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[richardmorris]

Evil knivel in a bus back in 1953.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn7m8dmkglxo

 Twin axled double decker? 
 

[richardmorris]

4 hours ago, Rustybullethole said:

Sadly not though did stop to admire.

Arrived. Its bring the family to work day so have the luxury of the big caravan. 

Fresh Peacock for dinner I see. It’s a change from turkey I suppose.

[Rustybullethole]

58 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Fresh Peacock for dinner I see. It’s a change from turkey I suppose.

Percy was s definitely not for dinner. If he makes a racket in the morning he may be for breakfast.

[louiepj]

Are you collecting a MK1 Megane? If so I am greener than the car itself, with envy.
Also, sausage roll looks good.

I was also excited.

[Split_Pin]

I bloody love them! Great cars, proper French handling!

[MJK 24]

I’m in the Algarve on holiday.

I asked for a Lamborghini for my hire car.  I got a Lamborghini colour at least on my wet belted triple powered 208!

The locals however don’t like drawing attention to themselves and they like a big slice of reliability and longevity with their Peugeots.  Some mid 90’s XUD goodness spotted….

 

[MJK 24]

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[omegod]

On 29/12/2024 at 10:57, JJ0063 said:

Fucking hope not, I put them in a bin bag and took them to the tip this morning 😂 they were a thin plastic type material, I thought asbestos was more of a concrete type stuff? 

I took a load of tiles from my floor and took them the tip,  as I was emptying the last of them into the container the attendant spotted them and went absolutely bananas saying I couldn't dump them as they are possibly made of  the most dangerous type of asbestos, I said he was welcome to fish them out himself as I certainly wasn't now he had told me! 

Prior to this I wasn't aware of the possible issue ! 

 

[reb]

Happy new year folks.

Remember to dispose of the old year responsibly according to local and national regulations. 

[Wibble]

Yes, happy new year everyone 

[andy18s]

7 hours ago, reb said:

Happy new year folks.

Remember to dispose of the old year responsibly according to local and national regulations. 

Dumped out into a corner of a field somewhere?... 😂 

 

[Dyslexic Viking]

Happy New Year everyone.

My new year starts with getting snow.

[bunglebus]

I saw clickbait headlines about snow here in the UK, what we actually have is a broken fence and half the street's recycling in our garden, as they've put it out three days early

[danthecapriman]

3 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Happy New Year everyone.

My new year starts with getting snow.

Lovely!

Have a guess what the new year starts like in the UK??…

… yes, you probably guessed right. Gale force winds and pissing rain. The usual. Start as you mean to go on etc etc! #shitholecuntry!

Happy new year everyone btw!😄

 

[Dyslexic Viking]

58 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Lovely!

Have a guess what the new year starts like in the UK??…

… yes, you probably guessed right. Gale force winds and pissing rain. The usual. Start as you mean to go on etc etc! #shitholecuntry!

Happy new year everyone btw!😄

 

Now that I have spent almost 3 hours on snow removal, of which 2 on the loader without a cab, I am cold and can hardly feel my fingers, I almost prefer rain.

[danthecapriman]

16 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Now that I have spent almost 3 hours on snow removal, of which 2 on the loader without a cab, I am cold and can hardly feel my fingers, so I almost prefer rain.

Snow is only nice to look at, like a winter wonderland type thing or making snowmen. Fine if you don’t have to go out or do anything like work. 
I really do hate rain and constant grey skies though. Being wet and cold constantly is awful. It’s depressing.

[Supernaut]

We got a very brief flurry of snow this morning.

Most of it stuck to Kyrie before melting.

[Dyslexic Viking]

1 minute ago, danthecapriman said:

Snow is only nice to look at, like a winter wonderland type thing or making snowmen. Fine if you don’t have to go out or do anything like work. 
I really do hate rain and constant grey skies though. Being wet and cold constantly is awful. It’s depressing.

Yes snow is nice to look at just a shame there is so much work that comes with it. And I'm not very fond of rain and gray skies either, the only positive thing is that it doesn't create a lot of work.

