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Each to their own.
I would just like to say
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Yup, I've heard it said that they've got to say something about 20-odd year old vehicles on the MOT sheet or people will think they're not looking very carefully. And rusty springs are a fairly innocuous thing to put down. The front coil springs on Land Rovers are apt to break a coil off near the bottom. It's usually right near the spring seat so you don't notice much change in the ride. When I last replaced the springs in 2013 one of them had done this. Judging by the rust on the broken faces, it had been like that for a while. It had also just passed an MOT and nobody had said anything. It wasn't obvious because the spring had a thick layer of paint on it. At least with rusty springs you can see that the metal is continuous.
One of my early 'field repairs' of a car was a broken spring. I was about 13 or so and out with my mother in the Morris Oxford, which began riding rather low at the rear. On looking underneath, the problem was obvious - the top leaf of one of the back springs had snapped next to the axle. I twisted some lengths of wire off a nearby fence and wrapped it round the spring to hold the leaves together, which got us home. Just as well, because our family could never afford things like breakdown cover and we tended to drive around with bald tyres, or even bits of the remould flapping where it had separated from the carcass, such was the marginality of my family's grasp of motoring. It's a wonder anyone survived. It was like the wild west in those days.
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I fink the peeps doing it might have a few to hand!
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I painted mine with Ford blue tractor paint single coat celly only cause I got 100L of the stuff & gave 80L away.
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Neebs gave me 2 mince pies.
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Went to Currys today to pick up the lappy.
Had a chat with an assistant who actually had an idea of what was going on. He's apparently worked in the same dept of Currys for 10 years. (amazing he still has his sanity.)
I asked him about Microsoft Office, you'll remember I was a bit fed up about having missed the "deal" of buying it for £30 as part of a bundle, so now having to pay £60 for it.
NOOOO!!!! WROOOOONG!!!
£60 only buys it for 1 year!
To get one that works "for life" you have to pay twice that!!!
Gag me with a spoon!!!!
I was totally upset. But W gritted her teeth and paid for it as she had promised me stuff to yet more cost. Cannot believe this price, it seems like such a rip off. I have had Office on all my pooters, used it a lot for work, plus writing my books, etc. never remember the cost seeming so high. At least my present lappy has lasted 12 years so hopefully this one will do the same.
I am sure there are ways that peeps who know how to do stuff on pooters would simply lift my latest version on my windows 10 pooters and put one on this noo Windows 11 lappy.
This is how these beggars get to make dosh out of simpletons like me, methinks..
And it is also how I seem to keep old pooters as I can then use them for stuff. Rather than update noo ones.
He also went off into the "cupboard" as that was the only way of checking what was on the IEMs from the point of view of plug etc. and came out with a box containing exactly what I was looking for.
Had a chat with an assistant who actually had an idea of what was going on. He's apparently worked in the same dept of Currys for 10 years. (amazing he still has his sanity.)
I asked him about Microsoft Office, you'll remember I was a bit fed up about having missed the "deal" of buying it for £30 as part of a bundle, so now having to pay £60 for it.
NOOOO!!!! WROOOOONG!!!
£60 only buys it for 1 year!
To get one that works "for life" you have to pay twice that!!!
Gag me with a spoon!!!!
I was totally upset. But W gritted her teeth and paid for it as she had promised me stuff to yet more cost. Cannot believe this price, it seems like such a rip off. I have had Office on all my pooters, used it a lot for work, plus writing my books, etc. never remember the cost seeming so high. At least my present lappy has lasted 12 years so hopefully this one will do the same.
I am sure there are ways that peeps who know how to do stuff on pooters would simply lift my latest version on my windows 10 pooters and put one on this noo Windows 11 lappy.
This is how these beggars get to make dosh out of simpletons like me, methinks..
And it is also how I seem to keep old pooters as I can then use them for stuff. Rather than update noo ones.
He also went off into the "cupboard" as that was the only way of checking what was on the IEMs from the point of view of plug etc. and came out with a box containing exactly what I was looking for.
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Good point!!Oh he's back
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Mrs. C was snipping birch twigs with secateurs to put in the "brown bin" and when I said Why on earth are you doing that? she looked at me blankly.
I reminded her that she had insisted on buying a battery-powered hedge-trimmer.
What are birch twigs if not "hedgey-bits"? The mind boggles.
So I fired up HER hedge trimmer and cut all of the twigs into little bits for her.
Sometimes I wonder how she has a degree and I that am just an "oik".
Go figure.
I reminded her that she had insisted on buying a battery-powered hedge-trimmer.
What are birch twigs if not "hedgey-bits"? The mind boggles.
So I fired up HER hedge trimmer and cut all of the twigs into little bits for her.
Sometimes I wonder how she has a degree and I that am just an "oik".
Go figure.
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Mrs. C was snipping birch twigs with secateurs to put in the "brown bin" and when I said Why on earth are you doing that? she looked at me blankly.
I reminded her that she had insisted on buying a battery-powered hedge-trimmer.
What are birch twigs if not "hedgey-bits"? The mind boggles.
So I fired up HER hedge trimmer and cut all of the twigs into little bits for her.
Sometimes I wonder how she has a degree and I that am just an "oik".
Go figure.
Oh shes played a blinder getting you to do it
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Well......Mrs. C was snipping birch twigs with secateurs to put in the "brown bin" and when I said Why on earth are you doing that? she looked at me blankly.
I reminded her that she had insisted on buying a battery-powered hedge-trimmer.
What are birch twigs if not "hedgey-bits"? The mind boggles.
So I fired up HER hedge trimmer and cut all of the twigs into little bits for her.
Sometimes I wonder how she has a degree and I that am just an "oik".
Go figure.
she managed to get you to do all the cutting up of all the twigs up for her!!
(My ex had a Master's and was one of the least practical women I know. )
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Blast our posts crossed!!Oh shes played a blinder getting you to do it
Great minds and all that!!
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Somefink to look forward to.I expect I'll be issued with one of those when I chuck off my mortal coil and go to my reward ------
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Bad tratter
Tax his farm
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It was actually very good - despite it being a disco 2
In fact, they really let you test the capability and put it through its paces. I was impressed… and it was running on aired-down road tyres!
They were doing some training there with London Fire Brigade (they do off road training for all the emergency services). They had a new bit of kit… like a jacked up transit on steroids. It looked wrong though… needed bigger wheels. Confirmed when we got back for a mug of tea in the afternoon to hear that one of them had got it stuck!
I nearly offered to go get my hippo 2 and pull it out. But there were sausage sarnies out by then, so….
Then they brought out a trails car for hill climbs. Glad to say I did not hit any gates on my go. Jeez those things can climb, but tricky to get used to with the hand-brakes for traction/downhill. Much fun!!!
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Morning All.
Cool but not currently raining.
A shopping day, seems our local big supermarket is having "supply difficulties" and has many empty shelves.
I wonder if this is a trend that will grow?
Have a lovely day.
Cool but not currently raining.
A shopping day, seems our local big supermarket is having "supply difficulties" and has many empty shelves.
I wonder if this is a trend that will grow?
Have a lovely day.
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