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52 minutes ago, Tickman said:

Is the Minor safe from the cull?

For the time being, definitely! It's safe in the garage and takes up little space. The Golf and Astra are the main ones I'm wanting rid of as the Abarth fills the role of being an car. 

I do really need to start playing with the Minor again though, 5 months of no work is giving me less and less motivation sadly.

 

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Hot here in Surrey, climate app for my bicycle gps said 34 when I rode home at 4pm. One of the empty places next door is to let, and someone has just been over to look. Youngish couple, but must be loaded, it’s £2300 a month!

won’t you be my neighbor?

http://www.windsorgreatpark.co.uk/en/live-and-work/property/residential-lettings/3-home-farm-bagshot-park

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Session with the audiologist this morning to remove blockage in my left ear.

The last time anyone had a go at my ears was over 20 years ago and the job fell to my GP armed with a very big syringe and a kidney-shaped bowl.

Things have changed. Now they use a compressor pump and a narrow-body pipe set to "suck". And suck it does. Marvellous. I've never been so relaxed.

As for the material removed, I didn't think it was possible to have that much trapped in my head. Not quite enough there to make candles for a Papal funeral, but still a lot.

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37 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Hot here in Surrey, climate app for my bicycle gps said 34 when I rode home at 4pm. One of the empty places next door is to let, and someone has just been over to look. Youngish couple, but must be loaded, it’s £2300 a month!

won’t you be my neighbor?

http://www.windsorgreatpark.co.uk/en/live-and-work/property/residential-lettings/3-home-farm-bagshot-park

It could be a corporate let, it's far cheaper than putting an expensive consultant up in a hotel and his other half can then spend their allowances in Harrods. We used to do that all the time when we brought specialists over from the States for a particular project.

The royal connection will also impress them, ours did when my US boss learnt about it.

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Visiting Mother Volksy today, she had found some letters I'd sent her from back when I lived in NZ. 

In amongst them was a photo of the old CF I had out there. 

It was a 1969 locally built (CKD), 

It's pretty much eddyramrods ideal spec.. 

Holden 3.3 straight six, with auto transmission. 

Bought to look more local than getting a rental, it gave pretty good service for the year we were there. This was 23 years ago, so can't see it having survived! 

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1 hour ago, brownnova said:

Annual holiday trip to a tyre centre completed... a quick trip to kwik-fit Cirencester... 

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Air-con regas has made me a very popular husband/dad.

Also means the 9000 is now in pole position for all family days out! 

Has it all leaked out yet? 

Mine needs doing, I've told myself that once everything else is done, I'll do it. Even if that's at Christmas, I'll get mine done! Was not nice today, there's alot of glass in the estate and the car doesn't lend to having both front windows down. Zx was OK, it would slice on through. Xsara was made blobbier and blows my face off and the car sideways! (at 75)

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I'm in Central Scotland and through the night we had one of the worst thunderstorms I've ever seen.

I stayed up to 1am to film a nearby storm travelling north over Fife which is about about 30 miles north east of us .

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This is a still from quarter to 1 in the morning.

I then went to bed and was awoken by constant lightning and thunder right overhead at around 2am. I've never seen that type of storm before, only on You Tube.

I love thunderstorms but even this was a little unnerving and my wife was petrified. My son wasn't too bothered.

More are forecast for today apparently, it's still really humid and the storms haven't cleared the air at all.

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No thunder here yet.  It's just very warm and rather muggy.

I was woken up at some ungodly hour this morning though by military jets overhead - either on some kind of training mission or dogfighting with some Russkis or something.  The racket was unbelievable - the glass in my bedroom window was buzzing.  At one point they were so close I could hear the whine of the engines spooling up over the general earth-shattering roar of the exhausts.

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48 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

No thunder here yet.  It's just very warm and rather muggy.

I was woken up at some ungodly hour this morning though by military jets overhead - either on some kind of training mission or dogfighting with some Russkis or something.  The racket was unbelievable - the glass in my bedroom window was buzzing.  At one point they were so close I could hear the whine of the engines spooling up over the general earth-shattering roar of the exhausts.

There was something in the news a few days ago about it. I think that it's F15s from Lakenheath, they were certainly noisy around here.

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My first day in an office tomorrow since lockdown began. 

My first day of work since 1st May.

My first day of work since having a heart attack in June. 

New contract. 

I'm chilling out today.  I was thinking of an afternoon on a deck chair in the shade. 

And then shepherds pie for my tea.

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