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Sidescreen Ben

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  1. Glad you feel better post-rant John! Our experience of DPD has been far more positive, in fact I’d rate them as the best of the bunch. Our postcode covers 9 widely dispersed houses and as a result the unwary delivery drivers that can’t read a map and rely solely on a sat nav tend to give up too easily and concoct some excuse as to why they can’t deliver. The plus side of our remoteness is that all deliveries are left in a “safe place”!
  2. I’m glad to see the Greased Weasel at last! Well done Hamish!
  3. Well done everyone! We managed to make it to the final run at Castle Combe on Saturday! I too am keen to see the Greased Weasel trophy…..I hope it lives up to it’s name……I’m imagining a reworking of the leaping jaguar!!
  4. What a dreadful shock. Very sad. We met Nuala on the RBRR2018 (same time as we met The Brookster!) we tried to keep up with the yellow peril but failed mostly….except when the co-pilot was driving!! Nuala was certainly a great advocate of long distance events and a great loss to the Triumph world. Our condolences to her family and friends. Ben & Vicky
  5. Electric fencing as used for livestock (mostly horses in our case) is an effective way of keeping them off an area. If you can beg borrow so much the better! Plastic stakes enable low fencing at badger snout height......
  6. Oh dear Nick, they’re probably after leatherjackets. Were you aware of lots of daddylonglegs in the autumn?
  7. Equally irritating and possibly more dangerous are those who pull out of a side road in front of you because they don’t want to follow an old jaloppy, causing you to brake to avoid a collision.
  8. Agree Nick, although to return home they need to negotiate the A31 dual carriageway......
  9. Agree, a clean, instantaneous kill is the only humane way.
  10. A friend of ours was asked by his wife to rid the garden of grey squirrels (just rats with bushy tails) who were plundering the bird food. Living where we do this is an impossible task. He was instructed not to kill them, so a humane trap was used. He caught several and duly removed them to some distance and released them (NB this is technically illegal as you are releasing a pest). It was pointed out to him that they have a strong homing instinct and so his success would be short lived. Not convinced by this statement he sprayed the captive squirrels tails with red marker dye used for marking livestock before releasing the next batch. By this time he was up to around 30 captures. Sure enough, a few days later a red tailed squirrel appeared in the trap (slow learner). He has now taken the captives 20 miles away to release them. We await reports in the local media of a new subspecies of red tailed grey squirrels in the New Forest.
  11. And in a similar scam earlier this week which was particularly inventive I thought!
  12. Precisely! And congratulations Chris, on your degree. Clearly torturing Vitesse chassis’s has paid off
  13. Keep them coming Hamish! Great stuff!
  14. That’s correct. Sorry, I’ll try to upload a better picture. It was the combustion chamber cracks that are unusual.
  15. Took the TR3 to Revingtons for its post-rebuild tune up today. They showed me the old head that they had removed and replaced with a newish modified one. The cracks were in places they hadn’t seen before. Thought you’d be interested.
  16. We were down to marshal at Lands End this year for the first time. Sad but as you say not surprising given the circumstances.
  17. Crikey Phil, hope you don’t get scurvy! . Hope the RBRR goes ahead; we’ve offered to marshall at Lands End. Hopefully we will have moved to Devon by then and won’t have to get up quite so early! Fingers crossed.
  18. Mind you don’t damage those lovely floor tiles! I’m getting serious workshop envy!
  19. I feel sure that that last comment re Bosch Classixx will be of immense value to someone, somewhere at sometime Nick!
  20. Please note! We are not planning on fit the wheels in the background of the first picture! We’re not going for a Monster Spud! P.S. sorry about the quality of the pictures. Potato sheds are necessarily dark to prevent them sprouting! At least it’s stopped any rust sprouting too!
  21. OK, so how do you tell which end is which of a potato?
  22. Some impressive plywood origami Nick. A nice off cut of Axminster or Wilton would set it off nicely . Good to meet you too. Managed to get home without indicators (and only sidelights as the headlamps refused to work as well! My kneecap is not up to grovelling about under the dash so I'll send Vicky in to discover the loose connection(s).
  23. I think the plural of Marcos, if we stick to the vehicle, is likely to be further complicated by it being a made up word from Marsh and Costin.........
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