SADMOG (Sowf'ampton taawn)

Post by **d_harris** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:36 pm

And It has to be the longest thread on the forum now too!

Post by **JimK** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:52 pm

Dan_Harris wrote:Looks Good. Post Code?

There's a postcode and a streetmap link on the page I linked to.

Post by **d_harris** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 3:25 pm

Right at the top of the page too! D'oh!

Post by **Mike Shipman** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:24 pm

Hi folks, not sure if I'll be able to get along tomorrow...any headlamp queries will just have to wait till next week Im afraid

Post by **JimK** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:01 am

Mike Shipman wrote:Hi folks, not sure if I'll be able to get along tomorrow...

And when it's nearly local, too. Oh well.

any headlamp queries will just have to wait till next week Im afraid

heh. It's split pins I need to know about. If anybody has a few of the sort used on the tiebar nuts that they could bring in exchange for a pint, I'd be grateful.

Post by **chickenjohn** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:36 am

Just a quick "heads up" (business speal) to you guys, the Kent branch are planning another one of our "Minor Holiday" trips- and this one is the Easter weekend in the New Forest (Beaulieux etc). We'd quite like to meet up with any local Minor groups, especially at places of interest.

Any of you up for that?

Post by **JimK** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:16 am

Sounds fun. Can't say yet, but if we're around then the family JimK would be keen.

Post by **Matt** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:25 pm

If Im around... quite probably!

Post by **JimK** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:09 pm

Useless B*****ds! I've been trying since early November to get information about what I can and can't do on the welding course I want to do, and now they tell me "It's very popular, we advise people to enroll as early as possible."

Not me, you didn't! You've told me twice that the lecturer will call me back and he hasn't, and neither time did you tell me how popular the course is. If you had I would have enrolled without waiting for the lecturer to call.

Now I either have to wait until April (at which point I'll probably be too busy) or hope they their reserve list gets long enough for them to run another course this term.

I am not a happy bunny.

Post by **chickenjohn** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:33 pm

See if you can get on a restoration course rather than a welding course. On the beginners part they should give welding instruction and it will be tailored exactly to welding car body work.

Post by **JimK** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:42 pm

I'd like to, but this was a nice short (ten weeks) introduction and the travel I do for work makes it difficult to commit to anything longer.

In addition, I haven't found any restoration courses - is there a reference of which colleges offer these? Maybe from one of the car clubs? I've googled extensively for courses and asked the colleges within reach that I know of, but this short welding course is at a college I never knew existed...

Post by **Matt** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:47 pm

Jim there is a welding evening course at Fareham College....

Post by **JimK** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:00 pm

Thanks.

*Goes to check it out*

Eeeek! It's £300 for 12*2.5 hours! The one in Andover is only £100 for 10*2 hours, no wonder it's popular. I can afford £100, but probably not £300

Thanks for the tip anyway. I think I'll contact them and see if the groups are smaller and what sort of thing I can do there. If I can take the car in it might be worth the extra.

Post by **Mike Shipman** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:58 pm

Mike Shipman wrote:
Hi folks, not sure if I'll be able to get along tomorrow...

And when it's nearly local, too. Oh well.

Unfortunately, my wife is having to work this evening and my 2 yr old is no respecter of SADMOG or distance...its now nearly 9.00pm and she is still playing silly beggars in bed...

If she goes off "soon" then my wife can keep an ear out for her and I could slip out to Lyndhurst...IF she goes off

!

Regards, Mike.

Post by **JimK** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:10 am

I guess she didn't...

We'll go to that pub again sometime, it was a nice place. Staff friendly and beer good, which is pretty much all a pub needs to have.

Post by **d_harris** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:29 pm

And in other news, work has changed my training, so I will be around for the next 4 weeks, but not the 4 after

Post by **Peetee** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:07 am

And today (in 85mph winds) we're going to?

Post by **JimK** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:45 am

Peetee wrote:And today (in 85mph winds) we're going to?

Wherever the wind wants us to?

It is rather breezy, isn't it. Been listening to it howl round the house for half the night...

Post by **Peetee** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:10 am

Yes, plenty of sleepless hours for me as my imagination single-handedly destroys Joe's new 'house'.
(More on that story later

)

Post by **JimK** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:55 pm

What about the Compass in Winsor tonight? I was away when you went there before, and it's the last Good Beer Guide pub I haven't been to (in this area).

Postcode is SO40 2HE.