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MorkC68
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 Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2024 12:49 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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rule number one is no falling, mork. a rule i break regularly. so far i’ve only broken the rule.
wishing you a full recovery, and more adventures in your bus to share with us. |
Thanks Tom!
No more falls, I promise  Got lots of catching up to do next year so I need to be prepared!
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NASkeet
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| Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2024 12:46 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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| dodger tom wrote: |
rule number one is no falling, mork. a rule i break regularly. so far i’ve only broken the rule.
wishing you a full recovery, and more adventures in your bus to share with us. |
One of the advantages of judo & ju jitsu training, is that one learns how to fall in ways which avoid or at least minimise injury.
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Independent tutor (semi-retired) of mathematics, physics, technology & engineering for secondary, tertiary, further & higher education.
Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper
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dodger tom 
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| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2024 2:27 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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rule number one is no falling, mork. a rule i break regularly. so far i’ve only broken the rule.
wishing you a full recovery, and more adventures in your bus to share with us.
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MorkC68
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Joined: December 23, 2015
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Location: Nottingham, England
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| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2024 1:48 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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Nice! Thanks for sharing but sorry to hear that you haven't been healthy.
My oldest son was in the UK with work back in the Spring for 6 weeks and while in Newcastle, he attended a VW event there. A real mix of both LHD and RHD Buses and Vans from T1s up to T5s. |
Thank you, I'm on the mend now, I broke my elbow in five places & had surgery, which was annoying.
Glad you like the pics, always nice to hear.
The UK has some lovely places, sounds like your son enjoyed his stay, Newcastle is quite a vibrant city. |
If you broke your elbow in FIVE places, you are lucky to be recovering from such an injury; a sentiment which would probably have been echoed by my father (died from motor neurone disease in September 2011), who was a GP for 25 years from 1964 to 1989.
How did you manage to sustain such an injury!?! I suspect you now have quite a collection of plates & screws, which will set off the airport security alarms. I wonder whether one can have one's passport endorsed with such information!?! |
Its not an if..it was confirmed by Mr Bidwai (Hand Specialist at Kingsmill Hospital) in x-rays. The radial head was broke in three, which has been implanted, another broken bone pinned and the third bone, again pinned.
Bearing in mind I broke it mid may, I was off work until august and then on light duties, was not allowed to drive until early september and even now, I have no dexterity in my right hand, stiff wrist and limited movement on my right arm extensional & rotational, which may never have the use it had pre accident.
1 1/2 hrs physio / week and daily exercises are slowly making improvements.
I fell om a walk, landing on my camera which in turn got in between me and the elbow which had all my weight on it rather quickly.
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NASkeet
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Location: South Benfleet, Essex, UK
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| Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2024 4:48 am Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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Nice! Thanks for sharing but sorry to hear that you haven't been healthy.
My oldest son was in the UK with work back in the Spring for 6 weeks and while in Newcastle, he attended a VW event there. A real mix of both LHD and RHD Buses and Vans from T1s up to T5s. |
Thank you, I'm on the mend now, I broke my elbow in five places & had surgery, which was annoying.
Glad you like the pics, always nice to hear.
The UK has some lovely places, sounds like your son enjoyed his stay, Newcastle is quite a vibrant city. |
If you broke your elbow in FIVE places, you are lucky to be recovering from such an injury; a sentiment which would probably have been echoed by my father (died from motor neurone disease in September 2011), who was a GP for 25 years from 1964 to 1989.
How did you manage to sustain such an injury!?! I suspect you now have quite a collection of plates & screws, which will set off the airport security alarms. I wonder whether one can have one's passport endorsed with such information!?!
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Independent tutor (semi-retired) of mathematics, physics, technology & engineering for secondary, tertiary, further & higher education.
Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper
Onetime member, plus former Technical Editor & Editor of Transporter Talk magazine
Volkswagen Type 2 Owners' Club (Great Britain)
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MorkC68
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Joined: December 23, 2015
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Location: Nottingham, England
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| Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2024 12:30 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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Nice! Thanks for sharing but sorry to hear that you haven't been healthy.
My oldest son was in the UK with work back in the Spring for 6 weeks and while in Newcastle, he attended a VW event there. A real mix of both LHD and RHD Buses and Vans from T1s up to T5s. |
Thank you, I'm on the mend now, I broke my elbow in five places & had surgery, which was annoying.
Glad you like the pics, always nice to hear.
The UK has some lovely places, sounds like your son enjoyed his stay, Newcastle is quite a vibrant city.
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Shonandb
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| Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 3:39 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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Nice! Thanks for sharing but sorry to hear that you haven't been healthy.
My oldest son was in the UK with work back in the Spring for 6 weeks and while in Newcastle, he attended a VW event there. A real mix of both LHD and RHD Buses and Vans from T1s up to T5s.
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MorkC68
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| Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 1:52 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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I have a few jobs to do on the bus over winter in readiness for 2025.
I hope next year sorts itself out!
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MorkC68
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| Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 1:49 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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The weather was great whilst we was at the event, we left before the midlands (central UK) got caught up in heavy rain.
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MorkC68
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| Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 1:44 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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I cant believe its been a year since I last posted, 2024 has seen us do one night away in the bus. To be fair, this year has been shite health-wise.
