One way of avoiding fuel prices rises...
What's made you smile today?
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Seeing Dara Ó Briain this evening: absolutely superb!! 
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Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
New 2m x 1m double tier green house bench made and installed, total cost £30. Wood 10, saw mill 10 and screws 10. I am now in business!
Picture please? I just love DIY projects like this!
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
just 24 hours later and we are off. A bit previous really as I need to gove it some preservative.
Aside from haing a nephrostamy and then a stent fitted, and feeling a bit under the weather with zero energy levels on many days, i have done 1250 years of jobs waiting..... Sometimes its a strain to stand up and move at all. so i push myself right to the edge
New front door fitted
New front fence and gates made and fitted
Two windows fitted to garage and rear wall bricked up
new pond dug
Soakaway installed in front lawn
House repainted and pointed
New fascias and ridge boards installed along with all the downpipes
Garage rewired with additional consumer unit and new lights inside and out with PIR and two way switching fitted
Numerous shelves put up
New outside lights and PIR fitted on the house
Greehouse transported from Manchester to Norfolk. New base installed and house repaired installed and reglazed. new benching made
New cold frame
Outside tap repaired and reinstalled
Neighbours hedge reduced by garage and chipped up
Two pandas serviced and brakes fully sericed / cleaned
3 Pandas treated with autobright
sills repaired where damaged by tyre fitter and wing repaired and repainted where I dropped a rake on it,
Garden works for the season 50% done as we speak.
bath tap seats recut
I am finding it more diffiult as the weeks go by and still hoping for the op on my kidney. Chances of this seem microscopic a.t.m. so I am due for a second stent change in a couple of months which did return me to passable condition last time. I am off to Manchester to finish duaghter 1's kitchen. = pipe boxing in, skirtings and tiling in a few days. Then all i have to do is sort out the old Seat that she no longer trusts to get her home and decide if it warrants a new tyre or a its final journey to the scrapyard. Please Dacia get this new car delivered!!! then daoughter 2 wants to buy a house...... I think its a case of die another day. No time for that just yet. I do have a real sense of urgency though to get things together sooner rather than later. Just mnaged to fit 5K in with the dog. Dads job as youngest is working nights.
Please can I have a day off?
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Lost a bit of my sons kite...contacted the company that made it to ask for a replacement. They're just sending me another kite...
Only wanted a pole but alright then if you must. So now have 2 of everything spare.
Also 46mpg brim to brim in the middle of winter....I'll take that in the middle of the highest fuel prices ever recorded. Extremely glad the 30 odd at this time of year Mazda got sacked off at present...
And finally long weekend this week off Friday and Monday.
Only wanted a pole but alright then if you must. So now have 2 of everything spare.Also 46mpg brim to brim in the middle of winter....I'll take that in the middle of the highest fuel prices ever recorded. Extremely glad the 30 odd at this time of year Mazda got sacked off at present...
And finally long weekend this week off Friday and Monday.
interesting French company will do a kit for about 7000€ That can be fitted in about 4 hours to convert your fiat 500 and other cars to electric.
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That's how I go about annoying Golf GTI drivers who insist on sitting rammed up the a**e end of "wobbling along on dipped beam" Mr Slow. Oh how they hate it when a Panda makes better progress, they can ever manage. Except for dead straight roads.
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Saw that go up not watched it yet but will over the weekend.
Watched the Vid now, it is interesting.
Always thought scrapping millions of cars to replace them with brand new cars that take more resources to manufacture to save resources didn't really make sense. Consumerism will never be the cure for problems of Consumerism.
The end result is a slightly better Citroën Ami...but if you've got a kick about car with an engine fault it would be a good option if you're town bound.
Always thought scrapping millions of cars to replace them with brand new cars that take more resources to manufacture to save resources didn't really make sense. Consumerism will never be the cure for problems of Consumerism.
The end result is a slightly better Citroën Ami...but if you've got a kick about car with an engine fault it would be a good option if you're town bound.
Powering through a stinking Headcold..25k steps yesterday including two school runs and a 5.5 mile run.
Feeling like crap today as well but the weather was nice and work has been a trip recently so absolutely not sitting on my backside and wasting my time off.
So off out with little-un in the sun for a picnic and wander at 9:30..got back to the car at 3:30 I think its safe to say he was happy to see it.
So was I to be fair...Smooth FM on and a quiet cruise home while he slept in the back. Only 12k steps today...but the sit down was welcome.
Tomorrow may well involve some movies some popcorn and lying on the couch.
