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General Discussion Area / Should Europe send troops to Ukraine?
« on: 15 March 2024, 19:19:38 »
Macron hasn’t ruled it out.

I think he is spot on when he says Europe cannot allow Ukraine to lose. There is still a lot of inertia to overcome. Probably better to finish it before the US presidential elections in case Trump gets in and ditches Europe.

Maybe “ our troops” could do support jobs like maintenance with Ukranians on the front line.

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General Discussion Area / London Eye
« on: 11 March 2024, 23:45:59 »
Is it true it was only on loan and is heading off to Scotland at 10 mph?

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General Car Chat / Mk7 Golf amp
« on: 20 February 2024, 19:08:55 »
Long shot but anyone know where the amp is located on a mk 7 golf estate?

Got RH front door speaker, off most of the time - comes on sometimes on the wretched potholes.

Door panel off - no power to speaker.

Head unit off and quite a surprise at just how few wires there are. So somewhere there is an amp with loads of wires. Can’t see one under/ back of glove box , only pollen filter. Nothing obvious in boot. Couple of humps under each front seats but covered by carpet. Can’t see much cooling if they are under that! So stumped. Not getting very far on the internet either.

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General Discussion Area / Carlson Putin interview
« on: 07 February 2024, 23:25:54 »
Dull?

Explosive?

Going to influence the US elections?

I can’t wait………

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General Car Chat / Price of parts
« on: 01 February 2024, 19:55:19 »
Just been to VW dealer. And looked at S/H cars outside. Saw a nice car for 25,000 euros.

Got quote for two parts. Not including fitting, they were about 1000 euros for the two. I reckon if you bought a car from parts it would be a million pounds. No wonder car insurance has gone up!

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General Car Chat / Air con gone faulty VW
« on: 25 January 2024, 23:14:26 »
Only 24C here today! So car has chosen best time of year to go faulty. It looks like electrical wierdness no doubt helped by potholes and the endLess sleeping policemen. It might be something mechanical as it was noisy too. Decided to switch it off and use good old fashioned open windows.
I can report that doesnt work at all well at speed.

Anyway it is either stealer or an air con specialist. Both in same town an hour away.

One think is for certain, it will have to be fixed. To filter the dreaded olive pollen and to cope with the ever increasing heat. We seem to be getting more heat coming from North Africa than ever before. Last year it was 38 on the 28th April.

Do you a swap some heat for some of your water ( this is third year of drought)!

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General Discussion Area / Dyson V6 head question
« on: 24 January 2024, 10:04:58 »
We have two heads. Carpet cleaner works great on what few carpets we have.

The other general purpose head doesnt rotate so useless on smooth surfaces like floor tiles.

I have had it to pieces times and cleaned it. Bothe bearings run smoothly on the large roller.

There is however resistance when you turn the cross spigot on the end of the assembly that goes inside the blue and red roller. Is that by design or the culprit?

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General Discussion Area / Private BattlesI
« on: 21 January 2024, 20:51:48 »
I first used this expression back in October.

Little did I know then how our lives would unravel since. It started with a load of grief over my Dads daily care, ending in a complaint which still hasn’t been resolved.

Then some casual Brit friends we had a coffee with contacted us with a plea for help. Her health meant she couldnt get to the doctor could she have a lift. She was in and out of hospital ending with  a double pneumonia diagnosis. Plus Covid caught in the hospital from the next bed ( two bed rooms) . Scan showed advanced metastasised lung cancer. Inoperable. She died just before xmas. Her husband at 82 ,, 12 years older) has very poor health and crucially did nothing around the house so knew no passwords, utility providers or where their wills were etc.When I say poor health he nearly lost his leg 15 months ago and has been having a dressing changed 3 times a week since. Cant cook. Cant speak Spanish. Friday gone he is back in hospital. Had two sessions on Dialysis
There is a very small group of us and other expats trying to help him with unravelling a mountain of admin  translating, plus visiting, feeding his pets etc etc. no relatives.no money other than house equity and now his state pension. All told his situation is pretty poor.

I managed to write our 4x4 off just by forgetting to put the handbrake on whilst I got out to show how our dogs cancer had been cured.  Lost quite a bit of money through carelessness.

In fact we have made quite a few duff decisions purely from being tired, rushed. We are fortunate that we can just take them on the chin and move on.

