Morris Minor Owners Club

If the box is out just do the clutch anyway, you might as well!

Maybe it’s just another extremely politically correct posture? Councils are prone to that kind of thing.

I imagine,if she’s a half decent person, that she is probably suffering anyway. But she should come back and face the music,voluntarily. Tragic for all involved.

Reading today’s papers about how miserable rich CEO’s are, and the latest Royal family issues, I think they’d all be happier with an old car to play around with!

I’d seal the backs with diluted PVA , to resist damp. Unless the car is kept inside and warm.

Thinking back, I should have been able to sort it out. But I got a bit of a brain fart because of the weather and the location. Hindsight is wonderful.

An enchanted stream is a nice thought

They gave us an estimated arrival time of 4-5 hours. We explained that we were in a dangerous situation, but that cut no ice. It was wet and freezing and their advice was to put on our hazard lights and leave the car. She couldn’t get her head around the fact that the car doesn’t have hazard lights!...

My ‘61 saloon and ‘55 A30 have never had belts fitted. I regularly agonise whether to butcher them and install a safety feature that must be of questionable value, given the the design and construction of the cars. Must say, it feels naughty and oddly exhilarating to drive legally without belts. Bon...

Generally, the bigger the company,the worst the customer service. Small businesses value and care for their customers. When I sold my business to a big FTSE 100 company, I was appalled by their customer service and their care towards our staff. Couldn’t understand why they paid good money to buy a f...

No offence taken Chris. After all these years it’s still very raw.

Public transport is surely the answer in towns and cities.
Hopeless out in the countryside.

Les the reason the fox kills more than one chicken is to silence the others.A fox is only looking for food and doesn't rely on chickens and if they were locked up properly there would be no problem .The way animals are treated in this country is disgusting ie Halal Kosher slaughter is a barbaric wa...

I get all that Les. It’s just difficult when you have to clear up something that looks like the aftermath of the Somme.
Put us off keeping hens. We don’t half miss proper fresh,free range eggs

We’ve got lots of old vhs stuff of the kids when they were little. Must do something sensible with it. It never got edited in the day.

We shouldn’t judge animals by human ethical standards,of course. When we kept chickens we wanted them to roam free and have a happy time...they are really fun,interesting birds. The difficulty though,is that the more freedom that they have it becomes very difficult to protect them from predators. Fo...

I’m a bit more optimistic than you Chris. I think the vast majority of people are fundamentally decent and caring.
Animals now, love them dearly but anyone who has seen the aftermath of a fox attack on a chicken run will appreciate the old adage ‘red in tooth and claw’.

[quote=Blaketon post_id=647284 time=1577093689 user_id=2171 As to old mines, they will eventually close up, as they are under pressure from all sides; even the floor is trying to rise. The mining engineer told me that when he has been in areas, where coal mines have closed, sometimes they will dig u...

We broke down recently at twilight, on a dangerous bit of road. All the signs of fuel pump failure. Turned out to be seriously degraded inside of the fuel pipe...it had turned to black mush. From the outside it looked fine. The poor pump couldn’t shift fuel through the muck. New,ethanol resistant, f...

Working for the Coal Board, Opencast, in the early’70’s, we used land rovers to the limit of their ability. We were basically quarrying coal and the mines were no place for wimps. Windscreens got shattered a lot and the local garage just used to cut new ones for us and replace them while you waited....