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gremlin wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 11:44 am Booked some bucket-shop flights with the most bucket-shop of bucket-shop airlines: VietJet!
Check out their awful website: https://www.vietjetair.com/en

That said, £38 from Phu Quoc to Saigon is too good a price to turn down. What do you mean 'tight bastard'? I paid the extra £6.61 for a checked bag plus the £1.05 to pick where we sit.

Saigon / Ho Cho Mhin City is a great place. I loved Vietnam and its people

KungFooBob wrote: Sat Sep 21, 2024 3:33 pm Adopted another cat.

https://www.rspca.org.uk/findapet/searc ... vFnFM8jz4w

Collect him on Friday

I thought cats adopted hoomans.

Skub wrote: Sat Sep 21, 2024 8:16 pm

KungFooBob wrote: Sat Sep 21, 2024 3:33 pm Adopted another cat.

https://www.rspca.org.uk/findapet/searc ... vFnFM8jz4w

Collect him on Friday

I thought cats adopted hoomans.

We're owned by two who just turned up and decided to stay.

Took the truck for a bimble to make sure all was good after the leak fix...



Pic is at the local airfield which looks like Vietnam right now with all the fire fighting helicopters out there. 2 Chinooks, 2 CH54 Skycranes, at least 4 Hueys, 1 S61 (civvy version of a SeaKing). Also 4 BAe 146's & 2 CL 415 Super Scoopers.

Turned bits of railway off for engineering work, refused to turn other bits off due to poor equipment reliability and left bits switched off after they tripped (staff have attended and looks like a big repair as a pin has broken and dropped into the bowels of the circuit breaker (it’s a circuit breaker the size of a V8 engine block) so major surgery to get at and then replace).

Sadlonelygit wrote: Sat Sep 21, 2024 1:59 pm Played with an outboard motor today.
Never laid spanners on one before!
Mental note, don't engage gear when the prop is in a bucket of water.
Just off to the shops for a new bucket.

Mental note 2:
Put in bucket AFTER removing prop.

Not as much as I'd planned having battled most of the day with old tech that is tired, not maintained and won't do what I want it to do!! Have to call a friend tomorrow to see if I can stop by and get an 'update' done, but it's basically it's probably too late for what I wanted. Never mind


But, I do now know that my accent when speaking French is not nearly as good as I'd hoped (although mostly on words I don't use day to day, so maybe it's not that bad )

And I've remembered more of the stuff I need to remember than I expected.

BUT, yesterday I did my first pass on a mock test of the highway code - today I failed badly FFS


No bacon or sausages to hand so I had lardons, black pud, egg and avocado on homemade bread for brunch.


Totally fed up with tech. and annoyed that I can't pass the bloody highway code

Set up my new Ultra Hd 4k tv. I'm now watching the 1946 black and white Hitchcock film, Notorious!

Been in my first proper earthquake. I’ve experienced tremors before, but nothing like this. Sat on the hotel terrace having breakfast and a loud noise which we thought at first was a plane. The whole terrace started moving from side to side.

It took us a few seconds to work out what was happening, then the staff started screaming and running for the hotel lobby (prob wise as the hotel is perched on the side of a hill).

The shaking probably lasted about 30 seconds. Finished breakfast. Once the staff had settled they all seemed fairly nonplussed.

A 4,7 apparently with the epicentre about 3km away from us.

wheelnut wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2024 4:21 pm Been in my first proper earthquake. I’ve experienced tremors before, but nothing like this. Sat on the hotel terrace having breakfast and a loud noise which we thought at first was a plane. The whole terrace started moving from side to side.

It took us a few seconds to work out what was happening, then the staff started screaming and running for the hotel lobby (prob wise as the hotel is perched on the side of a hill).

The shaking probably lasted about 30 seconds. Finished breakfast. Once the staff had settled they all seemed fairly nonplussed.

A 4,7 apparently with the epicentre about 3km away from us.

I was nearby for (and woken up by!) the Market Rasen earthquake in 2008. It was the sound more than anything which struck me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mark ... prov=sfla1

*waits for ZX81 to turn up*

wheelnut wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2024 4:21 pm A 4,7 apparently with the epicentre about 3km away from us.

Meh

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes ... ,181.05469

Sadlonelygit wrote: Sat Sep 21, 2024 1:59 pm Played with an outboard motor today.
Never laid spanners on one before!
Mental note, don't engage gear when the prop is in a bucket of water.
Just off to the shops for a new bucket.

Wheelie bins are great for outboard motor stuff, hang it on the side and fill with water.
Mick

Today I have mostly got very very wet. The rain has followed me around wherever I am on the motorway. By the time I got my wet gear on it was too late!!
Soggy pants!!

wheelnut wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2024 4:21 pm Been in my first proper earthquake. I’ve experienced tremors before, but nothing like this. Sat on the hotel terrace having breakfast and a loud noise which we thought at first was a plane. The whole terrace started moving from side to side.

It took us a few seconds to work out what was happening, then the staff started screaming and running for the hotel lobby (prob wise as the hotel is perched on the side of a hill).

The shaking probably lasted about 30 seconds. Finished breakfast. Once the staff had settled they all seemed fairly nonplussed.

A 4,7 apparently with the epicentre about 3km away from us.

Where are you?

636mick wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2024 5:34 pm

Sadlonelygit wrote: Sat Sep 21, 2024 1:59 pm Played with an outboard motor today.
Never laid spanners on one before!
Mental note, don't engage gear when the prop is in a bucket of water.
Just off to the shops for a new bucket.

Wheelie bins are great for outboard motor stuff, hang it on the side and fill with water.
Mick

Don't get wheelie bins here!
Or dustbins!

Tbh, if the kill switch lanyard had been routed better, it wouldn't have popped into gear either!

Some of the very small ones, 2hp, are direct drive. You swivel the whole thing through 180 degree to go the other way.

cheb wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2024 7:17 pm You swivel the whole thing through 180 degree to go the other way.

I find most motorbikes are the same.

cheb wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2024 7:17 pm Some of the very small ones, 2hp, are direct drive. You swivel the whole thing through 180 degree to go the other way.

This is 3.5hp, and that is exactly how reverse is selected!

Taipan wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2024 6:53 pm

wheelnut wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2024 4:21 pm Been in my first proper earthquake. I’ve experienced tremors before, but nothing like this. Sat on the hotel terrace having breakfast and a loud noise which we thought at first was a plane. The whole terrace started moving from side to side.

It took us a few seconds to work out what was happening, then the staff started screaming and running for the hotel lobby (prob wise as the hotel is perched on the side of a hill).

The shaking probably lasted about 30 seconds. Finished breakfast. Once the staff had settled they all seemed fairly nonplussed.

A 4,7 apparently with the epicentre about 3km away from us.

Where are you?

Sorry, Ubud in Bali.

Took the F350 up to Tehachapi to grab lunch. Passed an ambulance hauling ass in the opposite direction and than came upon a car/bike wreck with CHP & FD in attendance. Bike was missing a saddle bag, car was missing the front/left corner.











Then on the way home a while later came across the car parked behind a roll-back a few miles from the wreck location. Guess he tried to drive home & then realized that wasn't going to work...