things I have learnt this christmas

1. In a semi frozen water butt full fat coke cans (330ml) sink and coke zero cans of the same volume don’t.

2. lime pickle + left over turkey, ham and roast spuds = interesting noises.

1) A bottle of coke left in the garage will freeze and explode, covering everything in the garage in frozen coke slush.

2) tealights from Primark have plastic surrounds that melt and set fire to the dining room table.

your car screen washers have not frozen they have run out of water 😳

1. I should have bought more D Cell batteries before xmas day for my sons Big Trak.

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things I have learnt this christmas….

…my wife has turned into her mother – I was warned!!!
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I will get ill, every Christmas, without fail.

your car screen washers have not run out of water they have frozen

llthepies – Member
your car screen washers have not run out of water they have frozen

Yup, anything below -5 🙁

6 carrots and half a swede are too much for 6 adults and 4 small kids.

30 sprouts is about right.

I agree

6 carrots and half a swede are too much for 6 adults and 4 small kids.

Old men in Nissan Micras really don’t know they are driving on a totally flat front tyre.

ballet heels are really difficult to walk in

Heating oil must be checked before christmas if you run out on boxingday you have no heating or hot water

Lesson learnt

teenage kicks… this afternoon, loudly!!!

Trekster – Member

llthepies – Member
your car screen washers have not run out of water they have frozen

Yup, anything below -5

Not if you fill with screenwash and water 50/50

Rocketdog wins the kinkiest Christmas award.

Push-fit compression fittings are a nightmare to fit (when you have frozen hands and a badly cut finger) and it is amazing how much of the floor a pipe full of water can cover. Indoor swimming pool anyone?
(on the plus side I learnt how to use a pipe-cutter and re-fit washing machine taps.)

Don’t bother going out riding when everywhere that isn’t a main road is completely and unequivically covered in sheet ice.

Got lost (tbf this isn’t really to do wth ice)

Negotiated almost every single interesting descent on my arse, crab-like, pulling my bike down behind me.

Fell over numerous times including once off a bridge into a stream.

Got shocked by an electric fence 4 times trying to get over it to avoid slipping over 😡

Fell off on the way home along the canal when my bike disappeared from underneath me, in front of some guy who just looked at me on the floor with a very solemn expression on his face for a full 10 seconds then said ‘Ice’ and walked off.

If Rocketdog doesn’t want those shoes, I’ll look after them for him…

hell of a ride Duggan! one to remember! 😀

email in profile TN 😉

Duggan, you can tell stories like that to your grandchildren when you’re old (and with age comes license to exaggerate a little).

Hope you don’t mind me laughing at with you over it, but I’d say that ride was character-building, and anything but boring.

Simon E- no that’s fine 😆

I must admit when I got lost I did get a feeling of rising panic slowly developing in my stomach. Not really because I thought I wouldn’t find my way but I needed to ride back to Didsbury before dark and hadn’t even been out (or done any exercise) for 5 weeks before due to injury.

Back home eating tea now though so glad I went out even if it was a bit disasterous- like you say, it’s all a learning experience I guess 😀

Whisky is a great ambassador.

Not everyone wants to hear my songs.

The kids are OK.

Don’t push for a fart on boxing day – even if you think it’s better to get it out of the way before going to the currys sale in the car with your folks.

I can stick my Brother in Law for a maximum of 2 days…anything more I start to turn feral.