I would just like to say

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... that I have my MOT pass on "Thumper" the AAA. :D
Yes it's bigger by 3mm, but not at the trigger point for intervention.
The only fly in the ointment is that one of the Iliac branches (LHS) has decided to get in on the act and has expanded as well.
It has been "noted" on my file and they will track that one too.

So allegedly no cause for alarm...yet! I am happy to say. :D
 
doriz said:
Fields round me that have just been drilled are under standing water.
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Our village is under water! The main road is blocked as the stream has burst its banks. The Mrs is out taking coffee to the troops.
We are slightly higher than the neighbours but if the rain doesn't stop, we will be joining the throng of insurance claims :(
 
landowner said:
Mornin.
Wind getting up and blowing all my leaves along to next door, every cloud and all that :D
Rain holding off for now
Breakfast at Cafe with girlfriend this morning, my treat
Still looking for a series 3
Stay dry all :)
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My mates might be coming up for sale as he doesnt think his eye sight will get better after his stroke. :(:(
Yes is a real shame hes such a lovely chap but he might sell up. Its got a new galv chassis about 2 years ago.
mmmm it might be a series 2 come to think about it.
 
We got soaked today oot in the rib boat.....marble man requested that I drive the boat as ive got the most experience.
He wanted 3 people in the boat, 1 to drive & 1 to hold onto the yacht & 1 to tie the rope on.
I said we dont need 3 have you got your pink pants on today. 🤣🤣
Had to put a safety rope on floating caravan so it didnt end up on the beach.
Got one side tied onto the yacht & through the mooring the waves were wild, I was laughing as the water pounded over the
top of us. Got one side on & through the mooring then had to take the rope round the bow to the other side he said go go quick
so I did launched the boat off a big wave going sideways & spun it round.....then nearly done a 180 off the rolling wave to face the
bow he squealed like a wee bitch I think he spatt his marbles oot 🤣🤣
Said I was a nutter :eek::eek:🤣

Got the job done very quick no hassle. :cool:
 
kevstar said:
We got soaked today oot in the rib boat.....marble man requested that I drive the boat as ive got the most experience.
He wanted 3 people in the boat, 1 to drive & 1 to hold onto the yacht & 1 to tie the rope on.
I said we dont need 3 have you got your pink pants on today. 🤣🤣
Had to put a safety rope on floating caravan so it didnt end up on the beach.
Got one side tied onto the yacht & through the mooring the waves were wild, I was laughing as the water pounded over the
top of us. Got one side on & through the mooring then had to take the rope round the bow to the other side he said go go quick
so I did launched the boat off a big wave going sideways & spun it round.....then nearly done a 180 off the rolling wave to face the
bow he squealed like a wee bitch I think he spatt his marbles oot 🤣🤣
Said I was a nutter :eek::eek:🤣

Got the job done very quick no hassle. :cool:
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Ha ha you need to get a head cam would be fun to watch and here the squeels...we used to go to a hotel outside Edinburgh which had a disco in the middle of the countryside when it was my turn to drive the guys sh.at themselves in my lowered race engined hillclimb Imp...lol
 
Shippers said:
Ha ha you need to get a head cam would be fun to watch and here the squeels...we used to go to a hotel outside Edinburgh which had a disco in the middle of the countryside when it was my turn to drive the guys sh.at themselves in my lowered race engined hillclimb Imp...lol
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My wee cuz has just sold his track car imp great wee motor. :cool:
Thats a superb idea I sold my gopro a while ago with my drone, might get another just for giggles.
 
kevstar said:
My wee cuz has just sold his track car imp great wee motor. :cool:
Thats a superb idea I sold my gopro a while ago with my drone, might get another just for giggles.
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Parts of my Imp were bought from Bob Jaimison who was a mate of the builder of the Drambuie Imp Ian Forrest who I think now runs the race school at knockhill...
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Mornin all.
Got a funny letter from the Dorset Police yessdi.
I had been clocked by a bunch of peeps on a speed camera doing about 38 in a 40 mph zone.
Except it wasn't.
It had changed while we were away to a 30 zone. All of about 100 yards long! (It didn't actually say what speed I was doing, I just know cos I checked my speed when I saw the blokey with the gun thing!)

