CitroJim's AX, C3 Picasso, Cycling and Running Tales

[myglaren]

Hmmm...
No mention of parentage on her website nor Wikipedia.

[CitroJim]

01.51.56 if you need to relive it Jim! (for the next 29 days!)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0857zkr

Brilliant Thanks Neil

[mickeymoon]

Odd coincidence is I discovered just this morning that Anneka Rice is Sir Tim Rice's daughter.

I find that hard to believe as Sir Tim is 72 and Anneka is 58...

[CitroJim]

He started young

[elma]

Is that Anneka as in challenge Anneka? I only just remember that. I'm quite excited to hear Jim on the radio, too bad I'll have to wait a couple of days. I need 2 rj45 connectors before I have proper(ish) internet again.

[CitroJim]

Yes, one and the same Anneka James

[myglaren]

I think I have been the victim of misinformation.
Should have checked, never had any interest in Tim Rice, nor Anneka other than the name coincidence.

At least she has made Jim famous. It will be Lord James of Astonmartinshire in the next honours list

[CitroJim]

At least she has made Jim famous. It will be Lord James of Astonmartinshire in the next honours list

I like it

I had a great photo opportunity when I had a visit from a girl called Gabi today; a friend of my daughters...

Two Gabriel's together!

[mickeymoon]

I think I have been the victim of misinformation.
Should have checked, never had any interest in Tim Rice, nor Anneka other than the name coincidence.

At least she has made Jim famous. It will be Lord James of Astonmartinshire in the next honours list

I never had any interest in Anneka other than her famous attribute...

[superloopy]

Yes ... she could run v.fast [emoji6]

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[Hell Razor5543]

At least she has made Jim famous. It will be Lord James of Astonmartinshire in the next honours list

I like it

I had a great photo opportunity when I had a visit from a girl called Gabi today; a friend of my daughters...

Two Gabriel's together!

2 Christmases ago, if I had turned up, you could have had a GAC as well.

[CitroJim]

2 Christmases ago, if I had turned up, you could have had a GAC as well.[/quote]

Shame that James Gabriel and Gracie would have made a great pair....

[CitroJim]

Poor old Gabriel got very hot under the collar whilst queueing in very slow moving traffic past Stonehenge on Friday... Her cooling fans failed to do the necessary

The sooner they demolish that old pile of rocks and blast a dual-carriageway through there the better as far as I'm concerned... I'm sure the old bits of Stonehenge will make good hardcore for the road

I jest, I'm not that much if a heathen but by golly, Stonehenge does cause chaos and it seems to be due entirely to people slowing up going past it to look at it... Maybe if they built a big opaque fence by the side of the road to hide it, that might help and it would be a cheap and quick fix too...

All the way down it was so foggy we thought Stonehenge would be OK as it would be hidden in fog. But no, one of the only clear spots was... Yes, you guessed it

Anyway, I checked her fans this morning and found another open-circuit wire in her fan loom. This time a relay operating wire. Last time it was one of the big high-current supply wires...

All fixed now with a bypass job.

I will now have to regularly check the operation of her fans and certainly just before I go anywhere near Stonehenge again!

She seems no worse for her experience and despite the temperature gauge exploring new heights she's not used or lost a drop of coolant...

[Zelandeth]

Situations like this are things which make me decidedly uncomfortable with complex cooling arrangements like that...at least with an old-school thermoswitch it's an easy enough matter to bodge together a temporary get-you-home repair at the side of the road. I have successfully used the ring-pull from a diet coke can - also found at the side of the road - to sort a dodgy fan on I think it was my first Metro when the thermoswitch decided to stop working in the middle of a traffic jam in Aberdeen.

People slowing to look at stuff must surely be the cause of 80% of actual hold ups on the motorways too whenever something happens...

[CitroJim]

Situations like this are things which make me decidedly uncomfortable with complex cooling arrangements like that...

Same here Zel... Only fixable with a multi-meter, a wiring diagram and an understanding of how it all works... Not a chance of doing a quick 'get me home' I have no trust in Xantia cooling fans at all and find I'm more surprised when they do work than when they don’t!

People slowing to look at stuff must surely be the cause of 80% of actual hold ups on the motorways too whenever something happens...

Yes, I believe they're called 'rubber-neckers' and one reason now why screens are often erected around incidents.

I find it very mawkish and hate to see anything like that. It has the power to upset me for days and rather than look at it I try to look away and get past and away as fast as possible...

People who slow down to look closely at road accidents are in my opinion very sick. There seems to be an awful lot who do...