My Cars: Citroen C5 Tourer 2.2 HDi Exclusive 173 6speed (daily family practical wagon), Peugeot 406 Coupe SE 2.0 137 5speed (& originally auto), (former daily off the road for some TLC) Peugeot 206 GTi-HDi 1.6 110 5speed (my wife's daily) Peugeot 306 HDi Dturbo 2.0 90 5speed (long term project to reinstate inner wings, former daily. Too sentimental to let it go!)
Where's the meet? I didn't quite get it at the end. Surely keeping a car alive as long as possible would help the planet more than making a new one....
To tie in with Gibbo's picture of a snowy Gloucestershire morn and Neil's picture of clart, here's a couple of Met Office maps of what we've been up against recently.
The first one shows February 2024 rainfall compared to average......
Met Office Feb rainfall - Met Office
....and this one shows winter 2024 sunshine levels compared to a 30 year average.
Looks like I am in the dry part of the country.
Not today though, brilliant sunshine until the washing machine was done, then constant rain since.
As it was yesterday, all the washing that was almost dry was re-soaked for me.
Rp0thejester wrote: ↑05 Mar 2024, 22:12
How do I convert MP4 videos to the ones this forum will accept?
Upload them to your YouTube channel and then post the link to the video on YouTube... If you have a Giggle account, you'll have a YouTube channel by default...
Jim
Runner, cyclist, time triallist, duathlete, Citroen AX fan and the CCC Citroenian 'From A to Z' Columnist...
There is a Thread Called "Stellantis" on the OTCL to mop up Stellantis News. I havent been there with my wheelbarrow and gardening gloves for a while. One of the last bits of interesting content I planted there was this
The type of car in reality Stellantis will never make...one of their brands though.
Mentioned in the parking thread.
Every Thursday for the last couple of years I've picked up Jean from her home and ferried her to the hairdressers in my village then we've had a fish and chip lunch at my place before going to Tesco for her weekly shop.
Last week all as usual but on Friday I got a call from her son, "Jean isn't well and I've called an ambulance."
Saturday morning "Jean has passed, the ambulance took three hours to arrive, both of her sons had repeatedly dialed 999 and been told "We're coming as fast as we can." after two hours her younger son was getting angry and was told by the telephonist not to shout or swear.
Finally the ambulance arrived and the crew said her blood pressure was low and 'Maybe we ought to take her in."
It's a forty minute drive to the hospital, Jean is still conscious and talking but in great abdominal pain, at the hospital the crew are told "too busy keep her in the ambulance and wait" , after three hours waiting Jean is losing consciousness and her son says the crew have panic in their eyes and ignore the wait instruction rush her inside, then all the bells and lights go off and they're performing CPR, Jean's gone.
Her sons have a grumble about all the delays but are told that even if she had been seen immediately the result would have been the same, she had bled out internally from a ruptured aorta.
RIP Jean.,
Man is, by nature, a lazy beast, he does not need twice encouraging to do nothing.
