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Meetings, gatherings, parties etc / Re: Cam Belt Meet - NE Hampshire

« on: 27 January 2011, 14:00:01 »

Is this open to TD drivers?

As long as you don't want a cambelt change
Open to all as far as I'm aware

Which would have been my sole intention of attending! 8-)

Is it too late to apply?

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Meetings, gatherings, parties etc / Re: Cam Belt Meet - NE Hampshire

« on: 27 January 2011, 13:39:35 »

Is this open to TD drivers?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Grand Prix: The Killer years.

« on: 21 August 2011, 18:28:05 »

Certainly it was fee paying. I'm not sure when it changed, in the late 60's I think. I still go to OB's day occasionally.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Grand Prix: The Killer years.

« on: 21 August 2011, 18:12:52 »

MCS

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General Discussion Area / Re: Grand Prix: The Killer years.

« on: 21 August 2011, 17:56:45 »

I was at boarding school at Brackley in the late '40s and early '50s. We used to cycle to Silverstone on practise days, (must have been truanting I guess as I think Saturdays were race days then) We could walk into the pits, and talk to the drivers, I had lots of their autographs, Juan Fangio, Mike Hawthorn, Peter Collins, never got Moss. It was the same on bike race days, I had Geoff Duke and many others, my dear old Mum threw them all away!
Fangio was my favourite car driver, he always looked so smooth.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What year did you pass your driving Test or Tests?

« on: 21 August 2011, 20:18:30 »

Oh how I love the English language.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What year did you pass your driving Test or Tests?

« on: 20 August 2011, 19:09:07 »

Car 1956, in a 1955 Ford Popular
Bike 1956 RAF Triumph TRW, 500cc sidevalve twin. http://motorbike-search-engine.co.uk/classic_bikes/Triumph_TRW_1955.jpg
1956 RAF truck licence on a 3.5ton Magirus Deutz, air-cooled diesel. These were superb vehicles, and I even used one to tow a Beverley a/c once, using the optional low ratio box, and IIRC, 4wd.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Vulcan to miss Air Shows

« on: 18 August 2011, 18:24:45 »

A long long time ago, in a different life, I was a member of the Nimrod Air Display crew. We were at RAF Waddington with every other type of RAF aircraft to carry out displays for the Air Defence College. While honing our steely skills playing uckers in in the crew mess on the practise day, a messenger appeared in the mess asking for the Captain of the Vulcan. A Sqn/Ldr got up and, trying unsuccessfully to hide his pride at being identified as such in this august company, left the mess with the messenger. He reappeared 5 minutes later, ashen faced, he and his crew were ordered by the Station Commander to clean the Vulcan! It was very difficult for the rest of us to maintain our well practised sympathetic faces.

Oh happy days, brings a smile to my face when I think of it.

What sort of period as I have some material of an air show Shackleton

AEW.2 WR965

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1v8HmJ5CII

June 16th 1975, according to my log book, only the memory has played me tricks as it was RAF Marham, not Waddington.
Nice video, you might also like this one, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av0E-RH31NQ which features my old pal Dave 'Boots' Hencken, at that time OC 8 Sqn., who sadly died recently.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Vulcan to miss Air Shows

« on: 17 August 2011, 22:24:21 »

A long long time ago, in a different life, I was a member of the Nimrod Air Display crew. We were at RAF Waddington with every other type of RAF aircraft to carry out displays for the Air Defence College. While honing our steely skills playing uckers in in the crew mess on the practise day, a messenger appeared in the mess asking for the Captain of the Vulcan. A Sqn/Ldr got up and, trying unsuccessfully to hide his pride at being identified as such in this august company, left the mess with the messenger. He reappeared 5 minutes later, ashen faced, he and his crew were ordered by the Station Commander to clean the Vulcan! It was very difficult for the rest of us to maintain our well practised sympathetic faces.

Oh happy days, brings a smile to my face when I think of it.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Vacuum cleaners and the EU

« on: 14 August 2011, 19:22:10 »

Yes, folks, the tw*ts in Brussels want cleaners' power

That clearly breaks the forum guidelines, please refrain from breaking the rules 

What's wrong with "tw*ts"? How have I broken forum guidelines???
:-? :-?

neither will the use of certain words (masked or otherwise)

"Cant be arsed to charge anymore, I jump the tinker now"

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1313167926/30

Sound familiar, Jaime? 

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Blimey man, take a chill pill.

None of those words are in the word censor.  The one you used, but masked, is

Whilst we could never ban swearing, there has to be a line somewhere, as we cannot have a free-for-all.

The fact you had to mask the word surely must have given you a clue  :-/

Well, for what its worth, I find 'arsed' and 'tinker' more offensive than 'tw*ts', but then I didn't write the rules.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Holiday areas considering options

« on: 04 August 2011, 14:33:01 »

Costa del Skegness 

( Don't knock it till you've tried the place.)

Go back 3 or 4 times a year and love it round there.
Only 90 mins ish from the Norfolk Broads too

And pretty cheap too 

18 quid a night for van / awning / electrics 

I did accidentally stop there once! No thanks!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Holiday areas considering options

« on: 03 August 2011, 22:10:20 »

Utah in an RV! That's us next month.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Vulcan bomber

« on: 23 July 2011, 18:47:47 »

see one at duxford a little while ago...you are right about the noise though 

The only one!

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General Discussion Area / Re: i phone

« on: 01 July 2011, 22:58:30 »

I've had an i-phone for about a year now, and am just getting used to it. The only real complaint I have is that it makes calls on its own, when I'm not even touching it. Really annoyed me when one was  to a friend who happened to be on holiday abroad!   :-?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Teachers strike

« on: 01 July 2011, 17:47:33 »

everyone needs to pay more, as we live longer than we used to. Although strikes were well shown in the news, the turn out was actually very poor, just a 5th of what the unions wanted!

I increased my pension contributions from 4% to 8% last week, as all this talk made me see how much I would actually get.

Add the 8% my employer pays in, I have a not too reasonable 16% pot now. Which in todays Monday (according to the Pension calculator) is around £24k a year.

Still not great, well under half what I'm earning now 

I personally think property would be wise investment, not go mad, just get a second flat in London thats easy to rent out. In 25 years time mortgage paid off, the value of the flat is there, plus the rent is clear easy money, at least a grand a month in todays money.

Could be a nice little earner, just need to blag my other contracts going long enough to save up a deposit.  :-/

This is a good time to get back into buy-to-let, but not necessarily in London. Check the prices of property around the country. I was in that market a few years ago, and it proved very profitable. Go for it Tunnie.