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  1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534</id><updated>2024-02-20T12:45:35.513-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Owen and Jamie&#39;s Mandalay journey</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default?alt=atom'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default?alt=atom&amp;start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Jamie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13241471585216648670</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>33</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534.post-8639085957052586962</id><published>2015-02-25T04:54:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2015-02-25T04:54:04.541-08:00</updated><title type='text'>24th February 2015 Bagan from the beginning</title><content type='html'>A really early start for Owen and I as we due out of town at a cafe to run a time control, a hurried breakfast consisting of rubbish omelette but Owen was pleased with his muesli (weirdo). &amp;nbsp;We again fought through the sixty billion mopeds that were waiting to be mowed down by the red hilux that we have become so fond of over the past month, we arrived at our control to find an open sewer running through the front, no coffee was on offer here but after telling them that 150 westerners will be arriving demanding coffee they sent a boy running off down the road with a wad of their filthy money in hand returning with some Nescafé one shots for the competitors, they only charged about seven pence per cup so we weren&#39;t going to ask for a more decent coffee! &amp;nbsp;We had the music playing on Owens speaker and even some of the competitors had a boogie in this foul smelling roadside dive.&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIYUfOmH8bhMtDic7tsvfk2eTpn01pp2NVYeRmmKoEbAOt-G7K4bHDOH4vBIDQZe6Hgn4a6e6yku7lXDqJQ0kwCMVDuX4URarg7U7u45bPyMbrjDx_C4Z2MmE8Wyno75xJBkBDj57csexo/s640/blogger-image-1293140002.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIYUfOmH8bhMtDic7tsvfk2eTpn01pp2NVYeRmmKoEbAOt-G7K4bHDOH4vBIDQZe6Hgn4a6e6yku7lXDqJQ0kwCMVDuX4URarg7U7u45bPyMbrjDx_C4Z2MmE8Wyno75xJBkBDj57csexo/s640/blogger-image-1293140002.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;We packed up eventually and headed in the direction of Bagan, there was a competitive section on the way and here we learnt that Peter and Zoe managed to pull it out of the bag and overtook Gerry and Matt to end the rally in top spot in the classics, the vintageants has been won by Bill and Scott in the wonderful fuel injected Chevy Coupe. &amp;nbsp;It was a busy afternoon when we first came across an Alvis who&#39;s fuel pump had failed at the lunch halt, we&#39;d been tow starting this all week and assumed that&#39;s all it needed so Owen tugged it off down the road but didn&#39;t come back for me, getting worried I hitched a lift with the boss and came across Owen covered in fuel halfway through fitting a new pump. The next car needing our assistance was the vintageants winner Bill who&#39;d broken a brake pile, one was duly made and fitted and they left towards their award, a Bentley had ignition problems and this was rectified using a metro coil, this car currently has metro carbs, 2 metro ignition leads and now the coil, going to make this a mission to turn this lovely fifties Bentley into a 1986 metro by the time we&#39;ve finished! &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;We passed the odd hill where there&#39;s a beautiful monastery on top, I&#39;ve seen this picture in many chinese restaurants over the years, funny how it&#39;s in Myanmar!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a 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continue the journey. &amp;nbsp;Bagan was a total surprise for me, pagodas and temples everywhere, there are around 1500 currently but there used to be 10 times that before it was bombed in the war!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKOxKhHRlgsZqn42_xw7a9abRivKe29RZhKEQLv9Ho5QjCEZfJJJNxiMH5iFQaxDtsWblCK1zlKyiXyMan6NEkSzMKseLrtDnF9NkKX8lDTvz2L5L0K0dUd5ozvWIxeFufYaWSNErpMqwO/s640/blogger-image-937466348.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; 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beginning'/><author><name>Jamie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13241471585216648670</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIYUfOmH8bhMtDic7tsvfk2eTpn01pp2NVYeRmmKoEbAOt-G7K4bHDOH4vBIDQZe6Hgn4a6e6yku7lXDqJQ0kwCMVDuX4URarg7U7u45bPyMbrjDx_C4Z2MmE8Wyno75xJBkBDj57csexo/s72-c/blogger-image-1293140002.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534.post-1605164525557226718</id><published>2015-02-24T03:31:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2015-02-25T04:51:24.579-08:00</updated><title type='text'>23 February 2015 the road to Mandalay!</title><content type='html'>We awoke to begin the journey up the road to Mandalay, it&#39;s been a long journey and although this is the name of the rally it doesn&#39;t actually end in Mandalay, now the road, a busy dual carriageway full of a trillion badly ridden mopeds with numerous passengers all wishing obviously to die! &amp;nbsp;A nightmare from start to finish! &amp;nbsp;As the cars left Nay Pyi Taw and headed into the hills to do the penultimate competitive section the super highways suddenly went from a massive 20 lane road down to a single lane road that obviously doesn&#39;t get used by any vehicles, this road then loses the tarmac and becomes gravel, so in a space of four kilometres we have gone from basically a super smooth highway to a dirt track, this country is bizarre to the extremes! &amp;nbsp;As we climbed the hills away from the ghost town it became more and more poor returning to the bad roads and wooden homes, the scenery is changing everyday and we&#39;ve passed areas of beauty to areas of rubbish! &amp;nbsp;As we approach Mandalay the Kiplingesque vision we have built up in our minds is rapidly disappearing as we pass one rundown concrete monstrosity to the next, the whole place is a bit of a dump to be honest only saved by the reconstructed palace in the middle near our hotel destroyed in World War Two, I think it needs to be bombed again so they can build a decent city instead of the hole we have arrived in!&lt;div&gt;Peter and Zoe have dropped behind Gerry and Matt by 2 seconds today but to be honest either one would be deserved winners, let&#39;s see what happens tomorrow when they do the last competitive section before arriving at the finish archway.&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLntTObijcBLUYVC26uNMn15C2VN8Ccga5WpncjE3MjCST-ctdHnePw_1l97IITNCZui_UwT-dLH2AlrJTEN7fSTf7IYBKYiKFqn185P_cZ0v3WWqCaefhuLXLtkalzZ0otbwUbhFYKJUE/s640/blogger-image--266489777.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 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Mozzies</title><content type='html'>Well, I&#39;ve awoken to both my legs covered in mosquito bites! &amp;nbsp;It seems I didn&#39;t shut the door properly last night and have been attacked mercilessly, I nearby vow to kill every last one of the gifts by the time I die!! &amp;nbsp;It&#39;s a good job I&#39;m taking malaria tablets because I definitely would have caught it by now, I was driving today and although the mileage was short it proved to be a tortuous drive, millions of mopeds and really slow trucks, mixed with tut tuts and commercial tut tuts, also with oxen pulling carts it was a trying day!&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2nLzmrwvkOzoIvX8AjqKT9wobseNjSwPGY2b3nQ_0sVXV3lHR8axpZsaJGvctiMUJ4cEN1O6cm9907bPjCwndlE_B2Iva4m1cCnuASJs-pHO1H05m253vSTBDlxEc00k1eqVXA4mAKS4M/s640/blogger-image-1478660343.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 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for unpaid bar tabs from the previous night, it not a concern as we know ERA will pay us back as soon as we inform them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Having paid the drinks bill we headed off from this odd but fascinating city into the hills to sweep the route, it was a difficult route, brilliant but challenging, we lost a couple of crews today with mechanical failures but we hope they make it to Bagan, if they don&#39;t then we wish them the best! &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;At the end of the day we arrived at a lake for the overnight halt, this was our first car park party with GandTs being passed around once the work was finished, thoroughly pissed we drove the few kms to our hotel which was a hut on a lake, very maldive in style but again the mozzies were relentless, a few more bites to add to the perforated legs really doesn&#39;t matter, popped another malaria pill and about to get some sleep, it&#39;s only half past nine so should have a good long sleep ready for what I guess will be another challenging day, but the end is only 2 days away and already thinking about getting home to Emma and the boys.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGgKMPgMyDfdKntfwFSFgd2cwl0FFgJ_piQqqNsGDOPeDEQooS4sJfgWVVZrsfnugHUKsUKwiUAeZZgLWMnCf8Sg3oiiazr1LGiY9foWEA08pdHfMcn-bJhTeDIcJ9n3RSkF6FDPiWyR7i/s640/blogger-image--1086426014.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; 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width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534.post-1541200401885098945</id><published>2015-02-22T17:35:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2015-02-22T17:35:56.543-08:00</updated><title type='text'>21st February 2015 boring roads and lumpy coffee</title><content type='html'>Owen and I had to set off very early this morning as we had to man a main time control in the organic orchard cafe some 150kms from last nights hotel, this early in the morning the roads are lined with monks and street traders, rough roads with little passing opportunity made it difficult for us especially difficult for the cars as they would be leaving two hours later, we arrived at the cafe where lovely coffee was being served, we were here for about two hours drinking lovely coffee and rubbish sweets, we palmed these sweets off on the competitors and laughed greatly at there expressions when they realised they were disgusting! &amp;nbsp;Once these duties were over we proceeded through busy villages and tight twisty lanes strewn with overladen lorries and even more overladen motor bikes, one particular image in our mind is the queue of Buddhist monks lining the streets waiting for their daily portions of rice!&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDqYzxm_mhRMCItKvnyYGKIpPYTo8bfi2Mo2yluN26-6GmJCVS6lGmDXdnPZSsLtkLwtJOuWAeqY8pV05NY2iCqvWS3dcUFSTQUxhi2qgyVP91ApYcbWu7noPmu5uIZwkn5GiLJCTtiByZ/s640/blogger-image--1694000529.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDqYzxm_mhRMCItKvnyYGKIpPYTo8bfi2Mo2yluN26-6GmJCVS6lGmDXdnPZSsLtkLwtJOuWAeqY8pV05NY2iCqvWS3dcUFSTQUxhi2qgyVP91ApYcbWu7noPmu5uIZwkn5GiLJCTtiByZ/s640/blogger-image--1694000529.