[danthecapriman]

8 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Yes snow is nice to look at just a shame there is so much work that comes with it. And I'm not very fond of rain and gray skies either, the only positive thing is that it doesn't create a lot of work.

When I was working on the electricity outside all year I used to absolutely dread rain. If you went out in the morning for a job and it was raining you just knew you were in for a shit day and everything was twice as much hard work because of it.

Obviously everything with high voltage has to stay dry and you can’t get moisture inside the equipment, so you and your tools need to stay dry, the equipment needs a big tent built over it… all very much a pain in the arse when it’s raining. Then before you can do the work itself you have to run around the area switching and back feeding the network so the power doesn’t go off during the job. You get absolutely soaked doing this no matter how hard you try. Then where your in and out of the van every five minutes the van gets wet and steams up!

If you get wet though, you’re wet all day. Because we were out and about there was no real way to dry off or warm up other than sitting in the van with the heater on.

It was a brilliant job in summer and spring though.

[richardmorris]

V8 interceptor ( it said on the back) Spotted this morning in the wilds of cilcain.

[andy18s]

4 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Happy New Year everyone.

My new year starts with getting snow.

Very nice,ours arrived Christmas day and now slowly melting 

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1HeAxKx2gk/

[chaseracer]

2CVGB Raid Tan Hill this weekend: a jolly outing from 'the moonstruck outer limits of Leeds' (thank you, Alan Plater) to the highest pub in England.  The Dyane is ready.  There may be snow...

[Stinkwheel]

Changed the clutch and release fork on the 306 to get rid of the he-man heavy pedal, 

love how much room there is on small engines models of cars 🤣

could swing a cat in there 

Genuine Valeo OEM clutch and release fork kit with new bushes. Much better. 

mind you New years is a stupid day to do a clutch change but hey, it’s done now at least. 

[comfortablynumb]

26 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

mind you New years is a stupid day to do a clutch change but hey, it’s done now at least. 

Would you rather be inside with the relatives? 😱

[Stinkwheel]

7 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Would you rather be inside with the relatives? 😱

Only the other half here no relatives descended this year luckily.

it’s one of those I go back to work tomorrow so I’d better get the clutch done today type jobs 

[MrBiscuits]

On 31/12/2024 at 13:46, omegod said:

I took a load of tiles from my floor and took them the tip,  as I was emptying the last of them into the container the attendant spotted them and went absolutely bananas saying I couldn't dump them as they are possibly made of  the most dangerous type of asbestos, I said he was welcome to fish them out himself as I certainly wasn't now he had told me! 

Prior to this I wasn't aware of the possible issue ! 

 

All this has just reminded me, back in the 80s my grandad cut a disc out of what must have been a 60s asbestos floor tile to make me one of these  

[hairnet]

10 hours ago, chaseracer said:

2CVGB Raid Tan Hill this weekend: a jolly outing from 'the moonstruck outer limits of Leeds' (thank you, Alan Plater) to the highest pub in England.  The Dyane is ready.  There may be snow...

 

[paulplom]

11 hours ago, MrBiscuits said:

All this has just reminded me, back in the 80s my grandad cut a disc out of what must have been a 60s asbestos floor tile to make me one of these  

Did he not like you?

[lesapandre]

More  debate about hybrid and electric cars.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/02/uk-needs-to-ban-full-hybrid-cars-by-2030-or-face-net-zero-catastrophe

Press release by 'Electric Vehicles UK':

"Electric Vehicles UK is a not-for-profit collective of EV Drivers and EV Industry Stakeholders"

https://electricvehicles.uk/about/

Anyone any idea how the ban on the sale of IC vehicles on 1st Jan 2030 is going to work legally and administratively? Is there a web-link to the specifics. This is only 4 years and 363 days off.

Will it for example ban the import and registration of 'classic' petrol vehicles? Or just new stuff. I'd guess the latter. How about car-derived vans? 

Or am I expecting too much forethought 😂

[richardmorris]

-1 this morning