Drones

Posted by: @pat

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Thankfully my old campervan has the old style petrol engine that I can work on, no computery bollocks, and my tractor has a straight forward 3 cylinder diesel that again I can work on. My Discovery however is a complete mystery to me under the bonnet and has a computer the size of a small suitcase under the front seat. Left it in for some welding work while on hols after MOT failure, and it came back with all kinds of lights on the dash and problems with the computer controlled suspension which needed another week in the garage to sort out before I could take it for the re-test on wednesday, thankfully a pass!

That's exactly what happened I think Don! When I picked the car up the radio was set to my usual station of 'Radio 2' when if he'd disconnected the battery it would've needed a code put in to reset it, so I thought straight away that he'd worked with the battery still in play. It took him a week of arseing about with his computer and a new 'body control module' which cost him 50 quid to replace before it was right again, but he made no attempt to put the cost my way so I was happy enough! I think my next car will be a 40+ yr old tax and MOT exempt Land Rover or similar that I can work on myself to keep it roadworthy.

Dave, I had an old Austin Maxi 1800, the engine used to run as sweet as a nut,but changing gear was a bloody nightmare on them. Finally reverse gear packed up and I got pissed off shoving it out of parking spaces so got rid. They were prone to rust on the body work as well,in the end it was more fiber glass than metal.

I had one of those Austin Maxi 1800's Bob, for 2 days until Geordie Nicholson (2 Heads) crashed it on the way to Hartley Whitney to meet a couple of birds we'd met the night before! Little did I know he'd been on the piss all day and as we turned a corner he veered across the road to meet a car head on! Realising he was pissed we decided to do a runner as the car wasn't in my name yet, and got a few hundred yards before I remembered there was a Argy .45" pistol in the boot and some explosives and grenades under the seats, so hot footed it back to arrive just as the police did. We fed them some shite about being on standby and having to phone the unit, and one of the cops told Geordie to stand back and say nothing to the other cops as he was near the end of his shift and didn't want to spend hours processing him for drink driving, so a lucky escape for him! We managed to get the offending items bundled into a doss bag before the recovery truck arrived and began the long trek home, when I spotted a Austin Princess of similar vintage on a garage forecourt and lo and behold the Maxi key fitted it, so a quick drive home and dumped it on Queen's Ave for the owner to find it! The end result was a day in court for me, charged with no insurance as mine didn't cover Geordie who'd passed his test 1 yr and 1 day before but hadn't changed his provisional to a full licence which made his insurance invalid, and aiding and abetting him in said crime. £150 fine and 3 points followed by an interview without coffee with the new CO who was expected to hammer me as well but let me off with admonishment after hearing my sad story! The good old days! 🙂 

I did see two classic cars on the way. The village seemed quite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgjT595ijeY

🤣🤣🤣🤣laughing my bollocks off reading that, like the Keystone Cops !

Interesting tale Pat

Sums up most of my career Bob, like an old comedy from beginning to end, and wouldn't have missed a minute of it! 🤣 

Laffter deffo meks the World gu round Pat!

Works for me! TLO can never understand the chuckles of me when I tell some of what we got up to in those good old days of harmless and some not so harmless japes, no sense of humour these wimmin! 😊 

Two of our people who shall remain nameless, decided to raid the NAAFI shop at the PT School one Sunday night, The gained access via a roof skylight, but found there was no way out. This was because the doors were all fitted with steel drop bars and padlocks, and the widows with bars on the outside. So surviving a period of isolation on crisps and pop, they were discovered by Staff on Monday morning ! Muppets' 🤣 

Posted by: @pat

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I had one of those Austin Maxi 1800's Bob, for 2 days until Geordie Nicholson (2 Heads) crashed it on the way to Hartley Whitney to meet a couple of birds we'd met the night before! Little did I know he'd been on the piss all day and as we turned a corner he veered across the road to meet a car head on! Realising he was pissed we decided to do a runner as the car wasn't in my name yet, and got a few hundred yards before I remembered there was a Argy .45" pistol in the boot and some explosives and grenades under the seats, so hot footed it back to arrive just as the police did. We fed them some shite about being on standby and having to phone the unit, and one of the cops told Geordie to stand back and say nothing to the other cops as he was near the end of his shift and didn't want to spend hours processing him for drink driving, so a lucky escape for him! We managed to get the offending items bundled into a doss bag before the recovery truck arrived and began the long trek home, when I spotted a Austin Princess of similar vintage on a garage forecourt and lo and behold the Maxi key fitted it, so a quick drive home and dumped it on Queen's Ave for the owner to find it! The end result was a day in court for me, charged with no insurance as mine didn't cover Geordie who'd passed his test 1 yr and 1 day before but hadn't changed his provisional to a full licence which made his insurance invalid, and aiding and abetting him in said crime. £150 fine and 3 points followed by an interview without coffee with the new CO who was expected to hammer me as well but let me off with admonishment after hearing my sad story! The good old days! 🙂 

That was a lucky escape Pat.  These days you would get a min 5yrs for the gat and probably life for the plastic and grenades.  You were lucky you weren't drummed out of the brownies too mate.

Posted by: @bob9739

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Two of our people who shall remain nameless, decided to raid the NAAFI shop at the PT School one Sunday night, The gained access via a roof skylight, but found there was no way out. This was because the doors were all fitted with steel drop bars and padlocks, and the widows with bars on the outside. So surviving a period of isolation on crisps and pop, they were discovered by Staff on Monday morning ! Muppets' 🤣 

Just returned from the west country paid out respects to a relative who liked walking here  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PZzln7gBoo

amended the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4g2Ygns_6c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBPPLsXDjHU