Thread: Ramblings from the UK.

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Thanks for that Jack; I didn't know that. Even cousin Charlie, a born and bred local didn't know that.

And if anybody else can point out little bits of info like Jack; please do so!

Sunday 15th May.

Underway about 1:00pm, heading for Erskine to Caulders Garden Centre Bishopton, an enterprise that is leased to Caulders by the Erskine House Charity, formerly the Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers. The Charity was started during WWI, to rehabilitate sailors and soldiers who were maimed by the loss of limbs during the war.
It's an indictment upon the nature of the human animal that it's still needed today.
What have we learned over the last 100 years?

I digress.

The purpose of the visit was to meet up again with Christine and Charlie's son Ewen, daughter-in-law Barbara, and their two kids Ben and Murray.

They're nice people; but totally incapable of understanding what hot rodding is about, what hot rodders do, or why.
"Why didn't you just buy a newer reliable bus and convert it?"
Because it would never be the same.
"Yes it would; it would be even better as far as I can see."
It wouldn't have the same cachet.
"So?"
sigh.
We've made this particular vehicle peculiar to us; there's not another one the same in the entire world.
"But an old bus like that wouldn't keep up with traffic."
Yes it will. Its got a late model 400 ci V8 in it, with a 5spd 2spd behind it.

I was pushing water uphill with a rake here.
The great unwashed just don't get it.

Never mind: it was good to meet up with some more bones...

A major difficulty when being hosted by bones is that their definition of 'early' is entirely different from mine.
I'm usually awake around 5:30, so 7:00 on the road is okay by me.
Charlie's definition of an early getaway is 10:00, and it's more usually later.
Bloody hell; half the day's gone by then!

But what can ya do?
It's their house, their car, and they're showing you around out of the kindness of their heart.
And that is appreciated.

Originally Posted by johnboy

I was pushing water uphill with a rake here.
The great unwashed just don't get it.

Never heard that one before Mine has always been "shoveling s**t against the tide".

Originally Posted by NTFDAY

Never heard that one before Mine has always been "shoveling s**t against the tide".

This puts me in mind of a gent (?) I used to know from France. We had a '68 Dodge A100 van with a warmed up 318, and a '68 chevelle Malibu SS 396 that I raced. Pierre just couldn't get his head around any of it, and was always tsk-tsking me about it.