would drink it again instead of diet cola. 

[Happy Hippo]

1 hour ago, SM42 said:

 

Managed to travel behind every loco on the roster but the pannier

 

Never mind, here are a few to brighten up the evening:

 

[New Haven Neil]

54 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

We went for a pub lunch today on our way over to keep MiL company. I was driving.  I usually have something like diet Coke when driving but I tried the no alcohol Guinness today. It isn’t quite the same as normal Guinness but I would drink it again instead of diet cola. 

 

I drink that quite a bit now, I find it quite OK for unleaded, whereas other alcohol-free beers I find have an evil after-taste.  I have had worse pints of 4 star Guinness!

[Adam88]

5 hours ago, polybear said:

 

I saw a Bus in Bombay where the rubber on the tyres was practically non-existent - there was plenty of canvas showing though.

 

The other evening I watched a classic 1960 comedy film, 'School for Scoundrels', in which an upstanding and most respectable s/h car dealer, played by Peter Jones, was seen painting new treads on a completely bald tyre.

[Northmoor]

5 hours ago, polybear said:

 

I saw a Bus in Bombay where the rubber on the tyres was practically non-existent - there was plenty of canvas showing though.

I and a few other sixth-formers once changed a flat tyre for some pupil's parent who had just dropped them off at the school.  This Mini then wouldn't start but one of us fiddled with some leads and got it going.  Their spare tyre was almost completely bald, but it was the almost complete absence of the offside inner wing that I found more concerning.......

[polybear]

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

Never mind, here are a few to brighten up the evening:

 

 

Shouldn't there be a compulsory Health Warning before adding photos like that?

[Winslow Boy]

7 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Shouldn't there be a compulsory Health Warning before adding photos like that?

 

You should realise by know that HH likes to live dangerously.

[AndyID]

34 minutes ago, Northmoor said:

I and a few other sixth-formers once changed a flat tyre for some pupil's parent who had just dropped them off at the school.  This Mini then wouldn't start but one of us fiddled with some leads and got it going.  Their spare tyre was almost completely bald, but it was the almost complete absence of the offside inner wing that I found more concerning.......

 

 Some years ago my school pals Ginger and Colin were driving Ginger's Renault 4CV through the Clyde Tunnel. They were on the steep downhill bit when they were overtaken by a car's wheel. It was one of the Renault's rear wheels 😀

[Dave Hunt]

Well, the second visit to the second circle of hell kitchen place wasn't too bad. I couldn't take up on the many helpful bits of advice from TNMers as, a.) We have two cars b.) One of them is a diesel and I don't think an electric ignition system is at its heart, and c.) Even the one that does have some sort of electrical ignition has a big shield over the engine and, to be frank, I don't honestly have much idea of what goes on under it. I do sometimes hanker after the days when you didn't need a mainframe computer to do anything to a car and all the wires and pipes made sense.

 

Anyway, the kitchen plan has been settled on making use of all the current white goods, the range cooker and several other bits and pieces and although my wallet is still having treatment it is out of intensive care and should eventually recover, albeit not to its former state of rude health.  

 

Dave

[Dave Hunt]

I now have a rant. After a day's absence from TNM and the trauma of this morning's SWMBO led expedition into the darkest regions of Shrewsbury's torture shopping emporia I was hoping for some light relief among my understanding friends. Instead of that, what do I find.....?

 

Pictures of PANNIERS !!**💥😝

 

Deeply Disturbed of North Hipposhire

[Dave Hunt]

15 minutes ago, AndyID said:

 

 Some years ago my school pals Ginger and Colin were driving Ginger's Renault 4CV through the Clyde Tunnel. They were on the steep downhill bit when they were overtaken by a car's wheel. It was one of the Renault's rear wheels 😀

 

An uncle of mine was a REME driver/mechanic during WW2 and told me how he was once riding as second man in a Matador truck towing some sort of large trailer (can't remember exactly what) over the Cat and Fiddle at night with only masked blackout lights. When going down the western side of the pass the driver said, "Bl00dy 'ell, some nutter's trying to overtake us on the inside," braked and swerved to the right. Both of them were somewhat nonplussed when the 'nutter' turned out to be their own trailer, which continued serenely on until it disappeared over the edge of the road into the darkness.

