Merry Christmas Folks.
Excitement & Expense.
It’s amazing how quickly things end up coming together in the end. After spending as much time as I could on The 110 recently it […]
Welding & Wind Offs.
After yesterdays success I would quite like a repeat performance of hearing the engine running once more but without the rather excessive black smoke that […]
Set Up & Smoke.
What an eventful day!I literally just popped out under the car port for a bit of a potter on The 110. As always I quickly […]
Pipes & Plumbing.
Right I need to go to work soon add to that I am full of cold again this is going to be a hard and […]
Bypass & Bleeding
Are there any other Males, especially Dads, out there that have any idea what Christmas presents have been bought for their daughters? I have to […]
Belts & Bolts
Well I have had a busy couple of shifts on the 110 over the last 24 hours and I have surprised myself at how many […]
Rails & Roofs.
As most of you already know we bought a house in the spring of this year, lets say it needs a little work. Not to […]
Teabag Mountain.
There is a Teabag Mountain challenge in my house at the moment. When the lid falls off the loser has to take it all out […]
Leaps & Bounds.
Sometimes I am amazed by the kindness of strangers. Now this may sound stupid but I have, along with my ever suffering Wife, for a […]
Fuel Lines & Fiddling.
December has arrived. That means, in my house anyway, all of the decorations that have lain boxed up in a dusty loft for eleven months […]
Stats & Pumps.
My youngest was at work. Wifey was out Christmas shopping with her friend for the day, so what does a chap do when the day […]
Doors & Dampers.
Unfortunately The 110 is not my only project, you see Wifey did insist that we bought a house now so we could hopefully grow old […]
Wheel Alignment.
After feeling sorry for myself for a while after realising that I was going to have to make some structural alterations to the passenger foot […]
Tow bars & Technicalities.
Isn’t life a strange thing. You head off in one direction thinking that a small job will take no time at all but within moments […]
Steering Boxes & Seats.
As you can all see from my delays in writing anything I have been more than a little busy of late with life in general […]
Propshafts Revisited.
Well I am a man who is happy to put his hands up and admit when I got it wrong. And I did get it […]
Propshafts & Parcels.
It has been an interesting sort of few days. The Disco has gone which has left me to focus just upon the 110 which is […]
Crossmembers & Weeping
Being a father to four kids I am not easily surprised these days to see one of them sporting the latest trend in fashion or […]
The Discovery’s Dying.
Today I found myself running the Dad errand of taking my youngest daughter to her first job interview. Seeing as the old Disco that has […]
First Pics.
I have always enjoyed taking photos. It helps to focus the mind as well as en-capture the wonders of the world we live in. There […]
Fumbling & Filters
My new approach is definitely “Do a bit when you can” where the 110 is concerned. There is still so much to do on it […]
Slowly Slowy…
Wouldn’t it be great to have a tail. I was sat last night with my family enjoying a tipple when I got around to watching […]
Decision Made.
After a great deal of pondering about what type of wheels I want to go with on the 110 I decided to go with the […]
Pick Ups & Put Downs.
There were great big heavy lumps of metal everywhere underneath the 110. In fact there was no large metal lumps left at all in the […]
Puppy’s
I put this up on my facebook page and now for some reason my daughters are not talking to me? So my daughter Jade keeps […]
Films & Fumbling.
As I sit here writing this I have popped the TV on for a change, I fancied some background noise. The programme I managed to […]
Not Much Left In.
Honestly I have been crazy busy with life of late. Family have been coming and going, in fact I have had more family along with […]
Photography.
I do enjoy a bimble around the countryside but by far my most favourite place to be is in the Peak District of Derbyshire. Now […]
The Bucket List. Mount Snowdon Pt 6
It has been a long long time since I have pushed my body way past it’s comfort zone. I walk a great deal and like […]
Parts & Panels.
When you take an engine out of any motor it gives you the opportunity to get to otherwise unreachable places. So with that in mind […]
The Bucket List. Mt Snowdon Pt 5
When you are walking up a steep hill or mountain you do tend to just keep looking down towards your feet. The main reasons for […]
The Crane Works.
Well I have talked the talk, now I am happy to say I have walked the walk. Yes folks I am past the point of […]
The Bucket List. Mount Snowdon Pt.4
As we started out on the final section of our climb we thought that our limbs were already aching from our sea level climb, we […]
Rear Trailing Arms…
If I never ever ever see another rear trailing arm bush it will be a day too soon! Right then I best calm down as […]
Front Brakes and Fiats.
Yesterday was officially the 11th day of my 12 day holiday, it was also the first that I managed to get anywhere near the 110. […]
The Bucket List. Mount Snowdon Pt 3
The sun was reaching towards its peak now in the cloudless blue skies. It felt like the higher we climbed the stronger it got and […]
The Bucket List. Mount Snowdon Pt 2.
The first quarter of a mile along the flat and level tarmac road went well enough with us starting to find our walking rhythm right […]