Well, go on then. Don't keep us in suspense. Did you do it?
10th Apr 2015 9:41 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
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And pics man, we need pics.
10th Apr 2015 9:44 am
Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
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Thanks for the support guys, I really appreciate it
The good news is that I've decided I want to go for it; I'm happy that they've given me a good deal, but it's the most money I've ever spent on a car by a long way and I'm just doing a bit of financial planning to make absolutely certain that I'll be okay to afford it and still eat!
Currently parked up in the FL2, packed to bursting point, with roof box and daugter's bike on the roof, waiting for family to return from the services. This car is waaayyyy too small!
10th Apr 2015 5:47 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Don't worry about eating, there are more important things.
Member Since: 28 Jul 2010
Location: Welshpool, Powys
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What spec are you going for?
10th Apr 2015 7:33 pm
Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
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HSE with Privacy only (spare wheel now standard)
Firenze Red, Almond and walnut. It's a favourite and just the same colour scheme as the last two FL2's.
Only just got back after two weeks near Welshpool - the cottage was brilliantly remote with access by forest tracks and green lanes Photos to follow.... The owner's promised to let me use his quad next year
John.
PS: I followed a really tidy D3 down the M5 on the way home tonight. It was in black, subtly modified, with the Reg D3 SRF. Is that anyone on here?
PPS: Only one mod being considered; remove "DISCOVERY" from leading edge of bonnet and reinstate "LAND ROVER" to its rightful place!
10th Apr 2015 8:48 pm
Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
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Photos from Wales as promised:
The route to and from the cottage:
You should have seen this before the slurry was compacted and dried out!:
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Large chap, small Land Rover!:
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The easy, scenic bit:
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One of the three fords:
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A little more of the track:
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Freelanders; well known for their generous ground clearance (cough):
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Back through the ford again:
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Stopping by at a breakdown on the roadside and helping out to get a family to their two horses to the "Hot Cross Bun Ride". What a great bunch, got a nice charcoal grilled hot cross bun out of it!:
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A bit with tarmac...
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Stopping and skimming stones and looking for fossils and generally parking up on a dried river bed in the process :
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John.
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12th Apr 2015 5:40 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
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Will look so much better in a D4.
Not that we're biased.
Re fossils, what were you looking for? Graptolites or Gryphaea?
12th Apr 2015 5:42 pm
Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7441
You can't knock me for using it as it should be though
Oddly enough, Graptolites. Found loads!
12th Apr 2015 5:53 pm
Iguana
Member Since: 14 Oct 2013
Location: 'Sunny' Zomerset
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Don‘t suppose you could PM details of the c ottage, love remote cottages and the drive there looks interesting Iggy/Ieuan
Current LR =
2015 RR Sport Autobiography
&
1992 Land Rover Defender Camper
- Gone but not forgotten:
MY10 D4 GS
MY05 Disco 3 'S'
MY14 FL2 HSE manual in Blue
MY15 Disco 4 HSE Lux in Santorini Black
MY08 Disco 3 SE manual in Buck Blue
1960 Series 2 88" (No idea why I sold it!)
12th Apr 2015 5:55 pm
Bigcol66
Member Since: 28 Jul 2010
Location: Welshpool, Powys
Posts: 775
Great photos mind its been lovely weather this last week. What was the name of the nearest village where you stayed?
12th Apr 2015 6:52 pm
362bkr
Member Since: 30 Oct 2014
Location: Devon
Posts: 15
Great pics although as said previously you will look much cooler doing that in a D4
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Don‘t suppose you could PM details of the c ottage, love remote cottages and the drive there looks interesting 
