Mundane News

[Oldhippy]

Did anybody here see the first episode of Doctor Who?

That was the day I was born.

 

[Kempstonian]

That was the day I was born.

You don't remember much about it then?

 

[Illaveago]

Mine was 1973 and yellow, my uncle, from whom I inherited it, had to wait ages for it. He originally wanted one with overdrive, but settled for the standard. He didn't do many miles in it, I think it had something like 1200(0?) on the clock when I inherited it.

It drank carb damper oil faster than petrol.

Mimosa Yellow ! I can remember working on one , I think it was the first spray job I did .
I think my car was made in Speke in Liverpool . I found that the car performed better without oil in the dashpots. When I filled them up with oil the car would be very sluggish . AS the throttle opened the pistons in the dashpots would rise forcing oil out onto the underside of the bonnet .

 

[Illaveago]

I took our car up to Halfords for them to check the batteries . The newish one is okay , just needs charging . The old original one is still fine even after 10 years.
I may have an electrical fault with the car as I noticed that the left hand indicator warning light wasn't lighting up as it should . It lights up very dimly, the right one is fine . I checked the indicators and they were all working .

 

[Reynard]

Whatever floats your boat. I'm a bit of a puritan really. Strictly Seville oranges and twice their weight in sugar.
C'est tout.

True. There's more than one way to skin the furry verminoid that's currently purring away on my lap.

Although I have won prizes at produce shows for my assorted marmalades, so I must be getting something right.

 

[Reynard]

Anyways, time to feed the furry verminoids, and then it will be time to feed me.

 

[pawl]

Wasn't Billy Cotton on Sunday?
Sunday's on TV were boring until after Songs of Praise . I think in the evenings I think it was either Danger Man or The Saint . I can also remember seeing programmes like The Baron and Man in a Suitcase. I can also remember Marker played by Alfred Burke and Calan with Edward Woodward .

You are really digging into the depths of your memory All great programs

 

[oldwheels]

The bypass hose should be between the water pump and the cylinder head . It was a short piece of hose .

Very short to get it on easily. Your location is probably correct but my memory said thermostat at one end. It was a long time ago and my memory is certainly faulty.
I could of course have found the location on google if I had bothered.

 

[classic33]

I’ll raise you two Muffin the mule and Andy Pandy

Was that legal?

 

[oldwheels]

Yep, and putting a rubber glove over the distributor cap to stop the water from getting in and causing misfires...

I bolted a small metal plate inside the grill just in front of the carb Seemed to work ok.

 

[oldwheels]

Yesterday I discovered mouses in my compost heap. They looked very large, but not large enough to be a rat.

I spose it is an ideal place for them, warmish and dry. I thought about trying to catch them and put them in the field at the end of the garden, but then any baby mice would perish. In my ignorance, I do not know if mice have babies in winter.

If they were not in the compost heap there are plenty of hidey holes in the field. There may be a slow worm hibernating in the compost heap, and he or she will enjoy a meal of fresh mouse. There are some very narrow horizontal gaps between the wooden slats of the compost bin, so that must be how they got in. Every couple of weeks, I thoroughly mix/stir the top ten inches of the compost bin, so I did that by hand yesterday, so as not to chop a mouse in half.

You would think that as a mature wol, I would know what to do. What would you do? Please only answer this question if you are not frightened by mice.

Putting them in the field would not work as they would be straight back again. Doubt if a slow worm could get a large mouse but as usual I could be wrong.
I do have slow worms in my garden hibernating in various heaps of rubbish. Beautiful golden colour ones I found under a sheet of corrugated iron last year.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Did anybody here see the first episode of Doctor Who?

I don't remember if I saw the first one but I definitely watched some of the first series, I've still got my Doctor Who annual from that time.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Wasn't Billy Cotton on Sunday?
Sunday's on TV were boring until after Songs of Praise . I think in the evenings I think it was either Danger Man or The Saint . I can also remember seeing programmes like The Baron and Man in a Suitcase. I can also remember Marker played by Alfred Burke and Calan with Edward Woodward .

I'm sure Billy Cotton was on Saturdays.

 

[Illaveago]

Very short to get it on easily. Your location is probably correct but my memory said thermostat at one end. It was a long time ago and my memory is certainly faulty.
I could of course have found the location on google if I had bothered.

I think it allowed water to pass when the thermostat was closed . It's a long time since college in 1970 .

 

[Mo1959]

You are really digging into the depths of your memory All great programs

I liked Callan….and Ironside with Raymond Burr I think?