The police came to the house and dropped a nasty little bomb this morning - they're likely to be prosecuting "Stupid Old Man in Big Black People Carrier of DOOM" with 'Careless/Inconsiderate Driving' - because they're in complete agreement that the accident was his fault (personally I'd rather see him charged with 'Dangerous Driving' given that he' ( Read more... )

( I googled to see if )

Well, on Thursday 7th I came --> this <-- close to an undignified bug on a windshield death. A driver who shall henceforth be known as "Stupid Old Man in Big Black People Carrier of DOOM" (SOMIBBPCOD?) decided to randomly pull out across the dual carriageway I was pootling down on the last leg of the bike commute to work. I smashed into the broad ( Read more... )

Until May 6th I was the not-very-proud owner of a 1984 kick-start Red Honda CG 125 known as Ha-Li who died an inexplicable rainey death back in August 2009, only 4 months after I'd started riding her. She was an eBay purchase from a rather interesting lady living on the edge of County Durham who had insisted on introducing me and Hawkes to her two ( Read more... )

( As soon as the call ended I had a )

28? 28! When the feck did that happen? The week started with a bank holiday spent sick in bed followed by a Tuesday where I couldn't get the bike working until about 11am, so by that point I'd gotten worked up to the point of feeling sick again and told work I wasn't going to make it all, which, quite rightly, pissed them off because it's always ( Read more... )

( This may just be because I'm angry about failing but... )

"Happy Kitchen Day!" This was the cryptic text I received from Bear. Turned out Cragside had a kitchen delivered today. One room down, six to go!

The day of judgment is upon me tomorrow, after years of hitching, bussing, blagging, riding bitch & generally dicking about I will finally be doing my CBT so that I can legally drive my own transport. Bear ( Read more... )