Our one and only trip was to Techenders with the guys from www.thelatebay.com joined by a few from the Split Screen Van Club.
Enjoy!
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MorkC68
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2023 1:33 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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North of the central lowlands, Scotland is very sparsely populated, so mobile telephone coverage is probably rather patchy, especially in the wilder areas away from the coast, so I hope you took your AA or RAC telephone-box key with you, assuming they are still being maintained by British Telecom as an essential telecommunications service.
https://www.caradviser.co.uk/breakdown-cover/the-aa/the-aa-call-boxes/
https://www.britishtelephones.com/kioskinfo/aaboxes.htm
Public telephone boxes also seem to be in decline, so one might need to invest in a satellite telephone, when touring in remote areas, in case of medical or mechanical-failure emergency. |
To be fair to EE (Im not a fan but hey) we never went without signal either this trip or last years trip, O2 was a bit hit and miss.
Maybe they have invested in the infrastructure.
All was well...
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NASkeet
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2023 1:23 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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North of the central lowlands, Scotland is very sparsely populated, so mobile telephone coverage is probably rather patchy, especially in the wilder areas away from the coast, so I hope you took your AA or RAC telephone-box key with you, assuming they are still being maintained by British Telecom as an essential telecommunications service.
https://www.caradviser.co.uk/breakdown-cover/the-aa/the-aa-call-boxes/
https://www.britishtelephones.com/kioskinfo/aaboxes.htm
Public telephone boxes also seem to be in decline, so one might need to invest in a satellite telephone, when touring in remote areas, in case of medical or mechanical-failure emergency.
Back in the late-1950s & early-1960s, when we lived in Dundee, we used to tour parts of Scotland in my father's late-1940s vintage, second-hand, two-door, Morris 8 Series E saloon (i.e. sedan). This is the car which immediately preceded his new 1964 VW 1200 Type 1 Beetle, purchased for circa £500 from SMT - Scottish Motor Traders in Dundee.
The bridge in the photograph of my father’s Morris 8 Series E, is probably Creagan Railway Viaduct in western Scotland, which in the late 1990s was radically re-engineered as a road bridge for the A828, reusing the original stone support columns; the railway branch line having been closed in 1966, following the “Beeching Cuts”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creagan_Bridge
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2715257
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Independent tutor (semi-retired) of mathematics, physics, technology & engineering for secondary, tertiary, further & higher education.
Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper
Onetime member, plus former Technical Editor & Editor of Transporter Talk magazine
Volkswagen Type 2 Owners' Club (Great Britain)
https://vwt2oc.co.uk
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MorkC68
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 1:35 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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As we explored more, we found out that some of the old buildings around the harbour had been used in Peaky Blinders, the scenes where Michael Gray gets killed and the car explodes.
Hopefully these capture the essence?
And that was the end, time for home..
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MorkC68
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By now we was thinking about our time coming to an end in Scotland but we had one more stay and that was in Portsoy. We had never been before and as we drove over, the landscape wasn't the same (obviously) and we preferred the western side. However, when we explored and met a few locals, what a place, we was quite taken by it and got welcomed by the locals in The Shore Inn.
https://portsoylinks.org/
Another campsite overlooking the ocean, nice site but a bit busy for us. That said, we would stay there again but midweek.
And this is the view..
Around the harbour.
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MorkC68
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 1:01 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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One thing we did feel quite honoured to see was a family of Seals basking on some rocks and a pod of Dolphins going back out to the Moray Firth.
Although Chanonry Point is renowned for watching Dolphins, I think they avoided us and we fell lucky as this was one in six times to go see them!!
The lighthouse did make a good black and white photo subject!
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MorkC68
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 12:37 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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Sadly our time on the west came to an end for now.
Moving over to the east coast in Fortrose, we went over via Garve and Dingwall, and we bumped into the one and only Mr Simon Friend, Levellers legendary guitarist. What a pleasure!
Douglas was exited (ok more for his bonio??) and I was gobsmacked!
https://www.fortrosebaycampsite.co.uk/
We love Fortrose and again, when we walked into the town for a meal and a few drinks, we felt welcomed and the locals chatted to us.
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Shonandb
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 12:23 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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The views are spectacular! I'm sure it's pretty rare to see it so sunny and calm.
I'll have to tag along the next time my Son needs to fly to Aberdeen on business and rent a car and go exploring.
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MorkC68
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 12:22 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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| thanks for the ride through the other side of the pond. |
Thank you Tom, much appreciated!
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MorkC68
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 12:21 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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Lurkers on'th beach 
Next door to the campsite is an old churchyard, a memorial to the local war heroes, the church was in ruins but the graves well kept. I took a moment to sit, think about lost family and friends. Not a bad place to rest.
and another cracking sunset!
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MorkC68
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 12:04 pm Post subject: Re: Hello from the UK! |
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yet more amazing sunsets..
Moody fishing shots, just beacuse!!
Gruinard Bay was our last stop on the western side and we arrived there in rather windy conditions, so much so, we didn't put the awning up else it would have been blown to Ullapool..luckily the next day, sun came out and we enjoyed the location.
http://www.gruinardbay.co.uk/
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