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Some signs of spring. Mum and her four surviving ducklings. Crows, magpies or cats put paid to the other two. The proud dad/dads. The duck and the two drakes have returned for the last few years. Moorhen sitting on eight eggs. We'll see how many survive the aforementioned crows etc. These fine bullocks arrived in the field opposite on Wednesday.

The answer is 'Balls' Norm! ....................................Yes the item is the original, but I have added the dome to it. Back around Xmas, I observed some Kiddies Ball shaped tins that contained chocolate of some kind. Managed to get hold of a couple and found one without any significant damage. Measured pretty close to the radius, so went for cutting a slice off for a test. First job was to clean off the paint/ink to see what the finish was to the steel (top left). I then had to polish it and measured the amount needed to slice off for a sample and what method to slice it off with ( bottom left)- First go was 3/64"(1.2mm) short, so went for it on the good cleaned off section - Cleaned up and tinned with solder, it was soldered to the original, which was not easy as had to use passive resin flux, but went ok. Had a good coat of fuel proof lacquer and settled for an old small cafetiere s/s gauze filter cut to fit as a dust collector. All done and will go nicely with the now very tidy Carb. Regards

We finished the last job on the G14 ready to try running it. It took ages for the new belts to arrive so to fit them we had to dismantle some parts again. Dad made sure he was well hidden this time

Thanks for your support chaps With regard to the organ grinder or the monkey, I know my place. Anyone got a banana?