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;During the day we followed the clerk of the course down the one road we used all morning and even managed to get some snaps of them running through rural Bhurma&amp;nbsp;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8nACJA1XA_Yg4qreRdQqahVHipwLUueq2XqvaOcU07kkD63rymrjVvqiD8OMYAEV0O3pN_toktpjOGUI4L2uxO6mHJVxLALacGvJwnvmJMXNNiuVFOAKcHATq7Lv8WKrj3XiQGEr9GL-b/s640/blogger-image-1793956155.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8nACJA1XA_Yg4qreRdQqahVHipwLUueq2XqvaOcU07kkD63rymrjVvqiD8OMYAEV0O3pN_toktpjOGUI4L2uxO6mHJVxLALacGvJwnvmJMXNNiuVFOAKcHATq7Lv8WKrj3XiQGEr9GL-b/s640/blogger-image-1793956155.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;We even managed to catch the rally leader in the Porsche taking their time to to nearly run over a few locals on their way to getting a deserved win in this long event.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Elephants are becoming a more common sight in this part of the world, mainly being used a work tools for locals everyday life, they seem happy and I&#39;m getting the impression they are being well looked 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suspension failure and with the extent of the damage looks like game over for them, the Buick has finally blown their engine up and they will be finishing the route on a recovery truck! &amp;nbsp; More basic houses are in his area but people seem contented and get on with the drudge of life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTAAHm1sOv7eQny4jn25QFSd4X3kdCxNiz91upjzRKbvbPzN5RCSqkYA6dCR5vdlnzt1hUmSDZIaZdV-LVj9kKeNxs-qm1_JNDmw_BjMxMmPY-uwvHY4ACgKjF0l-3y8DtP8i_m5zhxgvY/s640/blogger-image--1382787307.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTAAHm1sOv7eQny4jn25QFSd4X3kdCxNiz91upjzRKbvbPzN5RCSqkYA6dCR5vdlnzt1hUmSDZIaZdV-LVj9kKeNxs-qm1_JNDmw_BjMxMmPY-uwvHY4ACgKjF0l-3y8DtP8i_m5zhxgvY/s640/blogger-image--1382787307.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;We stopped at a restaurant for lunch and enjoyed a mass of foood, far better than UK roadside restaurants but their coffee had lumps of fat in it, ove sweet but rank none the les&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Back at the hotel we had a feeling problem on a Merc, points on a Chevy but the most exciting part of the day was being interviewed for local TV and giving one of the countries politicians a tour of the care park, staring to fall in love with this place even though j feel it has an edge to it&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/feeds/1541200401885098945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/21st-february-2015-boring-roads-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/1541200401885098945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/1541200401885098945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/21st-february-2015-boring-roads-and.html' title='21st February 2015 boring roads and lumpy 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anticipation of a lengthy wait getting out of Thailand and into burma, however it was soon apparent that Melvyn from CARS had gone above and beyond the call of duty and we whizzed through the border like a colonial invasion. &amp;nbsp;The problem with arriving early and quickly entering burma we had a long wait for the convoy run down the road, it was a relief when an ice cream vendor showed up, we nearly didn&#39;t have time to eat what could be described as a turd on a stick when our select batch of cars arrived and we departed down the road that only 6 Brits had been on before, at one point we were directed off the road through villages on a dusty track which actually was a nice touch to be honest.&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a 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both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;It was a relatively short blast down some very poor tarmac roads to the three hotels us and the competitors are living in tonight, we arrived about lunchtime and not much work is needed to be done, that was until Willy Van Loon turned up with some wiring issues, a Datsun 240 with collapsed suspension and a Mercedes Benz with failed steering, this all done it was time to head for dinner, the best sweet and sour chicken I&#39;ve ever had and a trip to a spice market (the smelliest place I&#39;ve ever been to), a small stop at a hat shop where I&#39;ve managed to get a hat made of wood, here shown by Tony, it&#39;s amazeballs! &amp;nbsp;First impressions of Burma is mixed, the roads are terrible and the traffic is incredible but the people seem very nice and it&#39;s obviously very strange for them to see westerners driving old cars. &amp;nbsp;Here&#39;s some inviting piccies of 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some of the broken cars, usual points on bentleys, a fuel filter on a mercedes with the loveliest crew on the event. &amp;nbsp;Other work done whilst having a hangover were coolant leaks, half shafts and other usual old broken bits to change. &amp;nbsp;We were all done and washed up ready for the evening when roger Anderson came in to the car park with a snapped gear lever, as rules are rules we couldn&#39;t work on it so Jim Smith ran to our aid, towed the model A to a welder we&#39;d seen earlier in the day, they said they only repaired radiators but drew a map to another welder, back went on the tow strap and he was yanked to the next shop, this place was owned by the Chinese and as it was Chinese New Year there was no help here! &amp;nbsp;Running out of options we pulled the ford back towards the hotel but noticed another welder on the way back so with a couple of u turns we pulled in and they agreed to weld his gear lever back on, after half an hours work at this place it was done but it was going to be expensive! &amp;nbsp;£4 the welding cost so we suggested that roger gave them a tip of another £4 which he gladly did and he was off!&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidqlL08WJM8i7IT1Yc5WEh6QfeBmRZtQ0FeIT6N2fN4aItlTer2XrVXgjWmHuAM22-giIJDq669AU5eDloHwfHzaR8d4sHTJS25lhq7-pS8qE4mfkBmWL3broERXiU7bqdMuVTQGYis0s7/s640/blogger-image--191872175.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidqlL08WJM8i7IT1Yc5WEh6QfeBmRZtQ0FeIT6N2fN4aItlTer2XrVXgjWmHuAM22-giIJDq669AU5eDloHwfHzaR8d4sHTJS25lhq7-pS8qE4mfkBmWL3broERXiU7bqdMuVTQGYis0s7/s640/blogger-image--191872175.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Job done!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;We hastily drove back to the hotel for more beers when one of the Bentley guys came over with a massive hole in his radiator, handily we knew of a radiator repair shop who repaired it immediately for £6, this place is so cheap!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Still reeling from last nights booze up consisting of massive beer dispensers and luminous green drinks I decided enough was enough and headed for bed ready in anticipation for Burma!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a 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to this country, although apart from the one incident it hasn&#39;t been rammed down our throats as we&#39;ve passed through, I would like to come back here maybe for a beach holiday but I&#39;m very much looking forward to seeing the country why we are doing this event.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;We had a lunch halt at a tiger place where there were real tigers on show, I didn&#39;t take any photos and didn&#39;t go see them as they had been drugged to make them non dangerous for the public stroking them, quite a sad place to be fair but the fish were awesome!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;The organisers or at least some of them have obviously been stressed about the border crossing and other items so once we are in Burma they might return to normal. &amp;nbsp;We have experienced fantastic food here in Thailand and Thai green curry from loyd Grossman needs more now I&#39;ve had some authentic curry but I&#39;m sure I&#39;ll still like it, I had spaghetti bolognase the other day and that was a nice change, I only hope the food over the next few days will be as lovely as what we have been accustomed to.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;More and more cars seemed to be breaking down now and as we aren&#39;t crossing the border until the day after tomorrow it will be a non driving day tomorrow and there&#39;s a lot of broken cars out there!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfpGBz4fJd1gG5QupaoXgXaB-GxeAe5AqAnV39wiLBMZxxFV8jBiWU_ta4m_kQZoghlVRpyEbRs8J5pCBfXaTL9wEGuHBiRHv1bxJEReb28hbrH6cL0PmZdczWIKoEm5lcQGjRm7rHUzLN/s640/blogger-image-1695844946.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 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width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534.post-2177176069592161120</id><published>2015-02-17T10:18:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2015-02-17T10:27:53.132-08:00</updated><title type='text'>17th February 2015 birthday boy</title><content type='html'>Our marshalling duties were snatched out of our hands today so a purely sweep duty was the order of the day, leaving the Shangri la hotel to head north after half of the cars was our task this morning, we dressed in our newly laundered work clothes and headed once again to the sweaty hotel underbelly where our truck was waiting to carry out its task for this day. &amp;nbsp;We had a pretty uneventful morning until we arrived at the regularity this afternoon, a car had dropped the equivalent of Saudi Arabia&#39;s oil reserve up the steep hill making us wonder what car had slicked it&#39;s way up the heat soaked road towards the hotel waiting at the end, it revealed itself as a volvo PV with a snapped rear axle nearly making it to the end, it&#39;s currently all being welded up at one of the million garages that seem to fill the town we pass through so fingers crossed it will all be well tomorrow morning.&lt;div&gt;Earlier in the day we had received a call that one of the invading German crews had holed their suspension air bag causing a major collapse in the third reich or the back end in this case, neither Owen nor I had ever replaced one of these so it came to us as a great relief to find it in a garage being replaced however, when I got under the car to see what&#39;s going on one of the Thai mechanics leant towards me and said &#39;help please&#39; and not wanting to look like an incompetent mechanic I set about helping them replace it, we managed to fit the new one and get it all working in what seemed to be no time at all so big cheers, strong Bavarian pats on the back were delivered all round, a good job done by all!&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Helvetica Neue Light&#39;, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Helvetica Neue Light&#39;, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;We finished the day on the famous thousand bend road down to the hotel, a tight twisty main road full of hairpins up and down with great views at the summits, definitely will be needing new brakes after all that, some bod has actually counted the bends and I think they mentioned that there were over 1500 hairpins in total!&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWlfiP7P4phJyRLTM1QKqVU_vBxCO5lQLf74Oib8WHQyvtFK0jaB7NtEROmGymM0vlU35q5Z-pSPoDQh4peUYGbtLkiAAx3ZRqL6vQPb33H6cV7SYaxE3vRPuBnqZ1o_0SL8uNTW380Rjb/s640/blogger-image--1258641785.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; 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is rallying and anything can happen!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Helvetica Neue Light&#39;, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;This has been my most favourite day so far, let&#39;s hope tomorrow is even better!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Helvetica Neue Light&#39;, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Helvetica Neue Light&#39;, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Saw a great sign today, PYs lodger should take heed!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Helvetica Neue Light&#39;, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a 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style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;A hangover is now present as we work in extreme temperatures in the basement car park, it&#39;s gone mental, there&#39;s brake problems, suspension issues, there&#39;s welder needed, wheels to be changed, starter motors need fitting, it&#39;s not easy as we should be only working until 12 but it&#39;s half one and still work is piling up! &amp;nbsp;I eventually finished having replaced the leaf spring at the back of a model A and one of the competitors has bought us down a chocolate cake which makes a very welcome change to the beer they usually pay us with, a quick spot of lunch in a little cafe down the road, I had steak and chips but some others had more local dishes, a really nice relaxed lunch had here, and no prostitutes! &amp;nbsp;A little lay down after food was very welcome giving us more energy for the team dinner this evening, I&#39;m not drinking tonight and in many ways looking forward to leaving this big city and finding a more rural hotel tomorrow night, some of the competitors that have been missing for a few days are now back in the rally so the spare rooms will become less available, Martins elder offspring will have to again share with Nikki I guess but I&#39;ve given Nikki some earplugs to block out the snoring coming from &#39;chainsaw Clark&#39;. &amp;nbsp;Not a lot to report from today just the mosquitoes are getting more bitey and my legs are taking a hammering, I&#39;m going to start eating raw garlic I think as nothing else seems to be putting the little bastards off, could it be the Paco Rabanne I have?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Really looking forward to getting towards Burma now, we are in proper northern Thailand now and I&#39;ve heard there&#39;s some revolutionists in the area that don&#39;t like the colour red, good job I&#39;m not driving a big, bright red truck!?!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s now getting to the point that people are missing their loved ones now, Nikki is missing Kim, I&#39;m definitely missing Emma and the boys now but am enjoying this journey immensely, Thailand is an interesting place with some delightful people, definitely would come back here but not sure how the tourist side of this country would measure up to this adventure, the beaches are awesome, as is the countryside, get rid of the mozzies and prozzies and it would be perfect!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/feeds/2010222650535280167/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/16th-february-2015-crap-receptionist.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/2010222650535280167'/><link 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width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534.post-662550142878204121</id><published>2015-02-14T23:03:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2015-02-16T09:16:33.536-08:00</updated><title type='text'>15th February 2015</title><content type='html'>The rally has changed feel as we arrive at our destination in Chiang Mei in eager readiness for the &quot;day off&quot; I use inverted commas as we don&#39;t have a day off and we are referring to these days as non driving days! &amp;nbsp;The competitors have settled into a routine with the rally, they know how fast to drive and are looking forward to the uncharted border crossing into Burma, I am now looking forward to this exciting new experience as is Owen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigmoPQEruQmISWiHIi_saFJF0Skl_op8qLgKZR5jMxXw8R2WoUXJ8-dfkJCx4HtKDNutVVjHZqTmufKI_ZO_BhgCLJAqGuWFS0lhGn4es3g_AXix3Q0HjrGjw0wrBFQtSvvuY4SFctTaIF/s640/blogger-image--1014722607.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigmoPQEruQmISWiHIi_saFJF0Skl_op8qLgKZR5jMxXw8R2WoUXJ8-dfkJCx4HtKDNutVVjHZqTmufKI_ZO_BhgCLJAqGuWFS0lhGn4es3g_AXix3Q0HjrGjw0wrBFQtSvvuY4SFctTaIF/s640/blogger-image--1014722607.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The route today was one of busy highways and meandering hairpins with mixture of gravel, tar and broken concrete, through paddy fields and pineapple plantations with the odd coconut trees lining the sometime narrowing back roads, the competition element today started with a regularity section at the top of a mountain, the local traffic has hindered some of the competitors and their times show this, but this is rallying and for people to share roads to go rallying we have to expect that sometimes it doesn&#39;t go completely our way! &amp;nbsp;Owen and I again had a go on the regularity and arrived 1 second early to the finish control, I say it&#39;s not good enough but I am improving with time! &amp;nbsp;We proceeded on the route taking time to try some arty filming with Owen hanging out of the side with his ipad whilst closely following Anton in the Bentley, Owen had to give up as he was slowly turning browner and browner with the dust sticking to his face and hair whilst filling up his eyes and nostrils, he proved this by blowing his nose and showing me the contents of the tissue!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We arrived at the lunch halt where the Cottons were running the time control and we had a spot to eat at a lovely rural looking cafe where the food was excellent but the coffee tasted like mud! &amp;nbsp;People were working in the fields nearby but stopped to let me take a quick photo of them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0dmVXTZRqlSoeGbM2FvYCGUWu7Te0dAArq_rZ6iLERVi8pUsa4nJGOvRtUTdcWGRv9J7t-OQyilcSj3MIX4e3_hmVEZrLfpAZZBnJnzEsNuy0rSNvgTtUU2_b9B90O0QcZhds2XTF78oZ/s640/blogger-image-623130983.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0dmVXTZRqlSoeGbM2FvYCGUWu7Te0dAArq_rZ6iLERVi8pUsa4nJGOvRtUTdcWGRv9J7t-OQyilcSj3MIX4e3_hmVEZrLfpAZZBnJnzEsNuy0rSNvgTtUU2_b9B90O0QcZhds2XTF78oZ/s640/blogger-image-623130983.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;We sat with the doctors and discussed high brow topics such as who&#39;s going to get the most drunk tonight and which 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afternoon but Skippy and Tony were on the case getting it all put back together ready to drive up to the hotel. &amp;nbsp;Once we arrived at the Shangri la in the middle of town we were ushered to the basement where another Bentley was waiting with a noise from the rear brakes, these hadn&#39;t been adjusted since before the event and a quick twiddle of the nobs it was back to proper brakes, and so we were ready for the night before the day off, we are now realising that these nights are pretty much all messy especially for the management who have a bit of a blow out as they don&#39;t have work the following day, we need to watch what we do as we have to tend to the cars early tomorrow morning.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We had a pre dinner drinking session in Nikki&#39;s room where she had filled the bath up with beer and wine bottles, laid on some nibbles so we could have a chat before we headed down to an official dinner with the competitors, there were a few tables laid out just for the Peking to Paris 2016 competitors and Nikki asked if we didn&#39;t mind sitting with them as we had been on the event previously, I sat with the Hadrecky husband and wife team who have entered and had a ball chatting about preparation, both them and the car, spirits where very high and the food was excellent and the wine plenty, I was the only one on our table drinking white wine so I couldn&#39;t finish the second bottle on the table, needing to leave room for more alcohol when we left to go out on the town.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The taxis where summoned as about 22 of us gathered in front of the lobby, it very soon got out of hand as Chris Elkins, Owen and Tony thought it a great idea to climb on the roof of the cab as there was a luggage rack that obviously looked too inviting to ignore! &amp;nbsp;Once these morons were ordered off the roof and ushered into the second taxi we sped off to the emptiest, noisiest club in this town, it was rubbish and after listening to rubbish music and necking a bottle of gin between us all we wandered down the road and ended up in a bar called Loco Elvis where karaoke was in full swing, many drinks later the Kirkhams decided to get up and sing as it was there 35th anniversary, not wishing to be shy the doctors went up to sing &#39;you&#39;ve lost that loving feeling&#39;! &amp;nbsp;A great rendition was enjoyed by all but quickly overshadowed when Owen, Kitch, Tony and I leapt on stage to perform a one off surprise but excellent performance of &#39;hey Jude&#39;, the crowd starred starry eyed and amazed at the beautiful sounding quartet that shone before them, we left the stage to flowers being thrown at us and a huge cheer and round of applause as we soaked up the sheer admiration of our fellow staff and competitors drinking before us, we were awesome!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It didn&#39;t take long before we were ushered out of the pub as they were closing now, the night was still young so the pub staff pointed us in the direction of a club called Spicey, a prostitute ridden hole with crap beer and worse whisky. &amp;nbsp;It didn&#39;t take long for the midget prostitutes madam to thrust a young girl at me giving me a price list and what that price included, I wasn&#39;t sure this girl was a girl to be honest but the whole situation was not a pleasant one for me and although it was funny to start with we were all feeling a bit uncomfortable to be honest so exit strategies were being formulated, it was getting so bad towards the end of the night and I was starting to feel sorry for this girl as she had only been doing this for a couple of weeks so I did the best thing I think I could&#39;ve done, I paid this girl the going rate and told her to go home, it wasn&#39;t very much money in our terms but guess it&#39;s a lot to them, the problem with paying her to basically leave me alone was that all the other prostitutes then stormed me to give them money to not go with them so I legged it, straight into a tut tut and left at breakneck speed with one of these girls still trying to climb in next to me, I yelled at the driver to go as quickly as possible shaking of the girls as we roared towards the Shangri La, phew that was an experience I do not wish to have again! &amp;nbsp;I texted Emma as soon as I got back to the room which made me feel a lot better and we had a bit of a laugh about my evening escapology!