Morning all - thanks for all your replies - Uber useful (and, equally importantly, entertaining!).
I’m, proud to Say I bled the brakes - successfully! OK, not the front because I couldn’t find my 11mm spanner! But they were ok in any case.
Clutch working because I filled the reservoir and that did the trick. However, as the savvy lot you are, you will realise that that is fixing the symptom, not the underlying problem... which is the slave cylinder. So that is my next project: how to replace the slave cylinder. I could literally drive it down the road (Bell & Colvill in Surrey) if all fails (well, not if ALL fails!) which means I can give it a go first myself ... which I intend to do! So if anyone has any pointers...
And a happy new year to all
Lawse
