I would just like to say

Morning All.
Not yet raining (forecast to).
A lie-in because she gets butchery stuff for her Ma on Friday.
Have a lovely day!

Stone56 said:

As we are so isolated if a vehicle fails to start or is being worked on it would be a 5 Klm walk to the village no fun in bad weather have walked up once in the snow as taxi could not make it blizzard conditions 2 cases 500 mm of snow almost killed me I now no why people give up and go to sleep in these conditions when exhausted a 4x4 pick would make the most sense and would pay for it's self around the land ??

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So would it be a second car? Because I totally get the isolated and the need for spare transport.
Many cars would have trouble with 500mm of snow TBH.

A quad and small trailer would "pay for itself" too, plus the fun, and it could go to the village if needed.
Thats my man math done, Have you seen our quad? .

J

marjon said:

So would it be a second car? Because I totally get the isolated and the need for spare transport.
Many cars would have trouble with 500mm of snow TBH.

A quad and small trailer would "pay for itself" too, plus the fun, and it could go to the village if needed.
Thats my man math done, Have you seen our quad? .

J

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Would be a second mode of transport haven't seen your quad have thought about them as we could get road legal ones new for 3k

So now it's a second car and 2 quads may be a tractor the Defender is ok in deep snow with all 4 wheels chained 20mts back up and go round the pile you just made but to be honest if we know it's coming we are well stocked normally for 2 months in the winter

Big clean up today leaves are starting to fall but nice warm sunny day W been busy canning tomes pickling chillies tomorrow will pull the beetroot should keep her busy some rotavating done for winter crops chessnut tree's doing well from nuts planted in spring hope the storm is not to bad over there we have missed all the rain here so no flooding as yet

Stanleysteamer said:

I scooted past a lot of it looking for specific pics, but William Towns did make a load of funny kit cars, a lot of which were real boxy.

Hustler (car) - Wikipedia

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I spent a load of time looking for the Mini Marcoses until I finally clicked on the last page and found them there but not named in the link I clicked on. They used to use Cortina Mk1 rear lights, which I loved.

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That looks like kit car pope mobile

marjon said:

So would it be a second car? Because I totally get the isolated and the need for spare transport.
Many cars would have trouble with 500mm of snow TBH.

A quad and small trailer would "pay for itself" too, plus the fun, and it could go to the village if needed.
Thats my man math done, Have you seen our quad? .

J

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& a snow mobile for when the white stuff comes......... Snow now peeps get yer minds oot the gutter.

Late in for dinner & didnt fone to say so was in the bad books. Ok now tho & went out n stuck some slates on the roof.

Tis pitch black ooot

Removed a tick from one of the dogs but it didnt seam to be moving when I got it off.

kevstar said:

Removed a tic from one of the dogs but it didnt seam to be moving when I got it off.

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Did you get its head to if just the body thay don't move ?

Stone56 said:

Did you get its head to if just the body thay don't move ?

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Yup got the whole fing oot.

kevstar said:

Yup got the whole fing oot.

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Been a tough year with these little horrors. We get lots of deer ticks which get enormous. Trick is to wait until they’re nicely full and then get them when they’re less keen on the job. Then chuck them on the woodstove and watch them pop. Unfortunately they don’t scream in agony, which would be an added bonus.

Army are busy flying peeps in and out tonight, summats going on ...

kevstar said:

That looks like kit car pope mobile

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Ho! Ho! There is an even worse one which really does look like a Popemobile and was nicknamed as such.
I'll have to have a look whan I've got a mo!

kevstar said:

Removed a tick from one of the dogs but it didnt seam to be moving when I got it off.

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Don't mean much. I know it isn't in the "roolz" but if I am in any doubt at all when I have to take one off any of ours I give it a little douse with white spirit first which seems to make them let go then you can be more sure of getting the whole thing off, which is what you really need to do.
We don't have a problem in the Uk in the dark 6 months, but in Frogland, especially this year, we pay for the expensive "one for three months" pills which seem to sort the problem out. But we have seen far more ticks this year than in a normal year.

Bin working our backsides off these last coupla days.
When chatting to a bloke on another thread I went out to check the colour of my coolant and discovered a flipping rodent has been living in the lining of the bonnet of the D2.
This is the second signs of a rodent I have had this year on the D2, the first being signs of one having lived in the bigger of the two seats on the second row. I suspected that this started when I took it off and left it in the box trailer in the UK, (for the MOT, shhhhh!)
Saw a very small dried up corpse of one and thought little of it. The only signs were of the stuffing, if you can call it that, having "leaked" out around where the hinge mounts are.
But this second little son of a female dog got me more bothered as the last thing I want is one lunching on my wiring. So I took the lining down and removed the nest. It even contained bits of till receipt from a local supermarket and I don't even leave those things lying around in the car, so where he got that from I have no idea. Too chewed up to be able to make out the date!

I have owned cars since 1972 and this is the first time, well two times, that there have been signs of meeces in any of my cars.
Lesson learned, start the cars up and drive them around a bit, a bit more often!

kevstar said:

That looks like kit car pope mobile

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Here is the one.



see this:

And I know the school the guy taught in, it was pretty rough!
Didn't realise that Towns designed the Aston Martin Lagonda. I remember seeing it at the Earls Court Motor show when it first came out, so that must have been in the early 70s,
It didn't catch on.
Correction, what I must have seen was the mark 2 version the really "folded paper" design by William Towns. I love the fact that the digital instrumentation development cost more than that for the rest of the car!
"The Lagonda was the first production car to use a digital instrument panel.[7] The development cost for the electronics alone on the Lagonda came to four times as much as the budget for the whole car."

Watched the last Grand Tour tonight with a takeaway and a beer or two.
Very good ending… felt a little sad.

Greetings from Great Yarmouth. It was quite a nice afternoon but cloudy in the evening.

A47 closed in the evening requiring a diversion around Diss and through some villages I had never heard of. Fritton, or Toft Monks anyone?