Hi Folks
Really sad news to start with, two weeks ago my
Father-in-Law died, Tom had a fantastic life and died very peacefully in
hospital Noreen and I were with him and he had received the sacraments. Tom was
one of those all too rare characters a legend in his own time, Loved and Respected
over 70 years in the scouting movement of which I spent about 30 with him on
various teams and projects he was not just my Father-in Law he was one of my
best mates and I will miss him.
Only a couple of weeks now before we set sail for ????????? Leaving that bit blank as who knows were we
will end up. As I have said before travelling the system is one of those operations
when its not the destination but the journey that counts.
I have attached a pi of me at my last Work Shop I did at
Scaeisbrick it was a really good day I managed to raise £52.00 for Air
Ambulance that cant be bad can it I hope to fit another one in before we move
off. Its frantic now getting things ready I would like it to be a little warmer
as I need to paint the gunnels and so blacking I also have quite a lot of
varnishing to do and of course the engine needs a service. Today I have
redesigned my TV aerial this time I believe that I have cracked it, only being
out on the cut will prove or disprove my new design.
Before I go let me indulge myself in a little RANT.
In the past few months I have done quite a lot of motorway
driving, not great distances only 40 miles at a time, now before I start my
rant, I must say that I was an HGV class
two driver (Army) so I do speak from the heart, But I have become more aware of
practice of HGVs overtaking other HGVs
Why oh Why do they do it? One wagon
cruising at 58mph attracts other HGVs like bees to a honey pot they just cannot
resist the thrill of overtaking whilst doing an extra 5 mph more now my
calculation is that it would take aprox 20 mins to complete that manoeuvre (my maths are not good but you get the picture
) Is it machoism that makes these idiots block two lanes of a busy motorway
just to prove that his engine can pull
5pmh more that the other and lets face it 90% of the time they have to pull
back in because they start to go down hill. I find the whole thing bloody annoying
that our motorway system is being choked up by morons who for no other reason,
other than they can because there is no law against it, irritate everyone
around them by pathetic egotistical stupidity
and showing disrespect and discourtesy to other road users
Because they are big they consider themselves better, more
important, and above the normal rules of common sense. Lets have a new road law
that prohibits HGVs overtaking unless they can do it in a reasonable distance
that does not hinder the flow of normal traffic
Rant Over
God Bless
Big Al
New design Celtic art is In
Barrels were a commission Job
