The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Jackmydad

chris_m wrote: »

Looking at the pics on wikipedia I'm pretty sure that none of the various marks of Consuls/Zephyrs/Zodiacs did - at least I can't see a hole anywhere in the front suitable for inserting the key.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/motoring/features/zephyr-the-last-of-the-big-british-fords-2222976.html
End of the third para.
So no handle.
Don't know about the Mk 1 though.
I quite liked the Mk 2s and 3s, although I've never had one.

chris_m

Jackmydad wrote: »

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/motoring/features/zephyr-the-last-of-the-big-british-fords-2222976.html
End of the third para.
So no handle.
Don't know about the Mk 1 though.
I quite liked the Mk 2s and 3s, although I've never had one.

That was interesting.

Another thing with the Mk2 that we found amusing was filling up with petrol, especially in French petrol stations.
Initially, the attendant would, not surprisingly, come to the wrong side but, when he'd worked that bit out Dad would ask him to fill it up with Super grade.
So off he'd go to one back corner, then the other back corner. Then he'd scratch his head and look all around the car before admitting defeat - at which point Dad would get out and fold down the back number plate to reveal the filler cap :rotfl:

silvercar

Pyxis wrote: »

How old is that car, Pastures?

I didn't think you could lock your keys in the car these days.

I mean, if you have a button fob thing, you need it outside to lock the car, don't you?

It was an occupational hazard in the days when you got out, pushed the locking button down on the inside of the door, and slammed it shut.
I did that once, with the keys inside, but luckily, before I called the AA, I checked the boot, and I hadn't locked that!

Mine starts beeping if it thinks I've left the key in the car and got out. There have been stories of the car locking with the key in it, though in theory it shouldn't happen.

My car story: Sent OH to check the pressure after my recent mishap of driving for 100 miles with the tyre pressure warning light on and then resetting after putting air in only that tyre.
He took the cap off, attached the nozzle etc then couldn't replace the cap without the air still coming out. So one completely flat tyre.
called the breakdown service who could see that the end of the valve had broken off. So now I'm in a worse position that before!

PasturesNew

Just looking at "how big the undocumented archive material" might be ... where the lost parish register might've slipped into ... and another (slightly larger) collection is currently being done by volunteers and a lottery grant - and that one's 800 boxes of stuff.

So, chances are, between that big collection and other large collections, there are maybe thousands of boxes that could, potentially, have the registers buried in the midst of "misc papers and booklets".

*sighs* it won't come out in my lifetime.

But I think I have leads....

My top two ancestors are D & E.

I think E is daughter of somebody who died in 1719 and left a Will, so I have her mother's name - and that name appears to lead up to another name, so I might be able to find her father too, which'd push it 2 generations back. At this point we're into "people with stuff and lands and things", so might get a miraculous breakthrough...

But ... without the missing registers it's all just "poke and guesswork". But you do get a "sniff of a feeling" when you're on the right track and I have a feeling about this line.

As for I've found a document that says "D son of Edward" - so that pushes him back another generation.... so now I just need to establish exactly which Edward ...

I'm faffing around, really, in the years of about 1580-1660 here, so scant and relying solely on "free transcriptions" and snippets from digitized volumes of old Antiquities/Genealogy societies that I can find.

Spirit_2

Hello Np, hiding in the cool sitting room so a good time get the laptop out and see how you are all doing. I pop in to the thread to get news of you all but not had the brain space to communicate much. Hope the current heatwave is to your liking. It is a bonus for me as I move a lot better when I am warm.

We have finally had our future proofing extension built. After getting planning permission we decided it was a lot of money for something we didn't like so amended it for an oak build. Should we ever need it, it will allow us to live downstairs like a bungalow. I am carrying on with Physio Rehab and getting small incremental benefits. Had a second stroke, which fortunately only affected my left eye, leaving a blind spot. Who knew you could have an eye stroke?

We still have our aged cat, three bunnies and I have a 7 month old puppy, a little rescue mongrel from Cyprus. I adore her. Other puppy is now 2, enormous and working well. Very much a daddy's boy. We have had my niece living with us , weekdays since last August. She is 18 now, and keeps me in touch with what life is like for young folk (and their parents).

Mr Spirit is 60 now. No imminent retirement plans, but has cut down to working 4 days a week and cut down on the travel.
Daughter has finished her professional exams and still living with her boyfriend. I think that is the last couple of years in a nutshell.

It is great to read when NP write their offspring are thriving. Some have faced huge challenges and won the life lottery in having a Nice parent. Heartfelt thanks to all Nice friends, hello to those I haven't met and love to all absent and poorly NP . Spirit x

silvercar

Great to hear from you Spirit.

PasturesNew

Nice to see you Spirit!

It's so hard when people "leave" as we don't know if they're lurking ... else we could give them a little wave every now and again

LydiaJ

Lovely to hear from you Spirit. :hello:
Sorry to hear about the second stroke but glad it wasn't any worse.
Do drop in from time to time when you can.

ukmaggie45

How lovely to hear from you Spirit! So glad you have pleasure in your pups. :j

Your building work sounds interesting - any chance of a photo? (understand of course if you'd rather not)

When we moved and extended we made sure we could manage on ground floor only, but we've been a bit slow at getting me access to the back garden (up 3 uneven sandstone steps that I can't use without help). Plus 7 years later we still have boxes everywhere waiting to be unpacked!

Sorry to hear of your eye problem - hope that over time you may get some improvement of it. Very glad that your Physio is still helping with further improvement.

Hugs from Bwlchtocyn - been here since May due to new caravan problems that nobody seems very keen to fix in a timely manner. :mad: At least we've had the lovely sunshine and are enjoying the plants on our new anti-slip deck, so it isn't all bad!

silvercar

How do you make your deck anti-slip?

We have decking that I painted with some product that is meant to contain granular bits to be less slippy in the Winter, but I haven't noticed much difference.