Allez merde en Afrique mon ami (no grammar lessons pls)Va te faire foutre chez les greques!
WhiskyLassie
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We honestly need the rain and it's not like I'm away out. Never seen that we page before, also your cat is adorable. Ours is a longhair and we get the hairball presents too
Oh dear!Allez merde en Afrique mon ami (no grammar lessons pls)
where would I begin!.........
Begin back in 1970 where I left it after a not very successful o-level. (but I did get a grade 1 in engineering to compensateOh dear!
where would I begin!.........
).
Had to go to the opposite neebs and pick up a bit of soffit that had blown off their house. It was in their front garden. Din't know if it came off our place or their's cos they are both the same. After a really good look round ours it is either theirs or has come from even further away.
Windy weather.
Funny times!!
Windy weather.
Funny times!!
Hicap phill
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Evening
Stroll round fields on animal duties after MOT(passed as normal)
Tonight just relaxing & hoping I can hide myself for a few hours of me time tommorow.
Stroll round fields on animal duties after MOT(passed as normal)
Tonight just relaxing & hoping I can hide myself for a few hours of me time tommorow.
You and I must be of similar ages. i did O levels in 1970 too but at 15 as I was in the feckin public school system.Begin back in 1970 where I left it after a not very successful o-level. (but I did get a grade 1 in engineering to compensate
O levels were graded by numbers in those days, they rapidly changed to letter grades.
An O level in those days was not to be sniffed at.
I sometimes used to give my A level students an O level paper to do, from my era, without telling them what it was. And after they had done it I'd ask them how difficult they found it. They'd usually say they thought it was pretty difficult.
I then broke it to them that you would have been expected to do it without a dictionary. They blanched!
Kids of today do not know how easy things are.
No more set books. No more dictation or précis.
Din't even know you could do an O level in "Engineering" back in the day. I'd have loved to have done that!
new to all this
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Because they are fun and put a smile on your face (as a second vehicle)
They are also a fabulous vehicle for long distance, heavy towing and driving around in places like the Yorkshire Dales in winter where the weather can be unpredictable, and you want to be able to see over dry stone walls.
We looked at Defenders but they were just too agricultural for towing on motorways, didn't even look at Freelanders as they can't tow 3.5 tonnes.
We bought ours to do just this and have never regretted it. Our place in France was a shell and is now fully furnished and kitted out with wood, slabs etc etc as well as all the uaual stuff like kitchen, bathrooms and furniture, all towed there with a 300tdi then a TD5.
The Disco saved Land Rover back in the day.
I do hope you get better soon. This isn't really like you, so you must be crook..... that Mr. Clarke is feeling so rubbish that he is going back to bed (on his own I hasten to add).
Hippo
Lord Hippo
The Freelander saved it more. Uk and europes best selling 4x4 when launched. Some years following anorl. Was the first lr product they had enuff faith in to givvit a 3 year warranty.They are also a fabulous vehicle for long distance, heavy towing and driving around in places like the Yorkshire Dales in winter where the weather can be unpredictable, and you want to be able to see over dry stone walls.
We looked at Defenders but they were just too agricultural for towing on motorways, didn't even look at Freelanders as they can't tow 3.5 tonnes.
We bought ours to do just this and have never regretted it. Our place in France was a shell and is now fully furnished and kitted out with wood, slabs etc etc as well as all the uaual stuff like kitchen, bathrooms and furniture, all towed there with a 300tdi then a TD5.
The Disco saved Land Rover back in the day.
You may well be right.
All I know is that before the Disco things were pretty dodgy chez Land Rover.
I personally quite like the Freelanders and would far rather have one of them than a Disco 3, 4 or later. Also I'd miss the ability to put it into low range.
Tis also the towing weight that means a Disco is our thing. Have you ever been in a Disco 1 or 2?
WhiskyLassie
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The black one is a spit of mine
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Been in the 1 and 2 as passenger. Driven a 4 on and oft road wiv lr experiance. Probably been is a 3 at some point. In the 80's the rr was pushed higher in spec and cost. There was a gap for the dusco and it fitted nicely to an emerging demand for such a vehicle at that price range. They only had the rr and tratter at the time. They already had plans to grow the rr into p38. But there was more demand in the market they wanted to fill. A light weight tratter was thought about early 90's. They made some for testing. This is around the time the FL project was gaining momentum from what rover and honda were working on. Rover wanted it to sell themselfs but lr could sell it for higher profit so they gorrit as they were all part of the same group back then. Both the disco and FL brought in new customers. Same as evoque did. Dispite what peeps fink, bmw helped put lr on track to where it is today by increasing quality and extending the line of vehicle options available. Ford did that anorl which is why we have so many lr options today. All based on the FL with its unibody construction and independent suspension. Who would have fort 30 years ago lr would be selling so well world wide, and the uk's biggest manufacturer ov cars in the uk. Some of that is down to losing some big names building cars here. Burrits one hell of a turn around compared to where they were in the 80's. Tata kept it moving forwards with capital investment when they took over.
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Welcome to me fred. Every tratterer knows the best addition to his tratter is a trusty Freelander.
