Be Excellent To Each Other

Hello! Are you free on Sunday 16th January?

Can you drive?

Can you get to here for around, I dunno, 10:30 - 11ish?

Fancy having a go at doing this?


And then helping me to do this at the end of the day?


You do? Let me know!

Yes.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
No.

Is three out of five enough?

Probably not.

Yes to everything except the date, as that weekend my Zioette day is Sunday and the gf's birthday is the day before, so I can't do a swap.

Next time you're there Grim..., let me know good sir, as I would utterly love to have a go in the Tomcat!

(in fact, I'm completely free the weekend after that if you were able to delay by a week)

Nah, it's all about when the site is open (not very often) and when the people that helped me built is can't come (because, understandably, they get priority).

Well that's fair enough, obviously. But let me know the next time you're going there as the Luton area is a piece of piss for me to get to and I'd love to have a go. That particular weekend is just quite a bad one, any other and I'd probably be able to rearrange things.

I shall find out about getting the Monday off as my parents are just down the road in St Albania.

I should point out that while I don't want to make friends/ladyfriends feel unwelcome, it's only a two-seater car, so having three people doesn't really work.

Noted. I doubt my parents would want to go for a ride though my mother would probably enjoy watching!*

*we used to love watching the swamp buggy racing on TV

Honestly, any of those Sundays you want to do, let me know. It's just the 15th Jan is the missus birthday and I will be killed by 1,000 deaths if I'm not present for that. And my ex is taking Zioette away on holiday for the weekend on the 22nd and 23rd, so there's no way whatsoever that I'm not going to miss spending the 16th with her.

Still, I suppose I could sellotape Zioette to my belly and bring her along, she's only small. She'd probably love it. She went batshit mental with excitement when I took her on a steam train before Christmas!

I'd be well up for this sometime over the summer, if that's at all possible mate? (cheeky bastard I know!)
No chance of me getting a 'pass' for a couple of months!

Will check with Mrs T tonight to make sure nothing else is planned and let you know

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As I said to Zio, it depends on if any of the 'builders' want to come (and if we're competing, thinking about it).
I'll let you know, but it won't be until (much) nearer the time.

I'm not sure where you'd park the Porker, though

That's a good question, is there anywhere to park for those not in 4x4s

Yeah, at the bottom of the entrance.
I'd say it's still too bumpy for a low rider, though.

Alternatively, you can turn up at Grim... Acres a little earlier, and go from there.

I have been allowed out to play, so I will take up the gracious offer if that is ok?

I'll ping you a pm either later today or tomorrow to sort out the details

Sweet. Fell free to email me at pleasetrynottokillusbothgrim...[at]beex.co.uk .

Well, that was fun

Trooper needs to work on "when to start videoing", though.

And possibly his gearchanges

Awesome fun, the tomcat is surprisingly easy to drive, once you have worked out which lever to pull to make it go forwards

I'll get some pics and a couple of vids up later.

The same one that makes it go backward, it seemed

Shiny!


Not so Shiny!


Tomcat Dimlie


5 shillings of 4 star, and make it snappy!



A couple of vids to follow once uploaded to youtube. My videoing skills are the letdown of the day though, I didn't even think to capture Grim...'s triumphant mudplugging moment that got us out the bog, however I did manage to capture the moment where Grim... got us well and truly stuck! If I had been driving that obviously wouldn't have happened, mainly because we probably would have been in reverse or park for half of it... bloody automatics

Achievements unlocked.
Hill Climb
Hill Descent
Reversing.....
Making the gearbox make funny noises.
Getting Grim wet
Hitting Grim with branches
Shit, wrong gear, ah well... BROOOM weeeee!

Fucking awesome, isn't it?
It does stuff that should not be possible.

A trip round the site


The little car that could


More driving


Grim... gets stuck

Great stuff. I'd love a go, but you're all the ways down there.

This is just a stone's throw from my house though...

Knowsley will be cheaper and better.

And not much further...

Daddy's day out for my birthday, I think