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Merry Christmas

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, December 24, 2016
  • Musings

Merry Christmas Folks.

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Excitement & Expense.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, December 24, 2016
  • The 110

It’s amazing how quickly things end up coming together in the end. After spending as much time as I could on The 110 recently it […]

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Welding & Wind Offs.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Tue, December 20, 2016
  • The 110

After yesterdays success I would quite like a repeat performance of hearing the engine running once more but without the rather excessive black smoke that […]

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Set Up & Smoke.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Mon, December 19, 2016
  • The 110

What an eventful day!I literally just popped out under the car port for a bit of a potter on The 110. As always I quickly […]

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Pipes & Plumbing.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Wed, December 14, 2016
  • The 110

Right I need to go to work soon add to that I am full of cold again this is going to be a hard and […]

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Bypass & Bleeding

By Nicky SmithPosted on Mon, December 12, 2016
  • The 110

Are there any other Males, especially Dads, out there that have any idea what Christmas presents have been bought for their daughters? I have to […]

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Belts & Bolts

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, December 11, 2016
  • The 110

Well I have had a busy couple of shifts on the 110 over the last 24 hours and I have surprised myself at how many […]

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BUTTS ROAD

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, December 11, 2016
  • Musings

Made me giggle…

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Rails & Roofs.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, December 04, 2016
  • Musings

As most of you already know we bought a house in the spring of this year, lets say it needs a little work. Not to […]

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Teabag Mountain Result.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, December 04, 2016
  • Musings

I lost.

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Teabag Mountain.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, December 04, 2016
  • Musings

There is a Teabag Mountain challenge in my house at the moment. When the lid falls off the loser has to take it all out […]

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Leaps & Bounds.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, December 03, 2016
  • The 110

Sometimes I am amazed by the kindness of strangers. Now this may sound stupid but I have, along with my ever suffering Wife, for a […]

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Fuel Lines & Fiddling.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, December 03, 2016
  • The 110

December has arrived. That means, in my house anyway, all of the decorations that have lain boxed up in a dusty loft for eleven months […]

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Stats & Pumps.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, November 26, 2016
  • The 110

My youngest was at work. Wifey was out Christmas shopping with her friend for the day, so what does a chap do when the day […]

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Doors & Dampers.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Thu, November 24, 2016
  • The 110

Unfortunately The 110 is not my only project, you see Wifey did insist that we bought a house now so we could hopefully grow old […]

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Wheel Alignment.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Fri, November 18, 2016
  • The 110

After feeling sorry for myself for a while after realising that I was going to have to make some structural alterations to the passenger foot […]

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Tow bars & Technicalities.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Fri, November 18, 2016
  • The 110

Isn’t life a strange thing. You head off in one direction thinking that a small job will take no time at all but within moments […]

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Steering Boxes & Seats.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Thu, November 17, 2016
  • The 110

As you can all see from my delays in writing anything I have been more than a little busy of late with life in general […]

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Propshafts Revisited.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Fri, November 04, 2016
  • The 110

Well I am a man who is happy to put his hands up and admit when I got it wrong. And I did get it […]

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Propshafts & Parcels.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Thu, November 03, 2016
  • The 110

It has been an interesting sort of few days. The Disco has gone which has left me to focus just upon the 110 which is […]

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Crossmembers & Weeping

By Nicky SmithPosted on Tue, November 01, 2016
  • The 110

Being a father to four kids I am not easily surprised these days to see one of them sporting the latest trend in fashion or […]

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The Discovery’s Dying.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Mon, October 24, 2016
  • The Discovery Project...

Today I found myself running the Dad errand of taking my youngest daughter to her first job interview. Seeing as the old Disco that has […]

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First Pics.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Wed, October 19, 2016
  • Musings

I have always enjoyed taking photos. It helps to focus the mind as well as en-capture the wonders of the world we live in. There […]

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Fumbling & Filters

By Nicky SmithPosted on Mon, October 17, 2016
  • The 110

My new approach is definitely “Do a bit when you can” where the 110 is concerned. There is still so much to do on it […]

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Slowly Slowy…

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, October 16, 2016
  • The 110

Wouldn’t it be great to have a tail. I was sat last night with my family enjoying a tipple when I got around to watching […]

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Decision Made.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Mon, October 10, 2016
  • The 110

After a great deal of pondering about what type of wheels I want to go with on the 110 I decided to go with the […]

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Pick Ups & Put Downs.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Tue, October 04, 2016
  • The 110

There were great big heavy lumps of metal everywhere underneath the 110. In fact there was no large metal lumps left at all in the […]

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Puppy’s

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, October 01, 2016
  • Musings

I put this up on my facebook page and now for some reason my daughters are not talking to me? So my daughter Jade keeps […]

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Films & Fumbling.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Thu, September 29, 2016
  • The 110

As I sit here writing this I have popped the TV on for a change, I fancied some background noise. The programme I managed to […]

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Not Much Left In.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Mon, September 26, 2016
  • The 110

Honestly I have been crazy busy with life of late. Family have been coming and going, in fact I have had more family along with […]

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Photography.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Fri, September 16, 2016
  • Musings

I do enjoy a bimble around the countryside but by far my most favourite place to be is in the Peak District of Derbyshire. Now […]

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The Bucket List. Mount Snowdon Pt 6

By Nicky SmithPosted on Fri, September 16, 2016
  • Musings

It has been a long long time since I have pushed my body way past it’s comfort zone. I walk a great deal and like […]

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Parts & Panels.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Wed, September 14, 2016
  • The 110

When you take an engine out of any motor it gives you the opportunity to get to otherwise unreachable places. So with that in mind […]

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The Bucket List. Mt Snowdon Pt 5

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, September 10, 2016
  • Musings

When you are walking up a steep hill or mountain you do tend to just keep looking down towards your feet. The main reasons for […]

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The Crane Works.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Thu, September 08, 2016
  • The 110

Well I have talked the talk, now I am happy to say I have walked the walk. Yes folks I am past the point of […]

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The Bucket List. Mount Snowdon Pt.4

By Nicky SmithPosted on Fri, September 02, 2016
  • Musings

As we started out on the final section of our climb we thought that our limbs were already aching from our sea level climb, we […]

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Rear Trailing Arms…

By Nicky SmithPosted on Thu, September 01, 2016
  • The 110

If I never ever ever see another rear trailing arm bush it will be a day too soon! Right then I best calm down as […]

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Front Brakes and Fiats.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Wed, August 31, 2016
  • The 110

Yesterday was officially the 11th day of my 12 day holiday, it was also the first that I managed to get anywhere near the 110. […]

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The Bucket List. Mount Snowdon Pt 3

By Nicky SmithPosted on Mon, August 29, 2016
  • Musings

The sun was reaching towards its peak now in the cloudless blue skies. It felt like the higher we climbed the stronger it got and […]

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The Bucket List. Mount Snowdon Pt 2.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, August 27, 2016
  • Musings

The first quarter of a mile along the flat and level tarmac road went well enough with us starting to find our walking rhythm right […]

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