Perhaps the most crushing thing by far is more problems with our dog who is 11 and a half. He was abandonded age about 1 with a small heart problem and we rescued him from the countryside in a really bad state. A few years later he suffered a simple intrusion in his ear drum by a barbed grass seed . Our vet at the time claimed to have removed it all but hadnt. To cut a long story short he had to have a hole drilled into his skull ( bulla) to drain the mank and was left deaf , blind on that side of his head and face dead that side. He bounced back and was a great companion. We went away ( he travels everywhere with us due to separation anxiety) for New Year which was a disaster as he developed a problem which meant he couldnt stand up on New Years eve. New Years day we drove to our vet for emergency consultation and diagnosis. Back five days later as he was throwing up. They decided allergic to anti inflammatory. Still not happy with diagnosis , went back and they decided dog has advanced liver cancer that has spread to his lungs. That will explain the cough he has had for the last two years which failed to respond to various different treatment. We have a bag full of tablets and a weeks or possibly months timescale. Come back for THE injection when you judge his quality of life is … well you get the idea. Might be a lot quicker than that. Hasnt ate today, was sick and he is getter cuter at rejecting tablets. We are gutted even though it is only a dog.

Mrs V is ill with the wretched cough everyone ( except me ) has got. Been weeks. Spain has reintroduced masks in hospitals, GPs due to the big uptick in respiratory illness.

Anyway, enough there is more , I have rambled on. Roll on a return to better times

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General Discussion Area / Back to school today!
« on: 08 January 2024, 10:41:18 »
Our Spanish language night classes restart tonight.  Two at two hours ( no break) plus a minimum of 2 x two hours homework per week. We actually do more as being the oldest in the class our absorption levels are err lower. Coupled with travelling time it occupies a fair chunk of our lives.

We were reasonably fluent before but had many bad habits. As we intend to see our time out here it makes sense.  The class is taught in Spanish as the only common language though the tutor has some English. There is an Italian, Turk, Ukrainian, South African and about 7 Moroccans .  The Moroccans are all young and so quick to learn……

We take a recently bereaved Brit to the doctors to translate for him and because he doesn’t drive. 82 and lived here 15 years nd speaks zero Spanish.

Anyone else doing night classes?

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General Discussion Area / Dolting along
« on: 09 December 2023, 09:48:15 »
Is my phrase to cover some of the drivers on roads in Britain.

My theory is that people are randomly selected each day ( or perhaps permanently?) to drive at a ridiculously low speed for the prevailing conditions in whatever lane they happen to be in.

The journey from Leeds airport to Scarborough ( 67 miles) takes about two hours despite big chunks of dual carriageway. Some of it is volume of traffic but mostly it is the few DOLTING ALONG at say 45 mph in the outside lane or 30 on a country road

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General Discussion Area / Ev driver
« on: 09 December 2023, 09:30:42 »
I was in a Shell station convenience store in the North yesterday in the queue to pay

Cashier to bloke in front of me. “ Any fuel?”
Bloke replied in a superior , slightly louder than normal voice. “ No, I drive an electric vehicle” “ do you sell lottery tickets?”

Me “ Is that so you can buy a new battery?”

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General Car Chat / Car features
« on: 01 December 2023, 15:30:47 »
Flew into Leeds airport yesterday and picked my hire car up in dark, snowy, icy conditions. In fact it had four inches of snow on it .

It was an Astra ( well a Peugeot Or similar I guess)

Show me the controls please. He said just put lights on auto. Where is the handbrake. Electronic. We have an electronic handbrake on our golf. On off or autohold ( seperate light and button) On this car no such feature. In the end I concluded it must go off automatically as you set off.

Worst feature especially on the country roads around Harewood House, was it put main beam on whenever it could but didnt dip when another car came along! Didnt take me too long to find a “ manual “ setting on the dash.  How would that work on the much vaunted autonomous cars……?

I just am not a fan of the interlocks on modern cars .

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General Discussion Area / Cruise ship pollution
« on: 01 December 2023, 07:05:39 »
Caught the tail end of a piece on the one show last night so open to correction…..

The European cruise ships create the equivalent pollution of 1 billion cars.

The chief “ eco officer” for MSC was proudly explaining what they were doing to reduce impact on the environment. .Some things were impressive like water and sewage handling. In Southampton they “ plug” the ship into the mains so theydont have to run the engines while docked. That mist be a thick cable………

Where are the environmentalists demanding the banning of cruise ships? Perhaps just stop oil folk could superglue themselves to the water line?

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General Discussion Area / Geert Wilders
« on: 23 November 2023, 09:19:47 »
A change in poliitics in theNetherlands

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General Discussion Area / Seewee
« on: 08 November 2023, 08:30:10 »
More correctly Cewe.

I keep seeing adverts for them on uk tv. Thought who would name their company that? Maybe aimed at the older generation. It is a German company

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