Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Mohican]

Just typed iambic pentameter into wikipedia. May need to be sober before i fully understand it, even then there's a high chance of failure!!!!

[Machka]

Thanks Aaron.

This year they presented me with some framed photographs of myself - caricatures more correctly.

Jeez, everyone would have a field day if I Uploaded those. To be fair, I look a lot younger in them.

A real shame you could not be there, & I hope you will be  back at the SPT's soon. We announced the SPT '13 Tour last night on the Show. Sort of. 

How is the lad - Lionel, is it? Sorry, I'm bad with names.

Leo, close enough though.

He's great, just started Secondary School a few weeks back.  For some reason they call it High School these days. 

As it happens he's going to the same secondary school that I went to 30 years ago, the main changes are the school now looks like a prison with 8 foot high stiff steel fencing around it.  Not because it's in a bad area, it's not, but I expect someone came up with the bright idea during a child protection meeting one day.

[SuuPRlim]

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Pee Emming you r.e something

[tikay]

http://www.chiselandmouse.com/architectural-models.html

Thought you might like this Tikay.

First class Rod, thank you, & a wonderful example that originality & British craftsmasnship still exists, & can be successful. I so admiire these "small" business ventures.

Excellent choice of subjects, too, I could barely have chosen better.

Bankside Power Station - I did a ton of work there in the late 60's, & it was where I first lost a week's wages playing 3 card brag in the site hut. It is closed now - it is the "Tate Modern" (an Art Gallery) I believe. At one time, it used to generate the power for the London Underground system ("The Tube").

The Greyhound Terminal, the Hoover Building.

That Hoover Building is so iconic, it is on ther A40 at Perivale in Middlesex. Would you believe it is now a Tesco?! "Hoover" used to be a generic term for vacuum cleaners, or cleaning the house. Hoover up. How times change.

I don't do Xmas Pressies, but if I did, this is what I would buy for Methuselah Minor.

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[tikay]

I could not let the moment pass without a few photos of that magnificent Hoover Building, then & now.

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[tikay]

There was an amazing storm in Aberdeen this week.

That foamy stuff is spume - sea foam & sand mixed.

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[tikay]

Meanwhile, the recession continues to bite.

At Silverstone in Northampton last week, they had a "Ferrari Owners Club" meeting/rally thing. One thousand Ferraris took part, & the entire Silverstone circuit - bar 200 yards - was packed with Ferraris, nose to tail.

I don't really know WHAT to make of all that.

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[DaveShoelace]

I hear they shared the venue with the annual penis substitution convention that week.

[AndrewT]

Must be so embarrassing when you turn up to a day out of racing and everyone has the same colour car as you.

[mondatoo]

Meanwhile, the recession continues to bite.

At Silverstone in Northampton last week, they had a "Ferrari Owners Club" meeting/rally thing. One thousand Ferraris took part, & the entire Silverstone circuit - bar 200 yards - was packed with Ferraris, nose to tail.

I don't really know WHAT to make of all that.

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That people like red Ferrari's ?

[tikay]

That people like red Ferrari's ?

No no, not at all Ray!

ALL Ferraris should be red, who on earth would want any other colour. HAS to be red.  A yellow Ferrari is so so common.

No, it just fascinated me. We all pursue different hobbies & recreations, & it's easy to diss others. I just speculated on the mindset.

I have a £200,000 Ferrari, tell you what, lets go to Silverstone today with 1,000 (ONE THOUSAND) like-minded souls, queue for 3 hours to take my place on the track, drive round it 3 times at 25mph, then go home. It was great, we drove round like heroes.

I just find that an incredible insight into human psychology.

And don't think THEY don't mock US, as we sit boggle-eyed in front of 12 Tables clicking buttons for 10 or 12 hours at a stretch.

Each to their own, it's just THE most fantastic insight to modern life.

Anyway, ignore me, I go off on these little flights of fancy sometimes. Nothing as fascinating as life.

[david3103]

That people like red Ferrari's ?

No no, not at all Ray!

ALL Ferraris should be red, who on earth would want any other colour. HAS to be red.  A yellow Ferrari is so so common.

No, it just fascinated me. We all pursue different hobbies & recreations, & it's easy to diss others. I just speculated on the mindset.

I have a £200,000 Ferrari, tell you what, lets go to Silverstone today with 1,000 (ONE THOUSAND) like-minded souls, queue for 3 hours to take my place on the track, drive round it 3 times at 25mph, then go home. It was great, we drove round like heroes.

I just find that an incredible insight into human psychology.

And don't think THEY don't mock US, as we sit boggle-eyed in front of 12 Tables clicking buttons for 10 or 12 hours at a stretch.

Each to their own, it's just THE most fantastic insight to modern life.

Anyway, ignore me, I go off on these little flights of fancy sometimes. Nothing as fascinating as life.

call

[mondatoo]

That people like red Ferrari's ?

No no, not at all Ray!

ALL Ferraris should be red, who on earth would want any other colour. HAS to be red.  A yellow Ferrari is so so common.

No, it just fascinated me. We all pursue different hobbies & recreations, & it's easy to diss others. I just speculated on the mindset.

I have a £200,000 Ferrari, tell you what, lets go to Silverstone today with 1,000 (ONE THOUSAND) like-minded souls, queue for 3 hours to take my place on the track, drive round it 3 times at 25mph, then go home. It was great, we drove round like heroes.

I just find that an incredible insight into human psychology.

And don't think THEY don't mock US, as we sit boggle-eyed in front of 12 Tables clicking buttons for 10 or 12 hours at a stretch.

Each to their own, it's just THE most fantastic insight to modern life.

Anyway, ignore me, I go off on these little flights of fancy sometimes. Nothing as fascinating as life.

Lazy gits 

Probably only car that I'd buy red.

[kinboshi]

That people like red Ferrari's ?

No no, not at all Ray!

ALL Ferraris should be red, who on earth would want any other colour. HAS to be red.  A yellow Ferrari is so so common.

No, it just fascinated me. We all pursue different hobbies & recreations, & it's easy to diss others. I just speculated on the mindset.

I have a £200,000 Ferrari, tell you what, lets go to Silverstone today with 1,000 (ONE THOUSAND) like-minded souls, queue for 3 hours to take my place on the track, drive round it 3 times at 25mph, then go home. It was great, we drove round like heroes.

I just find that an incredible insight into human psychology.

And don't think THEY don't mock US, as we sit boggle-eyed in front of 12 Tables clicking buttons for 10 or 12 hours at a stretch.

Each to their own, it's just THE most fantastic insight to modern life.

Anyway, ignore me, I go off on these little flights of fancy sometimes. Nothing as fascinating as life.

Lazy gits 

Probably only car that I'd buy red.

Alfa are releasing the 4c in a year or so.  Would definitely have one of those in that shade of red:

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[rex008]

That people like red Ferrari's ?

No no, not at all Ray!

ALL Ferraris should be red, who on earth would want any other colour. HAS to be red.  A yellow Ferrari is so so common.

Not a subscriber to this. Crass V8 Ferraris maybe. If I ever had a spare 5 figures, I'd have myself one of these, in this colour:

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Nice refined 575M V12 GT. Lovely. Start at about 50k these days. Positively cheap.