The 2024 Rendezvous

[delta]

So drive shaft but got car back to pits and I’ve changed it . 30 min lost . Gilbert going well .?

[Gerard C]

Bad timing for the #56, one lap lost due to driver change just before SC procedure and now stopped on track after refuelling (was 2nd/3rd in class).

[Gerard C]

Yes the Gilbern going very well, consistent and now faster and faster.

[MartinH]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

Back on track but 12 laps have been lost. How are your friends, Martin?

They (car 87) stopped after 11 laps ...... don't know why, but seems they may be going again, but miles behind by now. Hopefully better race for them later on today in the Alfa during the '81 race.



Oh, & car 13 seems to have had a nightmare of a race .... 5 pit stops incl some drive thru's, but now running quickly with the hot shoe behind the wheel .... currently in 21st place.
Just done pitstop number 6 as I am typing !!!

[Gerard C]

The Alfa is the yellow GTAM? Yes, great day for the # 13! The one you like to forget about…

[Gerard C]

Lotus day!

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

Lotus day!

So something to cheer about!

[delta]

Last report on Spa 3 hour . Sorted out half shaft and only lost 32 min . Put Brian back in car as my hands were covered in oil . My nice new red race suit but second hand now . No hope of making up all the time lost so had some fun . Brian ran up to the second hour and
We swoped. Car going well and I had fun . We were quickest MGB . Very happy Dave and John did so well in Gilbert . Happy days all round . Zooming back home now as have to get the two juniors finished for Hockenheim next week . ?

[Tel 911S]

Originally Posted by John Elwin

It might still feel like mid-winter here but the swifts have jetted in this morning amidst a cacophony of twittering.

If they've got any sense they'll turn round & go straight back to Africa, not the least because as it is so cold there are no flies buzzing around for them to eat!

Been keeping my eyes in the air since they got to you , and this morning saw the first Swallow flying about .
So perhaps summer is coming along .

[Peter Mallett]

I noticed that the rooks are nesting in the tree tops which is a portent of a good summer.

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Tel 911S

Been keeping my eyes in the air since they got to you , and this morning saw the first Swallow flying about .
So perhaps summer is coming along .

Ah, but one swallow does not make a summer!

It probably came from here as mine all seem to have disappeared as quickly as they arrived. They normally nest in a barn at the farm next door but there has been some building work there which may have disturbed them

[Tel 911S]

Originally Posted by John Elwin

Ah, but one swallow does not make a summer!

It probably came from here as mine all seem to have disappeared as quickly as they arrived. They normally nest in a barn at the farm next door but there has been some building work there which may have disturbed them

When I said about the Swallow I did expect to hear " 1 swallow does not make a summer " , so I had to look it up .
Apparently it was attributed to ARISTOTLE , circa 300 odd BC .So it is not just us who get very varied weather , and has been going on for a long time .

[midgetman]

Originally Posted by Peter Mallett

I noticed that the rooks are nesting in the tree tops which is a portent of a good summer.

Ah interesting. Round here and southwards they are further down the trees meaning just the opposite. I was going to mention it and predict a poor summer but you beat me to it.

However, Bromham is drying up and revealing the potholed roadway underneath. The swans are leaving the fields and making their way back to The Crammer pond in Devizes - supposedly the home of the Moonraker legend.

I was at a kart track in Devon over the weekend, and it was so cold that I was wearing both my work clothes and evening togs so we're not out of winter yet but hopefully we're on the way.

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[Mike Harte]

And we had sleet up here yesterday morning, and it never got above 2-3 degrees C all day. Its a balmy 10 degrees today, though!

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Mike Harte

And we had sleet up here yesterday morning, and it never got above 2-3 degrees C all day. Its a balmy 10 degrees today, though!

It's been 18 degrees here today - the best day since last summer & so the swifts have back to life, performing their Battle of Britain re-enactments over my garden.

[bauble]

Er! Is this a motor sport form, or have I wandered into Nature Watch web site by accident?

Oh! I saw two pigeons yesterday.

[delta]

I did wonder how the thread changed so quick from Spa 3 Hour,. Anyway just for my good mate Bob here is the latest news from Team Delta Bird Watch. My box was built by Gilberts 4th partner David " Mary's Husband". See below picture. Last year we had Blue Tits, Ten eggs in all and nine successful little birds flew off in to the Chiltern countryside. This year David tells me they are great Tits and we have 9 eggs. Again see picture. So I hope we have combined Motor racing and Birds. Heading off to Hockenheim tomorrow. I will keep you all up to speed on progress.,

[Peter Mallett]

Worth remembering that on April 8th 1973 the International Trophy race was held in a blizzard. Likewise the International Trophy meeting in 1983 was also affected by snow! There, motorsport and meteorolgy all in one post.

[Tel 911S]

Originally Posted by Peter Mallett

Worth remembering that on April 8th 1973 the International Trophy race was held in a blizzard. Likewise the International Trophy meeting in 1983 was also affected by snow! There, motorsport and meteorolgy all in one post.

And Delta also managed to get Great Tits into the conversations as well . What more could anyone , [ except Bauble ] , want .

[midgetman]

Sun's out here in Lincolnshire today. Thermometer says 21.5 degrees but that's probably track temperature. It's crazy to think that only Saturday the van was warning me of potentially slippery roads.

No tits here so far and I can't see the rookery either.

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[Peter Mallett]

Tits like coconuts!



But sparrows prefer peanuts.

[bauble]

Originally Posted by Tel 911S

And Delta also managed to get Great Tits into the conversations as well . What more could anyone , [ except Bauble ] , want .

Well I do like to keep a breast of things.

I have not seen any Tits, nor had a Shag, in the garden for years, my big Cock withered away, some time ago, so I have had to Swallow my pride in my bird collection, and turn my Eagle eye to motor sport instead.

I hope no one mis judges my post, it is completely free of innuendo.

[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by bauble

Well I do like to keep a breast of things.

I have not seen any Tits, nor had a Shag, in the garden for years, my big Cock withered away, some time ago, so I have had to Swallow my pride in my bird collection, and turn my Eagle eye to motor sport instead.

I hope no one mis judges my post, it is completely free of innuendo.

I'm sure that if there was any sign of innuendo the moderators would whip it out immediately!
(Copyright Kenneth Horne somewhere around 1960)

[E.B]

Originally Posted by Tel 911S

And Delta also managed to get Great Tits into the conversations as well .....

Which somehow reminded me of a very old schoolboy gag at which I chuckled at in my youth, regarding a young lady at the Doctors for an examination.
"Big Breaths" said the Doctor, stethoscope in hand.... to which said young lady responded, "Yeth and im only thixtheen".

I'll get my coat.

Talking of youth I noticed it is Will's (356sc) Birthday today, Tuesday, so Will.

[Tel 911S]

Originally Posted by E.B

Which somehow reminded me of a very old schoolboy gag at which I chuckled at in my youth, regarding a young lady at the Doctors for an examination.
"Big Breaths" said the Doctor, stethoscope in hand.... to which said young lady responded, "Yeth and im only thixtheen".

I'll get my coat.

Talking of youth I noticed it is Will's (356sc) Birthday today, Tuesday, so Will.

" Big Breaths" was from a 1957 film , " Doctor At Large " . A forerunner to the " Carry On " series .
Classic old humour , sadly in very short supply nowadays .