Sorry Bill, I over reacted on a bad day. My Wife needed things done to the house as she needs hip operation and as she had a blue light heart scare 3 weeks ago she which looks like it was not she has to have an angiogram 6-8 weeks waiting list. Great as the NHS are paying for her to have it done at a nice private hospital in 5 weeks I had spent all day trying to sort this out. My GP could have done it but it is a 5 day wait to talk to him on the phone or the second week in March to get to see him. That day was hell! The Doctor had arranged to have our house adapted for my wife so she could get about(I had already bought a stair lift and a bathlift) So the local council arrive and fit grab handles on the front and back door and downstairs thunderbox. They also fitted a frame with handle on one upstairs toilet. All well and good until the afternoon when the equipment company rocks up with a 4 wheel walker (good ) 2 fisher walking sticks(good) and 3 karzi frames (not good) which I refused as not needed. Half an hour later I get the physiotherapist on the phone doing her pieces as why I rejected the frames. I told her, the next question was did the walker have a basket? “no says I ” you would have thought this was the end of the world
Did the half step for the back door arrive? again no says I. by now this woman was apoplectic with rage and was going to sort things out.Peace then returned to the Smith household. Time for dinner /supper or whatever,we decide on Fish and Chips, I get in my Soarer and it hat turned into a V6 instead of a V8 again (rainwater in a plug hole take 2 cylinders out,fix is remove plug fire it up which blows out the water a bit of WD40 and away you go) Sod that into my wifes Honda Prelude, snag the battery is flat. Back to the Lexus and a nice 1/4 mile journey in traffic which takes 20 minutes( they have dug up all the main roads in my area for the Metrobus whatever that is) Get the Fish and Chips get back to the car to find some (insert your own expletive here) had scuffed my bumper with their tyre. Ended up in a foul mood,spent the rest of the evening after my wife had gone to bed moderating a forum full of half wits them came on here.
So again Bill I am sorry I should not have written that reply. I hope I will be the first visitor to buy you a beer com-meth the day in the beer tent. My eldest stepson lives 2 miles from Penrith so our accommodation is always booked.

Regards
Paul Smith

BTW my father was called Bill Smith you are not 101 by any chance?:)

From your latest diatribe “There’s yet more. I met a bloke in the pub some months back, an older chap who’d had a mutt called Bruce that had died about six years earlier and at the time he’d decided against any more dogs. Fair enough. I could see him struggling with a vibrant young animal that may well outlive him but then he told me he’d had a change of heart and a new pup was about to join the family.

What had caused this turnaround, I asked… and you know when the answer is so removed from anything you might’ve expected that you wonder whether gasping incredulity would be less offensive than an obviously failed effort to suppress it?

“We thought enough time had passed so as not to offend Bruce’s memory…”

Such people should be permanently disbarred from ever owning any sort of pet!”

Your opinion but I understand and agree with the man on this as I know certain members on here would as well

Perhaps your attempts at humour should be left to others and you should limit your Diary to restoring the wreckage as you don’t have the Barracuda any more I would expect this project to gain some momentum.

As a matter of interest do you have any sort of completion date a year or two either way maybe? I await your when its done its done answer.

A topic for the Historic Aviation forum surely?

Exactly my sentiment

Geoff. I am very upset to here this gut wrenching,heartbreaking news. I have been through all the emotions you feel since we lost Becky our beloved cat in October. All I can say is the pain will ease with time and you will remember the good times with Penny not the end. This may sound stupid to non animal lovers but I talk to her in my head a lot and put my hand on her favourite resting places and wish things could have not happened. Let your grief out don’t bottle it up. Cry with your family they will not think any less of you for that.
I am in floods of tears now thinking of your pain and reliving mine. Again this pain will subside but it not a short process but it shows just how much you loved Penny.

Paul

Black Fuhrer? How novel. Adolf must be turning in his grave at the thought of that!

Traveller? the only travelling most seem to do is set out from the site(from their possibly stolen home*) to rob and trick honest taxpayers out of their hard earned cash in vehicles of dubious origin.
The word for them is Pikey. The word traveller seems to add a semblance of respectability to this scum.

*http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2385116/A-stolen-caravan-Travellers-human-rights-And-betrayal-makes-blood-boil.html

I agree 100% with Moggy in this thread. Living about a mile or so from a Council supplied Pikey camp I have had run ins with this vermin on occasions and reporting crimes to the Police results in no action at all. They are scared to enter their camps and the only way they will arrest them is when they can be picked off quickly by a snatch squad far enough away from their homes. Then its charged,bailed and vanished!

BTW I can’t think why this bit of information came into my head.

Using a crossbow (or any bow weapon) for hunting is completely illegal here in the UK. The crossbow itself cannot be carried in public and a common sense approach should be adopted when transporting a crossbow. It is not illegal to own a crossbow, however, you can only use target points – broadhead bolts are illegal.