Alcazar
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[quote user="Cassis"][quote user="Alcazar"]
I've recently "had" to take up reading "The Sun", ( well, it's MADE of paper.....), which my eldest gets from someone he works with. Reason? Our local pubquiz now has 5 questions set on "current affairs", which we stupidly thought would be BBC newsworthy[:$] Instead, they are all about Colleen, Wayne, Posh, David, and ENDLESS soap "stars" and all their doings. Yawn.[/quote]
C'mon - you love it really, don't you?[:)]
[/quote]Yeah, it's a bit softer than what I normally use............oops, giving away secrets again[;-)]
To get back on topic: I REALLY REALLY wish Zizou WOULD enter politics. I'd give quite a lot to see him head butt Tony Blair like that! Hee hee hee![:P]
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OK, so we've established both of your Italian credentials.
Can we go back to English now, please?[:D]
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I'm just happy not to have to wake wife up to pay........or for me to have to run round the car when she won't stir!
Oh, and I LOVE the looks on the French driver's faces when they warn me NOT to use the telepeage lane, then realise I've got one[:D]
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[quote user="SusanAH"]
The red card wasjustified for Zizou, but I'd love to know what Materazzi said to him to provoke the head butt! What a shame he is retiring, he is such a magical player.
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From the close up BEFORE the red card, it appeared that Materazzi tweaked Zizou's nipple, quite painful, and then goaded him.
Not justifying the response, but there you go. Modern footy. Been going on for years. anyone else remember the infamous shot of Vinnie Jones grabbing and twisting Paul Gascoigne's testicles during a match? And then we wonder why our kids resort to cheating to win.
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Here's my three penn'orth FWIW, (replies to 3 different problems).
Val2 : I'd supect a loose, corroded, or both battery connection. The reversion to previous data on the computer poits to a complete failure of electrical supply. I'd be inclined to tighten battery + and - before trying a garagiste[;-)]
Russethouse: if you didn't experience any obvious electrical failure, then I'd suspect EITHER the aircon pulling the engine revs low, OR fuel surge/drain caused by cornering with a low fuel level. It CAN move enough to allow the pump to suck air! The tank OUGHT to be baffled, but my Xantia isn't.
Poppy: Yours sound like the battery fluid level got too low. I once heard one explode on a taxi in the rank behind me, back in my moonlighting minicab days. It had not been topped up for a while, and went with an enormous bang, and yes, VERY concentrated sulphuric acid was everywhere when we opened the bonnet. ALL car/caravan batteries need distilled water occasionally, unless FULLY sealed, ie: NO visible method of opening them, or unless marked "Do not open", or similar. (They shouldn't, but with short journeys, ad hot wether, better sfae than sorry. it takes less than 30 seconds to check). Very few are made like that.
They explode because modern cars need a HUGE current to turn the starter, especially diesels. This can be in the order of 500Amps or more, briefly, and causes the battery to get very hot, especially if the fluid level is too low, as only that part of the plates actaully IN the electrolyte, can carry the current. It's a bit like having too thin a wire carrying your current........a big no-no.
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............what were you thinking?
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I, too, would welcome an explanation of "voltage driven" and "Current driven", since I have NEVER come across EITHER in 30 years of, admittedly, amateur wiring, and a degree in Physics.
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[quote user="Loiseau"][quote user="Markw"]
... turned out I could leave it in the glove box on my dashboard and worked just as well....[/quote]
That's interesting.
Someone did tell me that when not using mine (i.e. between trips) I should keep it in its double layer of silvery packaging. He said that if I ever had it with me in a bag in somebody else's vehicle it would clock up the tolls even if the other person was paying by some other method. So don't throw that packaging away!Angela
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Absolutely! It even says so on the silver packaging.
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[quote user="montagrier"]Nice guess.... but no I dont want to build one... but I want to know someone who wants to build one...
cheers anyway for your interesting info... I was hoping around a 12" gauge-ish
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[/quote]There used to be a beauty near to Skegness where the old GNR London-Louth-Cleethorpes line crossed the main road into Skeggy. Bloke had bought the old goods shed, built on the land, and turned the goods shed into a pretty good museum too. The Railway was about 12" to 18" gauge, diesel powered and ran around his garden, even crossing a lovely home made stream on a small girder bridge.
