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A useful post, Cape. My little used car trailer had remoulds fitted when I bought it new 15 years ago. It’s stored in an outbuilding and I always feel nervous when adding air from my compressor. Time to put a couple of new tyres on it I think!

Cape, good tip, thanks. I had a pair of proper winter tyres and wheels for my SAAB in Scotland, couldn't afford 4. They had a deep tread and I had studs fitted. I used them for about 9 years until eventually the latest SAAB tyre width was huge compared to the snow tyres. Also we had moved to England.

The rubber was barely worn and probably 40% of the studs remained.

Morning everyone, bit late today been on tip run followed by haircut , results from yesterday’s eye test will lead to some wallet lightening later today, apparently I’ve got some damage due to excess sunshine, reckon it could be due to reflection off the ramp, perhaps I could sue BA

Morning folks. Serious fuel shortage. The queues at fuel stations horrendous. Talking hours of waiting. I don't queue. We have enough fuel for two town visits so we are going to make it only twice a month. May buy a donkey cart. No fuel for watering from the lagoon. Have to go back to the borehole on solar.

Evening All...about to retire...dead on my feet...Thursday is always big clean up day...

Grand Premier Princess Imogen of Tigre, passed away this morning.
The house is empty.

You have my sympathy Ian. A horrible feeling it is.

Condolences Ian, good looking cat.

More condolences. Fine looking lady. Our sympathy.

I feel your pain Ian. It's as bad as losing a human family member. I say this with feeling, because I had a Siamese for 15 years - best cat that ever owned me.

Really sorry to hear about ian16th's cat. Two of my better half's friends lost dogs today one of them a mere pup! Counting UP's hound that's four animals in 3 days...

Sorry Ian.

2 hippos out front, could be a honeymoon couple, be good to have another one born out there. Bad swamp mossies at the moment which have come with the water.

Run flat tires on BMW. Nail in shoulder of one. Tire shop says too close to edge for a plug. New tire $$$.
Asked tire guy off the record what would he do? He said to take it to one of the Mexican tire shops and get it plugged as 1) Because run flat sides much stronger, no real problem and 2) They will do anything asked, no questions.
Tire fixed, all good.
Fast forward 3-4 months, tire low.
Took it back to them...Need new tire. Sidewall had a foot long crack emanating from plug site.

PP

Ex-Ascot wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:54 am

Morning folks. Serious fuel shortage. The queues at fuel stations horrendous. Talking hours of waiting. I don't queue. We have enough fuel for two town visits so we are going to make it only twice a month. May buy a donkey cart. No fuel for watering from the lagoon. Have to go back to the borehole on solar.

My tight lips are sealed. No sniggering allowed.

In a place wot's got sunshine or wind, who needs wind or sun?

Oil? Who needs it, other than for lubeoil, now that we've **** the cetaceans for that resource?

12 Hippos. Our family is back.

An Ops-Normaler a bit far from home?

Sorry to hear your news Ian.

My date with the lovely Olga has had consequences, face is badly swollen and infection has set in, have been given 7 days penicillin. One normally enjoys the pleasure before the pain, but not in this case.

I am reading "Cold Comfort Farm", the Sunday Times claims the this is probably the funniest book ever written, it is rare that I agree with the Sunday Times these days.

From Bloomberg

Botswana released 30.8 million liters of fuel from its strategic reserves to ease an acute shortage that’s caused long queues at gas stations as Covid-19 regulations disrupt supply chains.
Landlocked Botswana consumes about 3 million liters of fuel daily, government data shows. Most fuel is imported from South Africa, with the remainder arriving from Namibia and Mozambique. To contain the coronavirus pandemic, the government requires that truck drivers entering the country be subjected to tests and a period of quarantine.
“Oil marketing companies operating in Botswana have informed government that their supply chains have been disrupted, hence they are experiencing some challenges meeting the demand,” Mmetla Masire, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Green Technology, said in a statement Tuesday.

I wondered why. Now I know.

Sad about the cat Ian.

Talking of fuel shortages, I was a participant in a prototype-commercial-vehicle (trucks) field test from England to the southern tip of Italy and back in August 1979, during which there was a strike of fuel-delivery drivers leading to impossibly long queues and strict limits on the quantity of fuel per visit.
As the delay and the restricted supply would have severely impeded our progress, our 'wagonmaster' suggested that we should offer to pay twice the asked price (as fuel in England was twice the price of that in Italy - so we were not really out-of pocket), whereupon we were waved to the head of the queue and allowed to fill our tanks and the drums that we carried.

You just have to know the system.

handsfree wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 09, 2020 7:50 pm

Botswana released 30.8 million liters of fuel from its strategic reserves to ease an acute shortage

If an African country, which produces no oil, has a Strategic Oil Reserve, why **** doesn't Scotland (and/or the rest of the UK) have one?