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Parties and Car Crashes
Was Lizzies 30th on Friday, and her place was full...so we camped at a campsite in...DARWEN. Who knew they even had one? It was quite nice, shame the weather was blowing a gale and the rain torrential ( Read more... ) -
Dreams
I had my first dream that involved an argument over someone trying to get their claws into my budget at work (at least, I really hope it was a dream). That has to be a milestone for me in terms of being a sad old man.
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Goodbye Geocities, Hello Patrin
The free lunch ends. I don't quite subscribe to the idea that Yahoo! pulling GeoCities is "cultural vandalism", as the owners of those sites were welcome to host them elsewhere, or indeed with Yahoo. All that really changed was that they were no longer free. Even so, I do think Yahoo could have been a bit kinder with the data, for example ( Read more... ) -
RX7 Heaven
Damn i'm missing the beast. I get the torture of looking at her every day when we park the MX5 in the car park. She's been sat a while now, no insurance and getting slowly caked in dust. The battery will be flat now, but I did jump start her the other week and warm her up and take her for a spin round the car park just so things don't start ( Read more... ) -
Review of the Roberts RD-21
I've been a fan of radios since a child when I would curl up in bed listening to my Mother's Sharp GF-6000, usually to "Red Rose Radio" before it became "Rock FM". As a result I own rather more radios than I really need. A radio I've had for about nine months now is a Roberts Gemini RD-21. It was an impulse purchase, I was in the doldrums and ( Read more... ) -
What a car!
The 17 year old MX5 passed it's MOT test with flying colours! What a machine! -
Eunos Roadster (MX5) - costs so far
Ang's MX5 has been a cracking little car, as you know - because I'm always banging on about it. Well it's up for it's MOT tomorrow, and so I thought I better look it over. Already replaced a rear brake light, and the fuse on the headlight had already blown (maybe when the brakelight bulb went?), and this is a weird mazda fuse, so I bodged this ( Read more... ) -
Holiday From Hell 2: The Curse of Winny Wales
Horace the Camper Van has a weird old sticker on the window, with an ugly old crone called "Winny Wales" - a welsh witch. She's ugly, and the sticker looks silly, but I never dared tear it off because I became supersticious about it. If we removed her, we'd get a curse. Ang went and pulled it off and I warned her we'd be cursed. She hasily ( Read more... ) -
Horace goes Ski-ing and Toddy goes missing
Spent a nice day working on Horace the camper van in the sun, with my old Sharp GF-6500 blaring out chilled summer reggae of a local pirate station in the background. Bliss. Toddy and Molly were playing in the park (we live in the park you see), and all was good. Then Toddy went and did a runner. He can get through the fence. I went looking ( Read more... ) -
Air con
Well, I bit the bullet and bought some aircon for angies house. I'm now sitting in the bedroom enjoying a lovely cool 19C :) I love it. In other news i'm moving out of the city centre apartment into Angies house. The reason is that we're saving for a deposit for a mortgage on a house. Angie rents like me at the moment you see. I sold my ( Read more... )