Reading a few articles about the September 11 attacks, including hearing of Brits who were there at the time, or just a few days before. Thought it was relevant seeing it was 15 years since the other day.

Very sombre reading, hard to believe that something so tragic and that magnitude happened in the modern world....in a modern country too.

Went to the memorial a few years ago, didn't feel like I was standing on the spot where nearly 3,000 people died...

I was flying from Newark to Detroit at the same time the hijacked planes were heading towards New York and the Pentagon.

There but for the grace of God.

I visited the WTC site a month later when they had only just started clearing the rubble.

Very sobering and thought provoking.

I watched the documentary on sunday about the Pentagon crash and definitely got a lump in my throat.

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2 hours ago, jmurray01 said:

I don't like finding the third large spider on the stairs in a week!

Eeeek!. (Vernier set to 68.18mm)

I don't like finding the third large spider on the stairs in a week!

Eeeek!. (Vernier set to 68.18mm)

My store manager is terrified of spiders. One night recently, when I was on a close, she called the store to ask if someone could go to hers (she lives very close to the store) and remove one. So of course that resulted in me going round to save her from the "giant" spider, which turned out to be tiny!

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56 minutes ago, Tdci-Peter said:

Eeeek!. (Vernier set to 68.18mm)

Yep, that's about the size...  After posting earlier I found a fourth one just one stair up from the last!!  Where the hell are they coming from?

I don't like having a full tank of diesel in the dead GTX and no way to syphon it into the Quasar...  I did try the two hose method (one long hose into the tank then insert another shorter piece and blow into it, supposedly creating a vacuum) which was a complete fail.  I'm sure the "original" method would work, but I don't fancy a mouth-full of diesel, even if it is Esso Supreme...

10 hours ago, Stoney871 said:

I was flying from Newark to Detroit at the same time the hijacked planes were heading towards New York and the Pentagon.

There but for the grace of God.

I visited the WTC site a month later when they had only just started clearing the rubble.

Very sobering and thought provoking.

I watched the documentary on sunday about the Pentagon crash and definitely got a lump in my throat.

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Sobering stuff. 

Don't you have a hand pump up front on the 405?  Pull off the main fuel line and stick it in the tank or into a can and pump it out that way, it will take some time and effort but better than losing a load of fuel!

 

I suppose you don't remember 9/11 happening Chris?  I still remember listening to it on the radio in school.  Doesn't even seem that long ago really.

 

I can't believe you got the verniers out Peter...what would you have done if it had jumped on you!?  

No I don't,  I was 2 when it happened although I've always know that it happened. Mum said she and my aunt had been to homebase to buy door handles (of all things!) came back back and saw what was unfolding on the TV. I can imagine the sense of disbelief across the world when that second plane hit.  

I do remember the 7/7 bombings, watching it on my grandparents TV as a 6 year old, we were staying there as we had just moved back down south from Leicestershire. 7/7 was bad enough in itself, 9/11 doesn't seem real. 

I was also in London when a truck bomb went off at Canary Wharf in 1996.

I get the feeling that some beggar is out to get me.

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29 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

I can't believe you got the verniers out Peter...what would you have done if it had jumped on you!?

Screamed, and run away!

That was about as close as I dared go. Still had to coax it into a box & evict it though!

 

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I recall 9/11 rather too well. The first reports just sounded like a light aircraft had crashed into a building, but as the reports came in, the full, terrible picture emerged. The video footage left a mark, I would not want to see it again.

It still feels odd, the way current affairs, whether bad or, sometimes, good, merge into history. The Moon landings, The 3 day week, Falklands, death of Princess Diana, Kuwait, Fall of the Soviet Union, Bosnia, 9/11, wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, Boxing day Tsunami, world Banking collapse. All either in, or soon to be in, school history textbooks!

When I was at school, history seemed unreal, like another world. It looks different now. Much more a continuity where many of these events are linked, tying the present & future, very firmly to the past.

