iwanna wrote: caught the dog after he escaped.
Bet that took some doing! They're powerful animals, those dogs of yours!
Regards,
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Neil Chowney
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Well, yesterday actually. Picked up a replacement for the old bed in my room at my parents place. The old bed has been held together by a combination of duct tape, cable-ties and willpower for a number of years now. Every now and then you'll sit down too sharply and hear the sound of splintering wood, just a little unnerving! I've been "going" to replace it for at least ten years now!
This is one of those bunk-bed-with-a-desk-underneath affairs, not what I'd initially been after, but it was free on the classifieds at work, so figured it was worth grabbing. Not exactly compact however, even in its component parts! This meant hiring a van.
Ended up with an 05 plate Renault Trafic, in purple. Been years and years since I drove a proper van (we just have an Escort at work), and I'd forgotten how much fun it is! Far, far cry from the old Merc 308D I had briefly a few years ago though! Car-sized steering wheel, car-like instruments you can actually read in the dark, CD player, remote central locking, power steering that actually seems to do something, a gearbox you don't need a road map to find your way around, front wheel drive, and it's quiet enough to hear yourself have a conversation with the passenger with the engine running.
...Still prefer the old Merc to drive though, far more satisfying. ...Even if I don't miss the game of trying to get it into first gear in a hurry at a roundabout. The fact it would pull off in second saved me a few times there! Somehow the big steering wheel, distinctly industrial instrument panel and cooling fan which sounded like a jet fighter at anything above idle made it feel like a much more substantial bit of kit, for all it was no bigger than the Renault. The synthesized indicator click (or "pip" as the case is in this thing) is incredibly annoying though, what IS it with companies putting them in modern cars?!?
This is still much more what I expect to see when I open the door of a van.
Much more honest and inviting I think.
Trafic's still a Renault though. Electrical gremlins! Door sensor that's convinced a door's always open, airbag light on, and intermittant windscreen wipers that aren't. ...Which is really annoying when it's drizzling. Still, it did the job and I enjoyed it! Was worth shifting the bed just for a shot of a van again!
I enjoy driving, so a bit of variety is nice for a change!
This is one of those bunk-bed-with-a-desk-underneath affairs, not what I'd initially been after, but it was free on the classifieds at work, so figured it was worth grabbing. Not exactly compact however, even in its component parts! This meant hiring a van.
Ended up with an 05 plate Renault Trafic, in purple. Been years and years since I drove a proper van (we just have an Escort at work), and I'd forgotten how much fun it is! Far, far cry from the old Merc 308D I had briefly a few years ago though! Car-sized steering wheel, car-like instruments you can actually read in the dark, CD player, remote central locking, power steering that actually seems to do something, a gearbox you don't need a road map to find your way around, front wheel drive, and it's quiet enough to hear yourself have a conversation with the passenger with the engine running.
...Still prefer the old Merc to drive though, far more satisfying. ...Even if I don't miss the game of trying to get it into first gear in a hurry at a roundabout. The fact it would pull off in second saved me a few times there! Somehow the big steering wheel, distinctly industrial instrument panel and cooling fan which sounded like a jet fighter at anything above idle made it feel like a much more substantial bit of kit, for all it was no bigger than the Renault. The synthesized indicator click (or "pip" as the case is in this thing) is incredibly annoying though, what IS it with companies putting them in modern cars?!?
This is still much more what I expect to see when I open the door of a van.
Much more honest and inviting I think.
Trafic's still a Renault though. Electrical gremlins! Door sensor that's convinced a door's always open, airbag light on, and intermittant windscreen wipers that aren't. ...Which is really annoying when it's drizzling. Still, it did the job and I enjoyed it! Was worth shifting the bed just for a shot of a van again!
I enjoy driving, so a bit of variety is nice for a change!
LOZ: Oddball cars, lighting information, and anything else I remember to upload!
Current fleet: 02 VW Caddy 1.9SDI, 90 Mercedes 208D Autotrail Navajo, 85 Sinclair C5, 78 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6GL, 73 AC Model-70.
Current fleet: 02 VW Caddy 1.9SDI, 90 Mercedes 208D Autotrail Navajo, 85 Sinclair C5, 78 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6GL, 73 AC Model-70.
Pushed another three cars out of our carpark. Getting sick of this now.
Then watched in amusement from my kitchen window as some idiot in an Audi A6 estate decided to go around someone who was being careful while parking - and drove over the (really quite high) kerb. He claims he didn't see it because of the snow. Yes...He's lived here longer than I have, which is two years in May, and parks in the same space every day. Plus the kerb is plainly visible under the snow, because it's about 25cm higher there than elsewhere!
Just because your car has four wheel drive, doesn't give you a license to be an idiot. Yep, he got himself nicely wedged on the kerb between his bit of the car park and the exit - couldn't move an inch in any direction. Nor could five people pushing it move it an inch in any direction.
Eventually they dragged it off with a Land Rover - cost him one of his exhausts and his rear bumper though. Wonder if that might have knocked some sense into him...though I doubt it.
Then watched in amusement from my kitchen window as some idiot in an Audi A6 estate decided to go around someone who was being careful while parking - and drove over the (really quite high) kerb. He claims he didn't see it because of the snow. Yes...He's lived here longer than I have, which is two years in May, and parks in the same space every day. Plus the kerb is plainly visible under the snow, because it's about 25cm higher there than elsewhere!
Just because your car has four wheel drive, doesn't give you a license to be an idiot. Yep, he got himself nicely wedged on the kerb between his bit of the car park and the exit - couldn't move an inch in any direction. Nor could five people pushing it move it an inch in any direction.
Eventually they dragged it off with a Land Rover - cost him one of his exhausts and his rear bumper though. Wonder if that might have knocked some sense into him...though I doubt it.
LOZ: Oddball cars, lighting information, and anything else I remember to upload!
Current fleet: 02 VW Caddy 1.9SDI, 90 Mercedes 208D Autotrail Navajo, 85 Sinclair C5, 78 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6GL, 73 AC Model-70.
Current fleet: 02 VW Caddy 1.9SDI, 90 Mercedes 208D Autotrail Navajo, 85 Sinclair C5, 78 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6GL, 73 AC Model-70.
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jiffyman
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got woken up by a huge clap of thunder and heavy rain at 6am....
1.7i Niva Hussar '84 Jiffy Romahome '68 MKII Mini Cooper
Fotopic went belly up so only website if have is
http://rivieraphotography.co.uk
Fotopic went belly up so only website if have is
http://rivieraphotography.co.uk