Recent content by Wheelsnuts

Good choice. Weill probably make you feel 10 years younger. Welcome to the forum.

Hello John. A warm welcome to the forum.

Hello Ziggy. Welcome to the forum.

Hello Alex. Welcome to the forum.

Extremely annoying but I don't see that you have the evidence to make the claim stick and the insurance route is almost certainly going to cost you more than £40.

I took my 93 year old mother to see the Sunderland air show this summer. When the Lancaster made a very low pass almost overhead she burst into tears. She is not someone to be moved easily but she was a nurse in York during the war and looked after many of the "bomber boys". It all came...

My wife has a Fitbit and finds it a useful incentive to get active. However, there is no doubt that it under counts her steps and when she is pushing a supermarket trolley (one of her main forms of exercise!) it doesn't count the steps at all! My Apple watch appears to be a bit more accurate...

An interesting experiment but I remain to be convinced that the advantages will outweigh the problems.

Yes, they should refer to specific timeframes, though the terms are often loosely interpreted these days. The definitions can be Googled but I recollect them from qualifying categories in various car and motorcycle events, such as rallies and hill climbs, which I used to attend. Renault12ts...

My dad did a bit of steel erecting and never worried about heights or safety gear. He reckoned that whether you were 50 feet or 500 feet in the air, the consequences of a fall were likely to be much the same!

I understood the accepted definitions to be "veteran" before WW1, "vintage" between 1918 and 1930, "post vintage" or sometimes "PVT" (post-vintage thoroughbred) up to WW2 and "classic" for the 40s and 50s, though the term has since been loosely extended to cover later vehicles?

Eat all, sup all, pay nowt Hear all, see all, pay nowt and if thee ever does out for nowt, Do it for thisen.

I remember reading in Nevil Shute's autobiography, "The Slide Rule" (a great read by the way), that his parents continued to take the family on holiday to the south of France during the early days of WW1. I thought that was amazing.

My grandad was a Yorkshire lad who fought in the trenches and I know he was at Arras. He lived to the ripe old age of 89 but he never said much about his experiences. However he kept a little pill box containing the bullet they dug out of him.

Nice start indeed! Difficult to remain calm in that sort of situation, knowing that whatever you say would just add fuel to the fire.