Glencoe

Glencoe, 3 days ago to random

What madness is this? In order to get at the windscreen washer bottle and motor, you have to take the front off the car. FFS! If you really must bury the bottle at least put the motor somewhere accessible.

fitheach, 3 days ago to Scotland

By all means, let's protect our natural environment, but, we DON'T need another bureaucracy.

No more national parks.

I'm not alone, I've seen a few such banners in the locality.

#Highlands #Scotland #politics #scotpol

simon_brooke, 7 days ago to random

This week's major project is splitting the tractor, to replace the failed oil seal which is leaking oil from the gearbox into the clutch housing. We've got to the point where the only thing still holding the front half of the tractor to the rear is the steering linkage, and I can't remember how we split that last time!

simon_brooke, 8 days ago to random

OK, folk, help me compile a list of failed "inward investment" projects across Scotland.

I'll start

Rootes Linwood
IBM Greenock
Singer Kilbowie
Stelrad Dalbeattie
Sun Linlithgow
NCR Dundee
Timex Dundee

I must have missed hundreds. Add your picks

#ScotPol

Glencoe, 8 days ago to random

This dog plant has planted itself in the poly tunnel, going to just leave it and see what it grows into 😂

davidwilkins, 8 days ago to Fiat

Today, we’re looking at Fiat’s mid-engined X1/9. I should logically have done this one after I covered the Fiat 128 as it uses the 128’s engine and gearbox shifted to the rear - rather in the manner of the later Metro/MGF ‘flip’ I also featured recently. The X1/9, introduced in 1972, was designed, and later manufactured, by Bertone. It carried that company’s badge, rather than Fiat’s, from 1982. I saw this one at Techno Classica Essen in 2014.

#davidsdailycar #Fiat #Bertone #WeirdCarMastodon

simon_brooke, 24 days ago (edited 23 days ago) to random

That's all of this year's calves tagged. A stressful evening, but successful. One of the tissue-sampling tags failed (the calf was struggling and I missed his ear), and one yearling who needed a remedial tag evaded capture, but perfection is for the gods.

Pictures will follow – for obvious reasons, they're not on my phone.

Edited to add: pictures.

davidwilkins, 26 days ago to random

As well as introducing MG versions of its Rover saloons and hatches, in 2002 MG Rover also revamped the MGF sports car, which was rebadged as the TF. The most visible change was a slightly more aggressive frontal treatment. But under the skin, there was a stiffer body shell and the replacement of the previous hydragas suspension with coil springs. Snapped at the 2023 NEC Classic Car Show.

#davidsdailycar #MG #WeirdCarMastodon

simonvarwell, 28 days ago to random Esperanto

This is extraordinary, and a damning indictment of land ownership in Scotland. How on earth can a private company be in a position to give a capital city’s main bus station notice of closure? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg302gkw779o

fitheach, 1 month ago to Scotland

You know one is at a barber's in the Highlands when this is the provided reading material. :ablobsmile:

#Highlands #Scotland

Glencoe, 1 month ago to random

It appears that the BrewDog Lost Forest has in fact been largely lost. To date Scottish Forestry had paid BrewDog £690,986.90 for planting, but seemingly large numbers of the planted trees are now dead.

https://parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2024/04/14/brewdogs-dead-forest-and-the-dead-hand-of-scotlands-forestry-grants-system/

fitheach, 1 month ago to Scotland

Is Jessica Alba Scottish? 😃

#Alba #Scotland

fitheach, 1 month ago to Dogs

I've spent an interesting hour or two researching cordless vacuum cleaners. Yes, my life really is that exciting. 😃

It's possible to spend hundreds of pounds on models from the high-profile brands. I've decided on a Russell Hobbs Centaur 2 in 1, which I got for £69, incl. delivery. Time will tell if it is any good. Although, at less than half the price of some other models, it is hard to see how it can go wrong.

The war against dog hair continues...

#dogs #DogsOfMastodon

davidwilkins, 1 month ago to random

After yesterday’s ADO 34, here’s a slightly later attempt to come up with a Mini-based MG sports car, the Targa-style ADO 70. This was designed in the UK but the prototype was actually built by Michelotti in Italy. They seem to have used the left-over green paint from the ADO 34. This one didn’t make it into production either. Pics taken: British Motor Museum, Gaydon.

#davidsdailycar #MG #WeirdCarMastodon

Green ADO 70 sports car prototype, side view

fitheach, 1 month ago to GPS

I decided to treat myself by buying a new satnav for the car. My car doesn't have a satnav built-in, which with hindsight is a good thing.

The new model is a Garmin DriveSmart 76. My main reason for upgrading was to get lifetime map updates, which are installed via WiFi, directly onto the satnav (no PC needed). For me this is a major benefit, as otherwise map updates require a Garmin app running on Mac or Windows. The new unit will replace a Garmin Nuvi 65 LM.

>>>

#satnav #GPS #cars

Glencoe, 1 month ago to random

After a very odd conversation with campervan travellers the other day. A public information broadcast.

Buying e-bikes, strapping them to your diesel powered campervan and travelling hundreds of miles to use them for purely recreational purposes is not "green". E-bike purchase is only in any way shape or form "green" if they are used for journeys which would otherwise be made using a fossil fuel powered vehicle.

Glencoe, 1 month ago to random

Here Suella, you know how you're aways gaggin to deport something, anything? Well, here's the thing, my garden is fair hoachin wi slugs, I mean it's over run wi the feckers. If you send a bloke up here nightly to pick them up, I could guarantee a very healthy 250 to 400 every night no problem. You can then deport them to anywhere you fancy, I don't care, suit yourself, that would be peachy 👍

Glencoe, 1 month ago to random

Apparently it's common practice for restaurants to retain part of tips given by customers to their staff. Why isn't that a simple case of theft? I give it to the member of staff serving me, if any of that doesn't reach that member of staff it's been stolen.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/04/restaurant-chain-bans-diners-from-using-card-payments-to-tip-staff

HeavenlyPossum, 1 month ago to random

So the World Central Kitchen convoy a) cleared its route with the IDF beforehand, b) traveled on an approved route, and c) departed at an approved time, so d) the IDF knew exactly who it was killing when it struck the convoy three (3) times.

It was so obviously deliberate, and so deliberately cruel—not just to murder these people, but to terrorize other aid workers into abandoning the Palestinians to be starved to death. To prove the IDF’s impunity and reach, and to compel the IDF’s defenders into apologizing for yet another unforgivable atrocity.