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Question for Defender owners. Are they a beast when it comes to gas guzzling and running costs? Are they easy meat for thieves if left parked in a city street overnight?

My skip is on its last legs, and i might be looking for new wheels. As i don't care what my car looks like, a beat-up Defender may do nicely. Especially for narrow winter single track roads.

Good news about Finn Kate, he's got some life in him yet. It's good to know there are still some decent honest people out there

Mike- is this what you're looking for?

Time for me to go

Cheers Flaff. Thirsty?

I'll look at something else.

Do you really want me to answer that Kate?

Evening, spent around £400 today, and none of it on chocolate .

Plumber fitting the boiler on tuesday morning.

Flaff wrote (see)

Good news , he's got some life in him yet. 

 I thought she may have been speaking about me for a second .

I doubt she would have said that about you, mate!

;-)

Mike fae Dundee wrote (see)

A 10 year old Renault skip!

Nah, it's only eight years old.

Oh! You mean that sort of skip

Evenin' Bennachites,

Not a bad day, especially as I didn't have to work. So I went for a walk instead, about five miles on footpaths. Still a bit of snow on the ground and frozen so no mud. There was a gentle wind (about 3 or 4) and the temperature was hovering round zero. I made the mistake of not changing out of my jeans into walking trousers so my legs got rather chilled even though I was striding along - jeans are hopeless outside the house.

Saw a buzzard at really close quarters

I saw a couple of cars of folk up An Teallach, fingers of snow filling the gullies with its head in the clouds at 5pm and light rain but it was dry and bright all day in Inverness. Not freezing and the rivers are down on the West, its breezy at sea level though.

Glad you managed to keep your boots clean Skip .

Gneiss Boots wrote (see)

Evening all. I am back online and living in the countryside now. I don't quite have a view to rival AR's but it is not too bad for the south. A small place for little old me but I have a balcony!

That bastard Skip wrote (see)

Saw a buzzard at really close quarters

I once turned a corner round a huge heather hag, and came across a golden eagle eating a rabbit. It was no more than 10 feet away. It seemed to stand about 3 foot tall.

I swear it looked at me mockingly with those huge yellow rimmed eyes, before lasily taking off with huge 'whooop whoops' of its wings. I'll never forget the awe i felt.

Photo taken a few weeks ago, Maria

I've seen one flying around, Mike but never on the ground 

< goes off to look for photo >

I've seen one flying around, Mike but never on the ground  .

edit, Is it in GB's photo, I cant see it Maria, where about ?

Had my supper ( scrambled eggs as an easy supper ) but havent had a cup of tea so far.

I put up a few  ( well one at least ) photos but I dont think anyone noticed , is it just to show you've been there ?? like a mascot . I took it to Fionn Loch as well < suppose you want proof >

edit, is there one in GB's photo  ??

another edit, Mmmm, perhaps slightly more than a bottle of wine was consumed  .