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Your comment about Mercedes got me thinking about vehicles especially quality and reliability. I agree with you about reliability, Range Rover here has a terrible reputation for reliability, mainly electrical and electronics. It is a different story when you look at the number of recalls each brand has had. Since 1986 Land Rover have had 105 recall notices issued and Mercedes has had 256. I know that many recalls are instigated as a result of supplier issues (e.g. Takata Air Bags) but a lot of recalls are a result of assembly plant issues. Interestingly Rolls Royce have had 12 recall

Having spent the last years of my working life alternating between inside the public service and in the private sector her in South Australia I feel that I must comment on this post. In my time in the public service there was serious knowledge and deep expertise in the department I worked in. Admittedly there were some "time servers" too that should have been weeded out years ago but at the time tenure prevented that. What went wrong with the public service was its' politicisation when heads of department were appointed on their allegiance to the governing political party not on the capac

nonnaB, that's a very good point and to be honest I did not look at the packaging to see if it was wholemeal or not. I did notice that the biscuits seemed to be larger than "normal" and that as they were put in the biscuit tin seemed to break more easily. I'll certainly remember to have a close look next time, thanks Oz

32 Years ago, where did that time go, RIP for so many lives taken for just attending a game of football and no doubt led to the all seating stadiums we have today. Many years ago when as a youth in the Trent End was lifted off my feet by the surge of fans and shifted forward towards the goals. I wonder how many were bruised or hurt by those crush barriers that were installed at regular intervals on the terraces. As I grew older and wiser I transferred my viewpoint to the 18 yard line towards the Trent end in the old east stand and always took care to stand on the downhill side of a crush

Brilliant stuff Beekay, up there with you best ever postings. Some memories in the slide show too. Can you find any more? I can only see one other track on YT it's a good 'un too.

Yes I welded the rear outriggers on mine too. Could never get on top of the rust near the bonnet latches but for some strange reason it never had any rust in the sills. Changing the Hardy Spicer universal joints on the rear end was a bit of a bu**er due to the transverse leaf spring set up. It was a very reliable car and only had to replace general wear and tear items but always carried hoses, fan belt, plug leads and points in the boot. It was Dolphin grey 1966 model

No 175g bag for party nibbles etc, single packs are typically 25g

Just sat down for my mid morning cuppa and a couple of my favourite biscuits. McVities Digestives, imported from the UK as the local equivalents are nowhere near as nice. Just had my first bite and ugh! They did not have the normal snap and crumble they usually had and were more chewy in texture. Not pleasant at all, I checked the use by date and were well within that, the packaging looked OK as I thought they might be stale but that looked alright too. Have they changed the recipe? If so they have lost a loyal customer. On looking in the pantry to see if we had another packet, no such l

Back in the late 60's just after passing my test I went looking for a used car and had the choice of two, an A40 Farina and Triumph Herald. I chose the Triumph for the ease of working on the engine, just pivoted the whole of the front of the car forward and sat on the tyre to do most of the regular maintenance.

The vaccine roll out continues to go badly here in Australia. Our incompetant, bumbling clown of a leader Scott Morrison has put the national cabinet, a group comprising of the premiers of each state and territory, on a "war footing' and plans to meet twice a week to accelerate the roll out of vaccines. Many observers would say, quite rightly, that it is a cynical exercise in blame spreading. We have finally got the date for our first vaccine, still a month away and will be the AZ version.

Yes four valves per cylinder and only one camshaft operating all 16 valves. One lobe of the cam operated directly on the inlet valve via a "top hat" and the exhaust valve was operated by a rocker arm from the same lobe. Valve clearances were adjusted by shims. The design of the head won a British Design Council award obviously they had never had to adjust the valve clearances which was a bugger of a job.

I am using Google Chrome and it is only your photos that appear like this?

radfordred, this is typical of what I get when your posts contain images, any idea why?

Ben, that reminded me of this one

I do regularly especially when the clowns float their latest "brain fart" or continue to be incompetent as in our shambolic vaccine roll out. Recently our states' glorious leader floated the idea of a new sports stadium near to the city centre at a time when ambulances and their patients are being ramped because of limited ED capacity. Mental and aged health care support is broken along with many other public services and support programmes, The gap between have and have nots is growing ever wider and these buffoons come up with the idea of building a new sports stadium using public monie

Did you hear about the provision hand that sat on the bacon slicer? He got a little behind in his orders.

Hated those tinned products that you opened with the little key. After fifty years I have still got the scars on my thumb after attempting to open a can of corned beef at Golden Sands

The death of Prince Philip has just been announced. He visited Australia 21 times He certainly was a character and will certainly be missed May he rest in peace

Tinned stewed steak, Surprise peas and Deb mashed potatoes were the staple food when camping, hiking and climbing in the Peak or Lake Districts. Beer from any nearby or not so nearby pub provided the liquid refreshments.

Excellent food DJ360 often used to take them to work on the night shift in a special Thermos with a wide neck so you could get the sausages in and out. The brand Fray Bentos was named after the port in Uruguay where the products were packaged and shipped from. Still partial to a toasted corned beef and cheese sarnie with lashings of HP sauce for my lunch.

Alan "Noddy" Hinton is having a book called Triumph and Tragedy, The Alan Hinton Story published some time this month. I remember "Noddy" as having a powerful shot with either foot and unfortunately because of Ramsey's wingless wonders never got the recognition he deserved. Strangely enough his nickname at Derby was Gladys.

As we get older it is not good for us to go up ladders and climb about on roofs (rooves) or in roof spaces so I have to get trades people to come and do stuff that I used to do myself. I have a fundamental issue with paying someone for something I could do myself and often better than so called "tradies". My wife gets upset when we have a tradesman come around to do a job and within a few minutes I send them packing because it is either obvious they don't know what they are doing or they spend most of their time on the mobile instead of the job they are being paid to do, especially when t

Oh no! for a while there in the seventies all our beer came in aluminium cans but I am sure they had some kind of "plastic" liner that did not do us any good with chemicals leaching out of that too. We also had steel cans so no problems with iron deficiency either. Only joking as sadly when a loved one gets dementia or alzheimer's you lose them twice, once as the disease takes its toll and again when they die. Dementia is an umbrella term for a number of neurological diseases. Alzheimer' disease is the most common form of dementia

Its that time of year when we are thinking of starting to wear shoes again on a regular basis. I hardly wear shoes at all in summer except when working outside or going out shopping or something like that. Wearing shoes all day for the first time in a while feels really strange and uncomfortable. I am sure your feet spread out when you don't wear them and protest about being contained again.

Aged nine I remember going to an air display at Hucknall with my dad and watched a prototype Vulcan take off and expected it to return later. It crashed near Syerston due to a structural failure killing the crew of 4 and 3 on the ground.