onna hedgehog…
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Blinking Baltic weather here
I think the Poles and Latvians we have here must be the ones to consult about staying warm in this weather
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Certainly a Czech car is more likely to have things like heated seats…
Any tiggy worth its salt will devour all the cheese and tomato, growl menacingly, then vanish down a hole half its size.
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I want a Yeti
Great suv from Skoda
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With the way our roads are going, we’ll need one soon.
Though wot I really want is
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Planning an invasion wee birdie?
Or do you just want to keep the gin safe?
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My dream vehicle is a Landie like this
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Or this
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“Oh no! We’re stuck half-way up this mountain and we’ve run out of booze”
VodkaSparrer to the rescue!
[grokot*][grokot][grokot][grokot][grokot]
* Russian for “rumble”
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By the way I used to drive those landies with real petrol bombs etc
I loved them
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Did they have heating by that time?
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No
The heating was good for the driver and front seat passenger as the insulation on the engine bay was removed to allow armour plating so the engine heat was transferred to the front where your feet were and a small bit got to your hands from the windscreen demister
Passenger comfort was not an issue thought necessary by the procurers of the vehicles
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When they did introduce heating for the whole vehicle, the comments from Army sergeants were apparently, erm, Interesting.
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I remember the delights of unheated vehicles with horror
Despite my thermals there was a gap twixt skirt and shoes with only tights trying to cover me that froze
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The fatuity of skirts featuring in any sort of ‘active duty’ uniform *makes me grind me teeth.
*The somewhat vulgar ‘boils my piss’ would be both perfect and totally inaccurate here
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Try clambering over a 40 tonne articulated lorry to check it ain’t a bomb wearing uniform shoes with leather soles a just knee length skirt tunic hat and flak jacket!
I was so glad when trousers and NATO jumpers with waterproof jackets were introduced
And I wore DM shoes too
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Couldn’t drive a Landrover to save my life (who knows, perhaps to save my life, I actually could!) But I’m rather proud of myself for wrangling this beastie after we had a foot of snow yesterday:
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(((((Envy)))))
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It was my first go, too! Mr Janie and I have decided to do our own driveway this year since our usual helper can’t. So far so good and luckily it was a mild day yesterday. Rather a fun experience as the neighbours (male of course) all stopped to give advice: “Ah, I see the augers are clear, you need to give it more power, then it won’t keep choking up with snow” and so on. I shall work ‘auger’ into the conversation as much as possible from now on.
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How unusual kind.
Isn’t an auger a little boring tool? Hmm, ‘rearrange these words to…’
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