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A little girl was leaning into a lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the collar of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, all under the eyes of her screaming parents. A biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch. Whimpering from the pain, the lion jumps back, letting go of the girl, and the biker brings the girl to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly. A BBC reporter, Laura Kuenssberg, has watched the whole event. Laura, addressing the Harley rider says, "Sir, this was the most gallant and bravest thing I've seen a man do in my whole life.” The Harley rider replies, "Why, it was nothing, really. The lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger, and acted as I felt right.” Miss Kuenssberg "Well, I'll make sure this won't go unnoticed. I'm a BBC journalist, you know, and tomorrow's news will run this story. So, what do you do for a living, and what political affiliation do you have?” The biker replies "I'm a British Army veteran, a Conservative and I voted for Brexit”. Laura Keunssberg leaves the scene. The following morning the biker turns on BBC News to see if it indeed brings news of his actions. BBC Headline: RIGHT WING UK VETERAN ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT & STEALS HIS LUNCH. And THAT pretty much sums up journalism approach to the news these days

Off t'other side o Rammy - Landscaping for Mother in Law.... tigger - supervisor, the lardy (onliest) one - tipper truck me - labourer

Just to revive this thread: last week i ordered the bits and pieces to make up a pair of headset intercoms. Tested them out with @CosKev this week on a spirited drive around Shropshire b roads including a trip over the Long Mynd "Berway" road. As others have found the comms quality was very good and made for an interesting drive with chatting rather than the usual "follow the leader" . Thanks to @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO for sharing details etc.

Please continue to direct all pun-related complaints to @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO

Nice drive up the Burway (single track) road up and over the Long Mynd with @CosKev this week. Stunning views, sheep, wild horses and hang gliders...

My view is the same now as it was then. And it's irrespective of political party. I'd say exactly the same for Labour member or whoever. If he thought it was better to place his children in the care of parents then I'm fine with that if that was a genuine reason. Absolute lockdown in the UK has not been sought. Has one journey to protect family made a bit of difference to CV . Never in my eyes. It's already spread. This is a political story only. If someone's mate needed to do same or asked me to do it I would and there is not a single thing police could do if you have even half a reason. All we can be sure of is the media will make a meal of it as will Twitter, Facebook and mumsnet. None of them are worth listening to.

If the initial government recommendation had been "we are in a bit if a pickle chaps can we all lay low for a bit to stop the nhs getting overloaded. Restrict your travel to all but essential if you don't mind " I'd have understood that and done exactly as I have and most of the UK would have done the same. But no a few needed to find find loopholes find someone to blame find some fault. Then the apparent confusion with a message saying 'stay alert' confused those who wanted needed and were looking to be confused. Id have understood. " things are a bit better chaps, stand a bit easier but don't drop your guard too much, wot ho bit of a bind wasnt it" Anyway thats my light hearted take on it. Don't take this seriously if you don't want to.

Nice drive up the Burway (single track) road up and over the Long Mynd with @CosKev this week. Stunning views, sheep, wild horses and hang gliders...

Can I have the yellow bucket please?

DonP this was in last week . Maybe his situation required a quick test hence no postal offered. So he had a long drive to Portsmouth.

Just fitted a SPA steering wheel I picked up from the classifieds on here from @GarethHDand well pleased with the feel and position after making up a new adaptor plate 😁 Mart.

curcuit days have said exactly that on bookface why they never did it before etc so it may well stay

I sadly agree Chris. I guess most would comply but there would be such a fuss over those that didn't we'd soon believe no one did.

Watched a thing about how South Korea have handled the situation and there was a stage where one city had a potentially serious outbreak. The authorities wanted to lock it down but there was a large public outcry. They decided to simply ask the populace to stay put, and they did. Sadly, I just can’t see the UK population doing that. Neither can I see us accepting the track & trace system they used in SK either.

Not required any more as I have found mine

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Great pic, I've had a quick play with it. Please send me the full size image (e-mail) and I'll see what I can do with it!

I’ll take the thermostat if still available

If not - I’ll take it please.

I would like the gear lever please. PM on the way.

I can't watch the BBC's 1:00 news. The journalists are not worthy of the term and the news reader acts all shocked and surprised at every Covid 19 'story'. Stupid, so-called 'political' angles... BBC Radio 4 is much better.

Yes but a lot of people who work airside don't work for the airport. They work for the numerous airlines, ground handlers etc. The company who actually has a permit to deliver water to all the offices wasnt open and the security offices who issue permits were not processing pass applications. It was catch 22. You either went without, or drove out landside repeatedly to get a drink. And they were actively encouraging you to not repeatedly pass through security posts. For infrastructure projects yes. But for anything to do with security or the rules and regulations around airport operations then its all dft. To quote one very experienced security officer at the airport where I work 'we aren't allowed to think anymore'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-52599554/coronavirus-tests-offered-at-vienna-airport-to-avoid-quarantine Coronavirus: Tests offered at Vienna airport to avoid quarantine. For people arriving in Austria it allows them to avoid 14 days of quarantine. The test results are available in around three hours, and cost €190. Any plans for same in UK?

Oh Ian, what have you done!

Excellent! Keep up the good work. Geoff

The club member who had agreed to buy my car suffered an unfortunate change in circutmstances so was unable to complete. I returned his deposit, so I'm back to square 1 and the car is back up for sale. Since I originally posted I mounted the engine and transmission in the chassis and put the whole lot on the trailer which has been fettled so it's ready to go.

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@Robin (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO typical Yorkshire response 😂 😂 😂 PS Well done Dave

With a £1000 fine being mooted for anyone arriving in UK who breaks their 14 day quarantine the question is should the fine be income based? A £300k per week footballer and an average earner (£585/wk) won't suffer the same from a fixed fine. Will a high earner take such a fine seriously? NZ deported travellers breaking quarantine. Many European countries have income related speeding fines which can reach seemingly eye-watering levels. During phase 1 of UK lockdown a Premier league player broke the lockdown 3 times but I suppose a £30 fine was no problem if even doubled for successive breaches.

So close to finishing that it almost hurts! Need to balance the throttle bodies once my synchrometer arrives. Fit the nosecone, plus a few other little jobs....

I have entered and hoping everything I have done to the car does not make it unreliable. Still have to sort the tracking out and I hope my rear diff hold's out 😁 as I changed the oil seal myself

There is 3 ways of register a Westfield in France : - Buy it new or already registered in France. - Buy one overseas which is less than 30 years Old : You have to make it road registered with a lot of test (they will consider you build it and check everything.. takes years and a lot of money). - Last way (and easiest) is to buy a 30 years old Westfield, correctly registered as a westfield (not the donor car ID) and to ask the FFVE (French féderation of Classic cars) a receipt to prove it is old enough to be registered a classic car. You need an MOT, a FFVE certificate, proof of bought. The precious certificate needs : picture of the car (engine, chassis number, front , rear etc...) , full details (make, model, date of first registration...) . Once received, you can ask for the french v5 . it took 3 months for mine. Can make a more developped article to show document etc on this last way.

now with french registration

Thanks for all your comments sadly for me the car is Sold.

Well I went out for a quick 60 mile spin today which was great but going though Cannock Chase a white van man flicked up a large stone and trashed my screen. Could of been worse if I would have had an aeroscreen and passenger in the car. Just emailed Adrian Flux to find out who I call to claim for a new screen but they just cut you off everytime.🤬 So I've emailed them fingers crossed they will answer that. Westfield parts told me there's at least a 2 week wait for a new screen. At least it's not blocking my view so I can still use the car.