Author Topic: Forumite spotting (Read 596477 times)

Basil · « **Reply #3225 on:** 15 March, 2015, 10:55:26 am »

Basil.
In the bathroom mirror whilst shaving.

Well, he looked like Basil, but older.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3226 on:** 15 March, 2015, 04:48:43 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 15 March, 2015, 10:55:26 am

Basil.
In the bathroom mirror whilst shaving.

Well, he looked like Basil, but older.

That's what happens when you shave and explains why I have kept my youthful good looks.

jsabine · « **Reply #3227 on:** 15 March, 2015, 10:37:38 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 15 March, 2015, 04:48:43 pm

Quote from: Basil on 15 March, 2015, 10:55:26 am
Basil.
In the bathroom mirror whilst shaving.

Well, he looked like Basil, but older.

That's what happens when you shave and explains why I have kept my youthful good looks.

The pics rather suggest you've kept your youthful good looks in the attic, I'm afraid.

Jurek · « **Reply #3228 on:** 15 March, 2015, 10:39:51 pm »

PaulR.
Pushing a trolley in Sainsbury's Sydenham.
I had a hand basket.
Does that count?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3229 on:** 16 March, 2015, 09:17:44 am »

Wowbagger is the Anti-Dorian Gray

Redlight · « **Reply #3230 on:** 16 March, 2015, 10:04:35 pm »

Quote from: PaulR on 14 March, 2015, 01:38:51 pm

That sounds about right - we'd set off from the south Ardeche in the morning and headed directly north across the Massif Central to avoid the nightmare of the A6. Had a silver Lemond Tourmalet on the roof with blue wheels.

I do recall there being a car behind with a good looking machine on the roof. Shame we didn't get to speak. We'd come up from Perigueux with an overnight near Tours and thought we wouldn't get there in time. I think it was only because we came off the motorway early and snuck through the back streets of Calais and straight into the port, rather than sitting on the motorway, that we got there in time.

All being well, the Roberts will be making its way over to France again in August, and then heading west, having left the car near Paris....

Lenny1 · « **Reply #3231 on:** 21 March, 2015, 11:01:41 pm »

Was that you i spied, Mr Billy Weir, heading towards Caterham on the Hill this morning? Thought it might be, but not 100% sure. I was heading back to Reigate after bagging the Caterham trio, Burntwood Lane, Church hill and Wallers Lane.
Gonna go back and have a go at Succombes, (think thats how its spelt!) Should just call it 'frigging steep lane'!

:sick:lol

tonyh · « **Reply #3232 on:** 22 March, 2015, 06:12:15 am »

Teethgrinder!!
Yesterday near Vernham Dean.
Complete surprise, as I hadn't looked where he was headed.
His was the best smile and wave of the whole day. And the best style.

Basil · « **Reply #3233 on:** 28 March, 2015, 06:07:12 pm »

So I pop into the Dolphinandchips on Raddlebarn Road to collect my pre ordered haddock, when I notice that the only other customer seems to have the air of a box of frogs.
Hurrah! It's that Nikki.

You can always tell it's a Nikki by the wonderful smiley demeanour.

Oh, and she also showed me a photo of something nasty in a Petri dish as I was packing my supper into my pannier.

Torslanda · « **Reply #3234 on:** 28 March, 2015, 07:19:50 pm »

Si_S, in the shop with the Trek. Wheel rebuilt, BB bearings replaced.

Must've done something right as he rode off into the gloom of a Manchester late afternoon and didn't come back . . .

Kim · « **Reply #3235 on:** 28 March, 2015, 07:32:00 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 28 March, 2015, 06:07:12 pm

Oh, and she also showed me a photo of something nasty in a Petri dish as I was packing my supper into my pannier.

Makes sense; she probably found it in a canal...

Basil · « **Reply #3236 on:** 28 March, 2015, 07:52:27 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 28 March, 2015, 07:32:00 pm

Quote from: Basil on 28 March, 2015, 06:07:12 pm
Oh, and she also showed me a photo of something nasty in a Petri dish as I was packing my supper into my pannier.

