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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

By Nicky SmithPosted on Wed, December 31, 2014
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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 […]

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Hard Frost & Heaters

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, December 28, 2014
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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 […]

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Building and Bumps.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, December 27, 2014
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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 […]

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Festive friends.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, December 20, 2014
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Crazy busy today on the Landy 🙂 Wifey buggered off out first thing this morning to spend more money than I want to know about […]

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Slowing Down.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Thu, December 18, 2014
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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 […]

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And that makes 100.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, December 14, 2014
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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 […]

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Pillock.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, December 13, 2014
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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 […]

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Red Tape.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Wed, December 10, 2014
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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 […]

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Seat Back Bolts

By Nicky SmithPosted on Tue, December 09, 2014
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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 […]

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Normal Service Has Been Resumed

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, December 07, 2014
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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 […]

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Murky Mornings.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Wed, December 03, 2014
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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 […]

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How much can you cram into a day?

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, November 30, 2014
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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 […]

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Smug bugger.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, November 29, 2014
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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 […]

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Something just collapsed!!!

By Nicky SmithPosted on Fri, November 28, 2014
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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 […]

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Midweek Blues

By Nicky SmithPosted on Wed, November 26, 2014
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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 […]

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Spending

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, November 23, 2014
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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. […]

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New Shoes!

By Nicky SmithPosted on Fri, November 21, 2014
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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 […]

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Spare bolts.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Thu, November 20, 2014
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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 […]

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Seats!

By Nicky SmithPosted on Wed, November 19, 2014
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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. […]

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Throbbing.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Wed, November 19, 2014
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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 […]

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Facebook page.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Tue, November 18, 2014
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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 […]

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Caught red handed!

By Nicky SmithPosted on Tue, November 18, 2014
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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 […]

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Getting there.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Mon, November 17, 2014
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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 […]

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Ticking over

By Nicky SmithPosted on Mon, November 17, 2014
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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 […]

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Not a lot doing.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, November 16, 2014
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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 […]

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Showers of sparks

By Nicky SmithPosted on Tue, November 11, 2014
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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 […]

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Bleeding Brakes.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Mon, November 10, 2014
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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 […]

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Brake pipes

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, November 09, 2014
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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 […]

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Alcohol.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, November 09, 2014
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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 […]

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Lights on.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, November 02, 2014
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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 […]

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Spaghetti

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, October 26, 2014
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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 […]

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Padded Corners

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, October 25, 2014
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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 […]

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Pounds & Pennies

By Nicky SmithPosted on Thu, October 23, 2014
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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 […]

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One down three to go.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Wed, October 22, 2014
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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 […]

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Filling up.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Mon, October 20, 2014
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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 […]

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The Outward Bound Trust

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, October 19, 2014
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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! […]

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Getting ready.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, October 11, 2014
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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 […]

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Birthday Bonus

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, October 04, 2014
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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 […]

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What can you do in 5 mins?

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, September 28, 2014
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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 […]

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Tanks and Switches

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, September 27, 2014
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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 […]

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