Recent content by Paddler Ed

Bugger.... Just got back onto the forum after ~18month break, and I see the trailer is for sale and then I go digging and find an update on this. Not good - but just keep going as much as you can.

And, I'm going to take a break from here - whilst I've often enjoyed some of the posts in the "On this Day" thread, there has been a very strong lurch to the right (wrong?) in them recently, and this is another example of this lurch. I might be back in few months - I've walked away from 2 other...

There was a short piece from the Guardian discussing the original tweet that led to the statement: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/11/lets-end-delusion-britain-abolished-slavery If you want the more in depth one, then this is a good read as well - a confronting good read, but...

You were in my meeting today then when I raised the issue of some of the software having last been updated in 2014.... to which it was replied "well, if it isn't broken why change it?" Becuase it's so damn inefficient - I did a back of the envelope calculation and reckoned that through the...

My Mum did a lot of the typing for one of the consulting vets for the Chunnel from about 1984-1987 or so, mainly looking at how to prevent the appearance of rabies in the UK.

This popped up after someone had Liked it today - unfortunately Rommel died about 2 years ago. Neighbour still has a Weimaraner, this one is called Rudi and still gets told to go home - now aided by our Kelpie x Collie who we've trained to bark at Rudi!

I do know a dog called Deefer - often just refered to as Dee Mind you, they did also have a cat that was called Cat....

We had a couple of dogs that had Cars (Dad's influence) and Shakespere (Mum's influence) names; Portia Cleo So, and staying with ....o theme, what about Prado? Or is it to close to Prada (which is the name of the in-law's Siamese cat....)

It was certainly interesting when I jumped on earlier.... Well done, and thank you!

Had 20mm of rain yesterday, so that pushed the mice out - dog got 5 last night in the end.

This popped up on the Hilux Surf Facebook group, and I thought it would be of interest for some here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164796908234

This was an interesting analysis of the Australian energy market and how the role of constant output is a problem: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-17/electricity-has-become-a-jigsaw-coal-missing-pieces/13253392

So.... a month ago I spotted a Daihatsu F25 Taft/Scat sitting at the back of the local breakers yard - I was keeping an eye out for one for @Ben as we'd been talking about them not long ago. Well, I saw it on the Friday, went in on the Monday and the guy I needed to see wasn't in, so back in...