General Chat

Fuse boxes on PSA group cars are very liable to corrosion, and wet damage.....
they seem to corrode on the underside where you cant easily see, and also the pins on the various relays and plugs deteriorate rapidly

Sorry, folks, I've just been recovering from a bit of a shock since Friday :-(

A while ago the air-con and heater in the car packed up. Car was due for a service so I booked it into a local garage that also advertised repairs to air condition units.

Picked the car up air-con still not working.

I was told by staff that they could not isolate the fault and I'd have to take it to an auto electrician.

Sounded very expensive so I delayed booking the car in anywhere until last Thursday when I went into Bunbury. The day was wet and cold and with no air con or heater the car quickly misted up. (It was a good job I was mobile and not parked up anywhere ;-) :-D :-D)

I was so fed up of having to clear the windscreen that I diverted from my original object in Town and went straight round to an auto electrician to book the car in.

Took it in 8.00am Friday morning and got a call at 10.00am. I sat down expecting the worst when I was cheerfully told that the car was ready for collection.

The main fuse had cracked and broken. It was difficult to spot and even the technician missed it at first :-S

Upshot was that it cost me $82.50, when I was expecting at least a few hundred dollars.

Mind you the car is over ten years old. I've had it from new but don't really want to part with it as it does the job of running me about. We also use it for carting all the smelly garden stuff rather than using OH's rather more modern car for that purpose :-D :-D

who do you think will win the Japanese GP tomorrow?

Hamilberg?
or
Rosberton

(I blanded those two names because the originals are getting bla....boring..)

NOOOOO Caroline. This will go out with a bland :-0

Oh no is this going to be allowed to slowly bland away to nothing...surely not......

I remember those footballs, JoyLousie.

Ah the joy of school sports in the middle of winter wearing nothing but football strip, freezing cold, and the ball, which was heavy enough on its own, getting covered in mud and weighing twice as much. :-| :-|

Bit like Shrove Tuesday traditional football, then Rollo?

Funny you should mention a pigs blander 'cos the very same grandson was asking me about that this week. I was able to tell him that I was around when footballs had a rubber interior ball that had to be inflated. My brothers played with them.

He probably looks at all of us with amazement that we are so ancient. :-0

It's blandingly obvious that I never got beyond 18. :-S

(In spirit that is.)

Footballr was originally a game played over a mile of a village street with a ball made from a pigs blander. ...

As Sue Cash put it - " they crashed through the wall and into the street, kicking and a' gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer"

Old traditions die hard and and Australian Rules Football does its best to keep them bland (not).

One of my grandchildren made himself a ball from rubber blands. :-D

He even picked up the blands left on the drive by the postie. :-D

So much for the power of advertising; I still can't tell on bland from another :-(

Bland 37 then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcppZbspzGY

I am losing the plot :-D heard noisy`s last night it woke me up. thought someone was under my bed ?.Told you All I shouldn't drink (only Tea & coffee ) I feel a Blandy fool :-) :-) ;-)

I had what sounds like the blandest drink around, tonight - a bottle of milk stout (visions of Ena Sharples) It was lovely - but I couldn't drink too many of them.

Barbra, self-inflicted pain ;-) :-D :-D :-D

Drink doesn't agree with me, but then again, neither does the OH :-D :-D :-D

JoyLouise, as said earlier, I like to walk on the wild side :-D :-D

Had a drink of Bucks Fizz tonight cause I was fed up ..wish I hadn't now got a Blandy hadache its throbbing ..just going to lie down with a wet cloth on me hade :-D :-) drink does not agree with me not like some people ;-)

Blandy heck, Allan, you're asking for trouble. :-0 :-D

I'm beginning to find this Thread offensive by it's sheer blandness, and the fact that there appears to be no content to offend people. :-|

That also offends me! :-P

I may just have to RR myself ;-) :-D :-D :-D

Don't worry about your coffin Allan, there's always
Bonfire night ;-) :-D

:-D :-D :-D@Bob

"Quotes for all Occasions"

I've gone off bland flakes, and now on shredded blanded wheat.....