grendel

a friend wanted a bracket made up to mount a motor, so i decided not to do it on the 3d printer and machined it from aluminium instead.

intrigued, i went and looked up the figures, selecting an older car above 1600cc, in 2007 the cost was £175, the current road tax for the same vehicle is £270 or a rise to 155% of the original value over 13 years the equivalent rise for a boat is 204% over the same period.

perhaps they anticipate a higher than normal amount of people not accepting the rise in the toll thus the need for the post. I wonder if anyone has the comparison figures for the rise in road tax over the same period Griff mentions.

are you not ever tempted to spell out a rude word in the mosaics?

i always said you were stuck up.

working for me now, wasnt earlier

Today has been a busy day, firstly i had to take my ex mother in law to her annual marsden checkup, and then when i arrived home i found my new driveshaft had arrived 2 days before it had been promised, this gave me a slim chance to get the thing fitted and the car in before the retest window expired, i arrived home at 2pm, by 3pm the part was fitted and i was at the test centre, left the car there, and arranged to be back just before they closed, arrived back at 5.15, and was just in time to see the car reverse from the test bay, got the thumbs up from the tester, so after a lot of work, and some new parts i am good for another year. I had been a bit worried about the emmissions as she had been kicking out a fair bit of smoke, but the good long run to norfolk for lads week and some injector cleaner in what was left in the tank when i got home meant she sailed through with under half the legal limit on emmissions. i am a happy bunny for another year now

yes the initial step from ladder to roof is the tricky one, once up there its generally getting on with the job.

my day yesterday and part of today, having returned from lads week saturday it was time to get stuck into some serious jobs on the car, before the holiday I had replaced the handbrake shoes, but in doing so revealed the need for new rear disks and pads, so that was item number one, then on to the suspension drop links, item 2, as I had ordered a set of heavy duty drop links, i had the same job for the front, as well as requiring 2 new bottom ball joints on the suspension. the first of these was a pig and in manouvering the parts around I managed to seperate the cv joint, that was where I gave up sunday. this morningit was back to the grind, i needed to remove the drive shaft to repair the cv joint, I have ordered a whole new drive shaft complete with cv joint, which will be fitted in due course. I had heard the drive shaft could be a bit of a pig to remove, but it popped right off with no problems, having watched the video, the cv joint was rebuilt within 20 minutes , repacked with grease and put back on the car. It was then time to repeat the balljoint replacement on the drivers side, as well as the drop link, having watched a good video showing how to do this, the second side went without a hitch, with me finished and the car back in working order by 12.30pm. somehow these jobs are a lot harder and take more out of me than they used to so yesterday i was left stiff and aching all over. still i am glad that i can do this work myself, otherwise the cost of keeping my car on the road would be prohibitive.

you wont find it so funny when a typewriter on a long piece of elastic clouts you round the ears.

yes i would reccomend an extension lead with surge protection, i have gone one or two steps further, all of my data is backed up on NAS drives (network attached storage) that are basically a box with several hard drives and a tiny computer interface, these are plugged into a UPS (uninterruptible power Supply) that runs them for up to an hour if the power drops out, these are also surge protected. the NAS uses a system such that if a hard drive fails you can plug a new one in and it rebuilds the files on it from the remaining hard drives, this setup is a bit belt and braces, but protects my data, that said, important stuff is still stored in multiple copies on several hard drives. That said, there is software out there that can scan your hard drive and recover files that have had their headers lost, it does take time, i have recovered files from CD's that have stopped working (the file header section of a cd can run out of space if you save files too many times. full data recovery from dead hard drives is possible, but expensive, as long as the hard drive is still working you stand a chance, as mentioned above, check for cloud storage as that is generally the default on most operating systems nowadays.

Starting to get light, we are currently approaching how hill

I would suggest marthams

I will flag it up

Would you be referring to the forum shop?

Or up the left side outside Richardson's and moor at Stalham staithe, just past the museum of the broads.

Dunno, I believe the rest of the crew are in the swan

This morning it was a 9.15 am start from Salhouse, destination horning, arrived to find a space at the staithe, jewel of light had decided to give horning a miss and headed for thurne dyke directly.

There was 6'4" at wroxham yesterday on a falling tide.

There were two boats turning in the turning area in front of us so easier to astern out of the way, which we did all the way to the stern mooring at gays staithe.

Remember when mooring to step off the boat rather than jumping.

To be fair I don't have the track and trace app as the only device I could run it on needs to be in range of my WiFi to work, my phone doesn't do anything other than calls and texts. ( Plus my phone is at home and I am in Norfolk)

Well the budget angler is fishing from the bow and Griff from the stern, both have caught fish here at acle bridge.

Tonight's dinner, ready to be heated up and finished in the oven, all hand cooked by yours truly from the raw ingredients, cottage pie followed by Apple crumble and custard for 6.

It was a lot lower at Beccles yesterday.