Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Corposant on February 21, 2015, 01:57:38 pm
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Gardening is bad for you - it can damage your health. O0
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Mike
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Trod on a rake? :o
DM
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Dug up the wife's favourite rose bush?
Rich
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Hi Dave & Rich
No, tripped up on the rockery - ended up between a hard place and a rock!
Mike
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Ouch...maybe take more water with it?
That's one problem I don't have. It'd be a mite difficult having a rockery in a first floor flat...
Rich
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ended up between a hard place and a rock!
Mike
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Oops, sorry Mike... <:(
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Gardening ugh! I leave that to swmbo while I build boats, she tried to get me involved once, I pulled up a few plants and said I thought they were weeds, ho well back to building boats. %% {-) {-)
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I pulled up a few plants and said I thought they were weeds
A cunning plan on your part :)
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Ouch...maybe take more water with it?
That's one problem I don't have. It'd be a mite difficult having a rockery in a first floor flat...
Rich
Wot no water supply? {:-{
You could always have a rookery {-)
Ned
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We do have a jackdawery...will that do, Ned?
Rich
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You Defo don't want Jackdaws Rich,
The Nick all the shiny bits you have lined up for
Motorflote.
Will try and get some photos of my old one when
the owner gets out of hospital.
What do you want?
Insides, undersides or what?
You have my photos in the water.
Can you email me the plans and build notes.
No need to mail them, just send to email addy
and I can print them off no probs.
I hope you cover up your boats when you are
in the boodwer with a bare footed lady :D :D :D
Ned
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I find the jackdaws highly comical things, they strut about the lawns as though they own the place, they thing nothing of standing up to the seagulls which we are plagued with. I used to have a magpie who would come every morning, tap on the window, and wait for his breakfast...toast or cornflakes, eggs n' bacon, he didn't mind. He came for a couple of years, regular as clockwork, then one morning...no magpie. I guess he met his end somehow, poor old fella.
Now, where were we...oh yes, photos. Anything will be gratefully received Ned...internal, external, top/bottom...anything and everything.
I'll scan everything I have and get them emailed off to you, mate...they are on my other laptop.
The lady in question was slightly surprised to find boats in the wardrobe, on top of the wardrobe, under the bed, in the hall, and in the front room. She hasn't seen the attic yet...
She thinks the Akula looks 'sexy'...her words, not mine. ;D
Rich
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they are on my other laptop.
Hark at Rich.... multiple laptops eh?
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Place is full of the things, E2V...three...no, four laptops, a desktop and a tablet. And a reasonably intelligent so called smart fone.
Rich
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Thats what you get when you try to put your wife in a hole in the ground while she's still breathing. {-)
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I could have done that quite cheerfully on more than one occasion...
Rich
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False teeth of madam jumped you with the face?
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Dunno about taking more water with it. "Instead of" might have been effective.
Removal of "weeds" got me banned from my garden some 45 years ago. I am now told, having lost my gardener some 5 years ago, that her roses need "dead heading". I've looked up the instructions, but they might as well be in Swahili.
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Its all a cover up..... what he actually did was answered the question "Should I wear the red or the blue one?" asked by his wife {-)
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Which leads to the inevitable question that wives everywhere ask their poor defenceless husbands...'does my bum look big in this' . You are dammed if you answer that question, you are dammed if you don't.
Never answer that, just look at your watch and mutter something completely unintelligible and find something very important to do elsewhere.
Rich
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The secret is not to fall for the"do I look all right in this" one to be avoided at all costs,wait till she is dressed and say she looks wonderful works every time,Ray.
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Which leads to the inevitable question that wives everywhere ask their poor defenceless husbands...'does my bum look big in this' . You are dammed if you answer that question, you are dammed if you don't.
Never answer that, just look at your watch and mutter something completely unintelligible and find something very important to do elsewhere.
Rich
When I was pretending to be a Civil Servant, I got asked (well, me and the two other guys doing the mail) this very question by a young lady in her new jeans and she was responded to by a trio of Les Dawson impressionists going "ohhh!! yeeessss!!". The question never arose again. Oddly.
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Thanks Brian, Rich, Gazou, Malcolm, Essex2visuvesi and Ray for all your suggestions and advice! O0
I was actually trying to dig out the root of a fern at the time - which would have left a hole, but not quite big enough to accommodate Mrs Corposant. :-) I wasn't aware of any flying false teeth at that moment in time!
Over the years (53 next month!) I have learned the art of diplomacy with respect to anatomy and attire. ;D But I've obviously not learned the lesson about venturing into the garden! :(( (I did make a valiant attempt to kill the Astilbe with weed-killer once, thinking it was Ground Elder - that didn't go down too well. %) )
I must try to do better in future!
Mike
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If it can't be done with a chainsaw from a distance or the mower, then it doesn't get done in our garden til the brother in law (professional gardener) comes round.
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(I did make a valiant attempt to kill the Astilbe with weed-killer once, thinking it was Ground Elder - that didn't go down too well. %) )
At my home that does not want to push! In my big despair in ........
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Tug
The mind boggles as to what I could achieve with a chainsaw! %%
Gazou
Is is the Astilbe you need help with or the Ground Elder? :D
Mike
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Hi Corposant
I adore Astilbes but at my home it is too hot, the ground is not acid and not wet
Too bad!
<:(
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HI Rich if you found a woman that likes boats you had better hang on to her, she is a rare breed & not easily found, has she been in the bathroom yet ?. Mick B.
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HI Rich if you found a woman that likes boats you had better hang on to her, she is a rare breed & not easily found, has she been in the bathroom yet ?. Mick B.
A rare breed indeed, Mick...she was very attentive when I explained the workings of the Akula to her, and I think she sort of understood my description of how to insert the torpedoes, build up the operating pressure, and then fire... ;D
Rich
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ok2 My boats are banned in the bathroom Mick,goes back to the time when I had this boat with a leak that I could not find so I filled the bath and added some red veg dye,found the leak but spent 2 days cleaning the bath and I was in the dog house for ages and I will not do that again,many years latter and I now know how far I can push the envelope,so lesson learned keep the little lady happy and she will let you play your boats,Ray. ok2
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I can remember a silly thing I did many years ago...I fired up the OPS .65 motor in my MRH Silak and put it in the bath to sort the settings out on the carb. I shouldn't have done that....
Most of the water in the bath went on the ceiling, the rest was all over the walls and the floor, and whole house stank of nitro fuel for days.
To say that the wife of the time wasn't impressed is a massive understatement...I was threatened with all sorts of nasty sounding medical things if I ever did that again.
I went over to electric powered boats shortly afterwards... ;D
Rich