Windscreen Wipers

The windscreen wipers on my dad’s car were squeaking and scraping something awful so I went to our favourite garage, Station Garage in Golspie (highly recommended by the way) and Roy ordered new Renault wiper blades. The following day they were delivered and fitted. Nice and silent wipers now. Luxury!

When we got home dad was poring over the invoice. Is there something wrong I asked? No, he mused, it’s just that wipers cost more than five times what cars did when I started driving.

I laughed but the look on his face showed me he was being serious. How much did you pay for your first car, I asked? £7 15 shillings he replied. The wiper blades had cost £40.

Gold Sniping in Scotland

Yesterday I enjoyed my first real day’s sniping. My mate and I couldn’t have wished for a more perfect day. It was warm, there was a beautiful breeze to keep the midgies away, the river was cystal clear and we both found some nice gold. Perfect day out!

Where we were working. My mate getting down to bedrock.

Me in my new drysuit taking a look under the water.

Checking the cracks.

Me in my new drysuit.

My gold for the day included some nice little pickers.

Learning to Snipe

Had a great day out with one of my mates, who found more gold than me! In my defence, this was my first foray into sniping and I spent most of my morning trying to keep my mask from steaming up and wondering why my snorkel kept filling with water.

River was low so in the afternoon I picked a nice deep pool and had a swim around admiring the underwater view (through my steamy mask and between bouts of spouting water out of my snorkel)

I did find a nice crack though and took most of this out of it. The big piece is between 0.2 and 0.3 gms

Kildonan with Leon Kirk

Met up with Leon Kirk, one of the UK’s top gold snipers, and a few other friends at Kildonan last week and what a week it turned out to be. Learned loads, the weather was amazing and I went home with 3 gms of best Kildonan gold.

Leon Kirk getting ready for work!

Here is me kitting up in the sunshine.

Jamie hard at work.

Leon sniping.

Leon sniping around the edges of the waterfall pool.

Leon Kirk showing off a day’s haul.

A weeks work – 9.2 gms split 3 ways, just over 3 gms each.

And here is Leon on telly showing off his nuggets to Nick Crane.

Mercedes C-180

As I do without if I don’t have enough money to buy something and save for purchases it was rather nice to drive this thing home earlier. Two owners from new with a full service history and it is in immaculate condition for its age. I’m looking forward to some pleasant motoring this year.

Gold Panning at Kildonan 15-17 May

Where we were working.

Nice trap!

Checking out a trap where I found a nice little picker.

Ah, but it rained overnight on Friday and the river flooded. So we all piled into Terry and Janet’s mobile home and told stories and laughed over coffee and quail’s eggs, then went shopping in Helmsdale, visited Timespan, drove through Strath Brora and down Dunrobin Glen and had dinner and drinks in the Royal Marine Hotel in Brora to round off a superb day.

Sunday the river was still high but there was gold to be found!

Crevicing proved to be the only successful method due to the spate conditions.

Gold from the crevices.

Not a bad haul for the weekend considering the rain.

My gold for the weekend.

Sutherland Gold Panning

This particular burn in the Highlands is hard work and you can go home some days with very little but it has a nice habit of rewarding you with a cracking little piece of gold from time to time.

Looking upstream from where we were working

Looking downstream

Nice little picker!

New Scottish Gold Display

My gold collection outgrew its old home so I had to make a new one. Plenty of room here for expansion now!

An Energy Revolution

Can you imagine a world without oil? No petrol stations, no petrol or diesel engines, no oil refineries, no oil rigs, no crude supertankers and yet no shortage of energy?

Can you imagine being anywhere in the world at any time, from hot deserts to arctic tundra, day or night, and having all the energy you could possibly need right there with you, with no need for fuel?

Can you imagine no national electricity grids because there would be no further requirement for them?

Can you imagine our homes, our cars, our aircraft, ships and military vehicles having sufficient power to keep them in energy for over 15 years without any fuel bills or pollution of any kind, regardless of how much energy they were using?

Can you imagine telling OPEC to go and eat their oil?

This isn’t a dream. This is a reality. The patents are pending and the prototypes work beyond anyone’s wildest expectations. 15000 times the entire global energy needs can now be harnessed from existing thermal sun energy – available day or night, anywhere in the world – with no fuel running costs or pollution of any kind.

Here is a list of current projects under negotiations for testing of this new patent pending invention by Rolf M Landass, my unit Commander.

More Information

Internal projects

1. 5 – 10 MW power plant project in France
2. 1,5 MW power plant /pilot project in Norway
3. 3,5 kW home project in Norway
4. 3,5 kW light EGV (Energy Generating Vehicle) project in Norway utilizing a Carver One 3-wheeler
5. Propulsion project for a 400 – 600 hp tracked/wheeled APC
6. Mini-submarine pilot project with unlimited submerged range

External projects

1. US mil/security project
a. Propulsion project for a 300 hp Pick Up / Utility Vehicle
b. Propulsion for a water jet driven patrol boat
c. Field power generator 50 – 500 kW container modules
2. 5 MW supply ship project in Norway
3. There are several projects in an evaluation phase. Among them several positioned in Africa.

A global energy revolution is about to happen.

Jungle Ruins NG has been released

Story

Lara is exploring the jungle in search of temple ruins where she believes an old sun worship artefact may be found. When she finds the temple and the artefact she realises that there is far more going on than meets the eye. Instead of just keeping it and returning home, she decides to investigate further and heads off deeper into the jungle in search of a lost lake.

Jungle Ruins NG

The Tomb Raider custom event of the year, enjoy the original Jungle Ruins enriched with next generation features such as higher resolution textures, enhanced gameplay and unsurpassed atmosphere and ambience.

Available now. No installation required, simply download the file, unzip it, use setup to select your screen resolution and sound card and off you go. The controls are exactly the same as for The Last Revelation so if you’ve played TR4, you can play this.

More information on Jungle Ruins NG here