Lockdown Pleasures

[Karlos]

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... browsing ... considering buying a bug to tinker with. The challenge is garage space. Maybe I should look for some garage space first

Green 71 looks to sit well. The garage has to be the first to come.

 

[TripleBee]

Maybe I should look for some garage space first

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[Bill R]

Scalextric, amazed it still works after so many years in the garage.
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Now THAT would be a great way of taking the Beach vs Ocean debate onto new ground !

 

[Alan]

Time out from the gaz station

 

[Joker 1299]

You are spot on, it's maybe 15 years old. My now teenage sons rather than mine. My first was an audi quatro and a porshe 911.

My first set had two Vanwalls, one blue, one British racing green. Added many cars over the years. Bought myself a digital set about 7 years ago. Great fun!

 

[Karlos]

And what about TCR, doe.s anyone remember that racing set

 

[MattC]

And what about TCR, doe.s anyone remember that racing set

These guys do...

 

[Joker 1299]

And what about TCR, doe.s anyone remember that racing set

Total Control Racing! How about Scalextric 1.24? Normal sets were 1:32 but for a limited time they did bigger ones.

 

[Louis II]

Now THAT would be a great way of taking the Beach vs Ocean debate onto new ground!

That's a great idea. Scalextric out again this weekend so a bit of crafting with my daughter followed by a short race and the photo finish confirms it once and for all. Ocean is better than Beach.

 

[Borris]

I love it. That yellow one looks like it's been written off already. Does the lowered suspension improve handling?

 

[Velma's Dad]

Better build quality on those babies than on some of the stuff coming out of Hanover!

 

[Louis II]

I love it. That yellow one looks like it's been written off already. Does the lowered suspension improve handling?

Lowering was a must!

 

[Bill R]

That's a great idea. Scalextric out again this weekend so a bit of crafting with my daughter followed by a short race and the photo finish confirms it once and for all. Ocean is better than Beach.

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Brilliant ! Maybe the Yellow Beach was weighed down by chickens !

 

[TripleBee]

Where's the bike rack?

 

[Louis II]

Where's the bike rack?

Tea towels kept coming off on the fast straights

 

[soulstyledevon]

That's a great idea. Scalextric out again this weekend so a bit of crafting with my daughter followed by a short race and the photo finish confirms it once and for all. Ocean is better than Beach.

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But which one won...?
Looks great

 

[Louis II]

But which one won...?
Looks great

The ocean just pipped it.
DSG vs Auto next week then 4 motion vs 2wd.

 

[Escargotine]

I am discovering a new friend : myself !

I am not such an outdoor person, and I love the recent trips with Cali, where I also get to know myself differently. I got Escargotine in November and would have been in Scotland, if...

I live in a quiet place, and it is, incredible ! quieter !

My dog walks me... and I feel very lucky.

I do lots, apart from netflix : sewing masks has been an occupation recently, and feeling useful is nice...

I will be among the lasts to come out, last year this time, I was with chemo... in a way, I am used to confinement, as we say around me, Spain & France...

Loneliness took me close to suicide in my 30's. Now, 63, I LOVE LOVE LOVE being alone !

Great post, indeed ! Thank you <3

 

[Wesel]

A month without driving ... how it will be at the end of the lockdown

 

[TripleBee]

No worries, you will never find your California again.

At least it will be an environmental friendly California.

Ideal for stealth camping.

 

[GrannyJen]

I have to confess I am enjoying lockdown, with some regrets.

I am missing social contact but I am beginning to enjoy the feeling of forced idleness. For four weeks I have been waking up with "must get on, got things to do" in my head, now I am quite enjoying "things to do, can't do them"....

I am reliving my childhood: just finished a jigsaw puzzle, fist time in about 65 years that I've done one! I've bought a skipping rope and learning to skip again: I now run just for exercise, no longer training for an event and worrying myself over time and distance.

So many things: I am now back to teaching, through an online resource run by the institute for Historic Research, but pleasure, not career, for the love of it. Patience has always been a virtue that I have been seriously deficient in, I am using this break as a supplement to restore my levels from being deficient to being merely low end of normal.

It is a wretched, horrible time for many. In some ways I feel guilty that I am feeling this way.

 

[Christine Kirk]

Lock down means we can really enjoy our garden,
Eating healthy meals and sleeping out!
Noise from traffic limited to tractors in the fields and occasional RAF jets out playing which is spectacular to see.

 

[RodCouncil]

hour of power on the MTB in the forest our house backs onto, lush

 

[soulstyledevon]

A month without driving ... how it will be at the end of the lockdown

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I think you need to pop out and trim ya bush...