This was the first time I had been down that bit of road since we got back, it has been a 40 mph zone since I ever have lived in Ferndown, and of course there was no 30 mph speed limit sign when I turned on to it from our estate, which obvs is a 30! (It is street lit.)

We have to assume that all this happened, including any warning signs about a new limit, long enough ago for the signs to have been removed. Of course TomTom still thinks it's a 40 not that that cuts any ice.

Anyway I am not being done cos the Karens/vigilantes who were all there doing the biz haven't, one assumes, got the powere to do more than dob you in. So the letter warned me that if I did it 3 times they'd tell the plods and they would.....do what?
It is all very unclear.

Have any of you come across this before?

Me being me I couldn't just let it ride, I wrote an email to chief Karen, a Ms Attwood, explaining how it happened and asking a few questions. I'll be interested to see if she answers them! Like "Does the Traffic Police lend its speed guns to them and are they tested each time they are used?" and "...if this group of people catch a driver speeding 3 times, do they have the power to prosecute the driver? If not, are the police going to rely on their evidence and then prosecute the driver? I was under the impression that only the evidence from a member of the police force, or the evidence from an official speed camera could be used to prosecute people for speeding.
If this is not the case, can you provide me with a link to the statute where this law has changed?"

The letter actually said that if "caught by these peeps three times I would be referred to our No Excuse/Roads Policing Team for consideration of further action". Which is about as wooly as a wooly mammoth on a cold day.

They also included a leaflet from the "Community Speed Watch" peeps which was as preachy as it was patronising.

Shame on me. I shouldn't have been speeding though to know it I would have had to have noticed the absence of stuff, like the 40 mph sign at a set of lights, and any 40 mph repeaters which I doubt there ever were as Dorset is poop at putting these up where they should.

But I can't help being irked at all this being done by a bunch of saddos with nowt else to do in their lives. :mad::mad:

It was obvious that they weren't having much luck elsewhere in the town as they were all grouped on one of the only two or three bits of road where the limit has changed very recently.

Rant over! (Haven't had one of these for a while!!!)

Anyway stay safe peeps, especially those in Scotty land, incuding our grandson who has already been cut off on his island, the one opposite Oban, can never remember the name of it. Those on both the east coast where apparentyl a lady has died already, the west coast and then the east coast of Yorkshire, Tynseside, etc

We are off to Bath to the thee-ater this evening so have a good one folks!
:):):):)
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Sounds like community speed watch. There's a number of initiatives. Police are involved. They let them use a camera in an agreed location at certain times. Often there will be an officer with them. Its all part of the active community policing fing. Yer wasting yer time having a pop at them. It could get yer into trouble. The normal outcome is a warning oft the police for driving ootside of the law. It comes from them because they have the power to use/access yer cars details to notify the registered keeper. Keep gerrin caught on the same o'fence or mixture of o'fences and the police can send yer a NIP notice of intended prosecution for an o'fence.

From what yer ses yer turned onto a road and drove along it. Said road was 40 but when you entered it and drove along it there were no 40 signs. If lamp posts are present and its residentual then it defaults to 30, regardless of what it is if yer had driven its whole length. If no sign indication saying more than 30 then they gottid yer and theres nowt yer can do about it. Eye would suspect many would get caught oot in a simular situation. Yer bin warned and ain't gorra NIP so just accept it as a warning and move on.

They let yer oft wiv a warning. Old duffer in a rusty disco...
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Mornin all.
Got a funny letter from the Dorset Police yessdi.
I had been clocked by a bunch of peeps on a speed camera doing about 38 in a 40 mph zone.
Except it wasn't.
It had changed while we were away to a 30 zone. All of about 100 yards long! (It didn't actually say what speed I was doing, I just know cos I checked my speed when I saw the blokey with the gun thing!)