Feeling like crap today as well but the weather was nice and work has been a trip recently so absolutely not sitting on my backside and wasting my time off.
So off out with little-un in the sun for a picnic and wander at 9:30..got back to the car at 3:30 I think its safe to say he was happy to see it.
So was I to be fair...Smooth FM on and a quiet cruise home while he slept in the back. Only 12k steps today...but the sit down was welcome.
Tomorrow may well involve some movies some popcorn and lying on the couch.
Worked some more on getting this old Gitane track frame moving.
I built the front wheel this morning and I'm smiling because I almost didn't get to build it. The hoop is an old Matrix 32 hole hard anodized rim that was laced to a beat up Shimano 600 rear hub. My original plan was to use an old generic front track hub but both cones were shot AND it was 36 hole. I was about ready to give up but checked my stash and found a NIB 32 hole front hub that I don't ever remember buying. What was even better was that I was able to reuse the same spokes, just went X2 instead of X3.
I built the front wheel this morning and I'm smiling because I almost didn't get to build it. The hoop is an old Matrix 32 hole hard anodized rim that was laced to a beat up Shimano 600 rear hub. My original plan was to use an old generic front track hub but both cones were shot AND it was 36 hole. I was about ready to give up but checked my stash and found a NIB 32 hole front hub that I don't ever remember buying. What was even better was that I was able to reuse the same spokes, just went X2 instead of X3.
If you think about things logically. In older cars it’s either engine problems or rust that tend to kill them off.
As many modern cars don’t rust like they used to, many cars get scrapped because of a perception of being “worn out” just cause it’s around 15years old.
Really if you took the engines out of a new car and an old car there isn’t a lot between them so £7k on an entire drive train replacement and your easily got a car worth another 10years and save a fortune in fuel. I just hope the uk government make it easy for people who have upgraded to electric, to get the car recognised as electric for the benefit of low emission zones or tax reasons
Think it could be slightly better than that...even if the floor rots out of your old car. It's a 4 hour switch over, buy the cheapest one on autotrader with no rust in the mot history and give the installing garage some money to swap your electric drive train over to the next car.
Only thing I spotted that was conspicuous by it's absence was a lack of any mention of heating/cooling arrangements for the cabin. Looks like they are very much preproduction so perhaps being finalised but is an important thing for usability.
May he be a good sleeper....
Many congratulations, he looks like a "good un". Glad to hear all doing well.
Two things today. First one, I got Buster to sit in the sidecar.
Okay, I had to lift his overweight butt up and put him in there, but he sat. Baby steps
Second one, I fired up the DeSoto for the first time since late October. No go juice, no jump start, not even fingers crossed. Just the pre-start ritual followed by cranking the big boat anchor starter motor for about 15 seconds and Vroom! Well, maybe cough, sputter, burp and fart. But the old broad settled down to a nice idle once the fuel was flowing.
Okay, I had to lift his overweight butt up and put him in there, but he sat. Baby steps
Second one, I fired up the DeSoto for the first time since late October. No go juice, no jump start, not even fingers crossed. Just the pre-start ritual followed by cranking the big boat anchor starter motor for about 15 seconds and Vroom! Well, maybe cough, sputter, burp and fart. But the old broad settled down to a nice idle once the fuel was flowing.
Kitchen light broke...off to screwfix for some tubes.
In fairness they are the ones that were up when we moved in...so at least 10 years old.
Anywho rare trip out just me in the car on a nice evening...and got to drive a little "enthusiastically". Think I've finally figured out which Fiat it reminds me of...thought it was 85 elx, as vaguely plush for a small car and quite a lot of engine in a none sporting car.
But nah...it's my 55s...a car with soft flat seats and no roll bars. Attacking a back road requires the "position" left knee braced on the dash, right braced on the door and hang on to the wheel with both hands.
To be fair the speeds it can carry even on all seasons are alot higher...but still a giggle mainly because you're pedalling against it not with it.
In fairness they are the ones that were up when we moved in...so at least 10 years old.
Anywho rare trip out just me in the car on a nice evening...and got to drive a little "enthusiastically". Think I've finally figured out which Fiat it reminds me of...thought it was 85 elx, as vaguely plush for a small car and quite a lot of engine in a none sporting car.
But nah...it's my 55s...a car with soft flat seats and no roll bars. Attacking a back road requires the "position" left knee braced on the dash, right braced on the door and hang on to the wheel with both hands.
To be fair the speeds it can carry even on all seasons are alot higher...but still a giggle mainly because you're pedalling against it not with it.
