Wilfried serviced my Fusion today. Parts prices have gone up a bit - it was R1613 from Ford for air filter, oil filter, pollen filter, and sump plug and washer (Wilfried reckoned it was time for a new one - that was over R500!). It's at 127000 or so km, so it's just under 15000km since the last service last year. That means I'm driving around ( Read more... )

My car had been experiencing a bit of vibration around 80kph, so I suspected a bent wheel rim again, thanks to the ever-present potholes on the road. I went in to Tiger Wheel & Tyre to check. It turned that out one tyre was entirely bald (and bear in mind that they were all legal in Nov/Dec last year when I had the wheels balanced), and he other ( Read more... )

Some numbers for 2021, nicked from my Twitter post:

1801km run/walked in 360 activities
21507m in elevation climbed during runs and walks
10986km driven in my car (yay for WFH) 
130 books read (roughly)
32 D&D sessions DMed virtually
10 Parkruns run
11 races run (and 3 twice) 
2 model aircraft built
1 new pet (Abby) 
2 Covid vaccinations
1 case of Covid This ( Read more... )

The dogs and kids got me a Huawei wireless car charger for Father's Day, so I spent some time on the weekend fitting it to the car. Luckily I already had a reasonably decent clamp fitted to the centre console, but I needed to use epoxy and some double sided tape to mate the car charger to the mount. Of course, there was some cable routing too; the ( Read more... )