Carless
My car is still not fixed making me feel like a prisoner beholden to everyone else, and to make matters worse this PC only has half a screen as the LCD has burst. Everything that I have heard over the last couple of days regarding my car and PC sounds like a doctor troubled by someones mystery illness.The car for instance is undergoing "further tests to it's catalytic disorder" whilst the problem with PC screen will be terminal unless it is ...
Let it Snow
Yesterday morning it snowed in North Waltham for the third time since I moved in on October 1st. Whilst none have been blizzards, it is the first time I can remember three snowfalls before Christmas. Does that mean when I am seventy (if I get that far) I will be saying to my Grandchildren:"In my day it used to snow three or four times before Christmas".It appears that this will be the case, as statistics show that Winters of our parents and ...
A Depressing Day
I will be glad when today is over, it has been awful, firstly a funeral of an old friend, then my car playing up yet again.....more expense!!!The funeral I went to today was for Taffy an old friend (if 52 is old) who was a regular when my Mum and Dad ran a local pub. If this had happened eight or nine years ago I would have been really upset, but I have lost contact with him really, not a fall out, just different paths, but I still showed my ...
What Lovely Weekend
spent the weekend in the depths of Hampshire as I had no children this week. No disasters, or funny events to report, just a great night out with a big group of us in Winchester on Saturday, and some lovely wintry pics from the test valley in Broughton, Stockbridge and Chilbolton plus one I took in Charvill, near Reading this morning (bottom pic). When I was driving back from Broughton yesterday I just had to stop and walk in the fresh air for ...
What Is It About Visiting A Mechanic…..
My car broke down yesterday which was predictable I suppose, just as predictable as me pretending I know what I am talking about to a mechanic.Mechanic: " Judging by the sound of it, that would be your catalytic converter, or a crack in the turbo pipe Bob."Me: "Yeah thought it might be one of those two"Mechanic: "Better leave it here bob we will run a diagnostic test on it and give you the full SP."Bob: "Huh I suppose so, not like the old days ...