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No picture sadly.

I took my dog out and saw a front door open with a home made security dog guard at the bottom. It was only about a ft high. Bizarrely a dog came running up the hall way barking.

It was a sausage dog then the height of the gate made sense. The dog was jumping up a bit and it's front legs only got an inch off the ground.

A bit like the dog pictured.

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44 minutes ago, paulplom said:

Failed on one major. Not looking in mirror when changing direction. She's in a queue of 143'352 to re book.

Gah what a pisser! 

I failed on my test as I got beeped at. Couldn't fit down a filter lane in Wycombe. 

Of course once passed and using the road normally I learnt that every car bumps up the kerb as the roads not wide enough for the lanes... Think I also fucked up a triple mini roundabout which I still hate to this day, and although I've not been over it in years now, just paced myself so I could join it empty and almost straight line all 3.

Obv you can't tell her that! Just make the head movements more blatent. I adjusted the mirrors ever so slightly off centre so I had to move my head to see, rather than have them bang on as I (and I expect you) do now so a quick flick of the eyes makes you 70% confident before going for the manoeuvre. 

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2 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

 

Obv you can't tell her that! Just make the head movements more blatent. I adjusted the mirrors ever so slightly off centre so I had to move my head to see, rather than have them bang on as I (and I expect you) do now so a quick flick of the eyes makes you 70% confident before going for the manoeuvre. 

That reminds me of my hgv class 1 trainer. Really exaggerate the head movement so they know.

I also made a little "oops" noise once and he looked over and asked if I'd crossed my arms. I had. He told me if I was saying stuff I may as well say "I'm a driving god" etc. Yeah cool story bro.

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1 hour ago, Agila said:

No picture sadly.

I took my dog out and saw a front door open with a home made security dog guard at the bottom. It was only about a ft high. Bizarrely a dog came running up the hall way barking.

It was a sausage dog then the height of the gate made sense. The dog was jumping up a bit and it's front legs only got an inch off the ground.

A bit like the dog pictured.

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Yeah, those long wheelbase dogs aren't the most agile of things.

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The Lanchester started first pull of the knob and let me have a drive around.  Me!  Normally it doesn't want to acknowledge my existence.  Can confirm, brakes are shockingly out of adjustment and need herculean effort to get even an almost-adequate response.  Pre-selector surprisingly intuitive too.

Obviously it's now all in bits because I'm doing the coolant change which is going about as well as the oil change did but still, I don't care, my car permitted me to pilot it so I'm well chuffed.

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Just got back from a couple of nights away with Miss_155.Found some great diecast at a car boot,picked up some free lowering springs for the Puma,and spent the afternoon at Marwell Zoo.

Home now,tired & happy,& I've still got the rest of the week off ?

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Saw a Fiat 125p with BIF 4417 plates. Almost lost my shit.

To explain my excitement, here's a photo my Polonez:

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They stopped giving out black plates in the year 2000, to find another FSO product that's been registered within weeks of my Polonez in 1995 and not re-registered since is extremely unexpected to say the least.

Unfortunately, didn't manage to grab a photo of the 125. :(

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8 hours ago, Agila said:

No picture sadly.

I took my dog out and saw a front door open with a home made security dog guard at the bottom. It was only about a ft high. Bizarrely a dog came running up the hall way barking.

It was a sausage dog then the height of the gate made sense. The dog was jumping up a bit and it's front legs only got an inch off the ground.

A bit like the dog pictured.

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My sister's old neighbours had a Dachshund, he had an enormous deep bark for such a small dog. They are usually quite feisty, I like them.

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16 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Gah what a pisser! 

I failed on my test as I got beeped at. Couldn't fit down a filter lane in Wycombe. 

Of course once passed and using the road normally I learnt that every car bumps up the kerb as the roads not wide enough for the lanes... Think I also fucked up a triple mini roundabout which I still hate to this day, and although I've not been over it in years now, just paced myself so I could join it empty and almost straight line all 3.

Obv you can't tell her that! Just make the head movements more blatent. I adjusted the mirrors ever so slightly off centre so I had to move my head to see, rather than have them bang on as I (and I expect you) do now so a quick flick of the eyes makes you 70% confident before going for the manoeuvre. 

I failed my first test because of not looking in my mirrors enough. Total bollocks I was constantly aware of doing it. I'd moved the rear  mirror to make it obvious.

I reckon he failed me as I was in my own car. A nine year old 1982 beige metro 1.0 hle with over 100k on the clock.

Took my 2nd test in an instructors car and passed no bother.

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22 hours ago, paulplom said:

Failed on one major. Not looking in mirror when changing direction. She's in a queue of 143'352 to re book.

Did she say "but my Dad always drives like that"?

I have a theory that they give the confident and capable drivers a first time fail just to make them more careful.

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Glorious unforcast sunny day here in the Peoples Paradise Of Cornwall and I was outside painting a new field shelter when I heard the unmistakable noise of a Merlin.Sure enough a Spitfire grumbled past heading west.Do love a Merlin.?. Edit,just as I was typing he came back heading east.Excellent.

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On 08/09/2020 at 16:17, Dan the van said:

Glorious unforcast sunny day here in the Peoples Paradise Of Cornwall and I was outside painting a new field shelter when I heard the unmistakable noise of a Merlin.Sure enough a Spitfire grumbled past heading west.Do love a Merlin.?. Edit,just as I was typing he came back heading east.Excellent.

 

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