Jan and Klodi's Party Bus - part II **off topic discussion**

magicbastarder

i see the gardai have commented on that video of the cyclist cycling on the 'motorway' yesterday, admitting it was the N3.

tomasrojo

magicbastarder wrote: »

i see the gardai have commented on that video of the cyclist cycling on the 'motorway' yesterday, admitting it was the N3.

Pretty shoddy stuff. Way too keen to rile up the motoring rubes.

Ryath

No 8 year old for scale as she ran away crying her feet were cold!
Not sure if I'll get it finished, wrecked from clearing driveway and it's started snowing again. Hopefully it's still standing tomorrow.

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Amazing.
What are you using to make the blocks?

Ryath

15 litre storage tub. It's hard work very powdery and have to pack it in. Impossible to roll and make a snowman. At least it made it easier clear the drive

Wishbone Ash

There's a little girl (about 10yrs old I'd say) on the street next to me making an igloo on her own. She's been out in the howling wind since about 8am this morning and is about half way there. I'd love to go over and give her a hand but these days that would be considered highly inappropriate.

Lusk_Doyle

nee wrote: »

Amazing.
What are you using to make the blocks?

Em, snow?

ednwireland

and heres my garden earlier on today just about surviving beast form the east/snowmaggedon (seriously !)

Fighting Tao

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Wishbone Ash wrote: »

There's a little girl (about 10yrs old I'd say) on the street next to me making an igloo on her own. She's been out in the howling wind since about 8am this morning and is about half way there. I'd love to go over and give her a hand but these days that would be considered highly inappropriate.

How far did she get before she had to go in? I hope it's there for her in the morning so she can finish it off!

I heartily applaud all igglo's and snowperson making. I made a pretty awesome snow angel today.
Serious sled-ing going on in the parks out my way. I don't know where they all came from. Someone had an awesome old school wooden one. Good few bin liners too for good measure.
Might get a couple of bin liners out myself tomorrow :pac:

Fighting Tao

nee wrote: »

Good few bin liners too for good measure.
Might get a couple of bin liners out myself tomorrow :pac:

I hiked up Lugnaquilla a few years ago int he snow and used the heavy plastic bags for life to slide down it. Great craic and very little effort required compared to trudging in the snow.

RobFowl

Fighting Tao wrote: »

This thread will hit 10k posts in about 60 days going by current average posting rates. I'm sure that will delight one member of the forum!

A happy Rob

Fighting Tao

RobFowl wrote: »

A happy Rob

Keep on posting!

NamelessPhil

10-10-20 bags were the sleds of choice in my youth.

Wishbone Ash

NamelessPhil wrote: »

10-10-20 bags were the sleds of choice in my youth.

I used to get a bit of slagging because I had a proper wooden one that my father made for me while everyone else was on fertiliser bags. I used it for a good few years as we moved house in 1974 and I remember bringing it to the new house. Probably last used in 1982. I think it's still behind the door of his shed - I must check the next time I'm there.

Unknown Soldier

NamelessPhil wrote: »

10-10-20 bags were the sleds of choice in my youth.

Were they fertilizer bags? I think they were mine too. With straw in them!

Eamonnator

nee wrote: »

How far did she get before she had to go in? I hope it's there for her in the morning so she can finish it off!

I heartily applaud all igglo's and snowperson making. I made a pretty awesome snow angel today.
Serious sled-ing going on in the parks out my way. I don't know where they all came from. Someone had an awesome old school wooden one. Good few bin liners too for good measure.
Might get a couple of bin liners out myself tomorrow :pac:

I made my first ever snow angel today on my front lawn.
I don't think they had been invented in my first childhood.

Idleater

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

I used to get a bit of slagging because I had a proper wooden one that my father made for me while everyone else was on fertiliser bags. I used it for a good few years as we moved house in 1974 and I remember bringing it to the new house. Probably last used in 1982. I think it's still behind the door of his shed - I must check the next time I'm there.

The sled my made me probably for the '86 snow was used to get fuel in the '10 '11 snows, as well as a go down the local hills after returning from the pub. I'll have to check, but I think it's still up home.

Wishbone Ash

nee wrote: »

How far did she get before she had to go in? I hope it's there for her in the morning so she can finish it off!....

She was still at it at 4pm when I was finishing off clearing the footpaths. I hope the local scobies don't destroy it during the night. (It's in her very small front garden).

Wishbone Ash

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

Were they fertilizer bags? I think they were mine too. With straw in them!

Straw?? They slide much faster without straw.

(I think you're confusing it the makeshift cushion for the hard seat on the Ferguson 20). :pac:

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We yoked the donkey up to a bit of corrugated roof and she pulled us around.
I have never properly sled-ded. Tomorrow will change all that!

I doff my cap to your snow angel-ing Eamonnator.

LollipopJimmy

nee wrote: »

We yoked the donkey up to a bit of corrugated roof and she pulled us around.
I have never properly sled-ded. Tomorrow will change all that!

I doff my cap to your snow angel-ing Eamonnator.

Yoked the donkey? Is that Dublin for giving MDMA to the donkey?

I'm in my local now sinking pints, it's great having a pub in where we live and it's the busiest I've ever seen it

Anyone else's legs in bits from trudging around? I need to get more Km's in on the bike asap. Was out this afternoon and some local tykes happily let my little girl have a few turns on their wheelie bin lids to slid down a bit of a slope. Of course I had to go down and carry her back up and hence the sore legs

CramCycle

NamelessPhil wrote: »

10-10-20 bags were the sleds of choice in my youth.

+1 many a drumlin in the north of Longford was sledded down in a fertiliser bag

Came to Dublin and it changed to For Sale and Politician signs down Spyder hill in 2010.

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LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Yoked the donkey? Is that Dublin for giving MDMA to the donkey?

I'm in my local now sinking pints, it's great having a pub in where we live and it's the busiest I've ever seen it

Yoke up means harness up We'd make traces with baling twine, tie the roof to the straddle and away we went. She had a rope bridle (made of plaited twine) and regular blue rope reins. Stand on the roof and drive away!
Poor Betsey was well in her 30's by the time we came along, she was deeply and fundamentally unimpressed by our schemes. She was the first equine I rode, with the rope bridle and a car mat. Due to her general lack of enthusiasm for anything about life bar eating, she'd buck you off almost immediately. The challenge was how long you could stay on for.
Fed cattle with her too. In the mid 90's. Land was too soft for the Superdexta in winter and we'd no shed at that stage. You'd drive her down and as soon as she felt the last bale leave the cart she'd trot back up to her 'home' out the road, cross it and up the lane. Things changed very, very slowly in the midlands!

Wishbone Ash

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

...it's great having a pub in where we live....

You have a pub in your house? :cool: I'm envious.

Wishbone Ash

nee wrote: »

...Fed cattle with her too...

Did they like her? :eek::eek::eek:

Isn't that how BSE started?

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Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Did they like her? :eek::eek::eek:

Isn't that how BSE started?

:pac: :pac:
I couldn't possibly say!

NamelessPhil

My mum built me and my brother a proper wooden sled with iron runners in the early 80s.We were the posh kids in the neighborhood.


The hill in the fields had great sledding slopes,a gentle side for the nervous and a couple of steep sides where the main aim was to avoid the barbed wire at the bottom. I'm also a Midlander, I spent my childhood about 4 fields from the castle on the cover of U2's "The Unforgettable Fire" album.

P_1

Right lads, who was it? :P

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