Saviem:
Evening all,It is like heaven, the smell, the Birds, and to feel a tractor moving under you, when I never even believed that I could do it again…I`m overjoyed…
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Know that feeling. I can completely empathise with you. If I can spend my last moments mowing hay, I’m sure I would die happy. Robert
Mowing this weekend hopefully. Heatwave forecast for next week! yay!!!
robert1952:
If I can spend my last moments mowing hay, I’m sure I would die happy. Robert
I was off the this afternoon to cut the paddock with the Fergie, don’t think I’ll bother having read your post Robert,… l might snuff it, I’m too young to die ! 
To scared to go and cut the paddock, so stayed in wrapped in cotton wool and a blanket, I’m not dying to-day, mowing grass or otherwise 
Here’s a couple of pics.
Berliets…take your pick
A Moody shot of a beauriful old Scania
Now, I like lorries with bonnets and Id love to have a drive in one, but this poor old girl, I really think only a mother could love it, it’s redeeming feature is, it’s AEC 200 hp engine…
Keeping the old girl clean, been there, done it…including the white rims around the wheels, sad really !!
An N88 from around the mid-sixties
Fergie47:
Now, I like lorries with bonnets and Id love to have a drive in one, but this poor old girl, I really think only a mother could love it, it’s redeeming feature is, it’s AEC 200 hp engine…
Keeping the old girl clean, been there, done it…including the white rims around the wheels, sad really !!
An N88 from around the mid-sixties
Looks like to me that the traffic office has just told that driver he’s on nights with that motor next week and he’s “broke down” in tears wondering what he’s done wrong eh! Cheers Dennis.
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Evening all,
Blooming, Bifocalist Specsavers discount specials…cannot see to drive this electronic trickery, let alone read a book…technology is passing me by…as are most things!
Fergie, is the above picture of our friend Michel`s, sons Shark Nose Willeme Wine Tanker? The black and white makes it look old, but is it a recent picture?
Beautiful lorry anyway,what a wonderful lorry to own!
D`ont be hard on the Willeme, she just does not photograph well, but that Horizon based cab was quite a comfortable place to work. Is that a Kenworth T800 to her left? Now if you wish for an uncomfortable cab that one is a masterpiece of non ergonomic engineering!
Get out on your Fergie, one of agricultures best tractors!
Enjoy yourself,
Cheerio for now.
Saviem:
Evening all,Blooming, Bifocalist Specsavers discount specials…cannot see to drive this electronic trickery, let alone read a book…technology is passing me by…as are most things!
Fergie, is the above picture of our friend Michel`s, sons Shark Nose Willeme Wine Tanker? The black and white makes it look old, but is it a recent picture?
Beautiful lorry anyway,what a wonderful lorry to own!
D`ont be hard on the Willeme, she just does not photograph well, but that Horizon based cab was quite a comfortable place to work. Is that a Kenworth T800 to her left? Now if you wish for an uncomfortable cab that one is a masterpiece of non ergonomic engineering!
Get out on your Fergie, one of agricultures best tractors!
Enjoy yourself,
Cheerio for now.
Saviem I had similar problems with varifocals so I now have a cheap ( the cheapest frame ) pair of reading glasses made up for using on the computer and reading books and being illiterate they have been amazing as you can see I am able to scribble 
regards Johnnie 
you’re having us on johnnie , you can work the wizardry with these computery things . i can’t get the hang of pictures and things , daren’t even try as i know it will be dispatched through the window at some point . cheers , dave
rigsby:
you’re having us on johnnie , you can work the wizardry with these computery things . i can’t get the hang of pictures and things , daren’t even try as i know it will be dispatched through the window at some point . cheers , dave
hey up Dave how you going when I first acquired a computer which was a present from Bren the lad fixed it up at the side of a window and she said to him it is not stopping there as my windows will be smashed so he came and put into the spare room as far away from the window as possible which is now where it resides
cheers Johnnie
Evening all,
Johnnie, Dave, well I suffer from computer problems…like there a`int no real signal…
So…
I contact my service provider…do all the checks…oh dear…we will contact Openreach…(whowill have to charge you if the problem is of your own making)!!!
