Saturday 18 August 2012

The E type Jaguar, the medieval chairs and the combine harvester


Today started in a fairly traditional Saturday morning way with a quick trip to the Bishops Castle (he still refuses to come out), where provisions in the form of milk and bread were purchased and a decent newspaper so that we can catch up with the worlds news. I will have to do some politics again soon I think just to prod the world with a pointy stick and see if we can dislodge a snake from a computer. Nothing to do with me by the way, cats are to blame.

We then went to purchase suitable desk chairs for the slowly emerging orange room. Luckily we found the ideal things, a pair of highly carved but slightly battered medieval oak desk chairs. They are well cool and will fit in perfectly to a bright orange room with a 13ft X 3ft 6 inch desk in it and a computer with a snakes head sticking out of the front fan vent.




As we arrived home however waiting to turn right onto our drive we had to wait for a convoy of vehicles, but not just any vehicles. This was the classic ‘you don’t see a bus for hours on end then twenty five of them all turn up at once’, only it was not buses, it was classic E type Jaguars…….. Now how cool is that, it was the most E type Jaguars I  have seen in one place in years. I ran off to get the camera once they passed because I reckoned there must be at least one straggler some where a bit behind. One thing I know about E types is they may be cool looking and hell to park but they are rather unreliable, even when new they were a bit fickle and some of these cars are now fifty years old.





I did not have to wait long because a few minutes or so later three more passed and I did manage to get pictures of the beasts……. WELL COOL.

After a game of Paper Scissors Stone I found myself sorting some electrics out after lunch and then fitting the top to the desk of the Orange room. It is sort of fitted in as much as it is the right size and in its final resting place, but not yet screwed down.

And a short time ago a large combine harvester arrived in the field next to us to do some work, I assume combining the harvest, or maybe having a race with a tractor with a strange array of massed wire comb things that also turned up. The dog has an each way bet on the combine harvester which to me is cheating bearing in mind there are only two things racing about the field.

Ooooo yes and loads of butterflies today (why are they called butterflies. The only flies that land on butter are ordinary house flies and that big thing with the teeth and pointy tail (the DOG HAHAHAHAHh hahah hahh ha hahahahhah hahah ah hah hahahhaha hhahha )  


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10 comments:

  1. When I was young I drove a combine harvester for several summers, about five. Three of the summers I worked for my father and only drove them for a few weeks, but two of the summers I worked for someone else, and we cut wheat in Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and both of the Dakotas.

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    1. I think both the fields and the combine harvesters are much bigger in the USA. I was quite impressed by the fact that they worked away last night in darkness for almost two hours and then arrived back this morning to finish off at about 5.00am.

      Chemistry, Science, Pineapple Plantations and combine harvesters, you are indeed a man of talent Mr ESB....

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    2. If you insist, then okay, I'm talented. Combines were a long time ago. Perhaps those two summers instiLLed a love for the purrrr of a diesel motor. I don't know eXactly the lure of air conditioning repair. Perhaps it is the solving of complex mechanical puzzles and the satisfaction of helping people in need.

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  2. One of my friends had an e type, until he wrapped it round a lamp post. Beautiful car, but it seemed to bring out the worst driving tendencies in him.

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    1. Yes I think they have that effect on people. I knew someone who bought a Mk 10 Jaguar, another beautiful car but the next day he was showing off and drove it straight over the top of a roundabout. If it had just been a simple roundabout covered in flowers all would have been well but it had signs and posts and lights so that was the end of the Mk10 Jaguar. He did happily walk away uninjured as it was a big car unlike the Citroen 2CV he had been driving before...

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  3. Man, I wish I was with you that day! My mind boggles just looking at one E-type; I wonder how I would react if I see them parading right before my eyes. Was there any particular celebration why all of them are on the road that day? That must have been your lucky day!

    Kerstin Shed

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    1. There was nothing on really, but where we live is one of those places that gets a lot of old vehicles passing in the summer. So we do see some interesting things.

      But right now it is winter, cold and wet and gloomy and although less than a week from Christmas the weather makes it feel very non Christmas at present. I think we are in for a wet Christmas day . . . .

      And thanks for passing by

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  4. That red Jaguar is indeed a sight to behold! It’ll definitely draw your attention to it because of its brilliant color. Likewise, it’s very unusual for you to see a car like this on the road these days. Well, unless you found yourself in a E-type Jaguar parade! Wouldn’t that be awesome? :)

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    1. sneaky, but I like cars so I will let you stay . . . . .. . I dont really let folk do adverts.

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    2. Ooooo the link has gone how did that happen

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