Recent content by Kevin Peacocke

Thanks for the tip OH, and so you shouldn't, I regret that post. I hope we will meet up one day and share a beer over it!

It is called an ejector pin. Thanks MDWest, good idea.

Hello All, if anyone is coming over to South Africa in the next month or so please could you bring an extractor pin for a Marlin 336? It is a tiny little thing. Once someone responds positively I will buy it online a d get it sent to you. Once you arrive we can meet up. Many thanks, Kevin

And Italy, roaming through the villages of Tuscany, red wine and cheese country.

Just bought a little car for tripping around in the UK from a base in Scotland, not bought, my daughter's. Will also just do boutique hotels or Inns wherever and stay longer in places we like. When the weather gets a bit chilly or gray, back to our gorgeous home back in Harare. Tiger fish, brown...

I confess I like only the Explorer 1, and the 40mm at that. Utterly functionally plain. And with a leather strap to boot. I am having a new set made here in Zim in lighter coloured leather: ostrich, elephant and buffalo.

Has anyone here ever owned a John Cooper Works Mini? Equivalent to a Cooper S, about 90bhp.

What, no Explorer?!

The H&H all day long. How could you not? Dress the part, lend the whole experience every touch you can to make it worthy of the fine elephant you will take.

Here are the pics.

I just bought this little thing in Pretoria, it will be for running around town and a bit of touring in South Africa. Specifically it is a 1275E, the last of the mini types made in Cape Town at Blackheath. The E has the de-tuned version of the GTS engine, so it is more reliable whilst still...

For me more than anything it is the appreciation of the time, care and thought that goes into making something that is, well, finer than it's mere functionality rewuires. Here is an example - imagine if they put so much effort into a mere button what the rest of the shirt will be like? And it is!

Sometimes the finest thing is the appreciation of life itself.

One buffalo bull, one impala ram, one bush pig.

Having had a failed action I will admit that I am a bit over sensitive to the lockup issue. Please can anyone else shed their thoughts upon this, in particular have you experienced lockup failures?