Mornin' I have not ventured out as yet 
have a good 'un
have a good 'un 
Highlanders and lowlanders in scotlandshire traditionally rustle each others cattle. So they can have steak any day of the weekSteak on a weekday night?
You sure know how to live north of the border!!
Hippo
Lord Hippo
After many years ov gud servis me black un dekka jigsor has retired. Tissa BD538SE wiv da scroll fing where yer can turn the blade as yer cut. Eye int seen that feature on nu ones. Tried lookin at his lectronics burreye fink the motor issat fault. He been a family feind ferrbowt 30 years. Eye will miss im.
Well another war starting, I think Putin thinks Russia is his own personal property, I'm just going to get on with my day, going to look at a Transit camper van to replace the Landy which I hardly use anymore. Time to move on to a more practical vehicle as a second car
Have a safe day .
Have a safe day
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Well another war starting, I think Putin thinks Russia is his own personal property, I'm just going to get on with my day, going to look at a Transit camper van to replace the Landy which I hardly use anymore. Time to move on to a more practical vehicle as a second car
Have a safe day
So your new ride is a tranny
Fridy night still a week night round yer. I only gets steak on a Satdi!!!Feels like a friday night.
Dunno which camps you are talking about, but as far as prisoners of war are concerned it might be worth peeps being aware that only officers POWs in our armed forces were not given work to do, as by the Geneva convention they were not allowed to do any. That didn't cover other ranks and NCOs who, poor sods, often ended up working for the Nazis.
But as you can see from this,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_war#Western_Allies'_POWs
It all depended on who you were and which country you fought for as to how you got treated.
I've read extensively on this subject and it a sad but fascinating one.
Just one factoid, the three Brits who escaped via the Wooden Horse, ALL made it back to Blighty.
Of the many who escaped from the same camp, in the Great Escape, only three made a home run and none were Brits or Yanks, one was Dutch and two were Norwegian, both races that were basically allowed to move around in occupied territories anyway, with the right papers. So much easier. and they had the German language skills.
The other 73 escapees got recaptured and 50 of them got shot.
But life for the Russians, the Jews, the other eastern nations and lots of other "untermenschen" or resisters in other camps or not was terrible and all too often short. To say nothing of the "death marches".
So'm I!!!
And this is apropos of what?
The news today that they get 40 years to pay it all back perhaps.
Well bin a bit of a frustrating day so far.
Wifey off to Bath for the theatre, I decided to fit the new headlamp washer, just finishing off when a hailstorm hit. Rushed to put tools out of the wet and came indoors to find I'd missed a medical appt.. Fort it was for 4:30, nope, 10:30. And getting one is gold dust.
So now got one for Monday, which is fairly miraculous and with my own doc,(passes out with shock!). But this meant I had to move a chiro appt.
Feck!
Sun shining now so I'll go back out to see if I can finish it off and remove the bloody foglight so I can put it through the MOT.
Putin, eh?
What a dick! "DeNazification"! What the FUCK?
Wrong thread for this really, soz. I'll shut up!
Have a nice arvo folks!
Wifey off to Bath for the theatre, I decided to fit the new headlamp washer, just finishing off when a hailstorm hit. Rushed to put tools out of the wet and came indoors to find I'd missed a medical appt.
. Fort it was for 4:30, nope, 10:30. And getting one is gold dust.So now got one for Monday, which is fairly miraculous and with my own doc,
(passes out with shock!). But this meant I had to move a chiro appt.Feck!
Sun shining now so I'll go back out to see if I can finish it off and remove the bloody foglight so I can put it through the MOT.
Putin, eh?
What a dick! "DeNazification"! What the FUCK?
Wrong thread for this really, soz. I'll shut up!
Have a nice arvo folks!
Dunno.
They always did have a long time to pay it back and didn't have to start paying till they reached a certain salary, AND if they hadn't paid it off within a certain time it was written off.
So maybe extending it to 40 years is designed to ensure they do get it back, eventually.
I have no idea how other countries manage to allow peeps to go to university without charging enormous tuition fees.
Well I do, they actually care about having an educated populace.
But then not as many go and Frisbee Throwing is not a degree topic.
I'd be fully in favour of the govt subsidising all subjects that the country needs such as engineering and nursing, but making all the feckers who go there for the beer and skittles pay though the nose. No idea why they don't but then I'm not a politician.
