Back in the day when the video recorder allowed you to preserve your favourite shows I had two cassettes that I played to death. The first was The Damned 10th Anniversary concert and that was played a lot, the second contained the film Splash and a BBC2 Play for Today called Will you love me […]
Having purchased my car last night I was keen to make it feel like a new one so booked it in for a service at Town Bridge Motors and enquired about a full valet but held off on the latter because the evaluation on repairing the damaged rear bumper was probably going to be up […]
With a PCP agreement you pay monthly installments for 48 months and then either pay the ‘bubble’ payment at the end or get rid in a way that pays off the rest of the agreement and get another car and start again. Last month they reminded me that I had 3 payments to go so […]
Whether related to not drinking for 48 hours or the chicken we had for tea if the latter I was the one the got the bad bit as no-one suffered or did as I suspect just have a dicky tummy? I felt a bit odd before I got into the bath but as I’d suffered […]
I wrote the blog, below, in February 2010 on third anniversary of Yvonne’s passing. Today was the 19th anniversary, so much has happened since then, that it is scarcely believable! I still think of her, I always will because without her the rest would have been possible? Little did I know that I was going […]
Day 1 of something that I have been thinking about for a few days and something I think I need to do occasionally just to reset so here goes…
Car shopping is one of my least favourite activities, I just don’t like change and my Vauxhall Corsa is enough right now but the terms of the PCP agreement means I either give it back or pay the ‘bubble’ amount which is 4 grand. I drove a new Corsa and Mokka but the manual version […]
Finally sat down about 7:30 expecting Jamie back around 8 so got the fire roaring up the chimney and put YouTube on while I waited… Ended up watching it until gone 9 when Jamie finally appeared with Lincoln who went straight upstairs after skating. The opportunity to watch a film had passed so we ended […]
I have now moved the Cyclone into the corner saving floor space which was something I had to do because it would have done me head in The pipework is routed as simply as I can with flowing bends rather than 90s and I have sealed the drainage pipework with gaffer tape and jubilee clips […]
About to take Bill for a walk I feared in to Jamie’s office only to see her playing a game on her phone so I banged on the window to make her jump. She jumped, quite a lot actually the looked angry mouthing “I’m on the phone” She was actually counselling someone and playing Tetris […]