The Shed

fandango wrote: Dean wrote: Three years ago I planted a vine and today I picked 1lb (.47kg) of grapes  not a harvest that will impress anyone from Italy or California, but a pretty good start... now off to make grape jam...   I think you ought to get Alex to pop 'em in a large plastic mixing bowl, and squash 'em with her feet..

chopper wrote: glass house wrote: LIMEYROB - cheer when you 've past James his posts. Oh come on. He'd have to stay up till 4 in the morning every day and post about 50 times a minute to get near him. Quality not quantity I always say.

Yep, definitely quality over quantity ever time.

Both programmes have been interesting & there've been some classic archive film clips - I have to say though the one last night showed an early BB King film, but it wasn't him I was listening to - it was the glorious Hammond B3 in the background.

Anyway...

Interesting Saturday night:

Had a great meal at 'Teoh' in Bristol to say goodbye to a couple of good friends before they go to Australia, then on to my DJ-ing gig...

I was kicking off the night in the chill room (which the organisers had decided only needed a single uv lamp as illumination ), only to find the sound engineer didn't know how to use the mixing desk, the DJ mixer I was using was playing up, so the 1st half of my set was a car crash with the engineer fiddling around & plugging in/unplugging leads left right & centre... in the dark (see above re lighting in the chill room): just as well the organisers hadn't organised much in the way of advertising or ticket sales, as I ended up playing for a couple of hours in the dark, with a crappy sound, crappy mixing desk... to an empty room .

To cap it all - drove to Stevenage from Bristol just after midnight; approx 140(ish) miles in pea-soup fog at an average speed of about 35mph.

Joy was unbound...

Heavyfreight wrote: Jim Garten wrote: Thanks to some git in a Sainsburys car park a couple of weeks ago, I had a Jazz last week as a courtesy car - all the whistles & bells anyone could want, but the build quality was appalling; I've never had a car before which expands & contracts with your breathing!   I take it you mean the Honda Jazz, in which case I cannot understand why you feel it's badly built.  My mother has one of these and I think it's a great little car.  I went round all the showrooms with her and tested all sorts of similar sized cars.  The Honda was streets ahead on build quality and amount of metal in panels, hinges, etc.

mystic fred wrote: Anybody watch "History of the Guitar" last night?  some very interesting stuff on Blues but all too brief appearance by Dave Gilmour with his "No.1" Strat.

)(*&^%$#@!#$%^&*(*&^%$ I missed it.... got swamped in my quarterly VAT report.

 

Jim Garten wrote: To cap it all - drove to Stevenage from Bristol just after midnight; approx 140(ish) miles in pea-soup fog at an average speed of about 35mph. Joy was unbound...

Heavyfreight wrote:   Jim Garten wrote: To cap it all - drove to Stevenage from Bristol just after midnight; approx 140(ish) miles in pea-soup fog at an average speed of about 35mph. Joy was unbound...   I suppose that length of journey would be a bit far to keep her tied up.

damn you!!!  I've just spat tea at the monitor.

Heavyfreight wrote:   Jim Garten wrote: To cap it all - drove to Stevenage from Bristol just after midnight; approx 140(ish) miles in pea-soup fog at an average speed of about 35mph. Joy was unbound...   I suppose that length of journey would be a bit far to keep her tied up.

Groan...

Reminds me of a line from "I'm sorry I'll read that again"

He kissed her with abandon - then he took the band off and kissed her again!

Oh joy. Some  has decided that they can't wait until November 5th so they're having their firework party tonight. What is it about Essex people that Fireworks Night has to extend from July to December? Isn't there some kind of law against this?
If not, there bloody well should be. I'm going to write to my MP immediately.

Rant rant, mutter mutter.