Too cold to do much...

Have you ever tried to do any spannering at Minus 4? While the tools don't actually stick to the fingers, after about 20 minutes it doesn't matter because you can't feel them anyway.
  We went into town yesterday to give Daphne a run, and she really didn't want to fire up. The battery is on trickle charge when she's not being run so the problem is that the battery is too bloody cold and/or the diesel is too thick. However, got going and set off. Well, having made quite a few re-arrangements of the "internals" recently, it's true to say there were a few rattles. In fact, every bump we went over created a racket like two skeletons bonking in a biscuit tin. This needs to be sorted....
  Anyway, despite the freezing temperatures the rear spare wheel carrier is fitted and working as expected, and I even managed to incorporate the socket for the Disco bike carrier. The puncture we had last year was easily solved with the spare, but we then had no back-up for a couple of days and I really wasn't comfortable with that. Although we would have managed, the lack of "insurance" really nagged, hence the double spare we'll carry this year. I was glad that the rear brake pads didn't arrive yesterday - I'd probably have frostbite by now if I'd tried to fit them.
  Sue has been slowly restocking the Emergency Rations box with quick cook food, so she'll probably have something to say about that in due course. Suffice to say that the space I've freed up by moving tools and spare parts around is rapidly being filled with kitchenalia!
  Here's a couple of pictures of the spare wheel carrier.

The bike carrier sits quite neatly in the centre of the wheel, and "wheel" make a bracket to fit it that'll allow us to carry a trash bag or something similar on the back :-). This'll keep the smelly junk outside and it won't matter if it gets "investigated" by curious folk. The outside hinges incorporate a carrier for the Hi-Lift jack with a lockable plate. The hinges and joints all have grease nipples and the whole lot came galvanised and powder coated, so we're very pleased with the whole thing. Getting the spare on and off requires some ingenuity though, unless you want to risk a hernia. The rear step and a lever in the shape of the shovel works well....and next time I take some pics for this, I'll use a decent camera. Thanks to Kristen, too, for teaching me how to use HTML to resize these.
The original "bolt on the door" thing is now going on e-Bay...dunno why people still fit them; our door was cracked across two frames because of that. Daft design, but I see at the local dealers that the TD5s less than a year old  still have them.