 

23 minutes ago, chrisroberson99 said:

No I don't,  I was 2 when it happened although I've always know that it happened. Mum said she and my aunt had been to homebase to buy door handles (of all things!) came back back and saw what was unfolding on the TV. I can imagine the sense of disbelief across the world when that second plane hit.  

I do remember the 7/7 bombings, watching it on my grandparents TV as a 6 year old, we were staying there as we had just moved back down south from Leicestershire. 7/7 was bad enough in itself, 9/11 doesn't seem real. 

I guess you wouldn't remember at 2, maths fail on my part there!

Yeah I remember watching 7/7 on TV as well, can't believe that was over 10 years ago now!

It's odd how these things stick in your mind, even at a young age.

  

14 minutes ago, Tdci-Peter said:

Screamed, and run away!

That was about as close as I dared go. Still had to coax it into a box & evict it though!

 

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I recall 9/11 rather too well. The first reports just sounded like a light aircraft had crashed into a building, but as the reports came in, the full, terrible picture emerged. The video footage left a mark, I would not want to see it again.

It still feels odd, the way current affairs, whether bad or, sometimes, good, merge into history. The Moon landings, The 3 day week, Falklands, death of Princess Diana, Kuwait, Fall of the Soviet Union, Bosnia, 9/11, wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, Boxing day Tsunami, world Banking collapse. All either in, or soon to be in, school history textbooks!

When I was at school, history seemed unreal, like another world. It looks different now. Much more a continuity where many of these events are linked, tying the present & future, very firmly to the past.

 

That seems like a reasonable response to the spider!!

I did JFK for GSCE History...I guess that was still the future while you were at school!   And !Removed! Germany as well, which my Nan remembered half of, being 9 when WW2 started.  

Edit - the removed word is Nartzy btw.

 

2 hours ago, TomsFocus said:

Don't you have a hand pump up front on the 405?  Pull off the main fuel line and stick it in the tank or into a can and pump it out that way, it will take some time and effort but better than losing a load of fuel!

That's true, can't believe I never thought of that!  Will do it later on.  Then the next battle is getting the fecking thing started to move it down the road and to the car park where it can legally sit with no MOT.  Problem is, the battery is completely dead so I'm not hopeful that jump leads will be enough, and I lack a (working) battery charger to take it out and charge up. 

I can tell this is going to be a good day...  Not!

17 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

I did JFK for GSCE History...I guess that was still the future while you were at school!

Hmmph

JFK assassination was 1963, let's just say that falls in my "too young to remember" range!  (But I am hardly in a position to take offense, as I seem to recall wildly adding about 75 years to your age, in a post some time ago.)

Adult memories of WW2 were still strong in my early schooldays, and us kids used to whizz around the playground, arms outstretched, pretending to be Spitfires, shooting down Me109s.

 

 

Oops, you mentioned the moon landings which were only 6 years later. 

I'm terrible at judging age though, even in real life!  I mean I'm sure there are 12 year olds driving modified Fiestas at some of the meets and shows I go to now! . And i remember when anyone in thier 20s seemed really old.

It's weird how life seems to move on but a mental age sticks.  Next year people born in the 2000s will be old enough to drive...it doesn't even seem like 10 years ago, let alone 17! 

42 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Oops, you mentioned the moon landings which were only 6 years later. 

I'm terrible at judging age though, even in real life!  I mean I'm sure there are 12 year olds driving modified Fiestas at some of the meets and shows I go to now! . And i remember when anyone in thier 20s seemed really old.

It's weird how life seems to move on but a mental age sticks.  Next year people born in the 2000s will be old enough to drive...it doesn't even seem like 10 years ago, let alone 17! 

I know - shocking eh!?  Even though I was only five on the turn of the millennium, I do remember it and it doesn't seem like that long ago.  Maybe five or six years, but certainly not sixteen years ago!!

Well, I don't like the above mentioned jump start being unsuccessful as expected.  Looks like I'll need to get a battery charger and charge the battery directly before it'll move!

