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If you can't get to 7S, then you could drop up to 4x4 Days on Saturday - it's at the Aldwick Estate on Saturday. Great little site

I did a driving course for some of the RAF lads down at RNAS Yeovilton, back awhile. They were driving 130's with single cabs and long quadtech bodies on. Full of electronic jamming kit. Then on the cab roof was a roof basket with 250kgs of mast sections, for the telescopic mast mounted on the back. I was working for LRE at the time, so using their site. I will admit to chickening out on the track up to the site! Truly awful and blooming dangerous. In my report to their CO, I recommended that they never go off the runway...

That is rather lovely

Sadly I've got to work. Less sad is that it's one of my part time jobs, marshalling for a 4x4 Driving event. But it still means I can't go - which I was hoping to

Amen to that. After years of abuse, my body is no longer healing and my back has become a major problem, that's not fixable. I dread doing the heavy work, as I know it will hurt. I've got to change a set of rear springs and shocks on a Mk3 ranger this weekend. I'm defiently not looking forward to that

I can tell you it's not. I run a 2wd Vitara, that I was given by my late father. One of the most reliable cars ever built - according to my local garage owner, hence why he drives one and so does his wife. It's a 1600cc VVT lump. Very economic, reasonable to insure, reasonable on tax. Great car. But It still has to be insured, mot'd, filled with fuel, serviced, tyres wear out, etc etc. Ok, it's super reliable, but the oil is made of something so expensive, it must be liquidised diamonds. Tyres are 215/55x17 (I think) and blooming expensive, especially if you buy cheap carp. Even air freshners are pricey. The cheaper option is one vehicle, per driver, in the household. One vehicle to do everything and that doesn't exist

AT my last house, we had a very old Raynurn Royale, converted to oil from it's origioanl wood burning format. It was gravty fed to a cast iron burner. Very, very simple tech. It would burn any thing, as long as it wasn't too thick. So sump oil, veg oil, lumpy paraffin. Draw back was that it was a bit of a sod to light, so ran 51 weeks of the year (1 week to cool for servicing). It had a back boiler, which linked to the huge hot water tank.... we had a lazy daisy above it, so clothes dried overnight. In the Sitting room, we had an ugly old Parkray 77, that was used with wood and th occasional bit of smokeless to kee p the fire in. That fed 7 radiators, via a simple 240v pump. The rads would get warm, never hot, but the house was always warm. No thermosat. It was an old 1870's cottage, built in red brick. It was never cold or damp. And it was cheap to heat..

Wear fingerless gloves

Will do

Generally swapped - although god knows why as the EDC pump is far better

As I have to work down that way, I like to avoid it at all other times. Although I'll be in Praze-an-Beeble for a few days, in October

I'm fascinated that people need to keep there homes at 20 degrees C in the winter! Our CH is set at 16 degrees C for the winter, off on a night, with just the block work round the fire retaining warmth for the morning. We live in a mid sixties bungalow of four bedrooms, with a hoofin gert extension. If anyone is cold, then they get to put on a jersey or pull up a cat - same as in bed, put a fleece blanket over the duvet. The kids have grown up like that, I grew up without the CH bit, so regulalry scraped ice off the inside of my bedroom window. The wife is menopausal so is never cold; and in fact can warm a room. As and when I pay off the mortgage, there will be a wood burner going in the sitting room, and in my office (that will be a very small one)

A friend in the village had an air source heat pump fitted late last year. Utterly useless unless you crank up the watts. One of my pruning customers has a blooming gert ground source set up and that has spare heat to heta the swimming pool!

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We put grey water harvesting in when we built our extension. It's only for flushing the toilet and watering the garden, but it was very simple to do. The thermal efficiency of our extension is really good. I asked the architect for an additional 100mm for wall insulation and a hipped ceiling. There is a large void underneath as the house sits on a slope, so I requested timber joists, not block and beam. The joists are 12", netted and filled between with insulation. I've allowed extra joists in one area for a log burner, but as yet it simply doesn't need one. One radiator does the all 68m2 and the kitchen and utility.

Look around you and you will see it's more likely to be the latter

Down at the farm, we have, in the stores, a 9.5 litre V8 Gen set, that used to be the back up generator for Bath Uni. It produces 90bhp at 1,100rpm and is designed to run on gas - it was built from a Diesel lump

Absolutely, couldn't agree more, but as a species, we aren't ready to make the sacrifice that needs, nor are we ready practicably

Technology is has considerably reduced carbon output. Now that fuel sourcing from waste plastic has been finalised and proven, there is an enourmous sourceof fuel available. ICE vehicles are (at present) longer lasting with a much smaller carbon hole, than EV's (and EV's carbon hole is huge).

Such an odd feeling. One constant that's been their all my life. The one thing that hasn't downgraded. Now gone. I feel like I have lost a family member, yet something more. I was lucky enough to be presented to her and shake her hand, back in 1984, at the RHS in Vincent square, where she presented an award. I've never forgotten that day. Sad but also pleased my father didn't live to see her gone, he having been in her fathers funeral honour guard and her coronation honour guard. Sad but so proud of all she did, for so long. A sad day

I'm in the wood game - so I have wood all the time - ooer. My CH is oil (now theres a lottery) as mains gas is never going to be round this way. I use and open fire to heat the house and the oil to provide a back up. The kids wear jersey's inside in the winter. The problem with wood and coal is that it's a target for the yoghurt knitting green folk. It releases carbon (officially far more than Snagger when he's working), although in reality it's nowhere near. I'm seriously following a large number of folk around here and getting an LPG conversion on the boiler. SMART Meters , now that would be interesting to hear about

Mike, a luddite is not someone who is anti technology, but someone who is against technology simply for the sake of technology. Touch screens are very close to being banned in cars due to the number of FatAc's* caused by them. The only thing pushing the EV movement is some pretty dubious environmental waffle, primarily aimed at generating fear and tax. Yes, we have well and truly xxxxxx up the environment. Mostly through our utter loss of sustainability and a demand for new technology that is quickly time expired. We can't simply stop and put things right. We have to live with what we have done. EV's are yet to be sustainable, far from it. ICE is actually pretty sustainable but with maintenance and proper use. Hybrid Technolgy more so. We simply cannot run this planet without fossil fuels. The big polluters are an intrinsic part of our lives and unless we change, they stay. Company cars are slowly becomming a thing of the past, with aither allowances or mileage rates covering useage. The mileage rates haven't been updated for years. Some sriving , like Monkie's are well suited to an EV, but a lot aren't. I'd be stuffed doing my job in an EV - but not in a Hybrid. But I have to buy my own car to then claim back the costs. Thus I'm forced into the cheaper, home serviced as much as possible, second hand car market; just like the bulk of my colleagues. That's about 6k people across the UK. Charging: I don't have the time to waste in Motorway service areas. Adding another hour onto a day with 8-9 hours driving, simply doesn't work. Meetings are generally not in Service Area's and rarely in anything but a temporary site office...Alternatively they are from my kitchen on Teams, something that is very common these days. I live in the middle of knowhere, so can't upgrade my electricity supply. All of this is removed by a Hybrid - or chucking a genni in the back of the EV Give it five years - then I reckon ther emight be a better market *FatAc's - apologies, work term for Fatal Accident.

King pins?

Before you get spendy, try moving the shaft out of phase, by one spline. If that doesn't work, move it out of phase the other way, again by one spline

They are part of my job. Filthy isn't half of it