Absolutely fair description of the Golden Hind though. Think I went there once
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I remember my only time in that pub was for a works section skittles evening in 1972.
Skittles and soup in a basket from what I can remember. Left quickly and decamped to another pub after the skittles.
I remember that night.
I also recall your light psychosis. You tried to fight a lighthouse once. Luckily I was there to save you from drowning.
Didn’t you break your hand once fighting a filing cabinet?
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He was asking for it. Looked at me wrong.
Quick one two to the A-E then a kick in the S-Z?
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More of a southpaw jab (I’m orthodox) to the A-E followed by a trip to A+E.
Here’s another indulgent anecdote.
So, about 25+ years ago (@Rust-Cohle?) I was a programmer with a really small company writing accountancy software.
We had a load of dealers who wanted the software customised to their clients’ needs. They couldn’t do it so we (my boss and I) would do ‘moonlighting’ jobs where we’d add additional functionality for cash outside of office hours. Some months I would earn double my salary through these jobs.
It was win-win-win for the business, the dealers and us. The dealers could sell more software and we got paid handsomely. Everything in the garden was rosy.
Until…we were taken over by the market leader and the corporate, plummy posh twat that they sent down to run us, said he wasn’t going to allow us to earn that sort of money as it should be done though the company.
So, the end of all the moonlighting.
Of course, we only did the moonlighting out of work because we didn’t have the time to do it in work. The result was that the dealers refused to place orders unless the software was customised, and we (my boss and I - the only coders) refused to work in the evenings for the company on our usual salary rates.
In the end the backlog or orders from the dealers needing customisation meant that the plummy posh twat had to crawl on his belly and ask us to do the work on the same cash basis we did before.
I quoted for the most urgent job and it came to £1,800. The plummy twat agreed, went back to the dealer who agreed to pay for it. After a month or so, I did the work, sent it to the dealer, they installed it, it worked, everyone was happy.
Until, a month or so later - two months after I’d quoted for the work, I called the plummy twat at the head office of the company that had taken us over and asked him how he was going to pay me the £1,800.
He said “I have absolutely no recollection of agreeing to pay you that sort of money”.
After an argument where I threatened to withdraw labour, he said he’d look back at his notes and get back to me. When you’re one of only two coders that can work on the source code, you have a pretty strong position.
I slammed the phone down, shouted “twat” and then slammed my fist into A-E.
The filing cabinet dented and my fifth metacarpal snapped. This really hurt but not as much as the next morning, when the plummy posh twat walked in, looked at me with my hand and wrist in plaster and in front of everyone in the open-plan office said “What a wally”.
Cunt.
I got the £1,800 BTW.
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I remember seeing that car around, anyone know anything about it?
Yes it was built by a mate of mine in Ringwood Drive. Bill’s a real character built hot rods and funny cars from the early '70s. The one in the picture was his first “aeroplane” car a single seater built around a “Hawk” jet canopy and built in his garage. All his cars were street legal.
The OS sponsored both his aeroplane cars for their trade shows. This is his second “aeroplane” car…a three seater built using a Tornado double canopy…
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That looks amazing. Stunning.
The important questions.
How many did he have to crash to get frontal impact approval?
How on earth did he buy the cockpit canopy from a Tornado?
What was the power train on each of them?
Why did he never marry?
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Ringwood Drive, that explains why I saw the car 
What number?
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I really don’t know how he got round “type approval” but legend has it that after it first appeared on “South Today” the Chief Constable sent out a message to the local police to “get it off the road” They paid Bill a visit and couldn’t find anywhere it contravened the “Road Traffic Act” so they had to allow it. The first week he drove it into work half “The Survey” would dash to the widows if they heard it coming. Four days in a row he went out at lunchtime and on return was followed back by a police car.
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The first canopy from a “Hawk Jet Trainer” (Red Arrows ) came from BAE in Hamble. Blagged after Bill spun a yarn about researching and making a prototype “car of the future”. They took him around their scrap yard where he found the canopy…he paid scrap value for it…90 quid. By the time he built the second car The OS were officially sponsoring him so it went through official channels and it mysteriously just appeared gratis.
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Both ran Jag V12 power trains.
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Very happily married and has been living in The Dordogne for the last 20 years.
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@lifeintheslowlane, what do you use to edit your (presumably) RAW photo files ? I presume you’re not editing JPEG ? SCD
Yes I shoot all my pictures in RAW these days…for the last 10 years really.
LITSL is the naked photographer
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