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There is a link between your Pemberton caravan and the Pembleton car - Neil's link above your post explains all :)

Ahh, missed that fist time around :) Good use of a scrapped caravan!

I don't think its that they can't grasp technology but more likely don't need to or 'have better things to do' etc
Mme is far from stupid & since I've retired, controls all of our finances as I have better things to do :lol:
She's always shied away from the many mechanical things we have & need to manage our 3 Ha of garden & fields as I've always...

Mrs P is 70 in a few weeks so I did the licence renewal again and on-line without any problems using the existing photo they had. She will lose the C1 and D1 entitlement but she said she has no plans to drive a minibus or small truck, otherwise it needed a medical assessment with a doctor. It involved logging in to the gov one site but easy enough...

Initial estimates are pay back c 4 years.

Any thoughts?

Is that an estimated 4 year payback in the UK, or an estimated 4 year payback looking at the UK purchase price but European/German levels of sunlight and an ideal installation ? :-k

When a Swiss startup announced it was installing solar panels between active train tracks and letting trains run over them all day, the critics said it wouldn't work. 14 months in and it's still working fine.

Sun-Ways installed 48 removable solar panels along a 100-meter stretch of working railway in Buttes, Switzerland in April 2025. More than...

The only thing I use is Soda Crystals, (Sodium Carbonate) with white vinegar as a fabric conditioner.

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When I took the girls to Germany we played all the various 'follow me' games. Pick a topic, eg Towns and then player 1 names a town and player 2 has to name one beginning with the last letter of the first town. Player 3 again using the last letter and so on until a player can't give an answer and loses a life. Then change the topic and same...

Nee-Nawww

Well, I shan't get that part of my life back again.
Spent hours on this cr*p'

As mine is a Self Service ON LINE Portal , I can only make contact by phone should I wish to record a claim.
Found their blurb.. gives all the usual excuses for rising costs of pretty much everything... hmmm.

I am done... tried various comparison sites,( MSE, Confused,...

... a very old house with deep set windows, but still the shutters are inside. If you watch the video that accompanies John Lennon singing Imagine you can watch Yoko Ono folding the internal shutters back to let light in.

Well spotted.
In very old 'old houses' there were usually internal wooden shutter boxes, built alongside the deep reveals,...

My first thought is that it's simply a demo of two different spacings available to suit different lock mechanisms.

Yes, think this is most likely explanation :)

These locks are quite common on new builds. The handles are on separate spindles but not interlocked. I had them on a new build I bought in 2008, they were a pain in the proverbial...

Yesterday saw me visiting the radio museum in Watchet :)

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There's a huge number of exhibits all laid out in chronological order from the very early days until the 1970s. Every inch of space is well used! The photos only capture a small section of it. Due to the bijou nature of...

Possibly the road is their camp site.

Arguably cheaper than the one I'm staying on Paul :wink:

The vehicle had moved on yesterday...

Or lack of

Am I the only one that thinks the title should of been worded definitely? I had to read it a couple of times, I'm all for loving cars but jeez....

Really interesting breakdown, the battery lease transfer issue is exactly the sort of thing that'd put me off a used Zoe if I'm honest. Even on a battery-owned one, you're still relying on it being one of the good ones, rather than one closer to your Leaf's wear. No way to really know going in. Given how cheap new EV leases have got recently (I've...

That's a proper job Pete!

Who'd have thunk it, eh ? :roll:

UK electric car sales target set to be weakened

The UK government is set to water down its target for how many new cars that are sold need to be electric vehicles (EVs).
Under the current rules, 80% of all new cars sold in the UK need to be EVs by 2030, but car makers and trade unions have been lobbying...

Thank you! I will stay around... even if it is just for the entertainment 😁

This is not a particularly unusual engine but I do love watching a true engineer at work!! I was fortunate to meet him at Kempton Park a few years ago and we enjoyed a brilliant 20 minute chat over a coffee!! :-D

He regularly appears on 'Shed and Buried', and really knows his stuff.

