highpeakman

I would imagine that these people have skins made from Chobham Armour to survive for more than one day so need/have/desire little, if any, training.

Never mind the training. They'll be monitoring it for "kwalitee" purposes.

Acme Thunderers are good for unsolicited phone calls...

I assume that CBC is the old Mid Beds outfit - only the name has changed not the management! All I can say is Thank goodness I moved! You have put my original comment into perspective!

It's worse than you realise...CBC is the old Mid Beds District Council and South Beds DC joined together to create a Unitary authority, so the smallest shire county has 3 Unitaries (CBC, Beds Borough & Luton)with Beds Borough having an elected Mayor, so we have the equivalant of 4 Chief Exec's....got any space where you are.....

There must be space as it seems all villages in Lincs are set to grow by 10-15% over the next few years. There must be room for more developers!

Nothing some superglue and signs "you want my parking, how about my disability too" plastered on the front windscreen won't fix. (recommended only for punters you see doing the "run in" routine, because otherwise,I have a rather funny story about 2 rather doddery very senior gentlemen & handicapped spaces- one had a pass, one didn't, guess which car they were in?)

Things aren't always as they seem.

Occasionally, you might get an able bodied motorist parking in one of these bays - putting a blue badge in the windscreen - and disappearing into a shop - only to emerge a minute later with a disabled person (maybe 2) in tow.

Nothing wrong with that - they're transporting the (disabled) badge holder.

The people my (disabled) parents & I have a problem with are those who abuse the system. There are too many of them.

I understand all that and as I said above that I take care not to misuse my wife's pass. I do note that sometimes when I have taken her to the shops and i pop back to load the shopping while she is still away from the car I can get dirty looks. Difficult to know how to handle those situations but I would explain to anyone who asked.

Yeah. Saw one of those cloaked clowns last night in high wind and driving rain. Must be frighteningly many people tired of their lives on the roads.

Headlights need to be on in fog and murk which does not require wipers on full time. Just be clear I am only advocating headlight use in poor visibilty whatever the cause although Icannot see a problem with being on all the time.

I would make it a legal requirement in Haverfordwest.

At first glance I thought you meant the year 2200 - actually not a bad idea at that!

There are usually bags of Humbugs on sale all year round.

I used to give Humbugs instead of cards to work colleagues, but they got to expensive....

Out of interest, Horse, do you have a large black sack and a big shovel with you each time you go out for a ride?

No, because my horse - for reasons best known to himself - tends to wait until he gets home. Only then the floodgates open :-O

These people see the bare bab as the offence. Once it's bagged it's job done in their eyes.

Beginning to wonder if the tyres were actually made by the people whose name appears on the side...

total horlicks! check reviews of tyres carefully as some do not last long. Price bears no relation to longevity. Driving style is also important.

These are premium brand run flats but I have not had this problem before with same brand. Arranging an alignment check.

I am not so sure of the mefirst. Most offenders are in their own little world and can actually look straight at you but obviously don't see you. Eyes glazed and vacant!

Sorry to hear you suffered! They do get around; I was filming some bits and one bloke seemed to deliberately keep swinging his bag The resistance increased each time.

LOL, George had the right idea, after politely asking "excuse me" twice to an old lady he just pushed past her - good lad

Highpeakman, I applaud you sentiments, but the relationship between speed cameras and safety is somewhat tenuous; whereas the relationship between speed cameras and money is very firm indeed.

I always slow down for speed cameras as well. This road has about 8 miles of average speed cameras which I observed carefully. The guy in front was doing 40 just to be sure. Where the average speed cameras finished I decided, unwisely, to get past him. The mobile speed van was waiting at the end of the average speed zone!

A favourite trick in Oxfordshire is to have speed traps at the end of villages as people speed up on their way out

I blame it on the raisins

A Romulan plot, most certainly.

Best just to keep all small modelling parts in the model railway room carpet as I do.

See the latest post from 'Locomotionatshildon' (Sandra) under the NRM 40 Class 43 (HST) topic for telephone no.

Thanks. I have the number but will give it a few more days. Will see if I get an answer to my email first.

Finally turned up. Lovely model. Happy now.

Never had these problems with a MkIV Cortina! A whole host of OTHER problems, but not these ones... Simple is good.

Saw a pre-war Austin7 yesterday on the A38 and there's a split-screen Morris Minor locally too. Don't recall any electronic gizmos on either vehicle

Had 4 Cortinas (and 4 Capris). Many miles in all but ALWAYS took a tool kit plus wire coat hanger, sticky tape, elastic bands and paper clips. Mostly managed to fix them but not always!

All other threads OK - only this thread but no photos showing from the beginning. What is going on?

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are the flickr pics showing?

Lea Road

Latest is that it will not be moved until 5.00pm. Our village is being overwhelmed with traffic.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/129036-bridge-bashing/#entry2958940

You could go on one of their cruises then - you would feel really young.

Second year running Car Insurance renewal has gone down with More Than.Never had this with any other Insurance company.

Aye, but lok at the water it's had thrown at it over the winter.

Loads of signs about saying 20 mph - some hope! Normally they do 50 mph in a 30 limit anyway!

What winter I have seen no winter here in Essex. At most we had 2 days with frosts.

I gave a load to a local miniature railway to sell a few years ago. They will have made a few quid, so fair enough.

I've bought some good quality second hand books for 1p - yes you read that correct, one penny. Postage was a couple of quid.

Likewise, beast. A penny for the book, but £2.80 postage is common on, for example, Amazon.

I've never had issues with the VAT I pay for my limited company. It's done online, once every three months (@ mo).

This is a "Final" VAT settlement and they owe us money. The system keeps wanting more "final" returns even after The "Final Return" was input weeks ago. So now a Final with "0" in every column has had to be entered. We know we are not the only ones with this problem.

Had trouble with online P800 tax refund, cost me about as much in phone calls to HMRC as the refund

I seem to remember Tangmere did that on a rail tour! At least your models are prototypical!

Not sure about being prototypical. More like a protest that it was being used to haul the Dapol track cleaner around.

I'd Loctite everything- the wheels might not turn any longer but at least you can be sure the quartering will stay true forever!

It was weird as everything showed data correctly on Decoder pro - just wouldn't run properly. Actually it did run on DCC - at full speed and wouldn't stop!

I had the same issue with one a few years back. The chip started getting hot and smoking when I put it on the track. It took a few mins to work out what was going on

On the bright side; good diagnostics cracked the problem and it's now sorted! :-)

Wasn't far off!

I've got some film of that happening to the real thing...

Er, Yes. Sort of impressive. At least it still had power whereas mine just stopped and threw the short circuit device into turmoil while smoking.

Ouch!!

At least not a sound chip

Posted back to supplier today to determine if it was faulty or my own stupidity. (Probably the latter!).

Great news

Glad to hear that everything seems to be OK.

Good to hear.Our animals are precious to us.

because the one thing you learn from experience is that you learn **** all from experience (Fred Cotterell SVR loco driver 1985!)

OK. I'll put it all down to experience then.

Guilty I suppose but why a trap there when people frequently drive through my village at 60?

If a speed trap spent an hour or two in my village they could fund several bobbies on the beat from the revenue generated.