1st ade

... some of it from the unlagged exhaust, the rest...

Good Tip. Thanks and a Green thing.

A guess but based upon knowledge of how many small and insignificant devices use the mobile networks for non critical "stuff" and having seen similar "speed bumps" on, for example, air quality sensors and (road) traffic counters.

Water level monitoring. Plastic "speed hump" is the radio bit of a mobile phone; sends a text to CRT every few hours with the current water level. With careful design could last months on one set of batteries. Or could only send when water is outside pre-set limits (danger of flooding / more than 6" down) in which case batteries could last years.

Hot air being drawn into the cooling air intake? Cheap (but not too cheap...) fire blanket around the exhaust at the forward end held back by ties to the battery tray?

My first PC, I paid £400 (yes, four hundred pounds) extra for a CD reader, ~ 700 Mb per disk, with the salesman proudly telling me "Never again Sir will you have 'insert disk 1 of n'" (Win 3.1 was, if I recall, twelve floppy disks or one CD). Now my Grandson's playstation has games on multiple Blu-Ray disks at ~45 Gb per disk...

With the start of the good weather I took the dog for a walk from our home in Wolverton to Cosgrove and then down the Buckingham Arm. It's a while since we'd been that way and I was impressed by the progress since our last visit. The remains of the bridge marking the end of the existing navigation has been excavated revealing the original structure Better view showing towpath and watered section (towards Cosgrove) beyond. While the restoration is under way, a temporary crossing for farm access has been put in place. Keep up the good work!

One of the best Authors - and sadly missed.

With the new software (for which I well understand the reason - running an unsupported version of anything is like standing in copper armour at the top of a hill in a thunderstorm shouting "all gods are B*****") comes a new issue for me. Email notification seems to have re-enabled itself. Mrs 1st Ade and I share a home computer. We have (effectively) a single email address. They are different but they land in the same inbox. I don't want emails "X thanks you for your offer of help in Banbury", it leads to marital disquiet on the lines of "I thought you were doing the garden this weekend?" Those who thought email notifications were disabled might like to go check...

Glow plugs might have something to do with it as well?

There is an (anecdotal) story of a Rolls Royce being shipped to the USA. It was insured for the journey, as it was being unloaded one of the strops slipped and the car plummeted onto the quayside from height. The insurance company politely responded that the car was insured for the sea crossing and the policy ceased as soon as any part of the vehicle touched American soil. The fact that, at this point, the car was intact meant that the vehicle was in good order at the point where their liability ended...

And you STILL find time to post on CWF in the Wee Small Hours! I'm impressed.

And, of course, you'd never use the same password for a non-secure site (CWF) and a secure one (Amazon)? Would you?