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Need to sleep now as proper pissed and tired!&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/feeds/662550142878204121/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/15th-february-2015.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/662550142878204121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534.post-890298455947868870</id><published>2015-02-14T08:42:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2015-02-14T08:42:00.558-08:00</updated><title type='text'>14th February 2015 valentine</title><content type='html'>Firstly I&#39;d better start with wishing Emma a happy Valentine&#39;s Day, we at home don&#39;t do it like Thailand, bands everywhere, heart shaped monuments go up, we thought it might be because of the Chinese New Year but not so sure now. &amp;nbsp;I&#39;m starting this blog sitting half way up a mountain ready for the competitors to start the regularity section of which we are the start control. &amp;nbsp;We are on the edge of a small car park, a waterfall to the side of us.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a 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class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Rumours are circulating that Martin&#39;s youngest offspring visited the local nightclub with the doctors last night and didn&#39;t get back to the hotel until an hour before we had to leave this morning, I saw Marinas sister in law this morning and looked surprisingly chipper! &amp;nbsp;I&#39;ll get the full story later, currently Peter Lovett is leading the event but Crown/Bryson should over take him by the end of the day as its all very hilly and the P76 has miles more power for the steep inclines. &amp;nbsp;After the long hill climb from our regularity there was only one casualty, a Datsun with a failed fuel pump, quickly fixed we had a long downhill into the lunch control, the brakes on our HiLux haven&#39;t really been used until now so got very hot and caught fire much to the amusement of some competitors! &amp;nbsp;The lunch halt was a pontoon out in a lake but the food was good so the novelty was short lived! 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through the jungle took us to the test this afternoon, lots of dust around and steep climbs, we had time to fix fuel vaporisation on the impala and he soon roared off up the hill, we took some pictures at the start line.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhtQzyDg7ZyQl_J4JpZjfktV0fIrDP88NBdqEqe-ZgAHkMzruwR7MTUiYkKDxBZYD4Z4WEMb_E1wIoSjFq8m8zz3Xmn2-hS5NioOLahLwdR4sNOE8YslT0pAV4MREzhVimq97cYTrN8Vl5/s640/blogger-image-1724743029.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; 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(beginning to really dislike this car for lots of reasons) a pushrod on an alvis is being sorted as I write, the beetle I spent a few hours on last night seems to have given up putting waste to the hard work put in to it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;A couple of beers and an early night is needed so ta ta&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/feeds/890298455947868870/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/14th-february-2015-valentine_14.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534.post-4012562653934325969</id><published>2015-02-13T08:36:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2015-02-13T08:36:59.159-08:00</updated><title type='text'>13th February 2015 marshal free</title><content type='html'>It had been decided that Owen and I weren&#39;t to marshal today so it was straight forward sweep duties, we were to leave after 20 cars with skippy and Tony bringing up the rear, rob and Alan were marshalling miles down the road so would catch up during the day. &amp;nbsp;We left at ten to eight in the morning and had an event free day until we came across the massive Chevrolet Impala with a broken brake pipe, within fifteen minutes a new pipe had been made, all brakes bled out and they had gone, we did a little shopping and continued on the 450km leg. &amp;nbsp;A dusty section made for very difficult driving and very nearly took out a moped rider that we couldn&#39;t see because of the dust!&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGbaLmuUdn-E8ahMOIxHeRYB38Esp2o_z7WlT1uKxfZYk6x-cFNhUKgXR-HTmmsAwIyF7appUxqHR0UdAZ7O7yXEkXK5rBSoyMTl4Ft8IYUlfs7KxL_1PZCRKxNQX4VLGLuyg6tLUbpcvl/s640/blogger-image-72022186.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGbaLmuUdn-E8ahMOIxHeRYB38Esp2o_z7WlT1uKxfZYk6x-cFNhUKgXR-HTmmsAwIyF7appUxqHR0UdAZ7O7yXEkXK5rBSoyMTl4Ft8IYUlfs7KxL_1PZCRKxNQX4VLGLuyg6tLUbpcvl/s640/blogger-image-72022186.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;This is the model a that I fell in love with on Peking to Paris but with all the problems they&#39;ve had so far I&#39;m rapidly losing interest in the car sadly but the two chaos in it are full of the Dunkirk spirit so they are plodding on. &amp;nbsp;We&#39;ve seen some interesting sights today with overloaded trucks both with people in them and others with crops in them, this is a completely different world here and it&#39;s good to see health and safety hasn&#39;t arrived yet!&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiKUrROam3dN1pgrUAifJBMem3yQyxkCrOXxybfsPxPoMH8jfH7u9ULVDxJF3D7jHMAYTUc1QBSXQ7nlxlzAiv3kwZAFPxmSv2tHtCjgfc_u-duutNMsPAxJXMxLuaR_U7I-zxe9Ili79P/s640/blogger-image-582107478.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; 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src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWVgivYhhXT-RAs_OycuRmDUo45eQvKQosBHaD3Hc9vU4VcJuOwFISaRz9AIq2G0PIJlkhfAtQc2FbP6uc1BHe9nosc9nVn4wJQwEF_lgwlGMWmx7P4IcVXGtMULkWVtEPwJ6XNp31AvAN/s640/blogger-image--637458993.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;I&#39;m sure half these people were pissed aswell, good to see this sort of behaviour on thailands motorways.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;We arrived at the hotel and set about replacing a grease nipple on an AC for once a small job, then Owen re engineered the braking system on a ford coupe, I had the enviable job of seeing why a beetle wasn&#39;t running too well, once I&#39;d removed the spark plugs and found one of the ends damaged I did a compression test and found none, removed the rocker and found a push rod had come out and jammed the valve down subsequently hitting the piston and wrecking one cylinder, however the crew are going on push on to burma (hopefully) on three cylinders, should be ok until we get into the hills, maybe we should dig out the tow rope in anticipation!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Once all the jobs were done some locals asked to have their photos taken with us, a nice bunch who spoke excellent English, well better than my Thai!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a 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src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGbaLmuUdn-E8ahMOIxHeRYB38Esp2o_z7WlT1uKxfZYk6x-cFNhUKgXR-HTmmsAwIyF7appUxqHR0UdAZ7O7yXEkXK5rBSoyMTl4Ft8IYUlfs7KxL_1PZCRKxNQX4VLGLuyg6tLUbpcvl/s72-c/blogger-image-72022186.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534.post-611854724878539493</id><published>2015-02-12T08:29:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2015-02-12T08:29:18.108-08:00</updated><title type='text'>12 February 2015 Owen looks different</title><content type='html'>Today was an odd day, the competitors were doing a big loop today and returning to the same hotel in Kanchanaburi visiting a nature reserve up in the hills where apparently elephants roam but sadly we didn&#39;t see any, I wasn&#39;t with Owen today as we had decided that Owen was staying at the hotel with skippy and fixing a couple of broken cars in the car park and Tony and I were out fixing broken cars at the road side, we started the day at Hellfire pass, the notorious cutting for the Siam Burmese railway where thousands of POWs died in WW2 along with workers from Thailand as depicted in Bridge on the river Kwai starring Alec Guiness, we visited the museum before heading off on our duties, we came across a beetle that had run out of fuel being towed to the petrol station, we got it off the tow rope and started pushing toward the fuel pump, clearly the driver thought this task was beneath him and didn&#39;t help, thinking it was more important to fiddle with his telephone and then roll up his tow rope, I think we made it clear that his behaviour wasn&#39;t acceptable and thought his navigator seemed embarrassed.&lt;div&gt;Once the beetle was running we buggered off up the road, concrete turned to gravel and her came the first regularity section of the day, tony had never navigated on one of these events (and he&#39;s done loads) so jumped at the chance of doing the regularity and was pretty damn good with only a 2 second difference which is a damn sight better than nearly all the competitors! &amp;nbsp;We nearly didn&#39;t do very well as &amp;nbsp;just prior to the finish control there was a Bentley moving out of the way for a porsche that had got it all wrong, another Bentley was trying to back up out if the commotion but selected first instead of reverse and nearly went in to the Bentley in front, luckily they didn&#39;t touch but was great to watch!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We carried on up the road and came across the jaguar SS with ignition issues, a quick check over found the points were duff so changed them and left, next up was one of the datsuns who&#39;s rear hub assembly/shock mount had sheared, we lashed it together to drive it to a welding shop in the village where work started on it immediately, within fifteen minutes we were back in the road closely following the 240Z to make sure all was well, it was.&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxXwWJBVz4D-ZRybZm2CGTN5CpVaU8zfdwLkn5spDdkiI-7VAAI9nJhUyIR9FLlGPzr7lSbkE72mZSjyufQxgJV3E84yoqqoYYWRTz4Uuv30mMkquYMlxSuxkCfV7pPnF9J3Yf7IdF8pyf/s640/blogger-image--1487469627.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxXwWJBVz4D-ZRybZm2CGTN5CpVaU8zfdwLkn5spDdkiI-7VAAI9nJhUyIR9FLlGPzr7lSbkE72mZSjyufQxgJV3E84yoqqoYYWRTz4Uuv30mMkquYMlxSuxkCfV7pPnF9J3Yf7IdF8pyf/s640/blogger-image--1487469627.