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39TDS

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  1. It is likely to be a devious plan by somebody as everyone keeps insisting we are not actually short of fuel if everyone behaved as usual. For some reason a couple of stations were short and it got reported as a fuel crisis, we now have a fuel crisis. Top of my list is big business wanting a return to access to foreign labour in order to keep UK wage levels down. Second is Stanlow refinery trying to worm out its £250m tax bill by copying the CF fertilser (next door but one down the road) tactic of creating a shortage (CO2) so the Government will bail them out in some way Thirdly a foreign power poo stirring by encouraging the media to cause panic buying, that could be France over the sub deal or Russia/China just for a laugh. It does show just how easy it is to do, much easier to get a reaction than gluing yourself to a motorway.
  2. When I did my HGV I went on an assessment to see if I needed the 5 day or the 10 day course. The assessment entailed driving a Transit minibus around town and based on that I was deemed to need the 5 day course. (this was for a class 1/artic license). I did tell them I drove a |transit every day and it was hardly an indication of how good I might be in an artic but there you go. I failed, did the next 5 days and passed. I also drove a 7.5 Bedford TK regularly prior to my test, no different to a Transit. After that the biggest I have driven is 13 ton curtain sider, a bit bigger than a 7.5 ton but not a lot different. Haven't driven an artic since passing my test which was 35 ish years ago and not likely to start now.
  3. Poor old Mum was in hospital last week, had a heart attack while in there (which they caused but that's a different story) and was also diagnosed with bone cancer. Only thing she moaned about was when she **** up and tried cleaning her teeth with Germoline.
  4. Apologies if it is a daft question but what is the purpose of the card in the first place? Never really understood why they send me one every year and usually they are still stuck to the letter stuffed in a drawer somewhere by time the next one comes. Do you have to show them on shoots or something?
  5. That sounds exactly the same as the first (and last) time I went into my local dealer. Talking nonsense to someone about an air rifle they weren't ever going to buy while keeping me waiting an unreasonable amount of time over a £400 sale of something he promised to have over the phone but in reality hadn't nor was ever likely to. Idiot
  6. Wiper motors use a lot of power, the size of the panels needed are likely to be as much of an obstacle as the weight of the battery. Solar panels are much more fragile than batteries so traipsing across a field with one is likely to end up with a damaged panel.
  7. Mum can't get up the stairs any more so wants an armchair that turns into a bed. A bit like a sofa bed only narrower, one that is either a bed or an armchair. Not one that just reclines or tilts to various angles just one that is either a bed or a chair. Also needs to be motorised as she won't be able to physically fold it up, a press a button version. I have seen the sofa sized ones but are any of you lovely people able to point me in the right direction?
  8. I have read somewhere he said he was the only passenger on the plane and then talks about the vet ( I assumed that was veterinarian rather than veteran) that was on the plane with him and the animals.
  9. The stats would suddenly get a lot worse if they did.
  10. 39TDS

    Geronimo.

    More like the 4 year legal battle with various appeals.
  11. 39TDS

    Geronimo.

    It wasn't out of the way though, the below is a pic of Geronimo being kept in isolation. For those that don't know, this is not isolation as the animals can touch each other and transmit TB. There is no legal requirement to test alpacas so the rest probably are not tested and are also probably infected (imo)
  12. 25 year old neighbour of mine recently had blood clots on the lung. Completely floored him, in fact he had to have an ambulance to him as he had collapsed and spent a couple of days in hospital. Even weeks later you would think he smoked 40 a day and had just run up Snowden the way he weezed and gasped for breath. Fit young lad, doesn't smoke, don't think he drinks excessively (definitely not as much as I do anyway), very active (he had just re roofed his house by himself). Hadn't had the jab at the time and hasn't had covid, tested very regularly for his job. It may well turn out that the jab does increase risks but those risks can be there already.
  13. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-58370218 Foreign Affairs Select Committee chair Tom Tugendhat said: "The difficulty is getting people into and out of the airport and we've just used a lot of troops to bring in 200 dogs, meanwhile my interpreter's family are likely to be killed. "As one interpreter asked me a few days ago 'why is my five-year-old worth less than your dog?'," the Conservative MP added.
  14. Fairly confident it is an Elephant Hawk Moth. Found a caterpillar here last week. My missus is terrified of moths, fortunately she wasn't in the kitchen a month or so ago when a massive bright pink moth flew in and was trying to get in the fly zapper.
  15. https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000606000740/Civilians-Were-Allegedly-Sh-Killed-by-US-Frces-Dring-Kabl-Airpr
  16. If the company had a rateable property, mine doesn't. As far as I could ever find out there was no help for me or my company whatsoever (apart from a low interest "bounceback" loan). All these loans, grants, furlough etc will have to be paid back, Can I just ask that the recipients pay rather than everyone. Fat chance of that of course but it would be fairer.
  17. And the small limited companies got nothing. My trade is in to pubs and restaurants etc and as they were shut I had no trade. Small limited company? No, sorry but you get absolutely nothing.
  18. I get banned from going to the skips at every visit for responding to these idiots.
  19. This needs emphasising. If you are used to using those old style connector blocks it is very tempting to put two different colours into the two holes on a Wago.
  20. My Three 4G started off fairly good, about 10 meg which as I am in a rural area is not bad at all. From there on in it gradually got worse and worse and very often it could be half of the day where there was no internet at all and dropouts every 5 minutes were far from unusual. This was over the course of 18 months and was I glad to be at the end of that 24 month contract. In the last 3 months I gave up and put a GiffGaff sim in even though I still paid for Three. The internet service to rural areas in this country is a joke. One of the richest nations on Earth and anything more than 5 miles from a city there's no internet, my landline is so bad that I have no internet, my neighbours brag about their 1meg download which is about as useful as dial up. Not a cat in hells chance of fibre, no reliable 4G from any provider. Most PC utilities require cloud backup, how do you do that with no internet. Lack of internet is one of the most miserable things, and if that is the case I should be grateful.
  21. Mine did it when I filled it right up once. Just ignore it or cancel the warning and it will go away. There's not really anything wrong. Had the same on a lot of tractors with the fuel, I think once you fill past the max of the sender it confuses it and says it is low. As you use it the level drops below the senders max and it is happy again. If you are really worried (and there is no reason why you should be) you could syphon some out and see what happens. I don't recommend doing so as chances are you will get contaminates in the tank somehow.
  22. Or he could just be bluffing to protect his cover.
  23. Parsnip? Certainly scalds pigs. Car batteries cause lead poisoning rather than acid burns, quite common actually and would expect the vet to have ruled that one out.
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