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Inspired by Rednop, Brand new SGS engine crane (well used once to be exact) as per https://www.sgs-engineering.com/ec2000-2-ton-folding-engine-crane First £50 donated to help for heroes gets it. Collection only im afraid....oh and it has a load leveller.

If @Aeruttle doesn't take it, then I'd very much like to for that very generous offer. Hopefully others in the Essex area can then benefit, too Having said that, I don't have any immediate use for it, so if someone else does, then why not jump ahead of me and then pass on with the same donation each time?

It occurred to me that we'll end up in a sort of 'Lord of the Flies' scenario. The seemingly immune young people feel that they can play fast and loose with the regulations with little risk to their health. However, as recent lead/lag of young and older infections have shown, the young become infected and carry on with their God-given right to have fun with no significant symptoms, and return home to the parental homes where they live (with no real responsibilities to anyone), and infect their parents and grandparents. The older people, being more likely to suffer serious symptoms from the virus, variously become ill and die, or become disabled by 'long-covid' which renders them incapable of either working or looking after the feckless youth. Ultimately it is as if the youth has been cast away on an adult world (here the Lord of the Flies analogy comes in) with little knowledge or skills to manage their lives and no 'grown-ups' surviving to help, guide, provide, or most importantly pay for their new existences. Welcome, brats, to the real world!

As above. Ideal for sprint or hill climbing car. Sounds great. All working as it should. Cleaned and painted. Viewing welcome. Collection only from Chester area. £750 ovno.

@Stuart Ah, I was meaning the two-tone movement as a genre, but 10 points to you!

And Belinda Carlisle is still lovely! 😁

Jerry Hall and Jane Wiedlin of the Go Go's co-wrote 'Our Lips are Sealed' - a hit for both bands. 40 years on, the Go Go's can still bash it out!

Ya can't beat the originals though.

This is the email mailer I received from Westfield around 09:00 today. "With a second lockdown now upon us, the team at Westfield want to again reach out to our customers and partners around the world to wish you well. As difficult a time as it is for many, we hope that our cars can bring a bit of joy, whether it's building your first kit through the winter months, tinkering with the car you've had for years or just enjoying videos and pictures from better times. Although our factory will now be closed to visitors until the 3rd of December, we are still working hard and can be contacted via phone, email and the website if you are looking to order cars, kits or parts. For those of you who want to take delivery but don't want to come into contact with our drivers, we offer a contactless delivery option of having the kit placed right into your garage, with no need to come to the Westfield factory. If you want to discuss this option then please email sales@westfield-sportscars.co.uk and we'll get right back to you."

Just received my road tax refund cheque. Scanned into my phone banking app Sorted....

bl**** brilliant gearboxes these, especially for track use. 15kg saving over a T9!

Yesterday’s daily Covid hospital admissions translate into 40,000 a month, into an NHS that has 120,000 overnight beds, but more pointedly, was designed and staffed for only 4000 critical care beds. We built that capacity because people get sick, so 3,000 critical care beds might be occupied by ‘non Covid’ sick people, nothing else got magically cured when Covid came along, and we can’t send them home. “Excess deaths is the key metric” we have seen repeatedly, and people want to measure against that AND a diametrically opposed metric, the economy. I say, actually neither will be the key metric this winter. The key metrics this winter are: Can we provide NHS facilities and staff so that Covid patients that could be saved are given that chance? Can we provide NHS facilities and staff so that Covid patients that cannot be saved are cared for in their final days? Can we do that and carry on non-Covid activities like emergency bypasses, cancer surgeries, and all of the others. Not to put too fine a point on it, if we don’t stop the spread, people will die at home in their beds, in hospital car parks or corridors, effectively slowly drowning. It is about getting through this winter with some shred of our humanity left.

Took the car for its first real run out today. Early start to get past Loch lomond before all the camper vans wake up. The prettiest Road to nowhere Castle stalker

It sounds exactly what I need, but I don’t have £950