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Leyland engineering. If ever there was a brand that made drivers blood run cold.

It's about time Mitsubishi realised that their Pajero range actually means '*anker (rhymes with Barclays Banker) in Spanish

I used to run in the evenings regularly as a student in Birmingham in the 80's. I found it therapeutic and a good way of dealing with the stress of revising for my exams. I generally lived in the not so nice areas of Birmingham being a poor student. In one area that had a reputation for ladies...

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Then again if you keep records from your build i.e. rental paperwork for the digger, paperwork from materials suppliers etc., this form an evidence base to prove the date you built it. After four years, even if the workshop did need planning permission, but the local planning dept. didn't pick...

Re: the 'well hidden' bit this may be the case but if you ever decide to sell your house the surveyors working for potential buyers will probably want firm evidence that planning permission wasn't required for the workshop building. It might be a good idea to write to your local planning...

Lime mortar is often used to repoint stone walls. Stone weathers more than fired brick and the lime mortar weathers down with the stone. If someone has used cement mortar to repoint stone in a few years it is common to see the pointing standing proud of the stone (a few mm or more above the...

Was it Dinky or Corgi made the American fire engine? Really long thing with a turntable and a plastic yellow ladder.

Good point about well-played with toys. That was what they were designed for. I appreciate that collectors like unused and still boxed toys (never played with) but there's something nice about kids receiving such great toys and enjoying them.

If it's PD (Permitted Development).....third line of your post, you don't need planning permission. Just Building Regulations approval. If you do need planning permission and have applied for it and it is refused you can appeal. In this case the planning application is taken out of the hands of...

Hi I managed to zoom into one of your photos to get the right Candy washer (GV 148 D3W) and found the following manual online https://www.argos-support.co.uk/instruction-manual/4088121-candy-gv148d3w-washing-machine-white.pdf Page 20 of the manual lists some error codes. Unfortunately none...

A neighbour had a USSR made Moskvitch 412 van (available in saloon and pick up versions also) (circa 1973). Not a bad vehicle for the price. The longest spark plug spanner you have ever seen at 18 inches long for those harsh Russian winters and a thermonuclear heater that melted your wellies...

Blimey Telefunken....that's a blast from the past.....proper best quality West German made tellies they were. The 28 inch colour with remote control in the big wooden cabinet was THE telly to have in the early 70's. My grandmothers friend had one. I loved going round hers on a saturday morning...

I still have the toolkit from an East German made motorbike I briefly owned in the early 80's (MZ125). Great toolkit, shame about the bike. Like riding agricultural machinery with indicators on.

Old Action man stuff is very collectable and gets high prices, particularly the 60's and 70's stuff. I worked with a guy 20 years ago who had an Aunt lived in Coalville, Leics. That's where the Palitoy factory was where most of the Action Man stuff was made. She worked there and when he was a...

Just remembered...... Toy SLR rifle that fired these silver plastic bullets you could load into the magazine. I used to wear it across my back like a bandit and cycle off down the park with the other kids all festooned with various toy guns. Playing 'army' was a favourite game. Chunks of soil...

1. My Scalextric. It wasn't new when I had it for Christmas but I well remember going to the model shop and buying two new F1 race cars with my saved up paper round money...one was a Martini Brabham and the other was a black and gold JPS (Team Lotus?) that cost me £7.50 each in 1978. I regret...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/04/leave-military-out-of-it-former-defence-secretaries-tell-trump Reading the news I find it rather disconcerting that all ten former US defence secretaries (those still living) signed a letter warning against military intervention as part of Trumps...

Good luck with it all. Sounds like a hell of a lot of work. I had rising damp in my hall walls (all interior walls with a concrete floor). I stripped off all the plaster to 1.2 metres high including the skirting boards. I injected with Dryzone damp proofing treatment along the bottom two courses...