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It all seemed to easy to be true, amazing what a pet councillor can do. All in all I'm having a good week, £100 on Monday for 2nd place in a short story competition and last night was at the launch of what might be the most contraversial book of the year and got a signed copy and lots of free wine and nibbles. That's 2 new tyres and a CV joint paid for and a bit spare as the MOT's due in a couple of months.

Well that was quick. Just got a call from my councillor friend. Eddie was sacked in April and would I accept £450 in full and final settlement. Sorry guys, but I said yes. Maybe I could hold out for more but a bird in the hand and all that.

Thanks guys for all your comments. I'm going the sneaky route. I work closely with the council doing poetry and literary events and have a pet councillor. I spoke to her this morning and took in all the info I have including the previous thread from the forum. I thought initially that I would be flogging a dead horse but when we went through everything she was pretty mad about it. (She's been in the car a couple of times though she needs a helping hand to get out of it.) Her comment was to leave it with her and she'll get back to me in a couple of days. Suppose it's sit back and wait time.

Some of you may remember someone doing a hit and run on my car at the end of last year. Today I was sitting in the beer garden of a local pub when some guys came in and sat at the next table. One of them pointed to the Corrado and said, "That's the car Eddie hit when we were out gritting." They made another couple of comments and I went over to them and enquired as to who Eddie was. When I said why I was asking they just clammed up and said something about proving it. At least I know I'm looking for a Council gritter driver named Eddie.

If you're handy with a saw and screwdriver.......http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mignet_Pou-du-Ciel Seriously though, if you want to do it then do it. Now the idea's in your head you'll regret not trying it.

The clutch pedal relies on the pressure you create pushing it down to return itself when you let the clutch pedal up. It sound as if either the slave is leaking, remove and check for fluid in the internal boot, or the seals in the master cylinder are worn and allowing the fluid to leak past them. If the fluid level is not dropping it would point at worn seals in the master cylinder.The clutch shares the brake reservoir for its fluid supply.

Oh yes indeed.. Currently experimenting with candle making and scrap art. In addition to organising loads of events for the Mental Health Arts and Film festival, Pitenweem Arts Festival, attempting to produce a play, involved in a film at the moment, running Read Raw Ltd etc. Oh and working in an Alzheimers home. Since I stopped working I have not stopped working. Oh and as this is Sunderland's thread go for it. You'll only hate yourself later if you don't give it a try.

The injections are painful for a while but give you reasonably pain free movement for several days. This gives you the chance to really work at keeping movement in the joint. Most hospitals will stand you next to a wall mounted wheel and get you to stand there sideways on turning it for an hour. I worked out my own routines to push myself that bit further. I took the three main arm movements, forward, sideways and backward, measured the maximum movement I had on a wall then got a rope and pulley and made the rope a little shorter than it should be, stuck my foot in one end and held on to the other. That way you were pulling your arm a bit further than you could without assistance. Changed the rope length for the other arm movements. Hurt a bit but saved a lot of recovery time later down the line. Due to other damage my recovery took a bit longer than usual so don't despair. And don't skip the physio.

And part time builder of air raid shelters.

I've had the misfortune of having it, in both shoulders at the same time. Not nice, extremely painful and the restriction of movement really affects you. Get to the quack ASAP and get a proper diagnosis. I ended up having fortnightly cortisone injections and twice weekly physiotherapy sessions. Every day I did my own physio exercises to increase mobility and ease of movement. It got that bad mainly because the doctor I had at the time took too long to start an effective treatment and was further complicated in that I had at that time, existing shoulder damage due to being slightly blown up while attending a fire. It took about 18 months before I had moderate pain free movement back. Advice? Get youself to the quack, push for a specialist and keep moving it, even if it hurts. The more you allow movement to become restricted the worse it gets and the longer it will take to clear up. Hopefully it's just inflammation and will clear up reasonably quickly.

Central locking and power windows.

Dead budgie money, i.e. no cheep!

That looks so familiar. Like you my first thought was to break it. [ATTACH=CONFIG]65117[/ATTACH] Then with the support of the good people of this forum. Ta Da [ATTACH=CONFIG]65121[/ATTACH] Full story here http://the-corrado.net/showthread.php?60026-I-want-to-kill-someone-but-don-t-know-who&highlight=Kill

I'm just in. No whisky, no red wine but a wonderful selection of real ale courtesy of Tim, aka Wetherspoons, and only £1.95 a pint. I'm ****ed. Time for bed.

Nice black VR6, M***VHJ parked up at JR Volkswagen in Paisley.

Thre's a 20 amp(I think) fuse above the relays. A bit difficult to see but it's there. Roughly central.

Used to fly control line planes then built my first RC one. A while later as I surveyed the pile of balso and broken expensive bits decided enough was enough. Moved on to RC boats.

Welcome to the forum.

I was out in mine on Sunday. Nah. Probably wasn't me, slight location problem.

I had a similar quick drain on the battery, one or two days to a flat battery. It turned out to be the pneumatic controller for the central locking in the passengeer door. I just disconnected it and the car has been fine since and even with it disconnected all thee locking features still work. I went the old faashioned way of making up a test light with long enough leads to reach inside the car which had the bonus of providing some light when I was under the dash pulling fuses. The drain stopped when I pulled the "hidden" fuse above the fusebox that controls the central locking and windows. After that I replaced the fuse and went around the car disconnecting all the bits that ran off, or were related to that circuit and, as above, when I disconnected the pneumatic controller thingy the light went out. It was a kind of Eureka moment. A bit old fashioned and time consuming but ultimately successful.

I had the same problem with my 1.8. Turned out to be a plug lead. It was almost impossible to find as everything sparked OK once the engine had run for a minute. I used a known good spare lead on each cylinder in turn and on the third day it started and ran fine. The lead that was duff looked fine.

I've just decided that walking is not so bad after all. Welcome back Sunderland

Fitted new wipers, battery and blower motor for the heater. No more strange groans from under the dash.

Loving the name of the shop, Hair's Johnny. Inspired that is. Like the website as well, simple and straightforward.

Real Ale, Red Wine, Single malts. Not necessarily in that order.