CMB

all i'll say is the woman who lives in the house behind my place in liverpool needs to invest in some blinds!

Ooh tell all!

i once threw my mates jack russell into his swimming pool, the dog sank.

:laugh: :laugh: I bet he was over the moon!

I know that feeling well Alex... I've lost nearly all my original tools I has when I was an apprentice  :'(

Well....let's just hope they're in a better place

Raising a water trough in the cow barn, multiple sheep and lamb feeds, cleaning another drain of silt and scraping old silage feed off a paddock.

Got my new truck, Mitsubishi L200 Barbarian, absolutely thrilled to bits with it so far.

No turbo?

Yep that's it    maybe it's a Scottish term I'm not entirely sure  \ , just for your interest here's what we call the bruiser.......

Thanks, I've not seen many of these in the flesh.

well a good few gaybeons filled with natural stone and held in place with a good few platapus anckers

Come again?

How old is the property then, Chris?

Late Victorian semi-detached Tris with an extension built in the 1980s.

Will insurance cover this or could it be taken back to the developers?

No idea but hopefully insurance will cover it.

As long as Britains keep making them with a black chassis we're alright

That's a point, when are the up-to-date grey ones coming out, I thought the black chassis 7480 were going to be phased out? Oh yes we're talking Britains here..

O ER that could be expensive cmb

new retaining wall requiered

Yes Steve the house will probably need its foundations properly shored and drainage put in the wall. It's been on the cards for a year or so but previous engineers/surveyors have been most unhelpful and the weather beat us to it.

Great idea!

BOTH laptops not working correctly leading to what shoud have taken 5 minutes taking over an hour! It didn't help that the puppy chewed through one of the cables.

Oh and this happened, we think, early Friday morning:

Other cracks have widened and with any more deluges it's just a matter of time before more of the garden goes downhill.. Surveyor coming to look at it on Monday

I'm not familiar with this term 'bruising' of barley Martin, does that just mean crushing grain to feed cattle (ease of digestion and all that?) Thanks

Loads today, mostly involving chasing and shouting at sheep but culminating in pushing a sheep feeder down and then up a mountain, and no surprise, I'm k-nackered

Helping out TB/pregnancy testing

So what are you doing with the broken pick-up now Chris

It's probably going for scrap/parts. Parts have been traced for it but I'm told they are prohibitively expensive to replace. I'm just waiting for the paperwork from the Total Loss people, and eventually I suppose look for a new set of wheels . For now, unless the insurers provide me with a new courtesy car I'm stuck with a broken pickup to drive. This is a new situation for me Bill, I'm just feeling my way through it.

Over to Wotton Bassett and back to swap the Micra for the broken pickup.

just had to go and pick my 89year old grandpa off the floor, he collapsed trying to go to the bathroom....he's got norovirus as of 3am!

that was rather traumatic..... beginning of the end? quite possibly... \

now sipping Justerini & Brooks Special Reserve Cognac, only £300 a bottle... dad's going to go spare! 

I think you deserve it after that diagnosis Alex \

The first one looks like a barn I sometimes clean, complete with a floor covered in chippings + horses & ponies 

Work as per normal ..then  I collected my Notebook computer from my folks since it was not collected by (lets say by an un-named courier).

Anyway once I got home the notebook did not fire up....but after going through the previous Costco Helpline Service it did......anyway now I'm live ....I plan not to log off.....so if you see me on-line I'm not suffering from insominia ;D

But be careful Bill you might suffer Deep Vein Thrombosis if you go for a log-on record!

Retaining the Ashes and winning the 5 day series was a biggie for me  ;D

Bedding cows, feeding sheep, clearing drains

Quite pleasing down Southampton Docks when you see the amount of British built CAT, JCB, New Holland, Case, structural steelwork lined up on the quay waiting to go and grain ships awaiting thousands of tonnes of British grain.

Life in the old girl yet!

Though only 1 British-owned company among those makes

Multiple organ failure   That's an alarming read Rick, I echo other's sentiments in hoping for a fast and full recovery.

Can you take the payout and source the parts yourself, Chris? I find that hard to believe too.

I've already resigned myself to this Tris. The bloke at Autocolour said the only other single cab examples he could find were at  at Mitsu dealer in Kent (2 of a similar vintage but complete and for sale). Cotswold Vans where I bought it might have a better idea and i suppose there's the L200 forum (though it's really a club for the owners of flashier 4Lifes, Warriors, Animals, Barbarians, etc).

My model is shaped differently to the bulkier 4wd's and it seems you can't interchange parts with any old L200 :'(

On a plus note he said I could get pretty much its full value back, but it would mean the whole kerfuffle of finding a replacement.

All this for a little knock on the ice!