Moments of joy in your day today

[ChrisRs]

Driving an Audi RS6 Avant today

What a car...540bhp!!

Instant throttle response and epic grip...Loved it!!

Edited 20 November, 2015 by ChrisRs

[mac11irl]

Driving an Audi RS6 Avant today

What a car...540bhp!!

Instant throttle response and epic grip...Loved it!!

Mmmm... such a wolf in sheeps clothing.. had a little play with one a few weeks back on mway, obviously he couldve tapped the peddle and vanished, but i sat with him for a few miles until my turn off gave him a flash a thumbs up when i was leaving he gave a hazard flash response.. he knew :p

[FLAPPERJACK7]

Had a good 10 mile road test in an Audi s4 4.2 v8 quattro. Now looking at funding so I can buy it.

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[Aspman]

Puppies!

 

I was out at lunchtime getting a card for a friend and the shop manager was in with her two bulldogs. One was a little puppy she was taking around to socialise him.

So I got to play with her puppies for a little while :p

 

Nice natured dogs bulldogs, the pair of them were very friendly.

Edited 11 November, 2015 by Aspman

[Aspman]

Wee man is at grannies for a few days with school in-service.

 

He comes back home tomorrow.

 

I've bought him his first proper book for bedtime. I'm getting a bit tired of reading baby stories.

 

I got Roald Dahl's The Twits. I loved that book. I'm sure SWMBO will be disgusted

[mender]

Adele

[Titanium_Man]

Booked next years holidays.

[mac11irl]

Watching the 9 1/2 month old crawl on all 4s across his now padded bedroom floor and stick hus out the door to look at his mam in another room then laugh away to himself lookin at her

[BEEFYGTI]

That feeling when you see the cleaners arrive at work. Home time after a night shift [emoji2]

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[pee81]

Getting a new job. No more multi-drop bull**** for me when I leave in 2 weeks whoooo hooooo

[seboni121]

My daughter in law is now in labour and granson on the way :-)

[mac11irl]

Heres hoping for a swift and safe delivery!!

[BEEFYGTI]

Good luck

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[hatchy]

Doing a weeks relief milking for the Farms Dairyman. There were about half a dozen newly calved heifers that would just lay in the feed passages and were covered in 'you know what' (which vastly increases chances of getting mastitis), rather than lay in the cubicles. He had put one of them in the 'crippled' pen as he said it just wouldn't go in to a cubicle. Within 2 or 3 nights I have got the lot happily going into cubicles and lying up. Today I took great joy in telling the boss this and pointing out that the only reason they were laying in crap was because the Dairyman was too much of a lazy git to put the effort in to get them laying up properly.

[seboni121]

Im a new grandad

[mac11irl]

Im a new grandad

WooHoo!!!!!

[Breezy_Pete]

Whinging to/at the missus as some "bake a pot while ballroom dancing" bollix comes on the telly.

She calmly passes me a set of headphones, saying "plug these in and STFU" or words to that effect.

 

Off to YouTube and come up with this: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk0V_GGa2XM

 

"Shiiiiine on you craazy diamond" :sun: 

[mender]

"Shiiiiine on you craazy diamond" :sun: 

Superb, one of my favourites!

[Aspman]

The boy stopped puking after 12hr straight.

 

Thank the FSM for coffee

Edited 25 November, 2015 by Aspman

[Breezy_Pete]

The mini-article in the Times that made it worth the cover price:

 

Tourist's lights are out

A tourist has posted a scathing review on TripAdvisor about the

"lake view" from his room at the four-star Beech Hill Hotel on the

banks of Windermere because when he arrived at 8pm the water

was "in total darkness". The reviewer, known only as Paul S,

from London, had expected the lake to be floodlit. To add to his

anger, the next morning the water was shrouded in mist.