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now with this fixed we were a long way down the road from the hotel and the chance to see the bridge has now disappeared along with a mercedes that seems to have got lost and has broken down somewhere off route, we have been in contact with the crew and they are en route to the hotel, I hope they make it in enough time for us to look at it before bedtime!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Haven&#39;t seen the docs today so can&#39;t have a Buckley bogus fact, haven&#39;t seen Alice&#39;s auntie either so have nothing to report, an early start tomorrow means an early night to bed, so ciao.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here&#39;s a rather camp photo of Buckley, he&#39;ll enjoy reading this blog when he gets home, &quot;hello sailor&quot;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCpl0d0KLDrZR0z3vPuPVJqHUZwTTPDiVB9jUjnaVfejT9sOLGugkmhLp2bWSL6m-Oqi13vP6JzsZBbb9k5NLuyAWlFSBL5ZJWrdmooYNMQiml1vEDupNrVc7eBAoWgmYMjzSsi4YkCnWw/s640/blogger-image--839944861.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; 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width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534.post-8003121747624090184</id><published>2015-02-12T07:34:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2015-02-12T07:34:54.269-08:00</updated><title type='text'>11th February 2014 Kwai oh Kwai!</title><content type='html'>Today was a really really early one, Owen and I had got to bed about half one in the morning after our late night repairs on the Volvo, we had breakfast at half past five and left shortly afterwards to travel 285 kms to our control right beneath a reservoir and dam, it was lovely but the rustling in the bushes was quite disconcerting so the wees we needed were done with great risk I&#39;m sure! &amp;nbsp;We set up and proceeded to whittle some wood, Owen was trying to make some sort of minute boat thing whereas I was doing the regular spear to throw at the animal clearly stalking us from the bushes, Owen I think got a bit fed up with his bit of wood and promptly lobbed it in the dam release river.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguhlFEf0lTNmnOZwSnm6NpTZ6NopcINKodWh9BhY6-ZuoJpxJrWb11IlmNSSbQ-KzvfOH1FWBzXSrjPUMJO5QX-8tQwFoQ4QI7WrOQX8JUYZ977LMyHNsyMJUgZla7AM-85RQKhlgs1R46/s640/blogger-image--1047085176.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguhlFEf0lTNmnOZwSnm6NpTZ6NopcINKodWh9BhY6-ZuoJpxJrWb11IlmNSSbQ-KzvfOH1FWBzXSrjPUMJO5QX-8tQwFoQ4QI7WrOQX8JUYZ977LMyHNsyMJUgZla7AM-85RQKhlgs1R46/s640/blogger-image--1047085176.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: 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to chat, lots of waving but no actual conversations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Whilst we were marshalling we received the news that the work on the Volvo last night didn&#39;t pay off as 150kms in to the day the con rod decided to call it a day and made a break for it through the side of the block, that is definitely game over from them although we have heard reports they may have found an engine in Bangkok so I see another all nighter coming up!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;With the checkpoint all cleared away after the competitors had left we left and soon came up behind a very sick sounding Buick and as we were the last sweeps of the day we had to follow them the last 230kms back to the hotel with them breaking down no fewer than eight times after that! &amp;nbsp;We arrived very late at the hotel where there seemed to be carnage, Owen went to advise some competitors on changing their differential in an alvis but ended up basically doing it, skippy and tony were doing something on something, rob and Alan were draining a fuel tank and I was investigating a noise in a Bentley rear axle but only found a bent back plate so with one tap of a hammer it was fixed. &amp;nbsp;I was then lending hand to a ford coupe specialist who had flown in from the UK to fit a gearbox and he needed an extra pair of hands so with all the work done it was a quick chat and beer and a little catch up with Marina&#39;s sister in law before I headed up to Owen and my room in this lovely hotel on the river Kwai over looking the famous railway bridge which I haven&#39;t seen yet as I&#39;ve only been here in darkness, we are returning to this hotel tomorrow night so may see more then!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Some of today&#39;s snaps&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: 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url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguhlFEf0lTNmnOZwSnm6NpTZ6NopcINKodWh9BhY6-ZuoJpxJrWb11IlmNSSbQ-KzvfOH1FWBzXSrjPUMJO5QX-8tQwFoQ4QI7WrOQX8JUYZ977LMyHNsyMJUgZla7AM-85RQKhlgs1R46/s72-c/blogger-image--1047085176.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534.post-3146117109268000964</id><published>2015-02-11T10:07:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2015-02-11T10:07:58.641-08:00</updated><title type='text'>10th February 2015</title><content type='html'>A reasonably late start for us as we were manning the out control at the hotel, it was going to be a fairly relaxed day with only a short regularity to wake up the competitors, we packed up and followed the last of the competitors out and resumed sweep duties, first thing we came across was the chavelle, or the perpetual Chavelle as it keeps breaking down, this time it was the third fuel pump to fail, we didn&#39;t hang around as it was being repaired by Kitch and Alan so we pressed on to the next time control being manned by Eds sister and Chris Bruce. nothing going on here so we left to get down to the regularity start, at the start there was the third place Datsun of Grant and Simon, the starter had packed up so a quick push start and they roared off. &amp;nbsp;Owen and I decided to have a go at the regularity and actually managed to get zero penalties but then Owen was navigating so it came as no surprise. &amp;nbsp;The Volvo of heather and Jo were still going on three cylinders since the valve dropped but between us all we&#39;d got Amazon cars to fly out with he parts needed, parts described by the New Zealand mechanic who had built the engine, they went off to deal with that so it looks like it&#39;s going to be a busy night! &amp;nbsp;Not a lot else was happening so we pressed on to the hotel where there was two Bentleys waiting for fine tuning, both sorted and then we went to have dinner before the Volvo parts turned up which they did so work started, the standard piston as previously described was in fact not a standard piston but a 20 though oversized piston so all was looking grim, this was confirmed when we started it and found a huge amount of piston slap, it was late and there was nothing to be done so the competitors had no choice other than to give up or press on, the opted to press on but we aren&#39;t holding out too much hope.&lt;div&gt;A memorable moment was when we went to a small house that was preparing raw natural rubber and got to see the processes from the cutting of the tree to the boiling and rolling into sheets of rubber ready for refining, this was a great moment, I also tried beetle nut that is widely consumed in these parts, it was gross!&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a 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course of one night, today if you did the same thing you would have less than 50 Mosquitos stuck to it over the same period!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPKStFUjHNkJ1TTAbuZpa07p6AxQPF7RrxpqdemGj2Q_b0tXr5DXDqNtms-rwAV3ujbtCE25I-KtMVRT8cEdMPwT6G2e1Pl9EiFBaodZBV5xrN_E8Bvy7JM6un5xZThoXU7D9jl01ZvIEw/s640/blogger-image-31906159.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPKStFUjHNkJ1TTAbuZpa07p6AxQPF7RrxpqdemGj2Q_b0tXr5DXDqNtms-rwAV3ujbtCE25I-KtMVRT8cEdMPwT6G2e1Pl9EiFBaodZBV5xrN_E8Bvy7JM6un5xZThoXU7D9jl01ZvIEw/s640/blogger-image-31906159.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Buckley is the slightly more ugly one of these two!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/feeds/3146117109268000964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/10th-february-2015.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/3146117109268000964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/3146117109268000964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/10th-february-2015.html' title='10th February 2015'/><author><name>Jamie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13241471585216648670</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvMUqCjZmYIpgNr1BDPLQwqr7bHURdhwwJYXYr270IUZVwfo8-XjZDU6CT_0gAZNEQ3QR9jfFZhQ8Cg1kFe5BtmlB9mQtMAwSvxQK7smBTz1lFMNOhj4DErmHI-mVnAWAXFao2qhSEPTjr/s72-c/blogger-image-846114047.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534.post-2955531995910253303</id><published>2015-02-09T02:58:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2015-02-09T07:48:59.811-08:00</updated><title type='text'>9th February 2015, another day off!</title><content type='html'>An 8 o&#39;clock start down in the car park in soaring temperatures was very difficult for me as having a very late night last night meant that we were all hanging but work needed to be done, one of the girls in the volvo sadly went out for a run first thing and the throttle stuck open blowing the engine up so there was a panick phonecall trying to find an Amazon engine to change, don&#39;t think there&#39;s many of them in Thailand! &amp;nbsp;A Bentley came in with an alternator failure and that was duly changed with a spare from its sister car doing this event and they then went off to change the coolant as they&#39;ve had slightly overheating issues but not too much of a problem, lots of tool lending and minor things like adjusting brakes etc to make all the competitors happier about continuing tomorrow. &amp;nbsp;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a 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struggled to get back in the righted vessel, we were towed back to shallower water where Jim departed and we went off exploring the coastline, on the way back we encountered pirates who boarded the vessels and threw us overboard, namely Matt and Buckley the event doctors, we found refuge on a floating deck out to sea, our boats were returned eventually and we returned to base not before lots of dicking about doing bombs and dives off the floating deck. &amp;nbsp;Volleyball was next on the list and a number of competitors were getting involved, the doctors turned up after a while and basically showed us up as they were much better, trust the doctors to piss on our parade! &amp;nbsp;Buckleys facts for today are basically about jelly fish stings and has dispelled the remedy for stings so from now in we are not to wee on the stings nor put vinegar on the stings, his remedy for such problems is just put the sting in warm water, now I&#39;m starting to worry about his doctoring skills, this fact I suspect isn&#39;t bogus but sounds like it should be! 