The 'look at what I did today' thread

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 12:09 pm

Not many people are keen on leaving their own little bubble these days.

On Thursday I was driving through countryside just north of Hartfield, near the Ashdown Forest. The roads there are very twisty with plenty of blind corners but it's national limit so most people aim to drive at 60. I was driving behind two other cars, and as we came on to a straight there was an elderly woman on foot in our side of the road. She had a potted plant in each hand and looked like she was really struggling. The two cars in front of me just weaved around her and carried on. I stopped to check she was alright! Couldn't leave her there as it was bloody dangerous, and she must have been about 80! Turned out she had no transport and had misjudged the distance between where she came from and Hartfield and wasn't strong enough to carry the plants any further. I gave her a lift back to Hartfield even though it meant I had to turn around and go back on myself and I was subsequently late to where I was going lol. God knows how many people had driven past her though. I don't know how you could drive past and not have a guilty conscience afterwards - surely it's better for everyone to just stop and help?!

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 12:31 pm

better be late than be sat at home in comfort watching a news report that the old lady had been killed/injured after you passed her by

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 5:54 pm

mercutio wrote:better be late than be sat at home in comfort watching a news report that the old lady had been killed/injured after you passed her by

Exactly mate. Couldn't believe everyone else drove on by.

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 6:05 pm

Today I started getting the barn organised:

More stuff to go in still, but with the way I'm putting the cars in I'm happy I can still get a fair few more in without it becoming a ball ache to get cars out or move around.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:22 am

4thgenphil wrote:Ah jobby donald, i was going to text you today as well to see if you wanted a bum as i was in nodg, i didn't bother as you normally blow me off and not in the good way!

I bet I know why you were in Norwich...

And yeah, Lisa and I were in Norwich in Weds. Went to the pub for lunch and everything, but didn't bother texting @Donald 'cause as you say, spends 90% of his time blowing you off

ps have they demolished The Wherry? I was trying to remember what the big gaping hole was, next to the Waterfront

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:26 am

jjmartin349571 wrote: I can still get a fair few more in without it becoming a ball ache to get cars out or move around.

Unfortunately not the case for me... (mind you, the main problem at my end is that most of them are temperamental/don't run at all and the others are in bits

Post by **Donald** » Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:28 am

wurlycorner wrote:
4thgenphil wrote:Ah jobby donald, i was going to text you today as well to see if you wanted a bum as i was in nodg, i didn't bother as you normally blow me off and not in the good way!
I bet I know why you were in Norwich...

And yeah, Lisa and I were in Norwich in Weds. Went to the pub for lunch and everything, but didn't bother texting @Donald 'cause as you say, spends 90% of his time blowing you off

ps have they demolished The Wherry? I was trying to remember what the big gaping hole was, next to the Waterfront

It's not my fault if I have better things to do

The Wherry is in Lowestoft.

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:38 am

wurlycorner wrote:
jjmartin349571 wrote: I can still get a fair few more in without it becoming a ball ache to get cars out or move around.
Unfortunately not the case for me... (mind you, the main problem at my end is that most of them are temperamental/don't run at all and the others are in bits

The reason the red Accord is facing nose in is because it wouldn't start for a second time

I'm hoping that by keeping projects at the back and to the sides, and runners at the front and middle, it should make life easier. With them parked diagonally down the sides I think I should only need to move the middle stuff out in order to get anything out from the sides... Have yet to test the theory

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:54 am

Donald wrote: It's not my fault if I have better things to do

Like car jacking

You just don't love us anymore, that's what it is

The Wherry is in Lowestoft.

It's this site I'm talking about.
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/fo ... _1_2233760
Used to be the brewery by the looks of that article.
I'm sure it used to have a pub at the back, facing onto the river and I thought it was called The Wherry

(This is going back a couple of decades ago though

when I used to sail on the broads ) so I may be wrong...

Post by **Donald** » Sun Feb 28, 2016 2:30 pm

Yeah I know where you mean. That is the Wherry Hotel in Lowestoft, AFAIK it's still there.