So two Openreach “computer experts” arrive…sit in their vans…don white safety helmets…(Yes our Buzzard does occasionally suffer from constipation)…inspect all the poles in our fields…(that is wooden ones…not our European cousins)…
And inform me that I am at the end of the oldest piece of copper cable from our village exchange…some three miles away)…and as I am the only subscriber on that line…HARD LUCK!
So I try 4G…and a “dongle”…I was too embarrased to check what a dongle was… but thank goodness there is no 4G hereabouts…as yet…
So try 3G…all around is blue…a good signal…except for a jagged line across the reservoir, and our farm…no signal at all!
And to deduce that fact I had to sit in close proximity to a young, (lady),…for rather more time than I wished to, whose ample bosom was fragrant with an odour reminiscent of the stuff that I used to spray my Oil Seed ■■■■ with…to promote its growth…It must have worked on her…
So I am still meandering along on a wing and a prayer…as ever…
Cheerio for now…
Ah. M. Saviem. I have to comment on varifocals.
As usual, at age 40, I started to need to move the phone directory (remember those!) further away to read it.
I went for an eye test and had to have reading glasses. Oh, the shame.
Geoff and Ginger, Middlesbrough chums from Saudi had explained how to judge people. First, if they wore them , they were ‘trouble’. 'Ow, Son, 'e’s got ‘em on!’
Further, if they used their middle finger to push them up the bridge of the nose - this was confirmation!
I wouldn’t dare to name anyone on here that they were referring to.
Move on to me at age 50.
Suddenly, the lovely lady at specsavers said that my distance vision had deteriorated too!
Would I like to try varifocals? Better than the old bifocals.
My dad was lucky - he only ever needed reading glasses, so had those half moon shaped ones. My teen and twenty years were defined by him ducking his head and looking up at me before making a wise comment!
I spoke with Wirlinmerlin, who had recently had a pair. ‘Do not entertain them at any cost! You will never go down stairs again!’
We were about to go on holiday in America, with me driving. I definitely needed new distance and reading glasses. I bought them anyway.
I adjusted to them immediately and have used them ever since!
I like the way that you can look up while driving through the distance lens and flick down to the near vision for the dashboard. If I watch TV, I look through the middle.
As Merlin said - difficult down steep stairs, I hold tight to the banister! They’re also useless for fixing something like a shelf, where you’re peering upwards through the distance lens!
John
Hiya,
Well I’ve tried three different types of vision improver over the years and at
age 79 means I have worn specs for most of my life firstly the distance and
reading glasses in separate cases bloody nuisance that set-up, then I tried
those jam-jar bottom bi-focal thingy’s couldn’t get away with them either so
after a word with my optician and being offered a discount, I like discounts,
I plumped to have a go at varifocals and have never looked back, not strictly
true I do use my rear view mirrors being a “proper driver” as far as I can see
there are no negatives, and with the modern materials they are very much
thinner and therefore lighter than the old J J Bs.
thanks harry, long retired
Hello to you all,all correct comments in the eye sight department, i used to have trouble looking at the maps,especial the Atlante Stradale , or worse the German Falk plan ,excellent maps never could fold it back the same ,and then drive drive glasses on ,glasses off.would i stop …no way.
I am a Bifocal man, as well as a ■■■ man,etc…do not need glasses for that,i used to pride my self on my eyesight standing on the old Focsul, looking for lights etc where the bridge had seen them about 10 mins before you with binns,waiting for you to ring the bell.
just a point of no intrest i had a text this morning 7am from LLOYDS BANK unusual activity on my account ,yes i thought a scam .go away,then the house phone ,recorded message lloyds bank fraud team foreign voice,yes ■■■■ off so later went on internet banking and checked all seemed ok, then i thought i will ring one of their numbers ,as the number from the text was not in their ,
Good job i did i had 6 transactions ,waiting to be cleared, not showing in my internet account ,all nothing to do with me, ,bet -fred ,slimming world ,insurance,the original was for=Forces war records £54.95p at 07hrs 08 mins,that is what alerted the bank security,how god knows the total was near £200 today.and the card has never left my sight.it was either at the supermarket or local spit bank 2mins from our house.
it just puts you /me back into the real world.im just like you men been around, suspicious of all strangers.