That said, I can still use Tom's method of getting some diesel out of it in the mean time though. 

Another Peugeot related don't like of the day is that I needed to give the Quasar five glow plug cycles to get it started...

Yep, new glow plug time I think!!

Glow plugs in 30c temps??  I'll stick with direct injection!

6 hours ago, TomsFocus said:

Oops, you mentioned the moon landings which were only 6 years later. 

I'm terrible at judging age though, even in real life!  I mean I'm sure there are 12 year olds driving modified Fiestas at some of the meets and shows I go to now! . And i remember when anyone in thier 20s seemed really old.

It's weird how life seems to move on but a mental age sticks.  Next year people born in the 2000s will be old enough to drive...it doesn't even seem like 10 years ago, let alone 17! 

Yes it's worrying that people from this millennium will be able to drive next year, and I was born in mid 1999! 

Also, I don't think Scotland ever gets 30c!  

5 hours ago, TomsFocus said:

Glow plugs in 30c temps??  I'll stick with direct injection!

That's a bit optimistic Tom!  It was less than 10*C this morning, but I'd still have expected it to start easier than it did... 

4 hours ago, chrisroberson99 said:

Yes it's worrying that people from this millennium will be able to drive next year, and I was born in mid 1999! 

Also, I don't think Scotland ever gets 30c!  

Very true Chris, very true...

Lol, I didn't go out until the afternoon yesterday, it was 30c then!  

It was over 20c at 9am this morning.  I didn't realise Scotland was that much cooler lol.

9 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Lol, I didn't go out until the afternoon yesterday, it was 30c then!  

It was over 20c at 9am this morning.  I didn't realise Scotland was that much cooler lol.

Oh yes, it was freezing here by comparison.  Haven't been out yet today, but I've got the doctors later on (hopefully) so will tell you what it's like then.

On that note, I don't like calling in sick to work today which will definitely result in a formal warning for absense (already have a "Stage One" sanction, which will now escalate to a warning), even though this is only my fourth instance of absense in a 16 month period, which doesn't seem excessive to me.  Hey ho.

Called the local doctors and asked for an appointment today, and just got a call back now saying I can come in at 14:30 and wait for a slot, which I'll do.  I'm going to (finally) try to get help for my anxiety and panic attacks, as all my efforts to alleviate the symptoms have failed.  The latest was Kalms tablets, which did absolutely nothing.  I literally took four of them the other day and felt no different whatsoever, whereas people I know take just one and they are away with the fairies!  Not sure why my body seems to be immune to all medication (paracetamol/ibuprofen/aspirin is the same), but it is certainly inconvenient. 

8 minutes ago, jmurray01 said:

Oh yes, it was freezing here by comparison.  Haven't been out yet today, but I've got the doctors later on (hopefully) so will tell you what it's like then.

On that note, I don't like calling in sick to work today which will definitely result in a formal warning for absense (already have a "Stage One" sanction, which will now escalate to a warning), even though this is only my fourth instance of absense in a 16 month period, which doesn't seem excessive to me.  Hey ho.

Called the local doctors and asked for an appointment today, and just got a call back now saying I can come in at 14:30 and wait for a slot, which I'll do.  I'm going to (finally) try to get help for my anxiety and panic attacks, as all my efforts to alleviate the symptoms have failed.  The latest was Kalms tablets, which did absolutely nothing.  I literally took four of them the other day and felt no different whatsoever, whereas people I know take just one and they are away with the fairies!  Not sure why my body seems to be immune to all medication (paracetamol/ibuprofen/aspirin is the same), but it is certainly inconvenient. 

Kalms never worked for me.

I used Bach's rescue remedy to get through learning to drive and my test.

Tried it again recently to help with buying my first home and it's not worked at all. :(

I've been trying to remain patient and amenable, but I've had enough with the process and feel like loosing my rag today. Lots of phones calls to come....