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&amp;nbsp;Thailand is in fact an island! &amp;nbsp;I&#39;m starting to believe he knows nothing!&lt;br&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/feeds/6744936649363944151/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/8th-february-2015-hillclimbs-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/6744936649363944151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/6744936649363944151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/8th-february-2015-hillclimbs-and.html' title='8th February 2015 hillclimbs and elephant'/><author><name>Jamie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13241471585216648670</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-6oOVQ_kJ_tfgYoU51TSRLHBlHwHArDowcLpml0_C3uMBnfctFkKwoscIGWKgsbO7paWAHyYquSvicN_KwnnnrVIpvDyuiSMdvPFj5dLyt4Ugj52lzW1_AvVqlUVx9grTmXvfQmZVtHRB/s72-c/blogger-image-1046015001.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534.post-4279521878563256136</id><published>2015-02-07T08:07:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2015-02-07T18:47:37.528-08:00</updated><title type='text'>7th February 2015, quotes and queues</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;After a very early night Owen and I were raring to go, we had a marshalling point about 75 kms from Penang, still in Malaysia at a road side dare, or in the car park to be precise, we arrived way to early but set up the marshals area complete with arrows, boards, flags and obviously Paul Simon playing on Owens bluetooth speaker, some of the competitors didn&#39;t notice but it was good to see Sandra Merryweather boogie in the car park, much to her husbands disgust! &amp;nbsp;One of the competitors who&#39;s on her first rally wanted to help out so took over from Owen filling out the check sheet. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; 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style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ9b0ETsSsTGPOPj5quwEtn8cxaPmJR7BVRR4j42fjSFgqxapq0kAHQI5yCI9WAA4iAKxULu4vGbY7Wi72EHDGVyM4hoP0McOiuOL7pDIp1WfuX_TlDaQhYBcU86xxVIUrM3dQbuOfgG9h/s640/blogger-image-1389503225.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ9b0ETsSsTGPOPj5quwEtn8cxaPmJR7BVRR4j42fjSFgqxapq0kAHQI5yCI9WAA4iAKxULu4vGbY7Wi72EHDGVyM4hoP0McOiuOL7pDIp1WfuX_TlDaQhYBcU86xxVIUrM3dQbuOfgG9h/s640/blogger-image-1389503225.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Good job I didn&#39;t fall out of my shorts!?? &amp;nbsp;We went into the services for lunch, had the local Malay dish of Nasi Goring, a rice based dish with seafood and chewy bits, I think it was chicken, not sure! &amp;nbsp;A couple of the competitors where having lunch with someone and as sweeps we could leave without them so they invited us to join them, turned out to be one of the Malaysian princes so the five of us had a good chat, seemed a bit surreal me having lunch with royalty!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Anyway once the little regal party was finished we got into the trucks and headed for the Thai border, what a bloody farce! &amp;nbsp;Got to the border went to an office, got back in the car drove 100 yards, parked the car, went to an office then queued up at another booth for two and a half hours in direct sunlight, the air temp was 39 degrees but the guard said the sunlight made it nearer 50!! &amp;nbsp;People were passing out, the army was dishing out water but we still had time to dick about!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiBnh2FgOioOa9H2HRqaJmfO90otikMllwKnBPyMzaZxdRCumZv2R6okODl11_dUNXufvXGHYlkWwWcWPYvwhb3c9dOms8dOgXZ01bkhfB6Eljwy9AIGo-2elp8NIRuWNVmTAWF5At2fqE/s640/blogger-image-2141012238.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiBnh2FgOioOa9H2HRqaJmfO90otikMllwKnBPyMzaZxdRCumZv2R6okODl11_dUNXufvXGHYlkWwWcWPYvwhb3c9dOms8dOgXZ01bkhfB6Eljwy9AIGo-2elp8NIRuWNVmTAWF5At2fqE/s640/blogger-image-2141012238.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Not sure the soldier knew what to make of us? &amp;nbsp;Any wah the formalities were done and we were off, Owen was the last across the border and fortunately there were no problems, Owen took longer but if I didn&#39;t get in it wasn&#39;t a problem as I had the keys to the van!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; 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style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;We finally arrived at the hotel and immediately set about screwing the floor back down in a Chevy, bolt the rear suspension together on a Datsun, fix a spark plug issue on a Merc before finally settling down to dinner before an early night.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Buckley is letting us down with his rubbish facts and this is all he has to offer!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Monitor lizards have teeth and claws, they would give you an unpleasant bite.......... Lame, lame, lame.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;As a result Andrew, this is for you!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjasZBuWEvBmWOZi-05cY6Srg0Ex2Z9VkRzZAdoUYSA-e1Bga71-2hiAu5fM4Uh-6M-zGDG5mZQpFiKJhXOt7-5j5hlLB5OT0j_VNmaCgBVcMz_FA409UmGQOP3pmgCuf9hWwfs8c4hrSAC/s640/blogger-image-2132042805.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjasZBuWEvBmWOZi-05cY6Srg0Ex2Z9VkRzZAdoUYSA-e1Bga71-2hiAu5fM4Uh-6M-zGDG5mZQpFiKJhXOt7-5j5hlLB5OT0j_VNmaCgBVcMz_FA409UmGQOP3pmgCuf9hWwfs8c4hrSAC/s640/blogger-image-2132042805.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We do though have a new subject,&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Helvetica Neue Light&#39;, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;George&#39;s quote of the day, let&#39;s start with one of her quotes of today;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Helvetica Neue Light&#39;, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &quot;it seemed quite big when I sat on his head.&quot; &amp;nbsp;Priceless!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Helvetica Neue Light&#39;, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Helvetica Neue Light&#39;, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Some piccies from today&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Helvetica Neue Light&#39;, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Helvetica Neue Light&#39;, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; 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style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;The Leyland going of the line!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDBkWXz8cFgb6Pip0p_eRtweBRW1RNYLq1pyy8ECOQs6GSMo-DqIyKQzJ7J9Fa5FOQc4zi_dksD1QS2d91t23hgYY74CMvAGvT4dE96fjOorML0erH2EkZGZg81GNAhGNYebnSB3CBxIzA/s640/blogger-image-725210498.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDBkWXz8cFgb6Pip0p_eRtweBRW1RNYLq1pyy8ECOQs6GSMo-DqIyKQzJ7J9Fa5FOQc4zi_dksD1QS2d91t23hgYY74CMvAGvT4dE96fjOorML0erH2EkZGZg81GNAhGNYebnSB3CBxIzA/s640/blogger-image-725210498.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/feeds/4279521878563256136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/7th-february-2015-quotes-and-queues.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/4279521878563256136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/4279521878563256136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/7th-february-2015-quotes-and-queues.html' title='7th February 2015, quotes and queues'/><author><name>Jamie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13241471585216648670</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiDo0sndDL1z_O63T2fwBnblvuUHTQFl9zhjdxMQAOZ3M8n1XIh_yxP4cFiKz2-Myi1zAs7A-shjzoJ3W83YDYqtxBt7kNFS4clBVJ4FJglVi56bTDsP_hEvAhuWaD-zRr50oqc8of3WVO/s72-c/blogger-image-950383518.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534.post-4622615089118950691</id><published>2015-02-06T05:53:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2015-02-06T06:00:36.800-08:00</updated><title type='text'>6th February 2015, the day off?</title><content type='html'>8 am called, we donned on our smelling work clothes and headed down to the sweaty and smelly car park where we set up a workshop area for us to tend to the broken down cars. We had an AC with a broken leaf spring/king pin/carb issue and chassis problem, this took about 3 hours to sort but there were 6 of us so other items tended to were brake issues, gear lever issues, the list goes on! &amp;nbsp;We were under a strict time frame and all the competitors were told that if you required any work done by us they had to be in the garage by 8 as we were to be finished by 12, any cars not presented by 9 would not be worked on, not sure how many people read the official notice board as people were turning up way past 12 asking for work to be done, unfortunately we were so busy that the late comers had to find alternative garages as we didn&#39;t have enough time to work for them! &amp;nbsp;Once our duties were over we decided on a spot of sightseeing so we washed and changed and headed out to the local sights, we wandered through little india, Chinatown, got some lunch and ended up on the famous Chew pier where only the defendants of one Chinese family work and live, a fascinating if not bit smelly place riddled with alleyways and shops,&amp;nbsp;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJD65uaUh1vTDazq5TzyOFvPxNzTBueebv5b-DYijXacmRgyC8O8ChoSdr8DfpK4XNJSo-9hj-8kTwZcQQLUkx0tTNWMDYw82k7fDJBCo9AoIDJidaAkfaNz-uvnr_G7Dl9h12rYU8SzLl/s640/blogger-image-1903607495.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJD65uaUh1vTDazq5TzyOFvPxNzTBueebv5b-DYijXacmRgyC8O8ChoSdr8DfpK4XNJSo-9hj-8kTwZcQQLUkx0tTNWMDYw82k7fDJBCo9AoIDJidaAkfaNz-uvnr_G7Dl9h12rYU8SzLl/s640/blogger-image-1903607495.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghfVNbvS17Q-rO_3UfoZ091svvVqsZM1zqfFOuu1uVWHqC_qQldOjuGFbiHGQcvG3FcFZBkHD1FFQj6e9lCPvzfvNO2leQ2tKSM8Q0ZejpL1TOcHT3JdBjnG5Y5Yk_IPREWnfC5g10gXtu/s640/blogger-image--1401604815.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghfVNbvS17Q-rO_3UfoZ091svvVqsZM1zqfFOuu1uVWHqC_qQldOjuGFbiHGQcvG3FcFZBkHD1FFQj6e9lCPvzfvNO2leQ2tKSM8Q0ZejpL1TOcHT3JdBjnG5Y5Yk_IPREWnfC5g10gXtu/s640/blogger-image--1401604815.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0yBnlLpmzMtjBccr5RaQljkQfKVXnG8Zidib8XFS0ghbPSAvI4dnNdNApajQssAUZu0bto6Eh3w9Q53trirXX-OMqN5kpzBOj712MtoRZtlQMwNDzWD8eH7OaUxSymMXJBS6xX8rQvOqz/s640/blogger-image-617177690.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0yBnlLpmzMtjBccr5RaQljkQfKVXnG8Zidib8XFS0ghbPSAvI4dnNdNApajQssAUZu0bto6Eh3w9Q53trirXX-OMqN5kpzBOj712MtoRZtlQMwNDzWD8eH7OaUxSymMXJBS6xX8rQvOqz/s640/blogger-image-617177690.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt;we got to the end a bit hot and tired and didn&#39;t want to walk back so asked one of the Chinese people if they had a boat that we could hire to take us back to the hotel around the coast, a fishing boat thingy was requisitioned and we were delivered back safely although we tried to get the driver to do a James Bond move and try to get in front of a ferry charging out of the port, he didn&#39;t and received boos all the way back.