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Let me introduce Tigger. There's quite a story attached to this cat. Back in October Caroline was approached by a friend of hers who asked us if we could rehome her 2 year old male ginger cat. This cat had been through a lot, it's first owners were very cruel to it (I won't go into details) and eventually after living semi wild for 6 months it was adopted by a couple who lived a few doors away from the original owners. Disaster struck within weeks when it was was knocked down by a car and it was touch and go whether it pulled through. The couple in question had a problem though, their son in law was extremely allergic to cats to the extent that he had to stay in a hotel when visiting them. Anyway, after some thought we decided to adopt him and a couple of weeks later he arrived, extremely nervous and agitated. No problem, I'm good with cats and figured that if we kept him in for a week or so he'd be O.K. Well, things went badly, despite locking the cat flap he managed somehow to rip the actual door of the flap off and escaped. Caroline spotted him up the lane that morning but despite all the tricks in the book including the previous owners driving down here there was no further sign of him. Over the next few weeks I expanded my search covering the 2 local quarries, the large woods an abandoned farmhouse, etc but saw nothing. The lady who trusted us with the cat was besides herself with grief and she joined me on a couple of wide searches. We asked at the Truck Depot at the back of us, the 3 or 4 houses within 2/3rds of a mile the local MacDonalds, half a mile away but no one had seen him. After 3 weeks we put out some posters and a couple of days later we had our first lead, he had been spotted sitting on a bridge at twilight about a 1/4 of a mile away but there were no further sightings for 3 weeks. Then on XMas eve I spotted him in the lane just 20 yards from our house and on Boxing Day we put out what was left of the turkey in our garden and within minutes he was there he was picking away from it. Of course, as soon as I went out off he went...this was going to be tough to get him back. Sightings increased, my daughter spotted him in our lane and he was coming into our garden every evening. I was leaving out food and on the 30th he came to our back door and cried for food. On New Years eve he allowed me to approach him with food and yesterday he just simply walked up to me allowing me to pick him up, he'd obviously got fed up of living rough and needed somewhere warm to rest up. Well, here he is this evening relaxed on our couch and loving the attention (and food) being lavished on him. Pete

Yes, we put some old tea towels down for them . We have several luxury cat baskets but they prefer high places for some reason . Pete

Yes, lovely wheels, silver would have been my choice too. Pete

Aye, they're a great fit an easy job for a body shop. I don't have a side on photo so this'll have to do. Pete

Yes, that'd be the ginger one, she's destroyed several entire rolls so far . Pete

Kittens are growing up and settling down nicely Pete

Very similar, yes. The main difference seems to be that she did not seek immediate medical assistance, in fact the paramedics who attended were sent away. Also, I'm pretty sure that she was not wearing a helmet. Pete

Doesn't sound good to me I'm afraid. With this sort of injury the next 24 hours will be critical, let's just hope he can pull through. Pete

Avast for me. As Fodder said Norton And Macafee hog resources and are too intrusive. Pete

Without lowering, 11J with ET 10 and 285/30/20's will fit on the rear. For 12J you'll need some arch work. Pete

If you only ever do one mod to a pre facelift Zed it's fitting the rear LED's . Pete

Hood ? Pete

Aye, we have a disused quarry at the back of us and the level of water has risen to the point where there are streams of water popping up out of nowhere. We have at the moment a flood right by our back door, our septic tank is full it just can't cope with all the water so flushing the toilet means that crap comes up onto the pathway at the back of the house. I have been actively engaged in heated discussions with the council with a view to pumping some of the water out of the quarry (it's about 80 feet deep now) but the owners of the quarry have gone into liquidation so no one really knows who has responsibility for pumping it out. Currently, there is no pump in situ but most of the piping is still there. So from now on every time we get a bit of rain we have a flood right outside the back door, which takes 72 hours to clear. Our lane is a disaster with a permanent stream on each side of the road and the only drain in the lane, which belonged to a now demolished cottage, is completely blocked. Even if they started pumping tonight it's going take several weeks before they get it down to an acceptable level. Yes, the joys of living in the country indeed. Pete

Without hesitation Caroline replied Christmas Carol, for me Raiders of The Last Ark. Pete

Alright here, there's a small section of the U.K without a weather warning....I'm in it . Got another warning out for Friday though, we're in that one . Pete

Sure they didn't murder anyone but the driver has unlawfully killed his 2 passengers and these idiots are very likely to kill other people going about their business. I have Zero sympathy with them, they knew the risks, they paid the ultimate penalty. Pete

These 3 will obviously never learn but seriously young drivers especially males feel invincible.....they aren't the first and won't be the last sadly. Pete

Very nice, Don't think I've ever seen a facelift Chilli. Pete

I only use normal unleaded when I can't get V-Power and only put a tenners worth in. I've done this maybe 15 times in the 7 years I've had The Zed. Pete

That's a very rare Zed, I only know of one other low tax band facelift ! Pete

Perfect Whatever you do don't attempt to read the oil when it's dark or even gloomy without a decent torch at hand as you'll struggle to get the dipstick back in and might even damage it....I had to learn this the hard way Pete

Another possible cause is overheating as fan failure is quite common on the Zed. However, lack of lubrication is probably the biggest engine killer out there and there's no doubt that running a Zed on nothing but 95 RON will shorten the engine's life and considerably shorten it if the car spends a lot of it's life above 3k revs. One of the reasons I think we are seeing more engine failures is that many Zed's are now on there 4th or 5th owner and as the number of previous owners increases then there's a higher chance that one of those owners has let the oil run low, missed services or run the car on 95 RON..... I've yet to hear of a one owner Zed in The U.K having an engine failure, even high mileage ones. Pete

Around mid day, a GM or Twilight 350Z heading into Winsford town centre. Pete

Looks O.K to me but there's at least one better looking 350Z in Kidderminster . Pete

Carla, Don't bother with jump starting it. Once a battery that's more than a couple of years old goes flat, it'll fail again even if you manage to get it started so as Choptop says you need a new battery. I can't help today but I'm free tomorrow if you want me to help you out . Pete