 

Dave 

[polybear]

20 minutes ago, AndyID said:

 

 Some years ago my school pals Ginger and Colin were driving Ginger's Renault 4CV through the Clyde Tunnel. They were on the steep downhill bit when they were overtaken by a car's wheel. It was one of the Renault's rear wheels 😀

 

A Guy at work was once spotted sewing the outer wings of his 2CV on (after drilling loads of holes first) using stainless steel locking wire; apparently he'd bought it for a hundred quid and after using it to go to Warton (Lancashire) and back he'd made enough profit on the mileage rates to pay for it.

He also used it to collect a mate from Heathrow one freezing January Day - with the canvas roof rolled back.  His mate says to him "For F. sake Ray, can't we have the roof up - I'm freezin' me nutz off here", to which Ray replied that there was a hole in the exhaust - and one in the floor - and if the roof was up you gassed yourself.

This is the same Ray that when his Wife said she kept getting electric shocks off the Washing Machine he told her to wear wellies and turn it on and off with a broom handle.....

[Winslow Boy]

36 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

A Guy at work was once spotted sewing the outer wings of his 2CV on (after drilling loads of holes first) using stainless steel locking wire; apparently he'd bought it for a hundred quid and after using it to go to Warton (Lancashire) and back he'd made enough profit on the mileage rates to pay for it.

He also used it to collect a mate from Heathrow one freezing January Day - with the canvas roof rolled back.  His mate says to him "For F. sake Ray, can't we have the roof up - I'm freezin' me nutz off here", to which Ray replied that there was a hole in the exhaust - and one in the floor - and if the roof was up you gassed yourself.

This is the same Ray that when his Wife said she kept getting electric shocks off the Washing Machine he told her to wear wellies and turn it on and off with a broom handle.....

 

Ah they built them well in the good old days, that's wives by the way.

[Winslow Boy]

4 hours ago, Tony_S said:

I think @Winslow Boy had been watching a recently broadcast Agatha Christie’s TV programme where the Lagonda being driven by the amateur sleuths was sabotaged by having the magneto wires cut. 

 

The trouble is I don't have a shed you see so I have to keep myself amused somehow. The alternative was logging on and seeing how much my gas and electricity was going to cost me- its always good for a laugh, once you've picked yourself up off the floor of course.

[Dave Hunt]

15 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

The trouble is I don't have a shed you see .........

 

I can rent some space in my shed to you providing you only model the Midland Railway.

 

Dave 

[Happy Hippo]

31 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

The trouble is I don't have a shed you see 

Dear Lord, we ease off because he suggests we are mean and cruel with our polite comments and assistance about sheds, so we shut up.

 

Now, after a slight pause, he brings the subject up again. 

 

But it has given me an idea for a book, or even a series.

 

A shed full of panniers.

A few sheds of panniers more

The pannier, the shed and the hippo.

Shedding light on pannier tanks:  A technical appreciation.

Panniers on Shed.

One of our panniers is missing (From the shed).

 

[SM42]

Shed and the art of pannier maintenance 

 

Andy

[J. S. Bach]

2 hours ago, polybear said:

Shouldn't there be a compulsory Health Warning before adding photos like that?

NO!

One has even managed to make it over here! Green, no less!

 

Edited April 14, 2023 by J. S. Bach

[Northmoor]

24 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Dear Lord, we ease off because he suggests we are mean and cruel with our polite comments and assistance about sheds, so we shut up.

 

Now, after a slight pause, he brings the subject up again. 

 

But it has given me an idea for a book, or even a series.

 

A shed full of panniers.

A few sheds of panniers more

The pannier, the shed and the hippo.

Shedding light on pannier tanks:  A technical appreciation.

Panniers on Shed.

One of our panniers is missing (From the shed).

 

Those Magnificent Men in their Pannier Machines.... There could be stage version, performed by a dance troupe: Pan(nier)'s People.

 

I've got my coat.....