RMweb Premium AndyB Posted November 12, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 12, 2014 Morning all, another rainy start here. Very moving series of Remembrance acts hereabouts over recent days. Yesterday the school children gathered in church to mark the occasion and then moved outside to the war memorial. My eldest was asked to read the lesson. She says " I was so nervous I thought my knees would give way!" Partial as I am, it was beautifully read. My youngest was asked to lay the wreath on behalf of the school, which he did with great solemnity as the cold rain fell steadily on those assembled. Afterwards each child laid their own poppy on the war memorial as an individual act of remembrance. As part of their topic work the children are presenting research they have done on relatives who took part in WW1. One of the oddities of my family is that we all seem to start our families quite late in life. So, my daughter is presenting on her great-grandfather who was born in the 1880s and fought at Salonika. I think he might been quite surprised that a little girl in Hampshire, some 100 years later, would be talking about him. We hope to get my mum in to school to hear about her dad. Meantime on the model railway front, the dehumidifer is working hard in the garage. Hoping that this will prevent mold growing on the baseboards now that I've damp-proofed and insulated the building! 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adams442T Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Grey & Wet, wet and grey, wetter and greyer................................... Ah well, could be worse! The sun must be shining somewhere! Have a safe and happy day Folks! 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted November 12, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 12, 2014 The sun must be shining somewhere! It's shining everywhere , it's just that you can't see it for the clouds . 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Thinking about car pictures, I came to the realisation that the fascia of the average car today would seem like something from Star Trek only a few years ago. Here's mine - an ordinary saloon with a bit of wood and leather yet it supposed to achieve 135mph and enclose driver and passengers in a cocoon of safety. Compare that to the Cortinas etc., of our youth! PS: I even know what some of the controls are supposed to do! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy2 Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Been all over the Greener Borough this morning looking for T9s and finding none... Had a great chance for 100 points when the local MP stepped off the kerb in front of me. Shows what a decent bloke I am that I only hesitated a millisecond before braking. Managed to persuade myself that a Greggs' sausage roll would make an excellent breakfast (it did) and bought a cast iron griddle pan in Sainsbury's sale. What an exciting day. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy2 Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Thinking about car pictures, I came to the realisation that the fascia of the average car today would seem like something from Star Trek only a few years ago. Here's mine - an ordinary saloon with a bit of wood and leather yet it supposed to achieve 135mph and enclose driver and passengers in a cocoon of safety. Compare that to the Cortinas etc., of our youth! PS: I even know what some of the controls are supposed to do! CarInt2.jpg I've got one of those! Auto, though. Your passenger likes it warm... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium AndyB Posted November 12, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 12, 2014 Thinking about car pictures, I came to the realisation that the fascia of the average car today would seem like something from Star Trek only a few years ago. Here's mine - an ordinary saloon with a bit of wood and leather yet it supposed to achieve 135mph and enclose driver and passengers in a cocoon of safety. Compare that to the Cortinas etc., of our youth! PS: I even know what some of the controls are supposed to do! CarInt2.jpg DD, the slot for the tape player is a bit on the thin side isn't it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted November 12, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 12, 2014 to use the words of Supertramp.."It's raining again..." never mind more modelling beckons.... Stay dry if you can.. Baz 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
station cat Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 It's shining everywhere , it's just that you can't see it for the clouds . That's not rain, it's liquid sunshine 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Suffering with a stinking cold. Dosing with alternate honey & lemon and Heidelbeere. I take a disabled friend shopping once a fortnight, using her blue badge and my yellow ones (although the latter are only valid if I'm in uniform). I usually finish my shopping first, put it in the Vectra, then return to do the heavy shopping and packing for Doreen (and a four pack of orange juice is heavy shopping). So one morning I'm accosted as I'm loading my shopping. Middle aged gent, maybe a year or two older than me, with a get up close and shout attitude. "Why am I in the blue badge zone? I look perfectly fit and healthy! Go and park with the riff-raff." So I point out very gently that I have a severe personality disorder and can become violent if provoked. Gent is backing off fast whilst clenching his buttocks. Bill 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 (edited) Think I'd rather have the Bantam, as long as it wasn't a really early one! The British bike industry has dragged itself back though....... P1040181 (Medium).JPG I think that's about the only bike I can identify (touch wood... I'll probably get it wrong!). I think that's a Triumph Bonneville T100 - the only motorbike I'd ever think of getting. It looks beautiful! I'm not allowed a motorbike though. I'm 37 and still banned from riding a motorbike by my Mum. Beyond the Hump here, as I'm only working a 4 day week this week. The British-Irish Council fok should be arriving shortly - meeting them at 12 for a Parliament tour, then off to some projects around Edinburgh, followed by Indian tapas tonight. Bang goes the diet... Edited November 12, 2014 by sixoh8sixoh 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 AndyB, on 12 Nov 2014 - 10:37, said:DD, the slot for the tape player is a bit on the thin side isn't it? For sure. Never get an 8-track into that silly little slot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted November 12, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 12, 2014 Morning all, Bright sunshine earlier - must have lasted nearly 10 minutes, now it's liquid sunshine time. Otherwise fairly quiet although just had a long 'phone discussion about various 'heritage' railways which has definitely decided me not to travel on a couple of them. And DD your car looks even more complicated than mine - and i can't understand some of that although I do really, really like the moving map display on mine (but not the daft woman who issues satnav instructions). Have a good day folks. