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James Ranaldi
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Posted - 15 Oct 2018 :  11:58:49 Show Profile Reply with Quote
Lovely picture Deggsie, thanks.

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1984 99 GL
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andydeans3
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Posted - 15 Oct 2018 :  20:22:37 Show Profile Reply with Quote
Thanks for all your inputs guys.
I am in fact going down to Cumbria with my wife for a night in Windermere tomorrow, and pick up a rubber bumper tow bar from a chap in Cockermouth, on the way back on Wednesday.

If anyone wants a 95 tow bar, I've got one!

Andy

1978 LHD SAAB 96
1978 MGB Roadster
2008 LHD "Classic" Renault Twingo
1991 Nissan Figaro
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melle
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 15 Oct 2018 :  20:50:32 Show Profile Reply with Quote
Going for a steam cruise on Lake Windemere Andy? I think there's a motor museum around there as well?

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andydeans3
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United Kingdom
1994 Posts

Posted - 18 Nov 2018 :  12:42:43 Show Profile Reply with Quote
Melle

Yep we did the cruise. Fabulous, we've done it before so knew what to expect.
I didn't get to the Motor Museum this time, but I've been there before. It is as you suggest, a great wee museum.

In "Pedantic" mode here - it's not Lake Windermere, it's just "Windermere". "Mere" already means a body of water. Old English/Anglo Saxon. It manifests itself in modern German (possibly Dutch as well??) as "Meer" the sea.

Andy

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deggsie
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 18 Nov 2018 :  13:31:16 Show Profile Reply with Quote
... and the rest of the name is nothing to do with the wind.
Windermere is from the old Norse for 'lake of (the man called) Vinandr' ... so now you know (I wonder if he had a towbar for his 96)!





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Edited by - deggsie on 18 Nov 2018 13:34:25
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andydeans3
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United Kingdom
1994 Posts

Posted - 18 Nov 2018 :  15:40:32 Show Profile Reply with Quote
Mornin' Deggsie.

Aye, place names are rarely what they seem in this country!

Especially with the linguistic influences that these islands have seen, from the old pre-Roman Brittonic languages, Latin, to Gaelic, Norse, Anglo-Saxon, and Norman French.

Helped a chap in Strathaven put a new staring motor in his 96 yesterday. Man is that lower bolt a bitch to get at!!!!!

Got a tow bar though.
Andy


1978 LHD SAAB 96
1978 MGB Roadster
2008 LHD "Classic" Renault Twingo
1991 Nissan Figaro

Edited by - andydeans3 on 18 Nov 2018 15:41:34
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melle
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Posted - 18 Nov 2018 :  22:06:41 Show Profile Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by andydeans3
In "Pedantic" mode here - it's not Lake Windermere, it's just "Windermere".
Yes, of course!

quote:
Originally posted by andydeans3
"Mere" already means a body of water. Old English/Anglo Saxon. It manifests itself in modern German (possibly Dutch as well??) as "Meer" the sea.
Confusingly, "meer" means "lake" in Duch and "zee" is "sea".

I've always meant to go to Windermere since seeing it in one of the late Fred Dibnah's wonderful programmes years ago. Plan is to go to the Lake District this summer!

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andydeans3
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United Kingdom
1994 Posts

Posted - 23 Nov 2018 :  18:35:56 Show Profile Reply with Quote
Melle
Lake district is a beautiful place, but don't go in summer. Wall to wall humanity!!
You need to go in early spring (avoiding Easter weekend of course), or mid to late Autumn.

Andy

1978 LHD SAAB 96
1978 MGB Roadster
2008 LHD "Classic" Renault Twingo
1991 Nissan Figaro
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melle
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Posted - 23 Nov 2018 :  19:01:04 Show Profile Reply with Quote
Exact dates to be decided upon, but we're going with my girlfriends folks and summer seems to work best for them.

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andydeans3
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United Kingdom
1994 Posts

Posted - 01 Dec 2018 :  18:51:29 Show Profile Reply with Quote
Does anyone want the tow bar shown in the photo?, which it would seem is for a 95.

Andy

1978 LHD SAAB 96
1978 MGB Roadster
2008 LHD "Classic" Renault Twingo
1991 Nissan Figaro
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