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^^ :lol:

Many will disagree but I seriously dislike dogs and cats and that does nothing to endear me to them. :argue:

I'm ambivalent about them. Some I like and many I dislike, especially small, yappy little ankle-biters and fashion statement dogs. I expressly dislike those that look deformed and seem to have difficulty walking and breathing. And those...

I've used Tesco Momentum in my cars without any problems,was about seven pence a litre more expensive than E10 but they have since increased the difference.

I'd often come across 30 KM/H speed limits (Kilometres !!) in the backwoods of German towns and villages and thought nothing of it - it just seemed right, but there's plenty of 20 MPH places in towns and villages in the UK where it seems excessively slow..... and I genuinely don't know why it would seem that way. :-k

That’s a fair breakdown, and I think you’re pointing at the real tension in modern repair culture.

Dealers are structurally pushed toward “module replacement” because time is billed tightly, liability is high, and the business model doesn’t really reward deep fault-finding. So even when a technician can diagnose at component level, they’re often...

Similar but not quite as big John!

Feast your eyes, the absolute chapter and verse on this particular 1960's accessory for the in-car picnic. Very briefly appeared accidentally in the background of a findit-fixit-flogit episode as detritus on the floor of a vehicle.

Need a car with wind-down windows though, but yes I well remember both the...

I'd guess the long term plan of the car manufacturers is to move the consumer/user on to a lease/rental/subscription service for their car. By making it nigh-on impossible to self-maintain, or even to use a local garage for repairs, the user is pushed towards using the main dealer. Add in to that the high cost of parts and servicing and the user...

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I then apply a race car logo/paint to each car

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Bluebell makes a great Scalextric car :lol: Drives like one too :-D

Well done Neil! Better late than never and probably significantly improve your chance of finding a buyer! :-D

You may find this site useful in determining the different network coverages available: :)

In Mathewsons may auction

Petrol will be 1.2 Puretech - Google that and then run away! The electric version will have limited range, but if you can live with that and get one 'cheap' as someone else has already suffered the savage depreciation, and you can charge at home, it probably makes sense.

Is this the company you are referring to Roger? If correct then the link may be helpful. :)

Indeed it is.

Dealt with Raymond yesterday and Graeme today.

No photo but- on a busy A road through Toft village between Bourne & Stamford a warning sign has just been put up.
Not word for word but the sign basically says “this road will be closed for re-surfacing between x & x, weather permitting, except for buses.
How can they let buses through but not cars????
This is Lincolnshire, so anything is...

But...... didn't she.......did she fill out the insurance paperwork (or online) herself? If someone is doing it for here, some people that she don't, she could have said to the person completing the for 'F' and they heard 'S', or visa-versa........ just saying.

I watched it at same time as I had snooker world championship on tele.
Skipped between both so not a chore.

Can't see that anything named Euro-whatever will get past the Reform crew.

I think you were right first time and it's just a tide coming in. Unlike the Severn, the Bore on the Dee really only appears in force a couple of times a year at spring and autumn tides.

Sorry, but retired also, but...................
Not sure how Google Calender works, My Online calender was with GMX, you can add various individual Calendars to you main calendar, it will sync with Andriod & Thunderbird on a PC. Have a look at the screen shot and you will see what I mean.

But, have you seen the Booking Pages on the Google...

It would certainly be possible but I can feel a severe case of CBA coming on! Never mind.

I always save those for when I come on here!! :-D

Look on the bright side, you now have a clean remote, probably smells quite nice too.

Well that didn't go according to plan although the judge was superb.

Not sure I put my point across as effectively as I should have and I still feel that I've been hard done to.

Although he wasn't finding facts because it wasn't an evidential hearing, he said for the basis of this hearing he assumed that what I was saying was true and he said...

Perhaps the area where I live but have never been subject to that treatment.

I'm sure the availability of this sort of thing doesn't help!! :evil:

Here's a link to their flash sales: :)

I do wonder how many just lurk and read without posting. I did that for years on a certain (rather stuffy and heavily over-moderated) forum dealing with vintage radio - until I was banned for it and with no recourse from the admins.

Don't ban people, it hertz (sorry)

It does Richard... Mind you, par for the course with that forum. Very...

A new take on enjoying a portion of chips with your meal Roger....