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Oh ground floor, I can imagine Ferrovie federali svizzere going round in circles in the garden and useful for the woofs.

I quite like this land rover.

I've often got the sat nav on for long distance driving ( pre set before starting) .. not for getting there on the normal route, but several times over the years, I've been diverted off into the wilds due to an accident, there are then no signs how to get back onto your route. The current sat nav, radio, phone answerer, dashcam, machine is touch screen, but who ever designed it had thought about it. Down one side are the permanent 6 touches for the modes. If you have the radio on there are 6 large touches along the bottom for preset radio stations. I find it no harder to use than the old push button radios. Tend not to change stations anyway, the radio has of course got AF on it so it automatically finds the best received signal for that station.

Gabapentin, is I think, what Ben's been on for the last 3 months, he's certainly been bouncing around and taking me on longer walks since he's been on it. If we do nothing else, the vet last night was talking of moving him onto steroids. Ben has just taken me on his full long walk, which he greatly enjoyed, many more "messages" than usual, for him to sniff than normal, I suspect a group of visiting doggies have been around his route

Mooring Awl, 1 hour, 3 hours ,2 hours sleep, not enough. Ben the I'd like out Collie, was early, he went back to bed for a while until I needed to get up. He enjoyed himself snuffling around, waggy tail.. at that time dull grey and drizzly, now bright blue welkin, but in both cases very windy. A north westerly of 31 mph. Not so waggy at the moment as they are playing top gun up above us... Spent a considerable time researching Ben's problems, no good solution. Vets phoning at 12:30 on what to do next.. Swmbo's opinion is as he's old, try him on some different pills the vet is offering, but not go for anything more upsetting to Ben.. Time to take Ben the snoring Collie on his long walk, as we need to be back for the call. Ah the fly boys have gone definitely to to walk.

I doubt it's the fastest landrover.. Some years back there was a tuned twin turbo 5 litre V8 petrol landrover in one of the LR magazines. On a runway test it reached 165 mph... But ... You needed a fuel tanker to go any distance....

Evening Awl, MRC went well , got rained on as I arrived back home.. Arrived home to the vet calling... Ben's results of the blood tests. Raised protein and calcium levels. Not good. Parathyroid disease seems unlikely as he has none of the symptoms... Which leaves kidney disease or cancer or ? The ? Is because the vet is struggling to find a definite cause to match Ben's results. So what do we do? Ben is 13+, a border Collie's life span is 12 to 15. It would be unfair on him for anything invasive. If it's cancer chemo at his age probably not worth the suffering he would get from the chemo..

According from a website I've just checked, all new cars in the UK from 7th July 2022 have to have had a black box fitted. Many cars have had them for some years. So gradually everyone will have a tell all in the car.

Bin drizzling all mooring, old decision not to work on the mower, instead been earning brownie points making new bits for the electric spinny thingy. I'm being huffed at by an impatient teenager.. a certain 13 year old Border Collie.. Time for his long walk...

Mooring Awl, 5 hours sleep, long awake, 1.5 hours sleep. Ben the early Collie ask for out an hour early, he got told so and went back to his pit.. we've now been out, he bounced around and enjoyed his wander. cold light south westerly at present, dull grey welkin. Forecast to become a strong northerly later. These repeated strong northerlies has raised the sea level in the southern north sea. Some areas of the broads are getting flooding.. Plans for today Not sure weather looks doubtful for lawnmower work. Time for breaky.

And don't expect it to look like it did when Barnes Wallace was bouncing golf balls... They've got a lot of very shiny newish looking buildings now. Had a personal tour of some parts of the place, when I brought down some references voltage sources and reference resistors to be measured. I've had the same problem with the bike cbt, me assuming the car plate was one much further way. Also when the audiology crew were discussing a cricket match outside the soundproof box , the box wasn't very soundproof...

Now I know why I spent most of my working life in buildings and darkened rooms with no windows, still do on a Friday... I suspect I've lost some high frequency hearing, I've increasing tinnitus, it's a high frequency whine. That may well be to do with the high frequency whine a lot of electronic equipment had when I worked on in those darkened rooms . Interesting that article by the professor, where we live was considerably further inland a thousand years ago let alone 10,000 years.. The village to the East of here lost 90% of the land ( approx 1800 acres) between the Doomsday book and QE1. its lost more since.

I believe There's one or two that got through the channel tunnel before that route was blocked. And some ancestors may have walked before the tide rose at least 100,000 years ago..

I had a small child " feel the textures" on my layout at a club open day .. layout still under construction.. So it didn't have the perspex cover on the front of the sea... The seaweed was made of wire, sharp points. She didn't do that again.. At the Radar museum the first thing i do in a morning is go see the 1/1000 radar station dioramas I've built. About once a month someone will have prodded and broken a radar.. so far no one's stolen one... Second thing is go look at the learn to write backwards board.. and remove any rude words or symbols.. that happens less often. The biggest damage I've seen at a show was self inflicted.. The train arrived in the fiddle yard... An open frame cassette based yard. Loco and complete train hit the floor which has tiled. Cassette not in place!!