(Actually I do, it's cos little Johnny "my parents are rich and vote Tory" still wants a Bachelor o Farts in Frisbee Throwing. )
So your new ride is a tranny
Daily driver is a Proton pick up, Transit is for towing trailer and sleeping in at car shows, also going to have to sell my Citroen ZX 1.9 diesel estate
...so I go out to carry on.
I get the lickle Jubbly clip done up on the top of the tube where it connects to the washer and, feck, it don't all go back through the hole in the bumper.
So I'm thinking, "It won't do up from the other side unless I take the bumper off."
So what choices? Obtain one of those 'orrible "squeeze it shut" type connectors which is smaller, From where? Dunno, never ever fitted one before. Or enlarge the hole in the bumper where the Jubbly clip will have to pass through.
Or rely on the barb on the fitting holding the tube on, at least till after the MOT.
And just as I am pondering this, it starts to hail AGAIN!
So, feck it, loosened the Jubbly, left it there, pushed it all down into the bumper tightened the fixing screw.
I'll attend to it later.
Bloody sun's come out again now!
Note to self, "Check the Jubbly, wherever fitted, will always pass though any 'ole it will need to pass through."
Have to admit this is yet another LR lesson, never needed this one afore!
I get the lickle Jubbly clip done up on the top of the tube where it connects to the washer and, feck, it don't all go back through the hole in the bumper.
So I'm thinking, "It won't do up from the other side unless I take the bumper off."
So what choices? Obtain one of those 'orrible "squeeze it shut" type connectors which is smaller, From where? Dunno, never ever fitted one before. Or enlarge the hole in the bumper where the Jubbly clip will have to pass through.
Or rely on the barb on the fitting holding the tube on, at least till after the MOT.
And just as I am pondering this, it starts to hail AGAIN!
So, feck it, loosened the Jubbly, left it there, pushed it all down into the bumper tightened the fixing screw.
I'll attend to it later.
Bloody sun's come out again now!
Note to self, "Check the Jubbly, wherever fitted, will always pass though any 'ole it will need to pass through."
Have to admit this is yet another LR lesson, never needed this one afore!
...and talking of things not passing through holes...
When removing the bust fog light, could I see how to take the bulb connector out through the light fitting?
Even having removed the grommet, it wouldn't come out.
Couldn't see where it would connect further up the loom without taking the front of the car apart so sadly had to bodge it.
Cut the wires leaving enough both sides to be able to reconnect at a later date.
Then taped up the ends and moored them up back behind the front panel, along with the 2 (FFS) tubes which I assume are there to aerate the blasted light.
I also had to wire the bit of the wheel arch protector up to the rest of it.
All this due to the previous owner having caught part of the front valance on a tree stump.
Can't believe how intricately mounted lights are on this thing.
And to reinstate all this I'll need to take off the valance, repair it or replace it?eek: mega £s) then find a way of attaching the otherwise intact fog light back into it. The glass hasn't bruk, one of the lower mounts has gone, tother is very dodgy and the bit at the top designed to take a bolt? Well, I have no idea what that connects to. I have already taken broken bits off the back of the valance.
The whole thing was held together with gaffer tape and cable ties when I got it. and it has passed 7 MOTs like it since. It's just that it came seriously adrift in France and I wired it in place with some thick old garden wire but it still seemed very loose, hence me bothering.
Anyway ready for MOT now!
When removing the bust fog light, could I see how to take the bulb connector out through the light fitting?
Even having removed the grommet, it wouldn't come out.
Couldn't see where it would connect further up the loom without taking the front of the car apart so sadly had to bodge it.
Cut the wires leaving enough both sides to be able to reconnect at a later date.
Then taped up the ends and moored them up back behind the front panel, along with the 2 (FFS) tubes which I assume are there to aerate the blasted light.
I also had to wire the bit of the wheel arch protector up to the rest of it.
All this due to the previous owner having caught part of the front valance on a tree stump.
Can't believe how intricately mounted lights are on this thing.
And to reinstate all this I'll need to take off the valance, repair it or replace it?
eek: mega £s) then find a way of attaching the otherwise intact fog light back into it. The glass hasn't bruk, one of the lower mounts has gone, tother is very dodgy and the bit at the top designed to take a bolt? Well, I have no idea what that connects to. I have already taken broken bits off the back of the valance.The whole thing was held together with gaffer tape and cable ties when I got it. and it has passed 7 MOTs like it since. It's just that it came seriously adrift in France and I wired it in place with some thick old garden wire but it still seemed very loose, hence me bothering.
Anyway ready for MOT now!
