CitroJim's AX, C3 Picasso, Cycling and Running Tales

[CitroJim]

and part of Simon's V6 that hasn't found its way to the tip yet

That remark could be easily misinterpreted!

Gosh, you have to be so careful on how you say things these days....

[Mandrake]

and part of Simon's V6 that hasn't found its way to the tip yet

That remark could be easily misinterpreted!

Gosh, you have to be so careful on how you say things these days....

Yes, especially when wags from down under are reading...

[CitroJim]

Gosh, you have to be so careful on how you say things these days....

Yes, especially when wags from down under are reading...

You're so right Simon...

[CitroJim]

An excellent run down to Somerset and back in the Activa today Really enjoyed the car and came home the more twisty and scenic route rather than the rather straight and tedious A303 and A34.

The Activa really does drive like a little roller skate. Its agility belies the size of the car and despite the roller skate handling and fun it really is amazingly comfy - a fur-lined roller skate.

The only downside is its prodigious thirst for petrol when full fun mode is engaged. It drinks the stuff

Nearly got wiped out by a kamikazi taxi driver near my house this evening as he dodged around parked cars at breakneck speed. I was a passenger in a Vauxhall and I'm still shaking now. How we didn't head-on I don't know. We were returning from our usual Saturday evening shopping run.

The general standard of taxi driving around here is like Activa fuel consumption - atrocious

[Hell Razor5543]

That taxi driver reminds me of a time I had to do a couple of calls in Slough. That day I suggested to my Controller we had an armoured car made available to engineers who had to work there. When she asked why, I told her that I had had to make 3 emergency stops in 10 minutes, and I was now feeling nervous. She laughed (the right way!), and said she would look into it!

[CitroJim]

Did you ask for a change of underwear as well James?

[Hell Razor5543]

I had already dealt with that issue (there is a very large Tesco in the centre of Slough!).

[CitroJim]

I have done it! The thing everybody automatically associates with Karate..

I have chopped a tile in half with my bare hand

There is a technique to it..

We're preparing to do demonstrations at some summer shows this year and tile breaking is just a small part of it. The demonstrations focus much more on the attack/defence techniques rather than simply reducing a pile of tiles to rubble...

[Hell Razor5543]

Somebody cut a deep groove across the tile to start with?

[CitroJim]

Somebody cut a deep groove across the tile to start with?

Absolutely not! That would be cheating...

I can confirm all tiles chopped today were fully intact and not tampered with in any way James...

[myglaren]

Polystyrene tiles don't count Jim

[CitroJim]

Polystyrene tiles don't count Jim

They'd just bend rather than snap cleanly...

The tiles we use are proper roof tiles...

[myglaren]

So. Had a night on the tiles

When do you graduate to breezeblocks?

[CitroJim]

So. Had a night on the tiles

When do you graduate to breezeblocks?

Just before we move on to RSJs and Lintels

[addo]

Jim Jim Jim...

How many times do we have to tell you?

Practice on someone else's roof!

And make sure your escape is planned before you start.