All ye oul wans and oul fellas out there! Wakey wakey, rise and shine!

OldGoat

I was saving that for my New Year Re-Tox!

Alice1

Rubecula wrote: »

Spread you can practice round at OG's place, he is deaf anyway poor old soul.

Oooh look what I just found hiding under the cupboard. What do you think I should do with it?

Crack it open Rube - let's have a partay!

Spread

Rubecula wrote: »

Spread you can practice round at OG's place, he is deaf anyway poor old soul.

Oooh look what I just found hiding under the cupboard. What do you think I should do with it?

Well, for one thing you can fling the Rose down the sink. Then we'll discus what to do with the others after we start into them.

Ramette

I bags the champers

Jellybaby1

And I'll have the box, the straw and the ribbon please, for recycling, upcycling, and all things eeko!

looksee

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

And I'll have the box, the straw and the ribbon please, for recycling, upcycling, and all things eeko!

Ah a kindred spirit! I would go for the box too, wine boxes good! Not bothered about the straw, but I couldn't resist adding the ribbon to my collection.

Spread

0*C strong sun but chilly breeze. Spring is in the air:

Spring is sprung, the grass is ris.
I wonders where the birdies is.
They say the birds is on the wing.
Ain't that absurd?
I always thought the wing was on the bird.
(Pardon the doggerel)

Answers on a postcard please .......... who penned the above!

OldGoat

Spike Milligan?

looksee

Yup, Spike Milligan - well something like that anyway

Jellybaby1

We used to say:

Spring has sprung and dih grass is riz
I wonder where dih boidies iz
Some people say dih boid is on dih wing
Which is absoid
Dih wing is on dih boid!

With a Noo Yoik accent, of course!

Spread

Good Moaning and Good Moaning !

Must check to find out the rhymer. Kinda hectic here this weekend

Jellybaby1

I Googled the rhyme to see what I could find and found it quoted on a blog by a woman in the "rolling hill country of Appalachian Ohio", who states she is "Wife to 1 man, Mom to 10 kids, and Farmer to a great many critters", now how did a Milligan rhyme get all the way there, I wonder? I used to like Milligan's insane sense of humour although sometimes it was more insane than humourous. Loved his war stories. I've given up searching for this as it seems it could be one of several suggestions online, Milligan being one, Ogden Nash another, etc., and I don't even care anymore. :P

OldGoat

It could be by that bloke Anon. He's very prolific.

Jellybaby1

OldGoat wrote: »

It could be by that bloke Anon. He's very prolific.

And very over-rated!

Rubecula

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

And very over-rated!

There was a young man, long gone.
Whose rhymes were oft put upon.
Over-rated? Perhaps.
But lets give some claps,
To the prolific writer, Anon.

Galen

A man and a woman who had never met before but were both married to other people found themselves assigned to the same sleeping compartment on a trans-continental train. Though initially embarrassed and uneasy over sharing a room, they were both very tired and fell asleep quickly, he in the upper bunk and she in the lower.
at 1 a.m., the man leaned down and gently woke the woman saying, "ma'am, I'm sorry to bother you, but would you be willing to reach into the closet and get me a second blanket? I'm awfully cold."
"i have a better idea," she replied. "just for tonight, let's pretend that we're married."
"wow! that's a great idea!" he exclaimed.
"good," she replied. "get your own ****ing blanket."
after a moment of silence, he farted.

OldGoat

Morning World.
I've just acquired a old bone-rattler of a bicycle. It's an old Triumph, a LampLighters bike, iron frame and weighs about 27.89 ton. Hope to restore it in time for a Blooms Day jaunt.

Galen

Good morning OldGoat. If you haven't muscles now, you will by the time you put that old bike back together.

OldGoat

It's not in bad condition tbh. Tyres, tubes, brake-blocks and a drink of oil will see in in working order.
Restoring it will take longer though. Have to source original mudguards, leather saddle, handlebar grips and pedals. I have access to a caustic soda bath so I might dip it for a week to paint strip it and sand out any rust before repainting it.

Galen

Have fun..

slavetothegrind

OldGoat wrote: »

It's not in bad condition tbh. Tyres, tubes, brake-blocks and a drink of oil will see in in working order.
Restoring it will take longer though. Have to source original mudguards, leather saddle, handlebar grips and pedals. I have access to a caustic soda bath so I might dip it for a week to paint strip it and sand out any rust before repainting it.

Get it blasted and powdercoated , tallaght powder coating could help you there ( no affiliation but have seen their work) also I think there is a company in Ireland speciAlisingbin restorations of these bikes were featured on rte recently, could be good for the parts will post if I find them

Spread

OldGoat wrote: »

Morning World.
I've just acquired a old bone-rattler of a bicycle. It's an old Triumph, a LampLighters bike, iron frame and weighs about 27.89 ton. Hope to restore it in time for a Blooms Day jaunt.

Hey OG! It's not the one mentioned in the Old Testament?

Moses descending the mountain in Triumph?

Slowly shuffles to put on Matt Munro singing Lamplighter's Serenade before tiptoing to the teapot

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

Spread

There was an old Man from Tring

Who, when somebody asked him to sing,

Replied, "Isn't it odd?

I can never tell God

Save the Weasel from Pop Goes the King!"

Anon (795 ace}

rich.d.berry

OldGoat wrote: »

I've just acquired a old bone-rattler of a bicycle. It's an old Triumph, a LampLighters bike, iron frame and weighs about 27.89 ton. Hope to restore it in time for a Blooms Day jaunt.

Any chance of some before, during and after pictures? I love seeing how people tackle these sorts of projects.

OldGoat

rich.d.berry wrote: »

Any chance of some before, during and after pictures? I love seeing how people tackle these sorts of projects.

I can do the Before without any problems. The during and after ones are a different story though. I tend to run out of steam before completing the project.

Jellybaby1

We'll take a 'before' one anyway and keep our fingers crossed! :P

Rubecula

Used to have one of those bikes OG, it even had drum brakes on it!!! got a punture and left it in the alley behind the house while I went around to open the gate. When I did the damn thing had been taken, never saw it again, I think it was a "Sun" make.

Spread

OldGoat wrote: »

Morning World.
I've just acquired a old bone-rattler of a bicycle. It's an old Triumph, a LampLighters bike, iron frame and weighs about 27.89 ton. Hope to restore it in time for a Blooms Day jaunt.

Is this some kind of latter day mechanically propelled Penny Farthing?

In which rotation do the wheels go? Clockwise, anti-clockwise?

Do you have to employ a man with a red flag to walk in front?

All above answers can be found in Rudge's "Usage And Abusage Of non-Monocycle Transportation" (13th edition onwards)

getz

Spread wrote: »

Is this some kind of latter day mechanically propelled Penny Farthing?

In which rotation do the wheels go? Clockwise, anti-clockwise?

Do you have to employ a man with a red flag to walk in front?

All above answers can be found in Rudge's "Usage And Abusage Of non-Monocycle Transportation" (13th edition onwards)

them solid tyres dont half hurt your bum

Jellybaby1

OG, is this what it looks like?

http://www.johnnypayphone.net/tallbikes/