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNeufxJONweltS8IzuA_NIAv0fT5uuwq2-BS8bdW1hfx28O848xKmtH4fYVp827XhNyYTH90yUIV5CmKY9VlP0j-KekeebqdRZqzUrgn9MTlEwbc1E06HXorDOTLe7-kBDpkGmgupRAnbe/s640/blogger-image-1252015229.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNeufxJONweltS8IzuA_NIAv0fT5uuwq2-BS8bdW1hfx28O848xKmtH4fYVp827XhNyYTH90yUIV5CmKY9VlP0j-KekeebqdRZqzUrgn9MTlEwbc1E06HXorDOTLe7-kBDpkGmgupRAnbe/s640/blogger-image-1252015229.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt;A quick swim in the infinity pool and it was time to shower ready for a drinks get together in the lobby before going out to dinner, both Owen and I have decided not to go out tonight as we&#39;re now knackered and need an early night! &amp;nbsp;I have no facts from Buckley today but have probably the worst selfie ever!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkm_ZKM6sdAaEIHhgJGFNdWu_HGWgo7vemLxPtVAx-Oz8v5O1EeIP53YPLfSIDKoeO0OnQncLuo3utrNSoXzpfN4eGHXy83pLAI2gha_ko_ywZJ_RmF5Ree3pcT6AqakE59s_PTcGoTrCX/s640/blogger-image--460773141.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkm_ZKM6sdAaEIHhgJGFNdWu_HGWgo7vemLxPtVAx-Oz8v5O1EeIP53YPLfSIDKoeO0OnQncLuo3utrNSoXzpfN4eGHXy83pLAI2gha_ko_ywZJ_RmF5Ree3pcT6AqakE59s_PTcGoTrCX/s640/blogger-image--460773141.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/feeds/4622615089118950691/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/6th-february-2015-day-off.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/4622615089118950691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/4622615089118950691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/6th-february-2015-day-off.html' title='6th February 2015, the day off?'/><author><name>Jamie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13241471585216648670</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJD65uaUh1vTDazq5TzyOFvPxNzTBueebv5b-DYijXacmRgyC8O8ChoSdr8DfpK4XNJSo-9hj-8kTwZcQQLUkx0tTNWMDYw82k7fDJBCo9AoIDJidaAkfaNz-uvnr_G7Dl9h12rYU8SzLl/s72-c/blogger-image-1903607495.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534.post-432826615448553421</id><published>2015-02-05T09:45:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2015-02-06T05:56:29.317-08:00</updated><title type='text'>5th February 2015 To Penang</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp;Wi Fi is terrible, hence the delay in my blogs, sorry about that! &amp;nbsp;Today we left the flood torn region of North west Malaysia and headed for a more civil North west and then onto the island of Penang, it was Owens turn to drive so I had the opurtunity of taking some snaps, very twisty, narrow roads led us up to about 3000 feet and back down to sea level what seemed like over only about a couple of miles! We&#39;ve had races all day with various vehicles but mainly scooters and mopeds but Owen did manage some overtakes on the competitors bringing him some satisfaction! &amp;nbsp;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisoSruy7x9UNwF3gai5GxqB7BhhE61LfGgzi5-08mdkt_1Y4Whr72_IbZJhq9PtJdwiWWBv3D2T1LDgtd7X6UjzzhJO3eyWUDpcixXpHzA7pgxwL4nNA3AN6F90p6xwNA7rLXSzS5tAYu_/s640/blogger-image-110043385.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisoSruy7x9UNwF3gai5GxqB7BhhE61LfGgzi5-08mdkt_1Y4Whr72_IbZJhq9PtJdwiWWBv3D2T1LDgtd7X6UjzzhJO3eyWUDpcixXpHzA7pgxwL4nNA3AN6F90p6xwNA7rLXSzS5tAYu_/s640/blogger-image-110043385.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; 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style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjumyjPa8q0CmTUbBDRUCjomLmDxcpXE4e4hhmE7Cu9EN0wgWFjMhyZS4g8lGppDpMl5Ncsg12ueX1dv7BQ6wXLy4vYlxILd4QZ2fEu7UScpnMJKg3z0oJfgFwiWYqn9ctkWyIzFkX_2OJx/s640/blogger-image-1624495117.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjumyjPa8q0CmTUbBDRUCjomLmDxcpXE4e4hhmE7Cu9EN0wgWFjMhyZS4g8lGppDpMl5Ncsg12ueX1dv7BQ6wXLy4vYlxILd4QZ2fEu7UScpnMJKg3z0oJfgFwiWYqn9ctkWyIzFkX_2OJx/s640/blogger-image-1624495117.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;After a brilliant series of hilly hairpins it was a drop down into Georgetown where our hotel loomed amongst the dilapidated old colonial mansions that lined the congested and smelly roads, the eastern and oriental hotel was a real treat, a beautiful hotel with great staff and an infinity pool that we will be utilising! &amp;nbsp;We settled down ready for the next two nights as it was a rest day for the competitors, well those who hadn&#39;t had car problems anyway! &amp;nbsp;A few minor issues to deal with with only a handful of cars we got washed and dressed and readied ourselves for a deserved night out. &amp;nbsp;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; 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imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTXSs4JdFL6ktCWRlUUXHA_V5Cw2hN5RCvIjDrsxTg3COpfhyM6dh1PXxzQxi-UoQ0QBQwRkxcnLGDhtstaMmShlFsrBCShw-wubhy7EvwaeH8JTH2JvYoldkuFFEXy0W_SzFdlRe8iA_P/s640/blogger-image-478072308.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;one of the competitors wanted to take us out and as he was part of the Malay royal family it was a difficult one to refuse so we didn&#39;t and duly followed him to Slippery Senoritas, a lively bar that just so happened to be hosting the semi finals of miss Malaysia! &amp;nbsp;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNxWS_71trqK9AW_XMDL-fX2O5RN3Hw_0xBP0QeblbTJ20Sulut8DjxoMMkOm0ii_07h6FwQzgeeNRRL9P2uSQROjpvSzYhRnyEoyAb0-2GEg_eC5yiHhcM3UKIiKOYhtg9SFm5qyrTPcJ/s640/blogger-image-465932548.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNxWS_71trqK9AW_XMDL-fX2O5RN3Hw_0xBP0QeblbTJ20Sulut8DjxoMMkOm0ii_07h6FwQzgeeNRRL9P2uSQROjpvSzYhRnyEoyAb0-2GEg_eC5yiHhcM3UKIiKOYhtg9SFm5qyrTPcJ/s640/blogger-image-465932548.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The things we have to do to keep the competitors happy is just amazing, Ed and I perused the entrants photos and names to decide who should get our vote, Ed went for a girl called Amanda and I voted for Lan Shy tting, it was great shouting &#39;SHY TING, SHY TING,&#39; at the top of our voices, great times were had but the best laugh came when one of the contestants chicken fillet fell out of the side of her bikini top when she appeared on stage, when the tears dried up on our faces Owen and I decided to call it a night and returned to the hotel for a rest as we were going to be working hard the following day fixing the mass of broken cars on &#39;the day off&#39;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;BUCKLEYS BOGUS FACT&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Did you know that a particular coconut found in Venezuela from a crop in the nineties has the greatest nuclear fusion absorbing properties than any other natural or man made substance ever found or created anywhere!&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/feeds/432826615448553421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/5th-february-2015-to-penang.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/432826615448553421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/432826615448553421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/5th-february-2015-to-penang.html' title='5th February 2015 To Penang'/><author><name>Jamie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13241471585216648670</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisoSruy7x9UNwF3gai5GxqB7BhhE61LfGgzi5-08mdkt_1Y4Whr72_IbZJhq9PtJdwiWWBv3D2T1LDgtd7X6UjzzhJO3eyWUDpcixXpHzA7pgxwL4nNA3AN6F90p6xwNA7rLXSzS5tAYu_/s72-c/blogger-image-110043385.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534.post-6574463879116322093</id><published>2015-02-05T09:40:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2015-02-05T09:40:30.173-08:00</updated><title type='text'>4th of February 2015</title><content type='html'>A very early start this morning saw a long, damp and misty decline from the tea/strawberry plantations, very slippy conditions should be interesting for the old snotters with failing brakes and cross ply tyres, we are in a region hit very badly by rains/floods with devastation all around, I&#39;m sitting in a cafe surrounded by washed away houses and rubbish, remains of cars, fuel tanks and trees scattered all over.&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; 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imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsTFL-bOOEcEPSwq4oawndJllauemkrZSNVyI7_WjavgAsbi1qdRtdDYWCO24zZrXLVmMNUU9odYmA-viiYVZK1TbCVxCDGpPWOAOUD1nQUEQ6yuaW51H0pWss-2V6LV9sciG7OLf6mW7A/s640/blogger-image-1216457999.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Once all the competitors pass through here we shall be setting off in our sweep roles, we know there&#39;s the Jag from last night still harbouring problems so that may be the next port of call from here!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;The competitors came and went, the cafe had toilets in a shed with car wash written down the side, inside the toilet was the usual hole in the floor but this time the cafe were hanging the cooking utensils from the ceiling, we did not eat here!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;We left the control and drove straight into the worst flood devastation I&#39;ve ever seen, the water line must have risen by 25 metres and hit a very poor area of Malaysia, a very humbling drive over the next few hours as we met and saw people who had nearly nothing had the nearly nothing taken away from them!&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitFtL7IFb5jx1-yaoEK2PLsJIg_Axp9lCIXwxu5GN4yVyou3b1W7pYJ2_Bt6fCivtm_D_qu__E3zWXCAbOshY6rterFBgvuIehM_gEJRql-2SlyWxXzKMELF0Bb2IL-QE3YNPc2xe_AlHW/s640/blogger-image--91245383.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitFtL7IFb5jx1-yaoEK2PLsJIg_Axp9lCIXwxu5GN4yVyou3b1W7pYJ2_Bt6fCivtm_D_qu__E3zWXCAbOshY6rterFBgvuIehM_gEJRql-2SlyWxXzKMELF0Bb2IL-QE3YNPc2xe_AlHW/s640/blogger-image--91245383.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; 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style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Trying to capture the devastation by camera was a very hard task but that must have been and still must be an awful time for the locals, we left a donation into the disaster fund and left to find our swanky hotel for the night, in lots of ways felt unfair.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Once at the hotel I was in for the long haul working on a model A Ford that had spat its timing gear, fortunately the owner had spares so all was out right!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;One of the doctors has been amazing us with facts, he&#39;s led with the palm oil debate raging out here as they&#39;ve seemed to take over the countryside, Palm tree after Palm tree is all we see, according to Andrew Buckley a palm tree can produce 450 gallons of Palm oil a month, after research we&#39;ve found that a Palm tree doesn&#39;t produce that much at all but does produce a tonne of oil every year so from now on in there will be a new topic called &quot;Buckleys bogus facts&quot; coconuts facts tomorrow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Some more snaps from today&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZfEOjF5_Gc5IAWI_BnR4A9oSByvV_OjFyj3tnYzb6IgCwIClIdfiLley7s4Yv9FbcXB_OyAxcxpn3sK1kSDnHnK_dIdX_FWvyuVTUS8C_3-p32008v1Ga7ntc4myXSYW9q9_YZVbZQDqF/s640/blogger-image--470622190.