This ageing nonsense is getting out of hand when you have a appointment with one specialist for a problem with the right leg and another the same day with another specialist for a problem with the left leg. Fortunately, there was nothing in between that needed attention.
Used a kick starter on a car. Even tried a hand crank once.
What's a kick starter on a car? I know about hand cranks, as @Sandemaniac has old engines that start that way, but the only other ways to start a car I know about are turning a key or pushing a button.
As a child, bath night was Saturday, in a tin bath in front of the fire. The toilet was an Elsan down the garden.
Ditto, for the ex-game-keeper's cottage in mid-Sussex (1948-9), but a hut over the stream in the halfway-up-the mountain cottage in mid-Wales, described in the advert. in the Lady magazine as having "water-borne sanitation" (1945).
Used a kick starter on a car. Even tried a hand crank once.
What's a kick starter on a car? I know about hand cranks, as @Sandemaniac has old engines that start that way, but the only other ways to start a car I know about are turning a key or pushing a button.
I've known kick starters on motorbikes (do they still have them?) but not cars.
Oh yes - and double-declutching to get down into first gear.
I don't understand all of this. Surely the chauffeur stars and drives the car, your manservant handles all the cash matters - I could never handle all that dealing with trivial cash - and when I want a bath, I just told Mrs Cassidy which bathroom I wanted a hot bath and it was sorted.
Kick starter was not the right term. I was thinking pedal starter, where you used your foot to crank the engine. In old American cars it would be on the left side, just under the emergency brake. And, instead of a pedal to set the brake, you had to pull out a handle to set it.
My first car (a second- or third-hand Metro) had a manual choke. I recall Dad having problems starting it in the winter, probably because it was over a decade since he'd had to use such a thing!
I've just been out on a motorbike which requires a choke to start it (and no electric start, kick it only). Another one here requires you to tickle it before starting. There's fancy Last car I had with a choke was on an 'F' so about 88 or 89 - it would have died in my ownership I guess 20 years or so after that.
Our phone at home was a party line, so if the neighbours were using it we had to wait for an open line.
I used to cycle down to the shop for a block of ice cream, with a rectangular polystyrene container to keep it cool on the way home, as our fridge had no ice box.
Mum used to put a little blue bag of something in with the wash to keep it white.
Mr RoS had a slide rule, and thinks he still has it "somewhere".
He probably has, as I don't remember disposing of it when we moved, but we haven't set eyes on it for nearly 10 years.
I don't remember it being used for anything in the previous fifty.
When I was in second grade, so seven years old, we moved way out to the country. The phone in that house was a crank phone. I thought it was creepy and it smelled funny. We'd had a nice, modern black desk phone in the house we had just moved from.
Not too terribly long ago, I could remember our ring pattern...three shorts and two longs?? I'm getting too old to remember all that stuff!
When I was in second grade, so seven years old, we moved way out to the country. The phone in that house was a crank phone. I thought it was creepy and it smelled funny. We'd had a nice, modern black desk phone in the house we had just moved from.
Not too terribly long ago, I could remember our ring pattern...three shorts and two longs?? I'm getting too old to remember all that stuff!
But that is exactly the sort of trivia we do remember! Unlike our PIN, what pills we've taken or (so help me) where we parked the car.
When I was in second grade, so seven years old, we moved way out to the country. The phone in that house was a crank phone. I thought it was creepy and it smelled funny. We'd had a nice, modern black desk phone in the house we had just moved from.
Not too terribly long ago, I could remember our ring pattern...three shorts and two longs?? I'm getting too old to remember all that stuff!
But that is exactly the sort of trivia we do remember! Unlike our PIN, what pills we've taken or (so help me) where we parked the car.
Having a car alarm at the push of the button on a key ring is certainly an improvement these days.
When I was in second grade, so seven years old, we moved way out to the country. The phone in that house was a crank phone. I thought it was creepy and it smelled funny. We'd had a nice, modern black desk phone in the house we had just moved from.
Not too terribly long ago, I could remember our ring pattern...three shorts and two longs?? I'm getting too old to remember all that stuff!
Oh wow our crank phone was also three shorts and two longs. One long ring in an emergency, and everyone on the party line would pick up. A fire was the usual reason.
Oh wow our crank phone was also three shorts and two longs. One long ring in an emergency, and everyone on the party line would pick up. A fire was the usual reason.
The USUAL reason? What an exciting life you must have had!
I have had cranks in my residence. ;^)) Mostly university roommates.
Boom Boom!
When in student lodgings some (gulp!) 57 years ago we requested callers to ring the block's main doorbell one and a half times (one long followed by one short) so my room mate and I would know it was for us.
I had a dinner with a friend from uni I haven't seen in over 20 years and who lost contact with soon after. That should've been a sign. Then he mentioned it has been over 30 years since we left high school*. I surely knew. But having it said hit home.
* edit: secondary school for those from other places
Cheery son is a year 2000 baby and I still find it shocking that it's so long ago now! I find it shocking @Puzzler that anyone born this century could be a Director of Anything!! Definitely a sign of being older ...
I used to love the cold. Shorts in what passes for winter in Sydney. A friends' relatives once instructed him to not follow my bad example and to wear long pants when he mentioned I wore shorts in winter so it was clearly fine.
