I still haven’t related the Thaga of the Thaab. It blew up in an embarrassing fashion when we were on our way to Malton on 19th April with a bunch of Morris Dancers as passengers (we were going to perform at the Malton Folk Festival). The oil light came on just as we came into Wetwang (yes, that’s a real place), and within two minutes, the engine ( Read more... )

Apologies for the lack of posts - we’ve had a horrendous ten days, building new servers, getting everything migrated, etc. We did manage a day out for Pete’s birthday on 7th, (although we actually went out on the 8th) - we went to Bakewell, and to Chatsworth; the former was charming, the latter was so ostentatious that we didn’t really like it, but ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon, there was a knock on the patio door. I went downstairs, and found a chap there, asking if we'd like to sell the Pajero ( Read more... )

perlmonger's car died. We got the MOT failure report this morning, and it was worse than we thought - suspension, ABS and electrics, just for a start. Simply not worth fixing for an N reg vehicle ( Read more... )