Morris Minor Owners Club

earlyer yesterday i was in the garage doing some work on myrtle [61 2 door saloon] when the wife came home and asked me to help her with the shopping so duty bound i helped her take it the house, we were chating and i made a drink when i looked out of the kitchen window and saw flames at the back of the garage, so i ran out and some little toerag add set fire to the dead bush at the rear
so panic set in filling buckets of water trying to put the flames out but to no avale,so fire bregade was sent for, meantime i just about got the doors open and got myrtle out unscated,but as the roof collapsed it destroed some of my equipment,mig,compressor,drills and more besides.
so now i have to remove the rest of the roof and the beams and replace with new and i have just over a week to do it in has i go away on holiday
anyone fancy a roof building weekend this weekend,plenty of free bacon butties and coffee/tea or stronger
will take photos today and post later

Words fail me. What has happened to this country? Thank heavens you saw the fire as soon as you did and nobody was hurt. If I was near I would lend a hand.

Unlucky mate, hope you get it all sorted.

i can only second what staffs said and unfortunately i am also too far away to help but glad you got myrtle out.

Hmmm - the Burning Bush! Sounds like a narrow escape - well done getting the car out. I too am far away - but hopefully there will be some volunteers locally.

I am surprised you managed to stop at the word toerag. Sorry to hear about that, I'm afraid its a bit far for me - It would take most of the weekend to get to you and back in Blackie! Good luck for getting the roof sorted.

here,s some pics

Close your eyes! I'm going to SWEAR!!

*&^%* $#@@ *&^^* *& &**^ ^$***#@*!!!!!!!!!!

Ditto! It makes my blood boil! It seems to be the caee of "if I haven't got one you shouldn't either" Sorry I can't help it's too far - perhaps a quick post in the Wanted (Help!) section may get some people. Do you know anyone in the Barnsley branch of the Club - I'm certain someone may help Contact them @ 011four 246 eight357

thanks people iv got plenty of help now some lads i know from murton are coming down to help
just going to flat roof it with with a polyuritane cover just to tided me over till next spring

Some home insurance policies will also cover a garage and/or contents so it's worth checking your policy.

Really glad you're ok! Well done for saving the car, and I hope you didn't risk yourself too much in the process. The fire looks to have really taken hold

As for the roof - surely your house insurance covers this?
If you need a temporary fix, a load of stirling board and a tarpaulin nailed on top would last for your holiday.


As for idiots: 1/2 a mile down my road (next to a very notorious street) some moron set fire to a shed because they'd had a row with the resident... The sum of it was 4 houses burnt down.
Thge fact that the moron had a previous arson conviction and had just rowed with the resident did raher speed up his arrest... And highlights his lack of brains.
He was allegedly very sorry that the fire spread to adjoining houses (with children inside).
The remaining families got to move back in after 8 months - albeit with new walls and floors and roofs now.

phew! that was one job i dont want to repeat,new roof on and water tight now to clear the garage floor and then go on holiday for a week then back to myrtle
she has spent the last 6 nights outside! she will be thinking i have forgot about her

Pity you hadn't caught the little waster and thrown them into the fire. It is always dismaying when you hear of things like that. Glad to hear its all fixed. I was away last week, so I have only just seen this.

Only the other night, I was cycling home, when I met a man walking his dogs (Who is usually out with someone else, who also walks dogs). I use a cross country route and when he saw my 700 lumen light, he knew it was me.

We were near some redundant steel works reservoirs, which are now used for fishing. A gathering (At one time a boil was known as a "Gathering") of sub culture had assembled to camp out near the reservoir. I don't know whether they were pretending to fish. Certainly there was plenty of cheap booze, judgeing by what the man told me. Subbies seem to like fire and so one was lit (They had pinched pallets from a local plant hire premises) and to cap it all, threw the life rings, from around the reservoir, on to the fire . The Police and Fire Brigade had already attended by the time I arrived but I couldn't help but reflect that poetic justice couldn't have been better served, if one of the drunken louts had fallen in. Now doubt, if one of them had drowned, someone would have complained about the lack of life rings .

well plans have been laid, they think they have got away with it,but with the help of the neighbours things are going to change
iv told the parents of what they have done but in there drug enforesed stupper i got the door slammed in my face so as already stated plans are in place

Shame they didn't get caught up in the fire - not dead, just loss of limbs, scarred for life sort of thing.

Dead would be less costly to the DSS long term .

sorry.

does the swear filter work?

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oh dear some evil person as stolen the fire starters push bike

LouiseM wrote:

does the swear filter work?

Yes it does, as do the Moderators.

Just a reminder that it is a breach of the T&C's to post bad, abusive or objectional language.

I better not say anything about this and what should be done to those who done this.

skelly