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZfEOjF5_Gc5IAWI_BnR4A9oSByvV_OjFyj3tnYzb6IgCwIClIdfiLley7s4Yv9FbcXB_OyAxcxpn3sK1kSDnHnK_dIdX_FWvyuVTUS8C_3-p32008v1Ga7ntc4myXSYW9q9_YZVbZQDqF/s640/blogger-image--470622190.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;This Is Dr Buckley&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; 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Michael for pointing out that it&#39;s actually February not January!</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/feeds/26595060295445727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/i-dick.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/26595060295445727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/26595060295445727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/i-dick.html' title='I&amp;#39;m a dick'/><author><name>Jamie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13241471585216648670</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534.post-513966015868821019</id><published>2015-02-03T08:18:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2015-02-03T08:21:38.005-08:00</updated><title type='text'>3rd January 2015 ice cream, peanuts and gropings!</title><content type='html'>&#39;Feeling much better having had a decent nights sleep Owen and I headed of for our first proper marshals duty of the rally, it was a hundred km run out to a dirty little cafe in the back of nowhere, although it was grubby the people were really nice, all through malaysia people seem to be anonymouse and unintrusive, seemingly uninterested in the parade of glorious looking cars from bygone eras, the ones that we have managed to talk to seem very pleasant and welcoming, although their coffee is rubbish! &amp;nbsp;Not seen coffee where the milk won&#39;t mix!&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiGx1ue1D584QgovqLy2X6w_bdXsZxqt2KzshHjU7j5yxSvadobK5DL6HaExUVLCeGsmHKvcvFq18hFB97SMJEYIKwpfQZXXeHe9S05HXQjyvrNWBcy7WogzZCV1uE5iBlMItcweKVni-Q/s640/blogger-image--503501977.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiGx1ue1D584QgovqLy2X6w_bdXsZxqt2KzshHjU7j5yxSvadobK5DL6HaExUVLCeGsmHKvcvFq18hFB97SMJEYIKwpfQZXXeHe9S05HXQjyvrNWBcy7WogzZCV1uE5iBlMItcweKVni-Q/s640/blogger-image--503501977.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;After lots of banter and general good humour the competitors came and went, few issues arising at this stage of the day so we packed up and went on our merry way, it wasn&#39;t long before we received a phonecall from one of the event fixers telling us that one of the model A fords had broken down 20km back down the road with a failed waterpump, they had obviously wrong slotted at some point and as we were the last sweep crew we had to go back, we arrived at the stated destination (Shell petrol station) only to find the ford absent, a mistranslation between us and the fixers meant that when we arrived at the fuel station they were actually 60kms down non rally route as they were short cutting due to other issues, when we finally arrived at the correct fuel station on the wrong road they had managed to get the electric water pump fixed and had continued on towards the hotel, we carried on down the wrong route until we met rally route and with several phone calls realised all but one of the competitors were ahead of us with the one outstanding being tended to by Skippy so we carried on to the short but excellent plantation test where me met our illustrious leader PY still shaken by nearly being mowed down by 2 competitors who where showing off to the event photographer Gerard! Here they are with me trying to take photos of them from the car travelling at about 35mph.&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNlfj3NRwKy543qOh2edOdrsC9f8FuBRn9M00vxLElnTmzciqAGv76R2zXwKD6N07h6YN9RxviaeYDJrgxdHoXx8A313wgfxd7zh3OXhAG7GGLHRWStQwDWliGOhFcIQ5wMW5W1Na-xY54/s640/blogger-image--796940635.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNlfj3NRwKy543qOh2edOdrsC9f8FuBRn9M00vxLElnTmzciqAGv76R2zXwKD6N07h6YN9RxviaeYDJrgxdHoXx8A313wgfxd7zh3OXhAG7GGLHRWStQwDWliGOhFcIQ5wMW5W1Na-xY54/s640/blogger-image--796940635.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;This looks like we were stationary but I assure you we weren&#39;t!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; 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style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu0fvSNcMHVvRuj6uwlNd5evrFUOG_JaZWnLrF0v6H4IM0F3E7r6-cZRBTDAUK26udJb3fyZbRByhRe7LBYZtBQCmzYLCs4NQt4Kh2tmNA6WVgnrgA9i8GYsS20L7-qwvHJJUssYKaAUv0/s640/blogger-image--407939940.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu0fvSNcMHVvRuj6uwlNd5evrFUOG_JaZWnLrF0v6H4IM0F3E7r6-cZRBTDAUK26udJb3fyZbRByhRe7LBYZtBQCmzYLCs4NQt4Kh2tmNA6WVgnrgA9i8GYsS20L7-qwvHJJUssYKaAUv0/s640/blogger-image--407939940.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;And yes that&#39;s the beetle that appeared on my peking to Paris blog! &amp;nbsp;We headed up to a famous tea growing shop and sampled honey lemon tea, we all agreed it tasted like lemsip with 35 sugars in it but did enjoy the green tea cheesecake, jungle Jim had green tea, not sure he liked it!&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqkn5xajvyUK7VSX3cRFCzcDvC4JXhc8F2MPy9Qlmn96g7d49KfTugN5cg7xEzjMxW9Dl3u9t0b0R5pmYJZwxnWKjXHEBEwTI9PZozkRxsB-c9LdJaa2mMZFpYz_HpLSVB56l2k2wpcnWY/s640/blogger-image--1467599644.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqkn5xajvyUK7VSX3cRFCzcDvC4JXhc8F2MPy9Qlmn96g7d49KfTugN5cg7xEzjMxW9Dl3u9t0b0R5pmYJZwxnWKjXHEBEwTI9PZozkRxsB-c9LdJaa2mMZFpYz_HpLSVB56l2k2wpcnWY/s640/blogger-image--1467599644.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;A final run to the copthorne hotel and into the underground car park where we where met with a barrage of poorly cars, I was involved in a Bentley 12 with a poorly gear change, once all the floors where removed and accessed the gearbox I found a selector bush was very worn, with Malaysia not having one of these bushes to hand i tinkered and adjusted and with the advice from a Welshman in Wales via telephone a happy solution was formed, a modified gear-lever sorted the problem with lots of cleaning and lubricating it was ready for the next day. &amp;nbsp;Next onto an AC who&#39;s had ongoing issues with fuel and ignition problems so the coil has been moved, fuelling system modified he was also ready, Owen was very busy on a mk2 jaguar who&#39;s water pump had partially seized, that was temporarily repaired until a new one arrives in Penang in a few days! &amp;nbsp;Other small issues of the day were starter motors failing and generally sick cars due to the heat.&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; 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style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;A petrol powered drill, I&#39;m getting one of those!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;After a busy night it was finished off in the bar with a couple of beers and a quick snort of glenfiddich, yes a snort, Owen used both nostrils, even managed to persuade one of the docs to have a go!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Highlights of the day, eating the soul drying peanuts from a shell garage, having a magnum, yes a magnum ice cream from the shop (probably fake!) but the best was Owen falling asleep in the truck then after five minutes suddenly stuck his finger in my ear then grabbed my shoulder in a spider like fashion before being woken by is head smacking into the side window as I swerved virulently down the road!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Night night&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/feeds/513966015868821019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/3rd-january-2015-ice-cream-peanuts-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/513966015868821019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2198969558700337534/posts/default/513966015868821019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jamieturner101.blogspot.com/2015/02/3rd-january-2015-ice-cream-peanuts-and.html' title='3rd January 2015 ice cream, peanuts and gropings!'/><author><name>Jamie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13241471585216648670</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiGx1ue1D584QgovqLy2X6w_bdXsZxqt2KzshHjU7j5yxSvadobK5DL6HaExUVLCeGsmHKvcvFq18hFB97SMJEYIKwpfQZXXeHe9S05HXQjyvrNWBcy7WogzZCV1uE5iBlMItcweKVni-Q/s72-c/blogger-image--503501977.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198969558700337534.post-4820190196914189175</id><published>2015-02-02T08:49:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2015-02-03T01:54:43.580-08:00</updated><title type='text'>2nd January 2015 more medical bollockings</title><content type='html'>Due to the early night last night I was feeling much better so decided to go down to the car park to try and clean some of the day old sick from the side of the truck but one of the competitors had had a head gasket failure so I thought as none of the doctors or sweeps were awake I&#39;d take off the head instead, the moment the head was off I noticed one of the docs marching towards me in a very quick step, Dr Ollie then proceeded to tear me a new arsehole for over doing it so the head gasket had to wait until the other mechanics could take over, with this done we headed off only to immediately come across a rockney with a wheel missing, this was the end for them and they headed off back to Singapore for the journey home, we then sorted out their paperwork and carried on, we did a small stint of marshalling whilst on our way up through Malaysia.&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; 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style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;Once at the hotel we tended to the usual evening work but it ended with me having to go about 6 km to a local garage to fix a clutch on the Chavelle and try and sort out a ford coupe with a bent stub axle, it&#39;s now nearly 1 am and I&#39;m off to bed, here&#39;s a couple of piccies of today.&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFRW3OdbjFNfa5FIiJJiU9lcJRu3iwiToasxgPgNMIK0tlluH1udv_RkFtkCW4fbEJ4mOEXODrhQIXkcq9buJtV9BGDwNOktIiyo2crvjkjYbQN91aWpLYhYBRBhSLF4fwtSJWl0GVbFZZ/s640/blogger-image--2039701005.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFRW3OdbjFNfa5FIiJJiU9lcJRu3iwiToasxgPgNMIK0tlluH1udv_RkFtkCW4fbEJ4mOEXODrhQIXkcq9buJtV9BGDwNOktIiyo2crvjkjYbQN91aWpLYhYBRBhSLF4fwtSJWl0GVbFZZ/s640/blogger-image--2039701005.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; 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