You could but with their weight, both postage or coming to get them would be more expensive than buying..

£12.99 from a big orange shed, no doubt cheaper elsewhere. Quicker and quieter than a chainsaw or angle grinder

Decided to fit a "dual cooker appliance outlet" to the wall, that's one in and 2 out. It can take 16mm^2 cable . Then it will be separate cables to hob and oven. That will make a much neater job of it. It will be below the hob, but above the oven and unseen once fitted. Bits should arrive tomorrow, so that will be fitted Wednesday. It will make disconnecting and moving units easier later, there is a plan to move the oven up to hob level. That will make getting hot oven trays out a lot safer and easier.

That's annoying just typing the below posting and a popup from this website appeared where I was about to hit the screen and when I did hit it, it leapt onto another screen and lost the typing.. That was one pig of a job. The old hob had a central surface mounted connection area, plenty of room of cables and easy to do connections. The new hob has the connections in a 2 inch deep well in the bottom of the hob, to a glorified choc block. The choc block was EXTREMELY tight for 10mm^2 British cooker cabling. Wires kept catching on the edges... This system is 10mm^2 from the wall, with 6mm^2 looped onto the oven.. The cables are supposed to do a 90 left from the choc block into a cable clamp, impossible with flat cabling unless you do a folded bend. There's not enough room for two cables to do that!! So I've left the cable clamp off, no one is going to be pulling that hob around... Next problem, the new hob has it's connection box on one edge.. that fouled the side of the kitchen unit, so a hollow had to be cut out for it to fit.. Just need to do a trim piece to hide the cut out in the side of the kitchen unit.. All "rings" tested ok. Too late in the day to start the mower as I'd have to leave it out all night near the driveway gates...

Where's the vinyl roof?

So it seems, I'm not a bussy, other than knowing the family 0wned some Burlingham Seagulls in the dim and very distant past that's the limit of my knowledge of busses. Ah, looking it up, the most common double decker owned by Wilts and Dorset were Bristol KG5s with an ECW low bridge body... Glad I wasn't the driver of the chassis going from Bristol to Lowestoft...

Nice to see the old Wilts and Dorset bus, the village I lived in in Wiltshire 1963-71 was served by the number 8 bus from Andover to Salisbury, it still is, occasionally used that on the way to and from school. Though that route used Routemasters back then. The observant among you will note that's a route from Hampshire to Wiltshire. Don't think I ever saw a Hants and Wilts bus. Mooring Awl. 3.5 hours, 1 hour, 2 hours , 1 hours sleep. Initially helped by pink pills, my knee is a lot better than late yesterday. Ben the I'd like out Collie, was only 15 minutes early today, he enjoyed following a trail, probably the muntjac I saw wandering around yesterday. No Wind!!! Blue welkin mostly.. Hmm 97sqm apartment = 1044 sqft This house is about 1200 sqft. So the apartment is not much smaller.. However there's about another 500sqft of mobile home and 1000sqft of garage and sheddery out there😀 Plans for today, Change hob, Work on lawnmower But first Time for breaky.

When they parked a yank aircraft carrier near the Clyde a couple of years ago, a notice to mariners went out, GPS temporarily degraded in that area.

Probably in the medical facility the way my knee is feeling...

I've twice hit deer, luckily only at 30 mph or less and both muntjac which are small. I have a by had the big Red deer cross my path but avoided them luckily... Swmbo has a star Trek movie on... Again....

Afternoon Awl, Decided to go to the sailing club, too windy to sail in BM, gusting 35 mph, only 11 got their boats out. Of which 9 sailed.. Extracted BM from her moorings with difficulty, the wind was pushing her back into the moorings, once I got her out a strong incoming tide started washing us up river. That made for a hard row tow across to the club, moored BM strategically out of the wind. Muggacoffee and a bacon butty.. Eased side stays and gooseneck bracing stays. Tried new wedge, too big, which wasn't a surprise, so I trimmed it to fit and it did.. Looking at the mast it was then leaning forward..but.. When bracing and side stays were tightened up the overall effect was vertical. So that when 1/5 of BMs all up weight sits in the back, the mast will be tilted back. During this I got a foot caught in a sheet as I made for the bank off the boat, hit my already sore knee on the quay, then the rest of me hit the deck somewhat hard.. Second race series only 7 sailed, heard from the next club 3 miles up river, racing had been abandoned. The next job was replacing the blocks in the steering gear. Removal of the old ones was slightly difficult, several screws were refusing to be extracted easily. They ended up being replaced once they had been pliered out. Putting the new ones in was somewhat easier. Then the entire system was set up, which took three rounds of tighten and adjust. Muggacoffee and lunch.. 3rd race only 5 boats sailed. I suspect next week both stays and steering will need tightening again as they settled in their new positions. Then towed BM back across the river, trouble was the BM kept trying to overtake with the wind. Arrived at her moorings sideways, took a couple of attempts to get her nose into the mooring then swinging her stern in line and then the wind pushed her in.