Engineers and their toys

It's not just the weather in the UK that is crappy for BBQ-ing, it's also the coal. Here our handsome model Pierre-David is showing off just how useful it is to have hair, and the 101 uses for the accompanying acoutrements. After Ilias' attempt to start the coal going, rather than get faces red with blowing and hands tired through fanning, it was time for the extension cord and power tools. All I can say is that although it seem like a girly cheat, it worked a treat!

It is possible to "supe down" a Puegot...[or should that be "soup down"?]

When Pavel rang and asked if I could help him move a tractor back home to the Czech Republic, my first thoughts were of a month long languid ride at 20km per hour on the back of a tractor, swilling beer, and gathering crazy characters into a pack to join us as we go along our way. I didn't realise he just meant to pack his little Pug 207 with a dissasembled tractor so that he could drive it home, as picutred below:

I look like such a granpa in this pic!

Nearly done! Notice the large steel shaft aimed straight at the driver's head in case of sudden braking...

And the story ends there, with the tractor safely put back together on the farm in Czech, and the ox now redundant and it's carcass packed into a small pub 207 for the ride back to the UK...