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    Computer help please 2025

    Great cartoon! The only thing I would change is to add another hammer…unfortunately that is how I get/ feel with computers. I take a few deep breaths, then sit down calmly and fix it, I might add that I have come very close at times to doing some serious damage but am getting much better at it...
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    lost pubs of birmingham video

    So sad and the fact that the pub is so run down makes watching and listening worse!
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    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    We have some flowering plants that have the same problem, I would take a picture but it is too difficult for me!
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    Driving in Days Gone By

    A great example would be plugs, from 2,000 miles to 75,000 or none if you are EV.
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    Driving in Days Gone By

    That’s where I took mine for my motorcycle and car. Lucky for me I learned to drive on my aunts farm in Wales at 12. A blue Fordson Major, petrol & TVO.
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    Driving in Days Gone By

    As long as it looked like oil I used it until I got the MG!
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    Driving in Days Gone By

    Absolutely, although in Japan the cars have names.
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    Driving in Days Gone By

    Yes, I had forgotten gotten about “running in” I wonder where that went too?
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    Driving in Days Gone By

    Those a great memory joggers to start a thread! My first car a 1929 Austin Seven, used as much oil as it did petrol, at least ir did at the time. I only used it on weekends at first because I didn’t have enough money for petrol. My second car was a 1948 MGTC, washed it every weekend, I had no...
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    BSA Norton Triumph Ariel and miscellaneous motorbikes and trikes

    Thank you Pete, I did read that after you posted. Interesting how the HP (not sauce :cool:) always steadily increases.
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    BSA Norton Triumph Ariel and miscellaneous motorbikes and trikes

    49cc, how much power did that put out in those days? If I remember correctly the BSA Bantam 125cc only had a single seat or was recommended for,
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    BSA Norton Triumph Ariel and miscellaneous motorbikes and trikes

    Always kind of liked those, never pulled the trigger on one!
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    BSA Norton Triumph Ariel and miscellaneous motorbikes and trikes

    Unfortunately, Vespa & Lambrettas were a tough act to follow from a design and performance standpoint.
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    BSA Norton Triumph Ariel and miscellaneous motorbikes and trikes

    Love both of those bikes particularly the 441! But therein lies the problem they look just like my 1959 B31. The Japanese invasion was showing smaller displacement high reving engines etc.
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    St Phillips Church Cathedral

    Thank you, I will try that!
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    St Phillips Church Cathedral

    Don’t you love autocorrect: should be “I love old maps” and I should have read before posting.
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    St Phillips Church Cathedral

    I low old maps, so much detail, all by hand. Thank you Janice!
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    St Phillips Church Cathedral

    And me!
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    Watery Lane

    Welcome to BHF Win58, some fine folks here and lots of very good information, enjoy!
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    Kardomah New Street and Colmore Row

    Great article!
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