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My vehicles
This is a list of all the vehicles I have owned…cars, vans, motorbikes…. I wish I had kept some of them!!! 1956 Ford Prefect 100E 1959 850 Mini Series 1 Frogeye (bought to restore but never driven) 1938 Morgan 4-4 … Continue reading
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The Killamarsh Workshop
Readers here will know I ‘play’ for a day each week at a worklshop where we restore steam locos. One of our team publishes a newsletter each week, but as we are all on lockdown, he is scratting around for … Continue reading
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A quick survey
Hello! First, thanks for visiting my website. I would be very grateful if you would let me know when, and maybe how often, you look at it, or indeed, if you have any comments. Please e mail me:- richard(AT)british-red-sportscar.co.uk Cheers!
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New Useful Toy
A Bondic Welder! Using a liquid glue which is hardened by the UV light. Apparantly it will bond just about everything! Here, it welded the elephant’s ear back on. Last week, it helped mend an allen key that locks our … Continue reading
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Haunted Disused Railway
Sometimes, and it is scary, walking along the old Unstone Line, which was very busy in its day, moving coal and coke around….as you walk along, you sometimes hear what sounds like a train going by…Scary, or what? A footpath … Continue reading
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Transportable Garden
With this nice weather, and a clear diary, we are spending lots of time in the garden. The raised bed was filling up niceley…but we had some shallots to plant… This is a great use for a big plastic basket…lined … Continue reading
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Where does ‘spare time’ go?
yesterday at the Railway Engine workshop, one of my jobs was polishing a pair of piston oilers from the loco that used to work at the Penryn slate quarry, today with the Bottling Squad at Drone Valley Brewery, my job … Continue reading
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bowing my head in shame!
Just had the Mog’s annual MOT, and to my horror, realised it had done only 2600 miles since the last one! Fair enough, it was off the road for a few weeks while I was having the back axle rebuilt, … Continue reading
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