For sale is our Mondeo estate - great workhorse, but we really don’t need anything that size.


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For sale is our Mondeo estate - great workhorse, but we really don’t need anything that size.


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The gas struts in the Saab’s tailgate failed, oh, in December, I think. Or possibly November. It was mildly inconvenient, but not hugely so, and after a bit we got round to buying some replacements online. Then we realised we didn’t actually know how to fit them, so we bought a Haynes book of lies. And then we were a bit  nervous of doing it, and ( Read more... )

I hope that’s true, and that our run of bad luck with things mechanical/electrical is over.

1. The web servers, requiring us to spend a frantic weekend and bursts of frenetic activity over the next few days while we built new ones
2. Followed by the car which, as detailed here, shat itself spectacularly at its MOT, with repairs costing pretty much the ( Read more... )

We don't use the car much, which is why we had to take it out and get a new battery today.

Imagine our joy to find that some arsewipe has scraped the front offside wing down to the metal, and crumplet it. Bloody car was going up for sale next week ...

Lazy, by and large. We found a tub of goose in the back of the freezer that we didn't know we had (more on that project later), so half of it was stir fried on Thursday, and most the rest was shredded, and turned into a goose and leek rissotto. The balance went in the soup pot ( Read more... )

our neighbours went off across the Pond for the festive season - California, Colorado, Tennessee, and god knows where else. They left us a set of keys to the house, so we could pick up the post and so forth, and a key to Andrea's Mini - because the builders who did their recent utility room conversion had failed to organise the removal of the skip ( Read more... )

we have it. It looks like this.


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