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Drove into town a few days ago and noticed local triumph dealership was deserted .Usually at least a dozen bikes outside, now place deserted not even a table or chair left in the spacious offices and showroom. Appears the whole group, A triumph dealers a Honda one and a Ducati one all within a few miles of each other and run by the same family have gone under overnight. Been there for years. Must be a major downturn in sales! Shame.

I am so glad that Trump has won. Mainly, as I remember, a couple of months ago him saying that if he did get in he would end the war in the Ukraine in twenty four hours! I wait with bated breath!

Ours already is flooded. Took my wife a month or so ago and had a 13 hour wait overnight At 88 years old the wait almost killed her.

There just are no words! I need to see a doctor so call at the surgery yesterday, There are two different surgeries to this practice. Sorry no available appointments at either surgery for over a week. BUT if you care to phone in tomorrow at 8am there might just be a chance to get you in. So 8 on the dot I phone in. Automated voice tells me sorry but phone line waiting list full and no more appointments available today. OK I will have to go for a spot in a weeks time so give it an hour and phone again. Need an appointment please, yes sir we have several spots available today does 12.30 sound OK?. I do believe the American saying "cockamamie" sounds about right. But I get to see the doc!

Fine if you do see the stopped car in front of you, but how do you get into the next lane, by now you have slowed and the packed motorway is doing 70 plus?. I see in my travels that the whole of the M1 is to be smart. Roadworks are building extra laybys So make sure if you do breakdown its near one!😄

It creeps up on you and I would be all for a short test, I am sure it would not take long for a trained tester to decide if you are safe or not and an eyesight test should be compulsory. My neighbour drove for years with very poor eyesight, scared to go for an eye test as he knew the optician would insist he gave up his licence until he got his cataracts done. Which he now has. I am 88 by the way, my eyes are very near perfect and my sons feel safe when in the car.

That scene looked so realistic to me, "and I spent a lot of time at sea" that I was sure that it could only have been real. I was amazes to discover it was shot in a big tank in a studio. Best film ever.

Sorry but I just don't have the words.

Ammonia works on the tannin so any wood with tannin will darken.

That looks like a very nice STANDARD been re finished I think mine is original.

I am a founder member of the Melbourne marksmen bell target club in Melbourne Derbys. It is their annual fayre this Sunday in the village hall DE73 8GJ Kickoff at 10am At a guess I would think you will see at least 25/30 Vintage BSA rifles for sale every marque and style, also experts to chat to. Well worth a visit if you are not too far away. I own a LIGHT PATTERN in 177 quite powerful and super accurate, was made in 1921. Today it would fetch £200

Hi I read that oak is the best wood to darken eventually going black. Do try to get some 30% Ammonia but keep nose and eyes well away from it.😁

Nope just suspend item in a container with saucer of Ammonia.

Hi has anyone tried Ammonia fuming a Walnut gunstock to bring out the grain and darken the wood.? I have done this several times with good results. Here is my latest efforts. A recently bought Webley MK3 Which appears to have hardly been used had a horrible brown stock so I decided to strip it and see if I could improve it. Ammonia fumes have the effect of darkening the tannin in wood. This tannin is not evenly distributed in the wood and the darker bits have lots, so go darker. Beech does not go much darker but Walnut is ideal. Ammonia in concentrated form is difficult to buy now so the weaker household strength has to be used 10% which takes several days instead of hours. First photo is gun stripped and sanded to 600 grit. Some decent grain can be seen. later photos are stock fumed for several days and now finished with Napier London gunstock finish to just below shiny. Thanks for looking.

This. Stuck the sole of a shoe back on with this. Still on after two years.