Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

staffordjas

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Gramaisc said:
It occurs to me that, in the Beiderbecke Trilogy, Trevor's van, a two-seat Bedford Beagle, regularly carries three occupants, with the extra one loose in the back, once whilst being tailed by a police car. This fact is never mentioned, even up to the final episode, filmed in 1988, when the van carries four adults and a baby in a carry-cot to the seaside. It's not done for any comedic effect, just as an everyday occurrence.

During that same period, I had a two-seat pickup with a fibreglass cover over the back. I would collect my parents from Lincoln. My mother had the front passenger seat and my father was on a car seat placed in the back (rear-facing), against the back of the cab and 'stuff' would then be loaded around him and he would be instructed to maintain a low profile. I did have some concerns about possibly meeting a jobsworth cop, but I never did.

The 'mindset transition point' may have been 1991, when rear seat belts became compulsory to wear - hard to do without there being a seat...
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Neighbours by our Stafford house used to have one of those big cars with a boot with an underneath part under the boot floor. They had quite a few kids , more kids and adults than seats when they all went out together. Would quite often see him emerging from the underneath part of the boot after a day out! :o
 
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Bloody shattered, I've got sone covid like bug that isn't covid which doesn't let me sleep for coughing, and 4 more days to go...night nurse is my usual saviour....but not when I'm at work the next day as it zombiefies me....
 
Glam

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I have lost my younger sisters Christmas present. It's only a pair of Jamas, but it's money I could do without spending again. Have literally turned this bedroom inside out and they're nowhere to be found. So pee'd off.
 
Noah

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Carole said:
I joined in the glory days of the 80’s when BA was a good airline.
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Reminds me that back in the Cambridge days two stalwarts of the local CAMRA branch were BA pilots. When they were on the New York run they hated drinking American beers during the stop-over. Really hated so back in the days when it was available each of them would take a Watney's Party 7 with them (yes they though even Watneys was better than the local beer). Had to declare it when going through American Customs. When asked they said that they had a can of beer with them. Had to produce it at which point a gobsmacked American Customs Officer would hold up the aforesaid Party 7 and shout out to his colleagues "Look what the Limeys call a can of beer!".
Both reached retiring age for BA and then joined Virgin as pilots.
 
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Noah said:
Reminds me that back in the Cambridge days two stalwarts of the local CAMRA branch were BA pilots. When they were on the New York run they hated drinking American beers during the stop-over. Really hated so back in the days when it was available each of them would take a Watney's Party 7 with them (yes they though even Watneys was better than the local beer). Had to declare it when going through American Customs. When asked they said that they had a can of beer with them. Had to produce it at which point a gobsmacked American Customs Officer would hold up the aforesaid Party 7 and shout out to his colleagues "Look what the Limeys call a can of beer!".
Both reached retiring age for BA and then joined Virgin as pilots.
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Yes, the Watneys Party Seven that was quite honestly named as it usually was a distress purchase for a party.
You remind me of going to the Netherlands in 1974 having heard such dreadful reports of the "Euro Fizz" there and taking a crate of Guinness. It was overlooked on the way out but the empties got a strange look from the customs men on my return.
Virgin airlines reminds me that a friend's niece worked for them as a stewardess but allegedly gave it up because of Branson's groping.
 
littleme

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Glam said:
I have lost my younger sisters Christmas present. It's only a pair of Jamas, but it's money I could do without spending again. Have literally turned this bedroom inside out and they're nowhere to be found. So pee'd off.
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Jammys are 70% off today (and the next few days) at you know where...
 
Theresa Green

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Mudgie said:
Yes, the Watneys Party Seven that was quite honestly named as it usually was a distress purchase for a party.
You remind me of going to the Netherlands in 1974 having heard such dreadful reports of the "Euro Fizz" there and taking a crate of Guinness. It was overlooked on the way out but the empties got a strange look from the customs men on my return.
Virgin airlines reminds me that a friend's niece worked for them as a stewardess but allegedly gave it up because of Branson's groping.
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Is that a Barley wine?
 
proactive

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Enjoying a drop of red.
Mudgie said:
Yes, the Watneys Party Seven that was quite honestly named as it usually was a distress purchase for a party.
You remind me of going to the Netherlands in 1974 having heard such dreadful reports of the "Euro Fizz" there and taking a crate of Guinness. It was overlooked on the way out but the empties got a strange look from the customs men on my return.
Virgin airlines reminds me that a friend's niece worked for them as a stewardess but allegedly gave it up because of Branson's groping.
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Living life on the very edge.
 
Glam

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littleme said:
Jammys are 70% off today (and the next few days) at you know where...
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As @littleme knows, I went to said premises earlier today. Managed find where they were 'hiding' the jamas and got myself a pair. In lilac, covered in a mistletoe print. I don't normally wear the things, but am getting fed up of sitting here of a night time just wearing my normal clothes.
 
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Enjoying a drop of red.
Gramaisc said:
Where exactly are the mistletoes printed..?
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