edcayton

Morning all. Chris, is your Polo at a VW approved body shop? There may be warranty issues if not. Have they found the miscreant yet? Ed

Evenin' all. No snakes? Crocodiles ate the snakes. Ed

I think it gives you a lot more right than simply wanting to travel, be it by train, car or aeroplane. Ed

If I was driving in the UK I wouldn't like to miss an Olympic Breakfast at a Little Chef. Ed

Yes indeed, plumbing is fairly easy, it's the gaining access that is difficult. Good morning all Ed (with a tricky dicky tummy)

They should still paint the winning cars green though Ed

YAY! Granddaughter born 21.09. All doing well. Ed

Insomnia....... Mike, I am astounded by what you said about the lack of bogs on CrossRail trains. It's absolutely ridiculous. As for flushing beer cans, the older style lav's with a flap and you can see the sleepers rushing by underneath would work. I'll try to go back to sleep, night all Ed

ISTR that Shui went to Ferrari when they were not at the top of their game. It must surely be the ambition of any F1 driver to drive the red cars, I won't be at all surprised to see Lewis move there. Next year perhaps? Ed

Good morning all. Jamie-two questions. In the before and after pics it looks as though you have chopped down a grain silo. Is this right? And in the last one, is that a privy? I'm dead jealous. Ed

Morning all and belated HNY. @ Neil, does the IoM have hard water? If so then something could have built up over the years leading to trapped water now. Just a thought. Best wishes to all Ed

A lot of cars have suffered from flood damage this year. They should have been written off and scrapped, but there are always a few crooks. Ed

Snap! Mine also arrived from Tower this morning. Hooray. They kept to the original price too. As to the weight, I think it's like a cat with a magic gravity switch and weighs more out of the box than in. Ed

Is the green painted or self-coloured plastic please? Ed

My lovely cleaning lady has, as promised, just brought me a Christmas dinner. I had half or more of a bottle of Asti with it so am feeling mellow. Many thanks to Nicky, and a happy Christmas to all. Ed

As a child I used to be so excited that I got up really early (3 or 4) on Christmas morning. I would sometimes meet my Dad who had not gone to bed from Christmas Eve, finish the assembly of or playing with my toys! When our boys were young we let them have a couple of small presents in their room, but they knew that all the pressies under the tree would wait until the rellies arrived. #Ed

Just rung Tower and the green ones have arrived! Mine should be here tomorrow. With black bonnet Ed

Once you are in York, remember the whole city is a castle! The walk around the walls is very pleasant, there is Clifford's Tower and, as Mike says, the Castle Museum. When a man is tired of York he is tired of life . Ed

I'm surprised they didn't split that for transport, it's a heck of a long load. I'll bet you are looking forward to driving it. Ed

Please stop comparing UK and France. Their area is 2.5x ours and I'm guessing their "through" traffic is much greater. Transport "needs" are very different. You talk about long distance services from London to the NW and NE of England, but these are not long distances and I don't believe the French would have built the TGV network for two branch lines Ed Ed

Yes, but the French (and other EU mainland) TGV form a network of long distance high speed lines, and the Chunnel and HS1 form a logical extension to this. I would like to see such a network in the UK but it ain't gonna happen. But a long distance line ( at least from Glasgow/Edinburgh) which joins HS1 would be a different proposition. This would be for political reasons (to make the Scots feel part of the UK), and, yes, for national pride if we do it better than the rest of the world. Who is the proposed line for? As Mike says most of the population will have to travel into London to get on it, and his Parkway station makes a lot of sense. As it is, someone suggested it will make life easier for people in Leeds to commute to London. Really? We can not continue this madness. We need to be saving energy and not inventing new travel by any method and that is why I am agin it. Ed

Sorry Doc, but that has upset me. These barely literate and numerate, semi- and unskilled and probably unionised people won two wars against the Germans. Efficiency is not everything. Ed

Possibly better to upgrade the 20th century OHLE. Ed

Yes, but HS2 won't be "long distance" train travel, and hardly qualifies as "major" transport infrastructure. Ed

Just got the Xmas double issue Autocar. In a summary of the year's road tests the least powerful engine had more than 100 bhp. It's not so long since that would have been one of the more powerful tested in a year. Ed