Buxton and District Playday September

Well despite my car transporter trailer being out of action , Jame decided that he was going to Drive Meg to the BAD play day at hartington quarry to take part in the play day

We followed along in my defender with a few tools to cover any repairs he may need , it was a nice pleasent drive through the countryside taking the back roads , MEG the series 2a looked in her element on the tight country lanes

Meg was the oldest land rover there by far and i reckon the only series vehicles despite this she had no problems at all going almost everywhere that the defenders went indeeed she did out perform a few defenders

Video coming soon on youtube

Offroading with the Landies

Spent a few hours a couple of Weekends ago setting up a bit of a course on some of the rough land on the farm , Will got to play with his V8 Hybrid "Rhubarb" whilst James put his Series 2A "Meg through her paces

I have to Say Meg performed very well for a simple leafer running the standard 2.1/4 petrol engine and went place i am sure she has never made it before , i have to say i made it clear round on my first attempt in both vehicles

Always good to piss the kids off being a better driver than them but for how long i can only guess

Fuel Duty Petition

I think it is fair to say that we are all feeling the effects of the rising cost of fuel and we all know that the price of crude oil has risen vastly over the last 12 months but lets face it the problem with the price of fuel here in the UK is the Duty (TAX) that the goverment puts on it

Fuel is a Cash cow for this goverment which year on year consistanly increases the duty content to pay for what ever it wants to waste OUR money on but the point is the chancellor has been raking in big increases in the VAT content whilst the price rises just look at the rough examples below to see the huge increase in revenue the VAT has been bringing in

96p VAT Content 16.8 pence
£1.30 VAT Content 22.8 pence

Thats an increase of 35% in VAT Revenue

Now let the goverment tell you they cant afford to drop the fuel duty by a few pence

There just ripping us all off

Everything we buy be it goods or food etc has an element of carriage in it EVERYTHING and this means prices will keep rising unless something is done

Sign the petition below and at least protest peacefully but let them know that we cant continue like this

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Lowerduty30/

Update at Last Lots of Landy Stuff

Well its been ages since i was able to sit down and find the time to post to my blog been too damn busy out in the real world with lots of projects on the go plus been helping out my 2 lads with there projects mostly landy related of course


We bought a cheap well used and very battered hybrid V8 land rover some months ago for Will to get some experience driving before he hit 17 and is set loose on the highway , its a bit of an oil burner but boy its it one heck of an off road beast

Work has stopped on the lightweight hybrid as it doesn't appear that simple to put the air portable body on the shortened range rover chassis much head scratching going on at moment if you have experience at doing this swap please contact me with any help you may have


A old 3.9EFI range rover was sourced on eBay for a couple of hundred quid as a power source but has been flogged around the rough farm a few times for fun


More landy stuff coming soon including video

Ipaq Bluetooth Dial up Problems on SE Mobile Phones

I have for a number of years used an Ipaq to keep myself in touch with my email , documents and office related stuff , this has been especially useful when on the move

but on upgrading to a newer model i came across a familiar problem that i have had a number of times ever since i changed to a Sony Ericsson mobile phone

I was trying to set the ipaq to dial up to the internet using the mobile access number given to me by my ISP, but although i followed the networking wizard the ipaq would connect to the mobile phone no problem but would not actually dial a telephone number

Much head scratching was done and although i remember having the same problem every time i reformatted my ipaq in the past i could not under any circumstances discover how to connect the ipaq to my mobile phone and make it dial up the access number

A few hours searching the internet and i found a vague post that made me remember what you have to do amazingly its so very very simple

So for anyone with a ipaq or pocket pc device that cannot get it to dial up to the internet with a sony ericsson mobile phone heres what you have to do , go into the dial up settings then Advance /Extra String commands in here put the letter z

Now try again and this should cure the problem , simple but effective i would think this works for most SE phones (Sony Ericsson) but definitely works with mine which is a S600i

Bike Radar MYB Post

I have for a year or so been a member of a great mountain biking website called Bike Radar

this morning i received one of there routine weekly email newsletters which contains the details of new gear and bikes been tested etc , but what really caught my eye was a post by a guy calling himself Old Git on a Bike

The gist of the post was that he had put on lots of weight due to self imposed lack of activity and that he had become very unfit as a result , he age was remarkably close to mine too

Reading the post made me think that i should take the advice posted by other members in relation to this thread and get out and replace my aging steel framed MTB for the GT Avalanche that i have been longing to buy since my old Raleigh showed signs of falling to pieces last year in my summer rides to help with my fitness and back problems

Using a bike to recover my fitness seems the best way to go as my back problem coupled with too much weight has left me unable to run any longer

I wonder with dedication how long could it take to loose 3 stone and recover a good level of fitness i will monitor this progress and will post up to date info an any progress on my fitness blog

A Return to Blogging

OK so its been a long long time since i posted anything to any of my blogs , so long its almost a year on this blog and even longer on some of my other blogs

Why you may ask well its not that i am never on the old PC in fact i am often on the PC in any spare time that i may have but the plain old fact is i have been really busy over the last year or so with many new projects and some old ones

My web site which this blog is hosted on is undergoing a complete rebuild and rebranding with a whole new look , work on my freelance webdesign business has been increasing and as ever i like to offer my paying customers effective services which takes a lot of research but more importantly but this has paid off with a number of 1st page listings on google for clients

If a surfer cant find your website via google then theres little point having one !!!

Anyway lots more to come