Went out for real ale sampling with the chaps last night. It turned into drunken devops shouting ("I'll 'ave the feckin' lot of yer VMs all at feckin' once with me 'ead in a feckin' Ruby manual yer feckin' Gentoo-fondler!") after the second pint of Scruttock's Old Dirigible ( Read more... )

For MOT-related reasons, I'm bobbling about in a different 9000 while mine is being fettled by Justyn-who-does-SAABs (and who was pleased to tell me that he'd just bought a mint 9-5 Carlsson for 700 notes. The complete rotter ( Read more... )

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(Unless you're quercusThe Group B documentary ( Read more... )

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On the way home, a four-pot chopper (in my day it were all H-D or arthritic English twins & singles) came howling the other way. Well, howling until Biker Bill took his hand off the throttle, at which point it went Clat! Clat! Pop! Rorp-rorp! Clat! because the carbies had been hauled out from underneath a pile of nudie-prod mags in the back of the ( Read more... )

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Got trousered and jabbered randomly on Friday night. Comedy is the new bus-queue. Very satisfactory ( Read more... )

Top tip: On your ride home, do not try to keep up with the cyclo-cross enthusiast on the Ti road bike when it is your first day back in the saddle after a month of lung-bugs and you are riding the hybrid with the panniers and the BFO U-lock ( Read more... )

While I think about it, the smell of warm rubber (eg a freshly filled hot water bottle) will always take me back to the early seventies, Holt Farm and the time before central heating. Or at least the time that central heating was looked upon as this dreadful modern invention that rubbish city dwellers had in their crap little houses.