Chris A

You're just trying to make it easy for me to decide 🤣 That's the item fitted, clearly the photo isn't to scale - sorry about it being so big.

Thanks guys for clearing this up for me. To summarise:- Herald owners weren't as posh as Vitesse/GT6 owners BUT were better drivers and had a better memory - they could remember the gear layout without a diagram. Do I stick to the wooden "Herald" knob or replace with a blank black one. Decisions, decisions. . . .🙄

I'm sure that at least one of you can clear this up for me. The original gear lever knob fitted to a 13/60, which I know was black and spherical, but did it have a design showing the foreward & reverse positions or was it plain? I'm getting confliciting advice. Mine car is fitted with a modern(ish) wooden replacement, which is fine, but I could be tempted to fit the original style if I came across one at a reasonable price. Clearly I wouldn't want to replace one "wrong" item with another "wrong" item. Thanks

Only yesterday I thought about the 2020 catalogue. No idea when mine will arrive in France, the post are only delivering 3 days a week so this needs to be added to delays in the UK. I'm sure April's magazine will be worth the wait, as usual. I'll just have avoid the spoilers on the forum 😁

I thought so. They even gave you a cedar wood splint to light it with, how thoughtful.

Interesting first photo. The cigar is labelled Romeo y Julietta, quite a respectable label - though not one of mine. The tube along side it has a reworked Cohiba band on it - the gold, yellow and black & white. It looks as if it says Cuba on the cigar label it would read Cohiba. The second is clearly a drying shed I've attached a photo of a genuine Cohiba label on a (genuine) Cohiba cigar from my stock

Will do

I know what you mean. I am allowed to smoke them in the main part of the house if my wife is away and won't be back for 2 weeks at least after the last cigar. Other than that my office/fumoir on the first floor is connected to the extractor system that ventilates the kitchen, downstairs bathroom, downstairs loo & uptairs shower room so even in winter (most of) the smell is vented outside.

Are you sure? I live in France. I'm always open to try different cigars. To date 206 of which 50 are non Cuban

Just about all cuban cigars are Bio, they can't afford to import the chemicals. They should keep much longer if made from correctly fermented leaves, which I am sure they would be. I have smoked artisan ones that have been kept for over a year. Cuban are the best, most complex flavours. The top cubans are triple fermented instead of the double. The top make is Cohiba, damned expensive even in Cuba or Andorra. Damn! I'll have to make another mug of tea and raid my reserves. . . .

I do. In case you were going to ask where are they from or what sort are they: I would say artisanal made, looking at the colour and texture of the outer leaf. A large factory made item would have a leaf of a more uniform colouring. If I remember correctly from my visit to the Partagas factory in Havana they grade the finished cigars into 30 or more colour tones before ranging them in boxes. No I don't know what the leaf(?) is they were stored in. They don't look split so they could have been keep in a humid environment. Be very careful if you do what to humidify them to so it slowly and gently or they could split. Guess what I do when not tinkering/driving my Herald? 😄

I would say it is, as it is what I would want to carry on doing, however I'm not sure Monsieur Le Gendarme would agree. Maybe you need to make it compulsory to stay indoors with fines like here - 135Euros first offence a second within 15 days and it goes up to 1500, 3 in 30 days and it becomes a criminal offence upto 3750 Euros and 6 month sentence.

Looks like Boris has changed his view since yesterday, pubs etc in Britain now closed. He accepted his scientists opinion that his go it alone strategy wasn't the right one. It now seems everyone is working along the same lines. Not sure about Boris's mentor Donald - he at least realises it isn't fake news and is a menace. "We're doomed, we're all doomed" If you are old enough to have seen this series when it first went out then you are! 😱

It is a case of take it step by step, if in 2 weeks the measures need to be extended or made stricter they will be. nobody thinks the initial 2 weeks will be enough. We tend to be looking at Italy as they are 8 to 10 days ahead of us (nearly 700 deaths just for yesterday). Nice has a curfew in place now between 11 pm and 5 am except for those who need to be out for work. The fine for being out without a justification/valid reason is 135 euros or even arrest. There is a crime of putting a third persons life at risk with a maximum fine of 15000 euros and/or 1 year sentance. A few people have been taken into custody but so far no actual charges. So you see how serious it is being taken even if a few people are still ignoring the fact that it exists. Whether it is better to clamp down as done by Europe and China for example or let it run its course, which was discussed here, and let 70 to 75% of the population catch it before it fades away I have no idea - I leave that to those who should know. For sure it is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Even the Eurovision song contest has been cancelled so it must be bad 🤢 Personally I fill in my little form when I need to go shopping or to the pharmacy and go in the Triumph. Well I can usually think of something I need to buy to give me the reason to go out. I do avoid mixing with people as much as possible.

10 to 12 months? Is that really the time scale Boris and company are talking about? WOW! Here it is initially 2 weeks but everyone expects it to be extended.

I thought Boris had requested that you all stayed at home unless it was vital to go out? In your case a justified reason, but cyclists? No doubt they weren't even respecting a safe distance between them to reduce the risk of contamination.

Hello Doug, welcome to the forum I'm sure you'll get the hang of how it works once you have posted a few times. 🤣

Just seen a headline saying it is postboned from june to 19/20 September

Second that, friends of ours who keep horses base their needs on 1 hectare per horse

How green is the manufacturing process of copper cables

By the time Flammanville is finished the radioactive fuel from Fessenheim will be non radioactive. Delay after delay, the last I heard was there were problems with some welding which will be very expensive to correct and take a long time.

You lot are mad. Keep it up!

Not local to you but maybe a good guide 😁

Last weekend the N°1 reactor at Fessenheim was switched off, the other one will switched off later this year. The decommissioning and dismantling process will take years decades, let alone the storage of the dangerous stuff....

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