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Okay, so I wonât be getting my car back from its service today. Apparently it needs some little oxygen censor. This is a something that is probably about the size of my finger nail but will cost me an arm…
Continue readingThis time round I decided to take my car in for its service and MOT the night before, and so I rolled up at The Holt to collect my loan car. They said it had a quarter of a tank…
Continue readingEm and I had a nice walk at Stowe today before retreating home for lunch and shelter from the hot and sunny weather. It has been too hot to do anything much outside and so I have been engaging with…
Continue readingI didn’t think that my car’s silencer should have gone quite yet, after all it was only replaced a year ago at its last service. And it hadn’t. The silencer was working perfectly. It’s just that the exhaust pipe wasn’t…
Continue readingThe advantage of nice weather is that when driving home in the afternoon sun, you can slide down the windows, and roll back the sunroof. The downside to this is that you can hear the alarmingly embarrassing noise coming from…
Continue readingNews that the sequels to Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights may not now be made disturbs me somewhat. Granted, they messed around with the story and changed the ending (although reports have it that the ending was to be moved the…
Continue readingI’d heard that it was a bad adaptation of a classic book, but being one of my favourite stories of all time I was intrigued enough to still want to see the film version of The Dark Is Rising. That,…
Continue reading1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.” 2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a personal nature. 3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions. 4. You will include this and an…
Continue readingOr at least, I think it was a Chaffinch. It certainly wasn’t a Starling, or a Blue/Great Tit, and it looked too big to be a Sparrow. Em is the one who is good with birds, and I’m just a…
Continue readingHow do I manage to get things so wrong? Yesterday was hot, really hot, and I had socks and trainers and everything on. Today, I go in to work with linen trousers and sandals and it ends up being the…
Continue readingOur mortgage is approved! 😀 Itâs tight, we are lucky that we can put up a 25% deposit to get the repayment rate we can afford but weâve done it. Now, how long it going to take for the sale…
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