Archev's adventures in the Berlingo

[OriginalBigAl]

In France for your model , dealers want around 70% the original selling price, so what they offer the existing owner is anyone's guess. Having said that the original price has dropped 8000 euros in the last year for a new one.

 

[Rolfe]

Jumped in the flash mobile and asked for Morrison’s by Waze. The only Morrison’s she knew was in Ottawa a bunch of thousands of miles to my west, was that the one I wanted ? No said I, the one over at Alloa will be fine. After arguing with electronics I asked for just plain Alloa. So she’s taken me to Clackmannanshire.
Ye cannae win.
Crappy menu. I plumped for a breakfast (all they seemed to do)
Lorne (flat) sausage- says it all -

I asked Google for Sainsbury's at Straiton.

Yes, you guessed it. Sainsbury's at Streatham.

 

[Archev]

I asked Google for Sainsbury's at Straiton.

Yes, you guessed it. Sainsbury's at Streatham.

Hah - at least you wouldn’t have had to invert the car and paddle it most of the way

 

[securespark]

I used to enjoy the Scottish sliced breid.

 

[Archev]

I used to enjoy the Scottish sliced breid.

I used to like the thick heel or end slice from a plain loaf. I was always confused as a kid. My Mum would ask me to collect a half loaf of the aforementioned bried. It was never referred to as a loaf - always a half loaf. The hours of my young life I wasted worrying over the fate of the other half . Now as I make all my own bread I can cut it as thick as I fancy. I spread a bit of marg and Marmite or, currently, Vegemite, and have both halves of the loaf for myself

 

[5teep]

I used to enjoy the Scottish sliced breid.

It used to sit like a rock in your belly though lol

 

[Rolfe]

I used to be absolutely addicted to the stuff, importing it into England in bulk when I lived there. This is basically from when I was quite a small child, sneaking the "outside" of the loaf and so on. Some years ago I either lost the taste for it, or the loaves weren't so good. I never buy it now.

 

[Archev]

I used to be absolutely addicted to the stuff, importing it into England in bulk when I lived there. This is basically from when I was quite a small child, sneaking the "outside" of the loaf and so on. Some years ago I either lost the taste for it, or the loaves weren't so good. I never buy it now.

Aye they don’t make it like they used to I’ve gone over to home made stuff this entire century so far. Started about 1998

 

[Rolfe]

I had an amazing one from the Co-op here when I was househunting, it had a Co-op own brand wrapper. But once I'd actually moved here I never saw that again, just the usual Mother's Pride, and within a few years I'd pretty much gone off it.

 

[Ian Key]

I've been making, if you call throwing the ingredients into a machine making, my own bread for a few years too.

As I sit here I can smell the just made malted wheat loaf's aromas mixed with fresh coffee with the odd greyhound fart thrown in. It's a hard life being retired.

 

[Archev]

I've been making, if you call throwing the ingredients into a machine making, my own bread for a few years too.

As I sit here I can smell the just made malted wheat loaf's aromas mixed with fresh coffee with the odd greyhound fart thrown in. It's a hard life being retired.

Deep joy

 

[Gomev]

Deep joy

Good 'ol Stanley Unwin, master of the sproken wordflow, extraordinaribole langy.

I still use deep joy as a favourite saying.

 

[Archev]

Good 'ol Stanley Unwin, master of the sproken wordflow, extraordinaribole langy.

I still use deep joy as a favourite saying.

I really miss his ………. No I don’t the fog’s only now beginning to clear

 

[Archev]

Never happy

I never heard the electric car
As it whispered up behind
I gave that driver such a curse
When he said he wasn’t blind
He said he’d seen me stumble
As I stepped into has path
That I looked a little tipsy
But that just fuelled my wrath
If he drove a real combustion car
I’d have heard him as he missed
He could have sailed on up the road
Leaving me inebriated - get the gist ?

 

[OriginalBigAl]

Driving in my EV
Ozzy on full blast
When I saw a drunkard
I was about to past
Left and right he staggered , and to my lament
As I reached him , he left the pavement
Such language , never have I heard
Some strange Scottish dialect
An ICY rant. but I may have misheard
He called me this, I called him that
Both agreed he should get mirrors on his hat.

 

[Archev]

Driving in my EV
Ozzy on full blast
When I saw a drunkard
I was about to past
Left and right he staggered , and to my lament
As I reached him , he left the pavement
Such language , never have I heard
Some strange Scottish dialect
An ICY rant. but I may have misheard
He called me this, I called him that
Both agreed he should get mirrors on his hat.

It WAS you

 

[MG Clive]

There once was a man called Rick
Who had a . . . . oh I can't be bothered.

 

[Ian Key]

The boy stood on the burning deck
The wind was cold and chilly
It blew right up his trouser leg
And paralysed his ......



....kneecap

 

[OriginalBigAl]

That boy must have been on that deck for the last two hundred years ? What would be the modern equivalent?
The boy sat in the burning EV
The atmosphere getting toxic
He finally lost his WIFI link
He said " Oh for ..... sake.

 

[Archev]

Hey, another adventure looms. I’ve no idea where, not too sure when and less of a clue why.
But a major sponsor has just provided the funds for it .
Yep my favourite computing number guesser has pounced on four of my tickets this morning with the intention of bankrolling another mystery Berlingo foray beyond the West Lothian shores
The sun is attempting to burn through the fence down there so I’ll get the PV’s hung on it and harvest a bunch of sunlight. The battery was empty after my hot chocolate production last night and I was a bit slow plugging it in to catch the seven penny octopus so it only got to 64% by 05:30. Making porridge and coffee has taken that to 57%.