14 hours in a defender - without a radio

My radio is busted in the disco, but luckily, my mobile (nokia E61) has a loudspeaker function, and a 1Gb card means quite a few tracks on random play.

Ok, its not big, and its not clever, but stops me going potty as I just need something

My 6230i can also do the loudspeaker thing

Si

Get a bigger set of headphones that fit all round your ear rather than in it - they don't hurt so much but then you cannot hear buggarawl else so if a bit of the car or trailer goes 'boing' you'll miss it.

I can claim 16 hours in a Ser2a Limoges - Dover - England but using chainsaw ear defenders - nothing went boing on me and I could still hear afterwards (although the trembling in my hands and feet was still there days later)

You anywhere near Solva?

Graeme

Depending on the trim level, it might not be worth it! I fitted a radio in mine but with no carpets and a hard top (at the time) I couldn't really hear it unless I was playing loud dance music. My goon show collection was unplayable, or any other comedy or spoken word audio.

Dave R uttered summat worrerz funny about:

12volt Ghetto and some banging tunes?

A shell on each ear...listen to the sea for 14 hours... get back well chilled ;-)

Sabotage the Defender and swipe the gaffers posh whatever for the trip.

Post it. (Derek?)

Sail it around and catch the train back

If above is too expensive use the canal system,claim to be a pikey of the seas if stopped by the Duck patrol. I'd believe you ;-)

Tell the customer it's ready for collection, they can borrow the defender if they like.

Unbolt the roof off the defender , whip off the windscreen, apply smock and don shorts, pull off the doors and bolt on a effin big gun, spay it all green and black and at every fuel stop crawl in the kiosk muttering "water....water" - It'll be a giggle if nowt else.

Lee D

BTW I tried a friend's noise-cancelling headphones, they made very little difference, just can't cope with a Defender on muds being driven at 70MPH ;-)

Yeah not for away, it's only about 10-15 miles, but that translates to about 40-45 minutes drive because of the holiday traffic

Dave

*Like it *and look like Princess Leia on the M4, no thanks

I'd rather drive the defender with no radio, than his Mitsubishi posh thing

*Haven't had that special thing through the post about sizes / weights yet *It's got no engine, or sails *But no-one else would *unfortunately it's a dealers boat for his stock, last time he tried to take a boat fromr us he wiped out the side of the boat on our gatepost *i'll think about that last statement for the trip to Sheffield, by the time I get back I might have worked out what you meant. Thanks, now I have something to do!

Dave

Well I can't see why you can't count Eddies or Salveson trucks, could be fun trying to remember which ones you are counting and the totals over half a dozen or so truckinmg lines. Make it hard by having to sub count the actual firm the distribution wagons are working for. Or the pub game (if off motorways), when you are out count it as a reward pint for when you arrive. B-)

On or around Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:40:01 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice" enlightened us thusly:

There's a good game to play these days - see how many different nationalities you can spot. We got 7 on a trip up to creepytown last year.

|| On 7 Aug 2006 06:30:38 -0700, Dave R wrote: || ||| Any "no mates" in car games suggestion will be appreciated!!! || || Well I can't see why you can't count Eddies or Salveson trucks,

Ah yes, Eddies, Norberts and Willies. Do Eddies still have a female name signwritten across the front? Great fun trying to read those mirror-fashion in the nearside wing mirror before the kids could read it.

Don't worry bout the size Dave- it'll be the cost that'll make you swallow very hard, if it fits in or on a truck we can and have moved it- longest one I arranged was 65 ft long from Ulster to Amsterdam. that was when we wuz AEI and I was the transport manager now we iz DHL( Global) god alone knows whats on the move. If you have an MP3 jobby nip down the pound shop and get some comfy head phones I got myself a Rio which has those phones that hang off your ears like little bats ( keep away from Ozzy just in case) comfy enough for a couple of hours when that TiT Chris Evans is polluting Drivetime or do the ghetto blaster on the seat thing I did that in my first Mini until I got a cradle to hang me radio cassette under the dash.Good luck either way and if you see a DHL 7 tonner with a big eff off butterfly on the grille give me a wave I'll be in warp drive thursday heading south Derek Kato Disco 200tdi

On or around Mon, 7 Aug 2006 21:40:40 +0100, "Richard Brookman" enlightened us thusly:

yep. all different, allegedly.

dunno about the Norberts and Willis.

If you do a lot of motorwaying with the kids on board, join the eddies spotters club, you can then log the ones that you have seen on the website against the list provided of live lorries (and you can look them up via reg, lorry ID number and name)

er, i'll get my coat

Si

That's where I was a couple of weeks ago. My parents live there so we always take the boys down for a week in the summer. The old roundabout in the lower playground is vicious though - youngest son ended up short of a front tooth there this time, at the fun day raising money for new playground equipment!

Lizzy

On or around Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:20:23 +0100, LizzyTaylor enlightened us thusly:

they're busy emasculating roundabouts. Used to be that you could get several largeish types on one, sitting around the edge (this was one about

10' across), speed it up as fast as you could, then all at a suitable signal pull yourselves into the middle - conservation of momentum then accelerated it nicely. We also did one once by winding about 50' of rope around it and me pulling on it to spin it up.

I reckon we got 'em up to about 60 rpm... never got around to attaching rope and pulling it with the car.

They're putting governors on 'em now so they can't go too fast. wimps.

The problem with this one was it was designed to be pushed from within, as well as the edge and Jonathan couldn't keep up with the big lads and got trampled, wouldn't listen to me (so what's new), tried pushing again, caught his mouth as he went down, but came up clutching his tooth! I'm not anti roundabout, but the design was flawed for a mixture of pushing abilities. He'll have better technique next time he comes across a roundabout.

I don't know if you saw the video on the beeb website recently of some kids on a roundabout while someone put the rear wheel of a petrol scooter on it and powered it around! One girl shot off, they had a rent-a-pundit on who went on about how lethal it was and how they could easily have died, dangerous for sure but one of his chief concerns was that one of the kids could have "gone under the wheels" of the moped, which was stationary, it seems that wheels of vehicles are lethal to the touch even when parked and weighing bugger all.

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:25:19 +0100, LizzyTaylor scribbled the following nonsense:

he's just making full use of his improved mobility, after all he has been told to make sure he exercises, and he probably saw pushing the roundabout as exercise!

I'll keep a look out. I was teaching a lorry driver on a powerboat course today and he reckons 7 hours each way(!) So i reckon I need to be on the road for 6am, then M4, M50, M5, M42, M1, and then all the way back again. Keep a look out for a green 90 Td5 with one of these on the back.......

Also look out for driver slowly rocking back and forth in the drivers seat, dribbling and bleeding from the ears.......

Dave