Captain Cuttle

And here is Little Sox, soaking wet, put food in garage, dryed him off still spitting growling etc which i ignore and he scoffed the lot also one of Teddy on my shoulders. This is usually twice daily and he will sit up there for twenty minutes or so purring, happy cat.

This is just like the two we feed, we call them sox and little sox. Both short hair black with yes you've guessed it white sox. The older one is going blind in one eye and very wary and very quiet but spends most of his day in a covered section of my garden railway on a mat i found for him. The other been here since he was a kitten, if you can imagine that instead of four legs he has four pogo sticks thats little sox. Meow, meow, meow,meow,meow,meow, growl,growl,growl, spit,spit,spit,spit all at the same time! So pleased to see you and devours his food with gusto, probably got worms who knows, what can you do? Our twelve year old Blue Cross rescued long haired ginger tom Ted looking out the windows follows little sox around the bungalow but ignores the older cat completely.

Worked on enough of those in 60s and 70s in various bodyshops. Most just basic reliable cars from what i remember. Maybe an exception would be the Vauxhall Victor, first british saloon to have a stick on windscreen. I worked for a main dealer and what a pain they were, lots of issues with leaks, trying to get them out with cheesewire and those oh so pretty but difficult to fit stainless window trims! For me now just prefer our Yaris and Jazz and apart from a Mk 2 Golfthey been the most reliable car we have ever had.

And.................Tanning Parlours plus eyelash extensions!

I know but medication seems to have affected my memory, thanks

Thank you Jim for your detailed reply. I will see what i can find out from the club. It may well have been from Liverpool.

Maybe more obscure if i had asked the name of the ships cat?😄

Hi, Anyone have any idea how long would a typical voyage would take carrying five new prototype Jowett cars and forty tons of spares from Hull to a South Island port of New Zealand to arrive there in October of 1954. Regards

Its in a west facing border.

Here are a couple of photos, we bought this about twenty years ago. Not sure of soil type we are in Newton Abbot Devon.

No, nothing its lost all its leaves bar maybe one or two which are hanging on by a thread, shrubs either side not affected. It hasnt died because if you cut into the shoots they are still green.

Hello, Checking which shrubs of ours have issues and first off is a berberis which lost its leaves back in July, what has happened to it do you think? Regards Alan

And this on YT

The second part of this amazing but very sad collection of classics apparently abandoned in collapsing sheds, location unknown, but its not Kent. At 12 mins in a ZA Magnette, 13 mins in a Rover P4 75 cyclops and at 21 mins in is a Jowett Jupiter.

A fella from school in Ramsgate back in mid sixties had an A35 that he thrashed and either broke half shafts or knocked the big ends out of it. Much to his fathers disgust as he had to keep repairing it!

Not what people who buy RTR want i am sure.

What is the best time of the year to do that. There is so much wet weather here in Devon atm. It has spread over 100ft from hedging at the front to the back of our garden. A mixture of laurel, holly and red robin. I did try with some fungal spray from B&Q but couldnt reach the top as not so agile now!

Sorry to hear of his passing, he was my go to guy on all things Pullman.

So are the wheels secured in a similar fashion across their whole steam loco range?

I dont know if climate change is a reason why a lot of our shrubs appear to be affected by powdery mildew as most are over ten years old and have succumbed this year. I always thought laurel to be pretty bullet proof but that has it as well in various areas and the red robin has a leaf curl. Will fungicide help i wonder as these are large hedges ! Alan

Sounds bit like my dads Simca 1000, in the wilds of West Cornwall. I was told to not start poking at the rust, great engine though!