The Virtual Pub

Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Pastis on May 02, 2009, 05:52:44 PM

Title: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Pastis on May 02, 2009, 05:52:44 PM
This one's kicked off to flying start... NOT!  Banghead

The plan was, there's always a plan, to spend Saturday with some friends in Sussex and enjoy the fresh air, sunshine et alia. An hour and a half crawling through the sarf London sprawl put paid to that. Sitting in traffic just past Ikea and I sense something's wrong... the temperature gauge has hit the max and there's steam escaping from the bonnet  eeek:
Pull over to the side - open bonnet -  noooo: I don't attempt to open the water expansion tank, but being next to a Sainsbury's nip over and buy 5L of cheapo water while the engine cools down...
Back to the car and open the tank... it only needs a little...  rubschin: What's going on? Must be fan failure. Phone friends to say things appear to have gone tits up and decide to limp back home remembering the old trick of turning the car heater fan on full blast with the temperature up to red hot... it works, drawing the heat off the engine.

The traffic is crawling in both directions... Croydon, Norbury, Streatham, Brixton... windows and sunroof open and I'm fecking roasting with the full blast of heat coming from the fan  sad24:   If it's directed into the footwell it burns me feet! If directed up to the windscreen it's like being in a sauna! Still, the engine temp stays down  ::)
Home, call out the RAC, nearly a two hour wait but what else to do... engine fan fuse blown, no spare but he rigs up a makeshift one... the fan works... good man!

Day One down, two to go... things can only get better, can't they?  confused:
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Nick on May 02, 2009, 05:58:29 PM
What (else) can possibly go wrong?
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Pastis on May 02, 2009, 06:00:06 PM
With two days to go .... anything  scared2:
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Nick on May 02, 2009, 06:00:35 PM
Lunch with MIss D for example  scared2:
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Miss Demeanour on May 02, 2009, 06:02:47 PM
Day One down, two to go... things can only get better, can't they?  confused:

Poor you  happy100

The positives

Your skin will be vibrantly clean and fresh

The negatives

You will be quarantined  by the Medical Mafia tomorrow as the CCTV cameras will have picked up the suspicious activities of a gentleman sweating profusely and exhibiting signs of irritability and a extraordinary high temperature  eeek:


Hope tomorrow is better   rubschin:
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Pastis on May 02, 2009, 06:07:59 PM
Hope tomorrow is better   rubschin:

Tomorrow will be better, and the car will be left at home  8)
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Nick on May 02, 2009, 06:08:19 PM
Pissio?
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Miss Demeanour on May 02, 2009, 06:09:59 PM
Weather forecast is not too bad actually though not as good as today like  whistle:
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Pastis on May 02, 2009, 06:20:13 PM
Could be dining al fresco then ...  whistle:
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Uncle Mort on May 04, 2009, 09:19:25 AM
Bank Holiday Monday and I'm at a loose end  tunble:
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Barman on May 04, 2009, 09:22:41 AM
Bank Holiday Monday and I'm at a loose end  tunble:
Come round to ours Uncle... we're spring cleaning in anticipation of the immediate arrival of a guest...  noooo:
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Uncle Mort on May 04, 2009, 09:23:49 AM
I could do the cleanibg here but as I'm not expecting anyone...
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Barman on May 04, 2009, 09:30:51 AM
I could do the cleanibg here but as I'm not expecting anyone...
Well just come and have a beer then... It would get me out of tidying the garage...  ::)
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Barman on May 04, 2009, 09:47:16 AM
BM: (thinking he has finished and transformed the garage) There - unrecognisable!  cloud9:
LL: Unrecognisable as a garage  evil:
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Snoopy on May 04, 2009, 10:00:41 AM
Miss D is sleeping in the garage?  eeek:
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Darwins Selection on May 04, 2009, 12:01:49 PM
Barman, the man who put the 'spit' in 'Hospitality'.  noooo:
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Barman on May 04, 2009, 12:35:56 PM
Miss D is sleeping in the garage?  eeek:
She could do... I've just hoovered it!  Banghead
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Miss Demeanour on May 04, 2009, 02:11:37 PM
Miss D is sleeping in the garage?  eeek:
She could do... I've just hoovered it!  Banghead

Hoovered the Garage  eeek:

Stop with the cleaning already - honestly I have very low standards and blinkered vision  lol:

Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Barman on May 04, 2009, 02:25:39 PM
Miss D is sleeping in the garage?  eeek:
She could do... I've just hoovered it!  Banghead

Hoovered the Garage  eeek:

Stop with the cleaning already - honestly I have very low standards and blinkered vision  lol:


All done now...

Just all the shopping to do tomorrow...  noooo:
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Snoopy on May 04, 2009, 09:16:27 PM
He's just trying to make you feel guilty ~ Whatever you do don't tip him more than 10% and only that at the end of your stay.
Title: Re: Blank Holiday Weekend
Post by: Barman on May 05, 2009, 04:30:36 AM
He's just trying to make you feel guilty ~ Whatever you do don't tip him more than 10% and only that at the end of your stay.
cussing: