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[egg]

Sadly a rare sight these days. Well done.

[Spurious]

12 minutes ago, MikeR said:

rescued this little chap tonight .... the dog spotted it ... only 230 grams ... with  ticks ..... not good for the winter

curled up fast asleep now like a little puppy after its feed ...

will be dropped off at the vets/rescue next week or sooner ..

meanwhile he has to sleep on a pile of my old odd socks from the rag drawer

You're a good egg... most people would ignore them

 

good link with some advice

 

http://wildpro.twycrosszoo.org/S/00Ref/MiscellaneousContents/BHPS_Combined/D75TheBasicFacts.htm

[holbeck]

Zut alors!  a C15 milestone. 

[Cord Fourteener]

9 hours ago, brownnova said:

Always worth driving to Betws to recycle bottle tops/drink tea/eat cake. Hope to see this in the flesh some day! 

That plan has also changed (re: wife and kids doing that particular chore)

So, if you are free and fancy a run round the Triangle (The Denbigh moors roads, well worth spending an hour or so!) this afternoon I can provide tea/cake/company

https://www.drivingroads.co.uk/evo-triangle/

Let me know if you could be temped... @brownnova and anyone else close by and interested?

[brownnova]

Sorry Tim, plans are already in place for this afternoon. Another time tho that sounds fun! 

[Cord Fourteener]

1 hour ago, brownnova said:

Sorry Tim, plans are already in place for this afternoon. Another time tho that sounds fun! 

We should perhaps make a local meet up for the few of us nearby

[MikeR]

12 hours ago, MikeR said:

rescued this little chap tonight .... the dog spotted it ... only 230 grams ... with  ticks ..... not good for the winter

curled up fast asleep now like a little puppy after its feed ...

will be dropped off at the vets/rescue next week or sooner ..

meanwhile he has to sleep on a pile of my old odd socks from the rag drawer

he is off to the rescue centre now , he has eaten a sachet of cat food , done a escape bid in the night ,found and  re housed and had his breakfast and gone back to sleep !!

[brownnova]

1 hour ago, Tim_E said:

We should perhaps make a local meet up for the few of us nearby

I’ve been thinking of organising a Shitesteddfod for us Welsh Shiters for a while! 

[brownnova]

Went to Chester cars and coffee this morning. Here’s some of what I saw!

Sadly I had to park between two moderns, although when I looked I realised that there’s 10 years between the two cars either side of mine! 

One life... lived it. 
Got the major horn for a 924 at the moment. 
 

Lots of shiny stuff, plenty of modified and modern stuff but a good friendly mornings meet! 

[Spurious]

Because I'm easily distracted, I bought something this morning. It's made in a country that no longer exists.

Can't pick it up for about 10 days or so. Sadly.

But there shall be a collection thread soon. Oh yes.

[Fumbler]

16 minutes ago, Spurious said:

 It's made in a country that no longer exists.

Yugoslavia?

[Spurious]

Yugoslavia?

All will be revealed. Along with coffee, trains and a drive home (hopefully).

You're in the right continent anyway but I'm saying nowt.

[Fumbler]

1 minute ago, Spurious said:

All will be revealed. Along with coffee, trains and a drive home (hopefully).

Oh yes indeed. Looking forward to it!

[brownnova]

Oi I’ve cornered the Yugoslavian market on AS thanks!

In reality I look forward to whichever (hopefully former communist) car you have bought! 

[Christine]

Caddy mk1

[LightBulbFun]

42 minutes ago, Spurious said:

Because I'm easily distracted, I bought something this morning. It's made in a country that no longer exists.

Can't pick it up for about 10 days or so. Sadly.

But there shall be a collection thread soon. Oh yes.

Ohh I hope its a Trabant!

(or a 2 Stroke wartburg) 

[Spurious]

Ohh I hope its a Trabant!
(or a 2 Stroke wartburg) 

Sadly not. Thought theres a nice trabant for 2200 on Facebook it's a little out of my budget.

I needed something that will do a work run every so often.

It's a fairly solid motor car. Bit bargy.

[MikeR]

all safely dropped off at the rescue centre , and some of his unwanted guests already  removed ...