This was the first time I had been down that bit of road since we got back, it has been a 40 mph zone since I ever have lived in Ferndown, and of course there was no 30 mph speed limit sign when I turned on to it from our estate, which obvs is a 30! (It is street lit.)

We have to assume that all this happened, including any warning signs about a new limit, long enough ago for the signs to have been removed. Of course TomTom still thinks it's a 40 not that that cuts any ice.

Anyway I am not being done cos the Karens/vigilantes who were all there doing the biz haven't, one assumes, got the powere to do more than dob you in. So the letter warned me that if I did it 3 times they'd tell the plods and they would.....do what?
It is all very unclear.

Have any of you come across this before?

Me being me I couldn't just let it ride, I wrote an email to chief Karen, a Ms Attwood, explaining how it happened and asking a few questions. I'll be interested to see if she answers them! Like "Does the Traffic Police lend its speed guns to them and are they tested each time they are used?" and "...if this group of people catch a driver speeding 3 times, do they have the power to prosecute the driver? If not, are the police going to rely on their evidence and then prosecute the driver? I was under the impression that only the evidence from a member of the police force, or the evidence from an official speed camera could be used to prosecute people for speeding.
If this is not the case, can you provide me with a link to the statute where this law has changed?"

The letter actually said that if "caught by these peeps three times I would be referred to our No Excuse/Roads Policing Team for consideration of further action". Which is about as wooly as a wooly mammoth on a cold day.

They also included a leaflet from the "Community Speed Watch" peeps which was as preachy as it was patronising.

Shame on me. I shouldn't have been speeding though to know it I would have had to have noticed the absence of stuff, like the 40 mph sign at a set of lights, and any 40 mph repeaters which I doubt there ever were as Dorset is poop at putting these up where they should.

But I can't help being irked at all this being done by a bunch of saddos with nowt else to do in their lives. :mad::mad:

It was obvious that they weren't having much luck elsewhere in the town as they were all grouped on one of the only two or three bits of road where the limit has changed very recently.

Rant over! (Haven't had one of these for a while!!!)

Anyway stay safe peeps, especially those in Scotty land, incuding our grandson who has already been cut off on his island, the one opposite Oban, can never remember the name of it. Those on both the east coast where apparentyl a lady has died already, the west coast and then the east coast of Yorkshire, Tynseside, etc

We are off to Bath to the thee-ater this evening so have a good one folks!
:):):):)
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Pretty sure it's on the guidelines they can't change a limit over a short distance. Is it a real limit change or have they made it up?
You have to be trained to use a calibrated speed gun. Limit signs went up near me before the limit was legally changed!! Yet the police were enforcing it. How do they have access to dlva database!?🤯
 
As residents of our 12 properties hamlet we requested about 4/5 years ago that a 30 limit be put on our stretch of the narrow country road as it was now being used as a short cut between one A road and another and part of our road was the only straight stretch for the full six mile length. They agreed and we waited and waited and waited but nothing came .................. until suddenly, about a month ago, it turned into a 20 limit! Then I discovered, by 'accident', that they had changed the road classification from unclassified to a 'C' classified one with absolutely no notification whatsoever. Has this made the road safer? - absolutely not. For some reason drivers seem to be reading 20 as 200!!!!!! If the cops are looking for a good way of raising funds for their Christmas Celebratory Bash then get a gun on this road!
I would estimate that only one out of every 500 hundred vehicles ( over about 7 days) is reducing the speed to anything like 20/25 mph. and most are doing in excess of 40 with some doing in excess of 60/70. I assume that this is the way drivers are 'making up time' between the 'A' roads which were made into 50 limits a few years ago.

A 20 limit is NOT a good idea, especially if it is not being monitored, but a 30 just might be more successful as most drivers would see it as a more suitable speed for the type of road. One can but hope!
 
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