A driver at Solstore used to do the finger pushing up the glasses [bank manager].
One wonkey eye was a give away ,when i was young transiting around EGYPT all the ARABS that we ever come near too were bum boat men,working the canal i think a job description,was must have wonkey eye to qualify for as much verbal abuse as possible .They were taught all kinds of names by jocks ,scousers,geordies,welsh ,irish it was .they would hang around the galley porthole, with bars on and the cook would say ,“tell me your name” and it would always be michael fitzpatrick,and his mate would be patrick fitzmichael they never got it…back to trucks
Evening all,
Bit sad tonight, buried my pal who had the farm next to me today, he was only 73, …one or two of us were looking at each other… thinking that we are all on borrowed time!!!
Turned the grass after the funeral, oh boy it is so golden…threads of heaven…will give it another turn tomorrow, then make a decision on baling…round, square, little, or large…decisions!!!
Because of something on the Mack thread, I began to wonder what happened to my old Interstator, AUE 267 S, Bubbs kindly put a picture of her up on another thread…boy, I loved that lorry, so smooth and powerfull, despite her age, quite flew up the hills with that tip turbo whistling away…I think she ended up in Essex, should never have sold her…looked great in black and purple…honestly, and I am not colour blind!!
Cheerio for now.
harry_gill:
Hiya,
Well I’ve tried three different types of vision improver over the years and at
age 79 means I have worn specs for most of my life firstly the distance and
reading glasses in separate cases bloody nuisance that set-up, then I tried
those jam-jar bottom bi-focal thingy’s couldn’t get away with them either so
after a word with my optician and being offered a discount, I like discounts,
I plumped to have a go at varifocals and have never looked back, not strictly
true I do use my rear view mirrors being a “proper driver” as far as I can see
there are no negatives, and with the modern materials they are very much
thinner and therefore lighter than the old J J Bs.
thanks harry, long retired
Harry, vision improvers aren’t your problem, it’s vision detractors!!! namely single malt whiskey!!! Keep taking the medication 
Regards Kev.
kevmac47:
harry_gill:
Hiya,
Well I’ve tried three different types of vision improver over the years and at
age 79 means I have worn specs for most of my life firstly the distance and
reading glasses in separate cases bloody nuisance that set-up, then I tried
those jam-jar bottom bi-focal thingy’s couldn’t get away with them either so
after a word with my optician and being offered a discount, I like discounts,
I plumped to have a go at varifocals and have never looked back, not strictly
true I do use my rear view mirrors being a “proper driver” as far as I can see
there are no negatives, and with the modern materials they are very much
thinner and therefore lighter than the old J J Bs.
thanks harry, long retiredHarry, vision improvers aren’t your problem, it’s vision detractors!!! namely single malt whiskey!!! Keep taking the medication
Hiya,
Message understood Kev, and will do my utmost to adhere to the instructions.
Just a pity they don’t do single malt on prescription then I could be like Larry
and increase my intake to a much higher level.
thanks harry, long retired.
Cutting grass / hay making…and smells
We’ve had three weeks with no rain, yesterday, sun all day, peaking at 30+, this morning at 6.00 thunderstorm and lots of rain, it stopped around 9.00, went out onto the lawn and smelt that smell that only comes after lots of sun then a cloud burst, and what a smell it is, can’t really describe it, but its just so…country summertime.
Growing up in the Hampshire countryside as a lad my friends dad drove a Thames Trader for a local guy who did general farming haulage, sacked grain, potatoes, green vegetables, and hay. We use to go out with him summer evenings during school holidays to load up the hay, him and l on top of the load catching and stacking the bales thrown up to us by the men…After loading, and ropeing down, the men got a beer, we got lemonade. I can still see myself sat on the top of the load looking out across the fields, and that smell, the smell of fresh cut hay… two country smells, not to be forgotten