[Cord Fourteener]

Went out for a blast, a bit of a tune up and a nice drive.

I did the triangle on the Denbigh moors, that are on my doorstep.

Car is on top form, list of things needing doing is reduced to the meanial now.

I saw some bad driving, a rare raptor (possibly a Hen Harrier, maybe a kestrel. Both live up there, Hen Harriers are very very rare indeed so statistically it was a kestrel I suppose), the biggest murmuration of starlings I've seen in a very long time and a sheep in the road who nearly ruined everything for us both.

Was a lot of fun and very pleasing.

Edited October 20, 2019 by Tim_E

[captain_70s]

Man, the early unmolested 924 is such a nice design.

[RayMK]

Today I was presented with this excellent edible Reliant by my son, made by one of his colleagues from work. It made reaching 70 with a Reliant more bearable (i.e. possible ?).   

[richardmorris]

Happy birthday.  How old is the reliant? ( and who is in better shape?!).

[RayMK]

Just now, richardmorris said:

Happy birthday.  How old is the reliant? ( and who is in better shape?!).

Thank you. The Reliant is 58 years old and probably more stable?.

[richardmorris]

Anyone else see car journeys last night with Christopher Timothy and  Peter Davison? Driving who1 round Beaulieu and the Jurassic Coast in amorgan.

[High Jetter]

MHROTD! I'd say that edible Reliant is very passable - a bit like real ones are!

[Cord Fourteener]

57 minutes ago, RayMK said:

Today I was presented with this excellent edible Reliant by my son, made by one of his colleagues from work. It made reaching 70 with a Reliant more bearable (i.e. possible ?).   

Gorgous!

[Cord Fourteener]

59 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

Man, the early unmolested 924 is such a nice design.

Yes, quite the tear-drop lines and wide stance. Feels like you are sitting on the road at first, then you forget then you pass another vehicle and you remember. I remember looking up to talk to my friend in a Kia Piccanto like I was talking to a lorry driver.

It's a joy to drive around.

[Amishtat]

A few from a local meet this morning. 

 

 

[xtriple]

After my prophecy of the other day re the battery, I was proved a damn sight more clairvoyant than Mystic Meg as the car refused to start this morning - half hearted churn for a second or two and then, nuffin   As Chester was dancing around on the end of his lead and making irritated noises (he makes noises for everything!) I was going to leave it and walk to the shop, but as the pain in the old spine has been fairly horrendeous of late, changed my mind and got the jump pack out of the boot. Nice neat port on the drivers side to connect leads to so should be a piece of piss, but no, for some reason, the jump pack leads wouldn't mae a decent connection so had to dig out the battery itself.

Once I did that, battery was found, all connected up and away she went.

And away we went to Halfords. I could have waited until tomorrow but why bother? They open today purely for the benefit of the likes of me (lazy old fuckers) and so I bought a new battery and had a very nice young lady fit it for me! Cost £15 to have it fitted and £120 for the battery but after judicious use of the 'Trade card' the whole bill was £88.60 which I thought was a bargain. She was nice but slow and told fibs- I asked her to connect a 'code saver' which I could have done myself and so after faffing about fetching another battery she plugged into the OBD port (?)  wich surprised me somewhat. She made a meal of changing the bad  boy but got there in the end but of course, all the codes had gone and the roof wouldn't work.

Ho hum...

Still gave her a tip though and didn't make a song and dance about it, usually on Mercs it's a case of the windows need to be reset before the roof works which is really REALLY difficult - you put the windows to the top and hold the buttun up for 5 seconds and then one touch works and so does the roof. That was the case today and so 30 secods and all sorted (though the radio has lost its codes for station presets which, as I never listen to the radio is hardly heart breaking   and saved the poor lass from having a melt down as she looked proper sttressed by it all.

 

[dollywobbler]

Bye cars.

CityRover will also get a cover, but it's still got one run to the unit to do. That'll be at about 7am tomorrow morning. Then I'm on a coach for a scary number of hours on the way to that there London. Not sure what my comms will be like once I fly on Tuesday, but will try to report in.