I've surveyed the staff car park this morning. There are three Hondas, but I was rather disappointed to see they are a Jazz, a CRV and a HRV. There were also many other makes of car.
Now I'm not sure what to do.
Oddly enough I checked our car park this morning and apart from my Honda there were no other Hondas to report.
I did however notice a red Toyota Yaris I've not seen before.
Maybe it belongs to a visitor? Maybe it belongs to a Colin? Stranger things have happened.
The hospital carpark opposite my house often has lots of cars in it.
When I visited our Grenoble factory in 1973, the factory manager took me and my French counterpart out to lunch in his new Honda.
My colleague said ' Elle marche bien, votre voiture japonaise, monsieur'.
In French, just like that.
Seiko Pikey?
I'm sorry to let everyone down, Terry can't visit today, I know this will be a shock for some but I think given the appropriate amount of time to move into acceptance we will all be okay. Terry now has to take his father in law to the doctors.
I'm unsure is Terry's FIL is called Colin or not I will ask him next time we speak or if this is a genuine emergency or malingering. Now I'm going to pick up some wheels for a Norton as Terry is indisposed, I should have asked who Norton was really.
I'm not wearing my coat at the moment as i'm in the office, we are also out of Earl Grey teabags!
Our Honda's spare key is bright red, I have no idea why, worse still we haven't given the key a name.
I used to think that when I retired I'd just be an onlooker, but in truth the role's no different - I'm a participant. I'm in the overflow carpark standing by my Benidorm Bronze Fiesta GL. That's me, waving the cap I got from Dunne and Co. They're closed now, I think.
Dunne's, not the hospital.
What kind of chap challenges the mental acuity of a key without finding out their name. I've a good mind to send a strongly worded letter to my MP and the Times.
I think that's a bit of an insulting name - 'Retardant'. Mind you, I bet you'd get some nasty looks from the women in your office (you didn't mention whether the many many things included the fairer sex) if you referred to your chair as Easy.
Or Eezee as our transatlantic chums might say. Possibly.
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Always been very happy with my Honda petrol mower. I'd actually stick my neck out and shock you all by saying that it gives a better cut than my Hayter Harrier 41 with the Briggs and Stratton XTS50 Quantum engine. No experience of their cars other than my friend's mum who was really nice and drove a Triumph Acclaim when I was a child. She sometimes gave me lifts. The Acclaim of course was based on the Honda Ballade and used a Honda designed engine.
A good friend of mine had an old Triumph Acclaim at university. It was a strange hue of blue if I recall correctly. But given that was some years ago I may be confusing it with his later Austin Montego.
Dunne and Co have closed? Would you recommend John Collier or Hepworth's now for the purchase of cavalry twill slacks?
I see you too!!! Which reminds me...I've an old cap I need to throw out.
Dunne's, yes, and what a pity, although they were becoming a bit 'avant-garde' which is probably why bonzo697 didn't go inside. If I recall, on my last visit, they had a Jackie Stewart tartan cap on sale with fake hair attached at the sides. Well. I never, I remarked to Doreen at the time.
The Fifty Shilling Tailor was my favoured menswear emporium, though prices have escalated - my last handcut suit cost seven guineas.
I think I'll probably give my future trade to Alexandre (ask them to phone across for my measurements, although 'short portly' usually does the trick). They do 'ready made' slacks too.
Don't know about you, but I still think the 'Window to Watch' is a bit, shall we say, common. You know, like a sort of tailoring equivalent of Cyril Lord carpets.
Barons are no more. They got booted out when the whole block was redeveloped a couple of years ago - same as Bates the Hatters.
I'd say bespoke from somewhere on the Row though perhaps not Abercrombie & Fitch. I have a pair with a 30" waist that I'd consider letting go on SC. They're called Geoffrey.
^ I know. I was nearly tempted by a coathanger in their closing down sale.
No not a neighbour of bonzo. Visiting the hospital but nothing serious. Having a ringy thingy removed from my little finger which some anecdote said would stop me snoring and hopefully give the old girl a good night's sleep. I don't know who the old girl is but she said she knows me.
Honda MOT
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Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
I think Henry has been spending too much time with his friend Charlie...
In other developments, my drive in to work was not entirely satisfactory due to my car iPod's rather poor choice of music.
I set the device to random, and it chose to play three Marilyn Manson tracks one after another.
While I do indeed like many MM tracks, I am not convinced they are entirely suitable first thing in the morning.
Have any of you been slightly disappointed by your iPod's innapropriate track choices? You would think Apple with all their technology could do better wouldn't you?
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There is a dead fly on the window ledge in my office, it is a kind of black colour.
As I recall flies are a kind of black colour too, so it's commendable you could see it camouflaged against the window ledge.
Try chewing it, it might be a sultana.
"Bite my shiny metal ass."
- Bender Bending Rodríguez
There isn't anything on my window ledge at work.