Last time I visited Skeggy, I went. It was closed. Locals told me the bloke's wife died of cancer or something else awful, and he moved abroad.[:(]
If you live anywhere near south 87, let me know. I'll come and labour for you while we build one in your garden[:D]
If you live anywhere near Provence, have a ride on the metre gauge Chemin de Fer de la Provence. I'd suggest Nice to Lingostiere for a start. The main shed and "works" is at Lingostiere. The journey through the streets of Nice, then the climb up and out, has to be seen to be believed.
Alcazar, (interested in railways, from 2mm scale upwards).
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You want to build one, right?
I'm no expert, but a Discovery Channel series touched on them albeit briefly, there are a few more in the UK than you'd think, apparenly, many, very privately owned and run.
A bloke I worked with once built a 7" gauge model of a diesel shunter, (BR class 08). It ran off three Vauxhall Nova windscreen wiper motors, and three large batteries in parallel. It was used to give rides at a local park on their track, and certainly was strong enough to pull two "trucks" with about ten people sitting astride. The charge lasted most of the day.
He was building a live steam model of a "Black 5" in the same scale, last time I saw him, about 4 years ago.
Have you tried a Google search? Suppliers must advertise somewhere, and I bet most now have websites..............even the French have those now[;-)]
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I'm sorry to disagree, but I believe that you CAN'T make connections at an existing socket, only at a "boite de derivation" or junction box.
That's certainly how it's shown in my books, and how I've done it in my barn area, which is the only bit I've rewired so far as regards sockets.
I wait to be corrected by one of the real experts on here...........
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[quote user="Cassis"]So you don't want me to put aside for you any more that I turn up while digging?[:)]
[/quote]Yes please.......you save them, I'll collect them on February 30th next year[:D]
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They only have shrapnel balls, empty cartridge cases, fired bullets, the ends of a webbing belt, the bottom of a small shell case, minus the firing cap, etc. Some were given to them by a gardener at a WW1 cemetery we visited, north-west of Lille, after it had been vandalised by French schoolchildren.
You can buy similar stuff on many markets in the UK. No way would I sanction DIGGING for stuff: let the farmers turn it up, and have a look on the edge of fields after the plough, or harrow has been over it. A French friend has a complete German rifle he found near his home, near Lille, just lying on top of a field. No wood left, mind, but otherwise complete, just a bit bent.
He's also a memeber of a society that does archeological digs from crashed WW2 aircraft, keeps sending me photos of a "bit" and I'm supposed to say what I think it is.
Shells and stuff? forget it.
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I reckon he will but more on the charity side of things, promoting sport, kids, ethnic minorities, inner city youth and all of that. He is a good guy and certainly have not heard or read miles of gossip column like you would read of Beckam or Rooney!...
[/quote]I must read the wrong papers - Wayne's girlfriend, Colleen, yes, we hear plenty about her, but not so much of Wayne.
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Nah..........you're just reading the wrong PAGES of the papers[:D]
I've recently "had" to take up reading "The Sun", ( well, it's MADE of paper.....), which my eldest gets from someone he works with. Reason? Our local pubquiz now has 5 questions set on "current affairs", which we stupidly thought would be BBC newsworthy[:$] Instead, they are all about Colleen, Wayne, Posh, David, and ENDLESS soap "stars" and all their doings. Yawn.
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Yes, I've read it. I've read most of the stuff about the Somme that was around when the 80th anniversary fell, as I was off work for some time, and that's why I happened to see the ceremony on July 1st at 0730 on TV.
It moved me to go to the local library, and after a while I even got them to order in books they didn't have altready. They DIDN'T have a copy of "Before Endeavours Fade", but they do now![;-)]
I wonder if the work being done at "High Wood" is anything to do with the final removal of ammunition? I'd read somewhere that the site was just left after the war, and it grew up again around no end of stuff. Could be a modern myth though? Could also be a ploy for privacy of the family who own it now!