Makes sense; she probably found it in a canal...

Krect.

So I explained to her why I am now immune to absolutely everything. (Except Man-lurgy, apparently)

nikki · « **Reply #3237 on:** 28 March, 2015, 08:08:42 pm »

Then smiley because I'd got all my venting out of the way during an afternoon in the company of barakta and Kim.
Now smiley because of a full belly and an assortment of newly acquired camping bits.

Basil: here's a closeup of a dibble of the Worcester & Birmingham's finest tonic after 6 days feeding on a concoction of marmite, honey and skimmed milk. Quite frankly I'm amazed you're still alive!

Kim · « **Reply #3238 on:** 28 March, 2015, 08:14:37 pm »

Did you get as far as categorising organisms, or is that a bit too SCIENCEy? I saw something that looked like gram-negative rods, which are usually a bad sign if you're going swimming...

nikki · « **Reply #3239 on:** 28 March, 2015, 08:32:23 pm »

The scientist had had to go back to the ivory tower for an Important Meeting by that time. I was happy to be able to remember how to drive a microscope, but I'm afraid I was mostly taking photos without really knowing what I was looking at.

IIRC the stringy things in the photo are a bacillus (maybe what you saw?), the blobby bits I'm not sure of and we also had some fungus in some of the other samples.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3240 on:** 29 March, 2015, 12:23:40 am »

CrinklyLion & cubs, Clarion & Butterfly (& Nye), Julian (& Iris), Steph. At the SCIENCE Museum.

Si_Co · « **Reply #3241 on:** 29 March, 2015, 01:14:40 pm »

Quote from: Torslanda on 28 March, 2015, 07:19:50 pm

Si_S, in the shop with the Trek. Wheel rebuilt, BB bearings replaced.

Must've done something right as he rode off into the gloom of a Manchester late afternoon and didn't come back . . .

Cheers mate, no creaks or clicks so no need to emigrate. The bike feels alive again

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3242 on:** 01 April, 2015, 10:12:22 pm »

If someone has an account here but has never posted anything at all, are they are a forumite? I suppose not. Nevertheless, I spotted such a person on his rather stylish old loop-framed sit-up bike riding to the stupormarket from which I had escaped. (He's a naudakser.)

Ham · « **Reply #3243 on:** 01 April, 2015, 10:17:09 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 01 April, 2015, 10:12:22 pm

If someone has an account here but has never posted anything at all,

Paging BrianI and AWL, BrianI and AWL to the black & white adjudicators phone please.

(do you talk into there ? ? ?

)

Valiant · « **Reply #3244 on:** 08 April, 2015, 11:11:34 pm »

Spotted Jurek and had a brief chat in Newell St

Was lovely seeing you again matey, feels like it's been an age!

Jurek · « **Reply #3245 on:** 09 April, 2015, 06:46:08 am »

Quote from: Valiant on 08 April, 2015, 11:11:34 pm

Spotted Jurek and had a brief chat in Newell St Was lovely seeing you again matey, feels like it's been an age!

Such an age that I can't even remember when it was. A loooooooooooong time ago.
Good to see you.
I should add that Sam is the first person off the forum (ACF as was then) I met IRL.
That would've been Tour of Britain final stage in ummmmmm....... 2006?

Valiant · « **Reply #3246 on:** 10 April, 2015, 06:23:07 am »

No it can't have been that long ago surely?

Jurek · « **Reply #3247 on:** 10 April, 2015, 09:17:05 am »

Quote from: Valiant on 10 April, 2015, 06:23:07 am

No it can't have been that long ago surely?

Last time I saw you, i think would've been at Charlotte's wheel building class in the TH - whenever that was.

Valiant · « **Reply #3248 on:** 11 April, 2015, 12:23:11 am »

Jesus.

I bow my head in shame sir.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3249 on:** 12 April, 2015, 05:18:16 pm »

A slightly knackered looking Von Broad at the Hillingdon track today; well, he did do the Elenith yesterday! Don't think we've met since the Winter Solstice 200 in 2007

Author Topic: Forumite spotting (Read 596477 times)

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