Hi ~Alan

Thanks for the tip about the battery. I'll try that. I wonder if Keith cutting the hardtop cable could have caused any current in the rest of the car? It does seem that the airbag is particularly sensitive. We didn't touch the cable but the seat was backwards and forwards quite a bit while he was sorting the hard top.
I'll let you know what happens.
xS

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but the seat was backwards and forwards quite a bit while he was sorting the hard top.

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Ah! that may have been the reason

hubbys method is ignore the light untill he feels like spending the money or the next mot which ever comes first !!!
i have come to like the light there now it looks pretty !!

Hello Karen where you been?

got wraped up in stuff in the house have been reading more than writing, but still here how is the back dare i ask ?

MRI came back as prolapsed disc crushing the nerve socket just waiting for specialists to call for an appointment....

They will turn you into dog meat!!

Still waiting for an MRI appointment - 4-6 weeks, I wish the NHS would stop spending money on IT projects.............

How else would you get paid, you could always swap an MRI for a few hours of project management

Hmmmm, currently 'between' assignments (out of work), there is another 15 days on the horizon but no PO at the moment

Actually beginning to feel a bit apprehensive about work/income for the first time..................although things have a way of sorting themselves out.

LRB and ALAN D

Move to France, - I had a prolapsed disc last year and they had me in hospital the same day for the MRI tests and the operation was carried out three days later

Not a pleasant op, but at least the pain goes away after a few days.

8mths later and I still can't lift anything heavy, but movement is improving daily.

Best of luck guy's

I have been trying to convince my wife that we should move to France but she is having none of it

We have a friend with a house just outside Perpignan, life is soooooo much nicer down there - very few Brit run guest houses and watersport businesses in that area - an industry yet to be tapped into!!


No matter how hard I try she insists on staying in cold, damp, overtaxed, overstressed Blighty!!

One day...........................

1. either leave the wife

or

2. just arrange everything behind her back, sell the house, arrange a movers truck , arrange school, etc, etc what the french call a "fait accompli"
ok, this might result in the reverse of 1. above, but at least you've tried then

Mine wouldn't go either, when I retire we planned to get a 40' cruiser sell everything and go, but now the grand daughter is here she's changing her mind. May move away somewhere but that's another 10 yrs away

Know what you mean Lee, I like that area too. For a while I was down there in the summer for holidays and autumn for the rally (along the cost in Spain a bit).

Sadly I haven't been for a couple of years, but we'll at least be going to Barcelona in October.

just to remain :Offtopic: , a word of advise, and i guess that a few expats will back me up on this:
Moving away of Blighty is not always Purple sunsets and smelling of roses, there is a big difference between going on hols somewhere and going to live and work there. The "cultureshock" is not to be underestimated.
But as long as you try to speak the (local) language, expect different types of corruption then those you get back home, and are prepared to be baffled by (local) tax laws (1) and hate by association(2ab) you'll do fine, after all people are people everywhere, even if they are "not our kind of people"

And whatever you do, do NOT go live somewhere where there are allready a lot of Brits.. you'll end up in mens-clubs and berry-pie baking do-gooders organisations where you'll spend the hours complaining that back home everything is better, that "you cant get the staff overhere", that the local Manuel doesn't speak your language and serves the beer not nearly lukewarm enough, etc.. reminensing the empire actually. :nono:Just dont, ok?!:nono: Or i'll make sure that Jeremy Clarkson becomes your nextdoor neighbour.(3)

(1) Income Tax in UK is actually a lot lower then the rest of Europe, wages are above average and you keep more of what you make. UK Indirect Tax however is scandalous.

(2a) hate by association: it was untill this day still NOT a good idea for Tony to jump in bed with G.W.
(2b) hate by association: two words: football hooligans

(3) all this should be taken with a pitch of salt, just stated for the funny angle, althou of course there is a grain of thruth in it

On the other hand......


..........don't spend loads of time thinking about it, just do it!

Best thing we ever did and from a casual comment "shall we get the hell out of here" to physically moving in to our new home here in France was just 6mths

Of course, it helps if you don't have to work and my new company car is a TRACTOR!

Glynn

BIKER-BITZ said:

On the other hand......


..........don't spend loads of time thinking about it, just do it!

Best thing we ever did and from a casual comment "shall we get the hell out of here" to physically moving in to our new home here in France was just 6mths

Of course, it helps if you don't have to work and my new company car is a TRACTOR!

Glynn

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How did you get into the position of not needing to work???

BIKER-BITZ said:

my new company car is a TRACTOR!:

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Are you one of those farmers now that block the ferry terminals

Mind, you could have some fun in it if it were like this.................

To be fair, I do work a couple of hours each day keeping an eye on my UK business.

With the internet, many more people can now choose to work remotely and relocate to find a better quality of life.

I woke up a few years ago on my 50th Birthday and when I looked in the mirror, VICTOR MELDREW was looking back at me:bang: ..........


....it was definitely time to move out!

As for the tractor, no such luck - mine is a 1958 RED (LRB please note) Ferguson and it is great fun.

We also offer B&B and Fishing Holidays - http://www.chateau-marotte.com/

So if anyone wants to 'try before you buy' life in France, come over for a few days and help me clear out my wine cellar