@Climacus I feel the cold more than I used to as well. I have taken to wearing two beanies to bed. One is commercially knitted merino, the other I bought from a church fair for $5 and is knitted from chunky wool. I think the latter is one of the best buys I have ever made.
I detest the cold. I think I must have been born on the wrong continent.
I'm the opposite. I find it increasingly hard to keep cool and when summer arrives I potter about the bungalow in my just my special Australian ventilated shorts. I keep well out of shot when Mrs RR has zoom meetings with the grandchildern
I detest the cold. I think I must have been born on the wrong continent.
I have a similar feeling, having been born and lived all my life in the American South, and hating the heat. Weather-wise, summer is my least favorite season. I love winter, though.
I detest the cold. I think I must have been born on the wrong continent.
I have a similar feeling, having been born and lived all my life in the American South, and hating the heat. Weather-wise, summer is my least favorite season. I love winter, though.
Hated the humidity when I lived in Mississippi. Winters weren't bad at all.
Island life suits me rather well, weather-wise (a temperature below 5°C or above 15°C is unusual). It's a shame that visiting family on the mainland can only be done at the height of summer and in the east of England when 30°C+ is all too common.
I detest the cold. I think I must have been born on the wrong continent.
I have a similar feeling, having been born and lived all my life in the American South, and hating the heat. Weather-wise, summer is my least favorite season. I love winter, though.
Hated the humidity when I lived in Mississippi. Winters weren't bad at all.
There’s the old joke: “I know Hell’s hot, but is it humid?”
And when I say I love winter, I do recognize that winters in the American South are milder than in many other places, though it can get really cold in North Carolina, particularly in the mountains.
I detest the cold. I think I must have been born on the wrong continent.
I'm the opposite. I find it increasingly hard to keep cool and when summer arrives I potter about the bungalow in my just my special Australian ventilated shorts. I keep well out of shot when Mrs RR has zoom meetings with the grandchildern
I detest the cold. I think I must have been born on the wrong continent.
I'm the opposite. I find it increasingly hard to keep cool and when summer arrives I potter about the bungalow in my just my special Australian ventilated shorts. I keep well out of shot when Mrs RR has zoom meetings with the grandchildern
Good grief, how revealing are the shorts?
No, don't answer that...
It's a great shame they don't have 'Nobbly knees' competitions any more (why not?). I'd win!
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What's a kick starter on a car? I know about hand cranks, as @Sandemaniac has old engines that start that way, but the only other ways to start a car I know about are turning a key or pushing a button.
Ditto, for the ex-game-keeper's cottage in mid-Sussex (1948-9), but a hut over the stream in the halfway-up-the mountain cottage in mid-Wales, described in the advert. in the Lady magazine as having "water-borne sanitation" (1945).
I've known kick starters on motorbikes (do they still have them?) but not cars.
Oh yes - and double-declutching to get down into first gear.
Or was that not usual?
Then, there was the manual choke.
I remember finding a slide rule in the attic in my early teens and Dad showing me how it worked. Not sure I could still work it now.
I was, on the other hand, a dab hand with logarithms.
I used to cycle down to the shop for a block of ice cream, with a rectangular polystyrene container to keep it cool on the way home, as our fridge had no ice box.
Mum used to put a little blue bag of something in with the wash to keep it white.
Feeling ancient now.
He probably has, as I don't remember disposing of it when we moved, but we haven't set eyes on it for nearly 10 years.
I don't remember it being used for anything in the previous fifty.
My first car was an orange and white Triumph Herald. It died of galloping rust.
Not too terribly long ago, I could remember our ring pattern...three shorts and two longs?? I'm getting too old to remember all that stuff!
But that is exactly the sort of trivia we do remember! Unlike our PIN, what pills we've taken or (so help me) where we parked the car.
Having a car alarm at the push of the button on a key ring is certainly an improvement these days.
Oh wow our crank phone was also three shorts and two longs. One long ring in an emergency, and everyone on the party line would pick up. A fire was the usual reason.
Boom Boom!
When in student lodgings some (gulp!) 57 years ago we requested callers to ring the block's main doorbell one and a half times (one long followed by one short) so my room mate and I would know it was for us.
* edit: secondary school for those from other places
My oldest grandchild will be 24 next week.
...when your baby sister turns 70.
I used to love the cold. Shorts in what passes for winter in Sydney. A friends' relatives once instructed him to not follow my bad example and to wear long pants when he mentioned I wore shorts in winter so it was clearly fine.
Now I feel the cold keenly.
I'm the opposite. I find it increasingly hard to keep cool and when summer arrives I potter about the bungalow in my just my special Australian ventilated shorts. I keep well out of shot when Mrs RR has zoom meetings with the grandchildern
Which would have been OK if it was one of these: https://tinyurl.com/2mjwr5zs
Hated the humidity when I lived in Mississippi. Winters weren't bad at all.
And when I say I love winter, I do recognize that winters in the American South are milder than in many other places, though it can get really cold in North Carolina, particularly in the mountains.
Wouldn't it just- what a beauty!
Good grief, how revealing are the shorts?
No, don't answer that...
I think Mum still has the wedding present placemat with exactly that photo on!
It's a great shame they don't have 'Nobbly knees' competitions any more (why not?). I'd win!