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted November 12, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 12, 2014 And DD your car looks even more complicated than mine - and i can't understand some of that although I do really, really like the moving map display on mine (but not the daft woman who issues satnav instructions). Have a good day folks. I would really like an AndyC voiced sat nav system installed on my sister's car. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 ...Which would no doubt account for all these cars with mobility badges whose drivers seem to leap out and rush into the shops. I had the unoffical police feel my collar for this in Tesco's car park recently. (Whatever Tesco's other faults they are a country mile ahead of all the competitors in our area for having the disabled spaces both optimally positioned and in large quantity.) I asked her to wait while I loaded the shopping of both the parties using the car so that the in-laws with my wife assisting could slowly move into view. I could tell she wasn't impressed, as neither was in a wheelchair, and you cannot see 'partially sighted'... ... I even know what some of the controls are supposed to do! Having recently changed from a 17 YO car, the Star Trek display of the replacement vehicle came as a surprise. Madam went to swat a fly while in queue, and got the most bewildering display of lights. It took half the evening with the manual to get it reset to default. Oh for a CV8, enter 8, option... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Happy Hippo, on 12 Nov 2014 - 11:09, said:I would really like an AndyC voiced sat nav system installed on my sister's car. "I said turn left you dozy moo" "no you assclown the other left" "in 200 yards there are c*ckotters on the road" "speed camera ahead, no you don't need to apply fresh lippy, dumbass". This could be fun. I've always wanted the voice plugin for Brian Blessed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy2 Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 We used to have a Garmin satnav, and the voice was quite Estuary, and the attempts at French were pitiable. Now we have the built-in Volvo. Much more middle-class, carefully enunciated and just a frisson of Miss Whiplash... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Our car has a road atlas in the glove compartment. But I do have a Satmap for my bike (cycle)! John 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Wrt post #76985, I use a map. Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Before mobile 'phones I think maps were a significant cause of accidents. However, in my last car, the SatNav tried to kill me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 bbishop, on 12 Nov 2014 - 11:40, said: Wrt post #76985, I use a map. Bill Images of Bill on his bicycle cruising at warp 9 down Lee high road with an A1 sized ordinance survey map plastered to his face from the wind. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 (edited) Thinking about car pictures, I came to the realisation that the fascia of the average car today would seem like something from Star Trek only a few years ago. Here's mine - an ordinary saloon with a bit of wood and leather yet it supposed to achieve 135mph and enclose driver and passengers in a cocoon of safety. Compare that to the Cortinas etc., of our youth! PS: I even know what some of the controls are supposed to do! Looks like GM standard grey plastic to me....... I like the fact that my phone can do Sat Nav for walkers - you can die out here if you get lost. Best, Pete. Edited November 12, 2014 by trisonic 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted November 12, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 12, 2014 Aditi's Fiesta doesn't have a built in sat-nav but it does talk when you are setting some things up. My car has some interesting buttons and switches. The best one is the terrain control. I haven't needed to turn it to the setting that has a cactus symbol. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jock67B Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 I hate to think what the advance rental would be on that.. Mick, You can always check on line at the Motability web-site. It doesn't do to assume though as it doesn't have the usual Motability tax-disc holder. Lots of people comply with the 'blue badge' requirements but still own the car! I speak from experience because I am one! Having been a Motability specialist for well over thirty years, I fell foul of the rule that states you must be under sixty-five when you first join the scheme (you can then stay on it for the rest of your life!) and I wasn't taken ill until I was sixty-six! Debs is right about how lucky Len is not to have an Invacar (they haven't been supplied for years now in any case). I remember Graham Hill road-testing one on TV and even a world champion couldn't handle it so what chance did a heavily disabled person have? They were terribly light and there were incidences when they blew over on to the side with the single opening door leaving the driver trapped until someone kind enough came along to right it! Sad for any motorcycle fan as the 'Greeves' motorcycle company of Thundersley in Essex made them. Despite their reputation for winning 'Trials' and 'Scrambles' bikes, the Invacar was a crock of.............(fit your own word as appropriate!) Kind regards, Jock. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 The best one is the terrain control. I haven't needed to turn it to the setting that has a cactus symbol. That’s the setting for Frinton, surely? Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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