I remember taking my kids to the Lochnagar crater, and them wanting to go down into it. I was agreeable, since a photo would then have them on for scale.
My eldest, then about 12, announced that he would find a "bullet" while he was down there. I pointed out that it was a very touristy place, and 80 years on, etc etc, so don't be too sure you'll find anything.
Lo and behold, he came back with a .303 cartridge case! The pair of them now have loads of souvenirs.
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Keira: 1991 IS recent[:)] I'd assumed, on reading her book that she was an old lady by the end of WW2, don't know why.
Anyway, point taken. Interesting about where her ashes are, and the naming of the path, though. Thanks for that.
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Yes, I have that one too. Did you know that Rose Coombs only died recently, and chose the title of her book, "Before Endeavours Fade" to have the same initials as the British Expeditionary Force" that fought at Mons?
Apparently, "The First day of the Somme" by Martin Middlebrook, is also reckoned to be good. I haven't read it yet, it's always out at our library[:(]
Anyone else visted "High Wood", in the "horseshoe of woods"? Very moving. Could have been taken on the first day fo the battle. Troops who investigated it found the Germans had all gone, and asked permission, but were told to withdraw, and take it the next day.
The Germans came back in the night, and it took a further 12 weeks and 13,000 dead to take it.
Lions led by Donkeys............
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The only thing I was trying to get across, Dick, was that the French refused the Germans much land to bury their dead, (and could anyone blame them, at the time?), so their cemeteries contain many more actual bodies than ours, even if only in an ossuary.
There are very few Allied graves with more than one body in them........in German cemeteries, it's the norm.
Otherwise, not making any point, other than sadness forthose who fought for BOTH sides, as they were conned.......
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Such a waste of too many young lives.
Can't anyone tell the modern day politicians not to go to war? How come when a million marched on London, we still went to Iraq?
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It's just part of T.B Liar's "legacy" to us, his subjects.[:@]
Along with useless pensions, restrictive laws, a country practically run by the PC brigade, a crumbling NHS...........
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[quote user="Cassis"]Goolies or Goalies? Accidental in either case!
[/quote]Oops..........I "accidentally" typed a rsponse[:D]
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[quote user="Alane"]Has he perhaps put both appliances on the same 16A circuit? This would prevent you from using both at once.[/quote]
Exactly my thoughts, and AFAIK, it goes against French wiring regs. I'm pretty sure that my books say that each appliance like washer, dishwasher etc MUST have it's own dedicated socket, wiring and mcb.
My new box is designed with just that in mind
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For those of you with an interest, I can highly recommend "The Somme Battlefields: a comprehensive guide from Crecy to the two world wars", by Martin and Mary Middlebrook.
Very interesting, well written and icredibly well researched, with "then and now" photos, and a host of info that really makes you think.
I bought it just after I saw the 80th anniversary celebrations on TV here in the UK. Since then, I have visited many areas, and taken my sons to a few, instilling in them the same awe and respect for those who died, from both sides.
A very interesting visit is to a GERMAN first world war cemetery. There is one near Arras containing the BODIES of 70.000 men, not just names.
Put into perspectrive, the largest British WW1 cemetery is, I believe, at Tyne Cot in Belgium, and has nearly 12,000 graves.
It's very saddening to see how dark, and triste the German cemeteries are, with 4 or 5 names on each marker. The French, probably rightly, were unwilling to give the Germans much land to bury THEIR dead.
If you can, try and visit a small cemetery by moonlight, preferably one in the middle of fields...........talk about moving!
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Is the gas barbecue fed off a bottle via a flexible hose? If so, you can swop bottles and regulators for a French one quite easily, even if you have to CUT the4 old one off. Fit the new one with a good Jubilee type clip, available from French DIY stores, and away you go.
Dunno about Patio heaters though.......
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Didn't Eric Cantona have one or two film appearances when he retired, too?
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Yeah ! Let them enjoy ! C'est charmant [;-)]
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Nein! Ich verstehe nichts was sie sagen![:(]
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