A place to have a chat.

It was a close game, but Wigan were the better team, and it was a brilliant try by Bevan French.

I feel a bit pukey and headachey this morning, may be one of the 36 spicy chicken wings was past its sell by date. Just thinking about them makes me want to throw up. 🤢

Spongebob, I hope your curry and cider combo has treated you more kindly.

Kev are you a fellow Libran? I'm 68 tomorrow. The grandkids are doing me a birthday tea, God knows what that'll be. I just hope my stomach's recovered enough to take another beating.😬

I didn't realise that you were only 61, a mere child in this aged community. I see the virtual pub carpark is full of motability scooters again. 😁

Yes, I'm nearly four years on after diagnosis and you're almost six? Doesn't time fly whilst you're enjoying yourself.

I have a feeling my birthday tea, although lovingly made by young grandkids, will be very irregular homemade sausage rolls, Nutella sarnies, unset jelly and ice cream and a homemade cake which will resemble a car crash. I will sit and pretend to love every gut churning mouthful. 😁

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I’ve been decorating the dining room all week, scraping off the woodchip on the ceiling- oh what joy 😬.

My first car and pride & joy was an Austin Allegro 🚙. It was great, well not the Allegro for as we all know an Allegro was the stereotypical old man’s rust bucket (possibly the most ‘beige’ thing known to man - oops sorry should say ‘known to person’ or ‘known to they’?).

But I’d learnt how to drive in a Fiat 500 so my car aspirations weren’t high (you started the engine by pulling up little leevers - anyway …). My Allegro was shiny navy blue, it looked fabulous, however got to admit that it was not quite as cool as the bright yellow one my teacher training mate from Croydon had at UEA, but in my mind mine was the bees knees. Also, my mate’s car did set on fire once whilst waiting at some traffic lights, so not that cool.

My shiny blue Allegro took me and the then girlfriend on a tour of the Isle of Mull and Ardnamurchan, that was back in the days when those parts were out of scope for the ordinary tourist. It was absolutely marvellous, miles and miles of single-track roads, sandy beaches and wilderness with no-one there. Good memories 😀.

My shiny blue Allegro had many faults, and I never got used to the windscreen wipers and the oil warning light was always on. Then one Friday evening I was driving down the M1 to Barnsley when it conked out good and proper. The RAC man told me that the oil pump had packed in and the engine had seized up ☹️.  So he gave me a tow to the girlfriends house and arranged to pick me and my shiny blue Allegro up on Sunday night to tow back to my local garage in Bradford (Fast car clinic) for a replacement re-conditioned engine to be fitted (£500 😵‍💫).

Fancy that with the RAC, we took good service like that for granted then. You would need Super dooper dooper cover (££££££s) for them to even consider helping you out of a hole like that in today’s world.

Oh well Chaps, hope all is well, have a good weekend, enjoy the footy 😬

Monsieur Le SpongeBob 

I learned to drive in a Fiat 127, the windscreen washer wasn't electric, but was a rubber bung on the dashboard that you had to squish. The exhaust manifold broke one day so me and my mate got another from a scrap yard. Cars were stacked on top of each other in those days, and we had to unbolt the manifold from a car that was on top of other cars. Crazy! I wouldn't do it now. 

As for Allegros, don't see many these days but I saw one in a motor museum this year. 

Cheers, 

Kev.

Hello chaps, I’ve been a bit lax on visiting the pub… Been busy trying to feel better. 

Love the stories and chit chat 👍.

My first car was a Triumph 1300 saloon. Bought because i was learning to drive in a Mini and really didn’t like it. The old Mini i’m talking about obviously as i think it might have been 1972 ish when i was 17.  It looked really nice but was seriously rotten inside. So i used my boatbuilding skills honed at school to repair it all with fibreglass. I had to repair all round the bottom of the windscreen and the rear pillars. Then spent a fortune on paint spray cans to cover it all up. Then when i came to sell it the buyer brought a mechanic with her and I thought oh no… But amazingly he said it was sound. Then i bought a Mk 1 Escort 1300 Sport. What a brilliant little car. Souped up the engine which was a gem, fitted Bilstein uprated suspension and springs , Mexico wheels. New wings and a complete respray. I did try twin 40 Webers once but they were too finicky. Even fitted carpets and the obligatory sheepskin rug in the back 😎. Also fitted a stonking cassette player and amplifier/speakers as the car didn’t come with a radio. Those were the days eh guys….

Regarding Allegros , i had a Marina Van once, just for a laugh, and I’ve never had a car so badly built. Even the body panels didn’t line up. It leaked up past the inner front LH wheel arch as there was a gap between panels… Had some nice cars over the years as i was lucky to have the money for new ones. Mk 2 and Mk 5 RS2000s, Golf GTi Cabrio and a Sierra 4X4 2.8 Estate to name a few but one of my favorites was a 70’s Audi 100S Coupe. It was a proper drug dealers car fitted with twin 45 Dellorto carbs but they used to ice up at motorway speeds which didn’t please the wife too much. So it had to go …!

I’ve not seen the Chris Hoy TV thing but I’ve seen snippets and do empathize with his situation but it must be doubly difficult for him being so young and with a young family. Isn’t it a shame that it takes a celebrity to shake things up with the Government though. Fingers crossed his Stage 4 diagnosis isn’t as bad as it sounds and he has a good few years left. He’s had/having chemo so it could halt the PCa progress for a long time if he’s lucky. I did notice he had cooled mittens/socks on to stop the Neuropathy in the fingers. Ive never seen that offered and i certainly didn’t get it and I’ve got a bit of nerve damage in my toes due to the chemo. Hoping it will possible get better.

Regarding the US election, I think we should all be very afraid as the guy is barking mad. It’s ok being isolationist but a country cannot exist in a vacuum. I love the US and the Americans but to think over 70mill voted for him is very worrying….. Need to wait to see what his actions will be with regard to foreign involvement in the current war situations. 

Take care guys,

Phil