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 had a footrest to the left of the clutch which my foot caught every time I changed gear which I am not sure I could ignore. I did like the Mokka but after investigating the automatic version it was annoyingly too expensive, I just don’t think I can justify having a £300pm car payment sat on the drive most of the week.

I also drove a Puma which didn’t really light me up it was a higher driver position and seemed like I had to reach down to change gear, which maybe my perception after getting out of a Fiesta minutes before?

The Fiesta I liked but until saying up all the cars I looked at that Black small car is enough and if the Fiesta I test drove was black 2 door ST-Line and looked a bit sporty I possibly would be the owner of a new car.

Looking on Autotrader there is an automatic version at the right price but its in London so I think I might ask CD if they can find me one…

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 and think its as good as I can make it now.

So I turned it on and it was good and the setup looked solid but that was only one of the motors so I turned the second motor on and it stayed solid but the increase in suction was impressive.

At 68mm bore the performance was really good but when I reduced the bore for tools like a sander etc and it began whistling so I switched the second motor off, just incase.

While I did the tests, above, I put a flexible exhaust pipe on one of the motors and it is SOOOO much quieter, I will DEFINITELY be getting another length of pipe for the other motor because I can have both on they will be quieter and nothing collapses at 68mm bore.

It looks like the weakest part of the system is the bag under the Cyclone which by all accounts is how it should be…?

Tuesdays are music lessons and they are both in Sandbach and hour and half apart. For Reagan it’s a piano lesson from 6pm to 6:30 So I just sit in the car and wait

Lincoln has  a drum lesson at 7:30 at the same place, so I drive home drop her off and pick him up and do the same thing again.

Tonight I rolled the seat down locked the doors and may have nodded off, the reason I locked the doors was because of the irrational thought of beimg attacked while I slept…

Imagine tbe shock when I was startled awake by someone pulling on the door handle trying to get into the car?

Luckily it was Lincoln but for a second I thought i was getting attacked

Just watched Denver Broncos lose in the AFC Championship game.

I love watching the Denver Broncos win or lose it lights me up this season has been beyond brilliant but that’s it 10-7 going for it on 4th & 1 in the first half means our season ends tonight. I thought Sean Payton could weave his magic and the defence would stop the Pats…

We made mistakes, the D was immense and did their job but without all the weapons on the offence we came up short.

I’m disappointed, I now have to wait until September for it to begin again and hope we can go one better

I just think this was a season too early for the Denver Broncos but I think with Nix we might have done it? We need more receivers able to make plays…weapons to help Bo he’s a good QB but may be great with help and the the next draft and free agency will be the difference ‘in my opinion’!

Draft well on offence, keep the defence stacked make free agency work for you and make sure the coaching staff remains elite!

GO BRONCOS!

Reagan loves history and one of the great things I share with her is The World at War or as we call it “a bit of genocide’ its just our thing.

She wants to find a similar series on Korea  and that war because she is doing it in her GCSEs I said no problem but let’s at least win this one first!

Not sure there is a series like this one anywhere because it’s so very good made in 1974 narrated by Lawrence Oliver a masterpiece…