Happy New Year to everyone! I hope that whatever you are doing tonight brings you a bit of joy and may 2015 give you what […]
Hard Frost & Heaters
I would love to be able to play in the snow with my old Landy and that time should come soon enough so today with […]
Building and Bumps.
Well it was a nice Christmas day the kids were happy and so was Wifey then best of all the traditional visit to the mother […]
Festive friends.
Crazy busy today on the Landy 🙂 Wifey buggered off out first thing this morning to spend more money than I want to know about […]
Slowing Down.
I am not as good as I once was of that there can be no doubt. I know I am not old yet in fact […]
And that makes 100.
I’m sitting here just killing some time before we head off out for a family Christmas meal. You chaps know what its like it takes […]
Pillock.
I am starting today with the fact that I am stupid. I’m a pratt plonker tool dumb ass knobhead thick as two short planks not […]
Red Tape.
Well there I was getting all excited about being nearly at the MOT stage wasn’t I but I thought I best give DVLA a quick […]
Seat Back Bolts
It was bloody cold this morning in fact the Landy looked white and I was going to take some lovely Winter shots of it while […]
Normal Service Has Been Resumed
The bike crisis is over. I have picked up exactly the same bike as I own today so I can now get back to commuting […]
Murky Mornings.
I am impatient to get this project done and I really don’t want it to finish. You must have been there yourselves with something you […]
How much can you cram into a day?
I was up early. I just cant seem to have a lie in like other folk after 6 hours of snoring I wake up wide […]
Smug bugger.
Oh I am feeling like a proper smug bugger today. I had a friend call around who is a Land Rover nut and a good […]
Something just collapsed!!!
So I was eagerly heading home around the Nottingham ring road banking left around a bend through some traffic lights and over some cross roads […]
Midweek Blues
Work really gets in the way of the fun things in life doesn’t it. I came home last night to find a nice bog brown […]
Spending
Talk about feeling sick. I had the shakes cold sweats and was distinctly light headed…I had to spend quite a large chunk of cash again. […]
New Shoes!
Had to go and collect a new battery for my bike first thing this morning as the old one has declared itself dead. So at […]
Spare bolts.
I met up with the folk from the Nottingham Land Rover Club last night at the pub and as always it was a pleasant evening […]
Seats!
Well my new seats have arrived! I say new but they are a set of “County” seats I bought off of a chap on Facewipe. […]
Throbbing.
I awoke to just the one finger hurting the one with the big slice in so I thought to myself that it was a bonus […]
Facebook page.
OK then folks my kids have told me I need a Facebook page for my blog as well as the site itself. So the link […]
Caught red handed!
You know I am banned from doing anything on the Landy until the weekend at the soonest so my poor little fingers get a chance […]
Getting there.
Nothing better to do this evening so I put this picture together… A bit of a before and shot. It does look a bit different […]
Ticking over
Last night I charged up the batteries so this morning I could get the engine running again. I popped both of them into place wired […]
Not a lot doing.
Autumn weather sucks. Its bloody dark early and cold normally wet then nonsense like Christmas shopping turns up out of the blue that I get […]
Showers of sparks
There were chores to do. I couldn’t put them off any longer. The dog was following me around like a lost puppy wanting a walk […]
Bleeding Brakes.
This is always a fun job trying to force the air out of a new brake system and get the nice new brake fluid through […]
Brake pipes
Well that was shits and giggles from the start. “Change the brake pipes” I thought “how hard can it be” I thought “I mean its […]
Alcohol.
I have changed…long gone are the days of boozing heavily getting up and starting again the next lunchtime. Last night I had 3 pints of […]
Lights on.
I’ve been looking forward to today all week. It was the one morning that I had nothing booked in and no chores to run so […]
Spaghetti
The strangest memory popped into my head this morning t was one of those things you notice when you are out and about think to […]
Padded Corners
I had bought tickets to go to a Medieval Fair at Nottingham Castle today for me and my youngest as Wifey was off first thing […]
Pounds & Pennies
Does anyone else get messed around at work? I seem to have a face that attracts it, maybe because I am an easy going guy […]
One down three to go.
Time to make a start on the brakes I just couldn’t put it off any longer. Brakes are not my favourite job on any project […]
Filling up.
Wifey at work the kids at school and yet another cheeky day off at home for me so after the chaos of the past few […]
The Outward Bound Trust
Well I am back from my week away with the kids at The Outward Bound Trust and what a hell of a week it was! […]
Getting ready.
They say time flies and it really does in what seems like a blink of the eye I have arrived upon the eve of going […]
Birthday Bonus
Well today is my birthday and its the big 4-1, perhaps I should now rename the blog just turned 41 but it really doesn’t have […]
What can you do in 5 mins?
A proper day off today and as it turns out it was my wedding anniversary…whoops. Now luckily I was up very early because of the […]
Tanks and Switches
Have you ever been volunteered for a job at work and you think “yea why not it will make a change and a few extra […]