Friday, March 26, 2010

Motor Parade


Took a day trip to Milton Keynes - don't ask - and kept tripping over mean motors. Not sure why...Just coincidence I think. I spotted one of each of the above.
Anyway, in response to my brother's tweet: 'Yes... what recession?'

Monday, February 01, 2010

RC About Face


What seemed like a very cold day for racing RC Cars actually turned out to be a very cold day for racing RC Cars - but with the unexpected benefit of Ice Racing!
Clearly thoughts about how we might recover an overturned or sinking car were well considered (not) before throwing caution to the wind and a four wheel drift to the icy shoreline.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Miike Snow is a Swedish band, who formed in 2007. The Guardian spoke highly of the band, saying their "coolly emotional pop suggests a-ha meets Animal Collective". 'Black & Blue' was featured in Sony's 2009 Christmas ad campaign, and "A Horse Is Not a Home" was the single of the week on the UK iTunes store. Their new single, 'Sylvia' is out now.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Friday, January 15, 2010

How to Spot a Pothole Blackspot


Grrr. Barely 2 weeks after repairing a tyre damaged after hitting a pothole it's gone and happened again.

According to Warwickshire Council, a hole this big anywhere in the road is classed as large. It only needs to be half this deep if it's in the wheel track. As far as my car is concerned when it hits the equivalent of an immovable wall at 40 miles per hour something is going to give (and it isn't the immovable wall)
I will be pursuing the people responsible...

Thursday, December 31, 2009

The Two of Us Co.

I've created a site to showcase some (but not quite all) of our cards. If you have any of the missing ones, send me a picture please!


Happy New Year to All!

Thursday, November 26, 2009

London



Instead of doing nothing during our well-earned break, we decided instead to dash round the country trying to cram in as much as possible. Too much in fact because I'm still convinced we were going to spend another night with Jon and Hetty and that someone stole a day between Thursday and Saturday.

Anyway, we had a nice time catching up with friends and then being tourists in and around central London. On Wednesday we dashed to the B&B before heading back for a turn on the London Eye. This gave us the afternoon to explore Westminster and surroundings before crossing the river to see A Christmas Carol in 3D at the IMAX cinema.

Thursday was spent strolling from Westminster through Knightsbridge towards the Natural History Museum where we spent a couple of hours exploring the new Darwin Centre. This was then followed by a trip to the British Museum where we got to see some of the objects from Staffordshire Hoard before hearing a lecture by Dr. Kevin Leahy about how this incredible treasure trove was found and how it is set to further our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon history.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Monday, September 07, 2009

Keep on Rollin'

Does anyone understand tyres (or even tires)? Not even the man in ATS Euromaster who couldn't ably differentiate a run flat (RFT) from an asymmetrical directional tread pattern even when the car was standing in front of him.
Replacing like-for-like would be simple solution however the manufacturers are trying so hard to engineer obsolescent products that the chances of having four the same are virtually nil.
To cut a long story short, I now have a suitably at'tire'd car with 4 strips of rubber round the circular metal things and a certificate of road worthiness that is technically worthless assuming the man remembers to punch the right keys on the VOSA Database. Huzzah!