 

 

:clap:

[mender]

The mini-article in the Times that made it worth the cover price:

 

Tourist's lights are out

A tourist has posted a scathing review on TripAdvisor about the

"lake view" from his room at the four-star Beech Hill Hotel on the

banks of Windermere because when he arrived at 8pm the water

was "in total darkness". The reviewer, known only as Paul S,

from London, had expected the lake to be floodlit. To add to his

anger, the next morning the water was shrouded in mist.

 

 

:clap:

Remember the blank black postcards, "Windermere at Night"?

[@Lee]

after a ****ty time finding the correct pairs and disconnecting a few lines on a changeover, I got to ride in a choo choo train

 

Driver had come from Cowley with a shed load of new Minis

 

[Outofthi5world]

Doing a weeks relief milking for the Farms Dairyman. There were about half a dozen newly calved heifers that would just lay in the feed passages and were covered in 'you know what' (which vastly increases chances of getting mastitis), rather than lay in the cubicles. He had put one of them in the 'crippled' pen as he said it just wouldn't go in to a cubicle. Within 2 or 3 nights I have got the lot happily going into cubicles and lying up. Today I took great joy in telling the boss this and pointing out that the only reason they were laying in crap was because the Dairyman was too much of a lazy git to put the effort in to get them laying up properly.

There was a new heifer in when I was milking yesterday morning, she'd just calved the day before and they had been using the jump-leads on the tail method to keep her calm for her first couple of milkings (rapid exit parlour so can't use kick-bar) I got to her, we had a bit of a fight and she tried to kick my face and covered me in ****, I just ignored her efforts, put the unit on her and held it up so she couldn't kick it off and eventually I left her and she stayed calm. That afternoon we never even noticed her go through. People taking the easy way out never makes it easier. If they'd have just done that to start with she might have been calm all along.

Edited 2 December, 2015 by Outofthi5world

[hatchy]

There was a new heifer in when I was milking yesterday morning, she'd just calved the day before and they had been using the jump-leads on the tail method to keep her calm for her first couple of milkings (rapid exit parlour so can't use kick-bar) I got to her, we had a bit of a fight and she tried to kick my face and covered me in ****, I just ignored her efforts, put the unit on her and held it up so she couldn't kick it off and eventually I left her and she stayed calm. That afternoon we never even noticed her go through. People taking the easy way out never makes it easier. If they'd have just done that to start with she might have been calm all along.

 

He's got the jump lead end too. As you say most of the time if you persevere getting the unit and hold it they settle quite quickly. Another technique I've learnt over the years for the ones that really are determined to take your head off is to get hold of their tail, loop it round quite tight and tuck it back under itself right at the top. Leaving some length on their tail when you trim it down keeps it there as some can unravel it if too short. 

[mender]

Having just finished work for the year in one of my several roles, at 2am after the £8p.h. drunk run driving party-goers home from yet another do...

 

That's it, all done, no more after an exhausting run of paying our way; my wife too, working for £800pcm full time in a very demanding full-time school position, whilst being an amazing mum to our kids and studying at the same time; she's finished too until the new term.  Alleluia, it has been long awaited.

 

A feeling of joy pervades, against all the odds we've made it through another year, whilst over-paying the mortgage, giving the kids our all, buying a flat abroad and generally improving our lot year on year.  No-one could ever say we don't work hard; we have to be mighty resourceful to run our own business and juggle our other jobs, plus we have to buy and sell cars to make it work at times.

 

Against all the set-backs, nay-sayers, non-payers, last-minute cancellations, con-artists, unreasonable clients, nasty people trying to sabotage our business online, tech issues and running a mobile car body repair business OUTSIDE in all weathers on top of two daily 35-mile school bus runs plus night work, we've overcome everything, day after day,week after week; getting up at 6am, working weekends and through the night for peanuts.  We've managed another year building our life as a family.

 

No-one ever tells me I've done well, it is what is expected of me as Daddy.  After previously working in sales, I'd have got heavy praise/recognition or a bonus for working like this and not having someone telling you how well you have done is hard when you give it your all every hour of the week.

 

But, we've done it.  Another year and all is well.  We have overcome.  Joy!