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I made sure to staple a business card to my CV.  Do you know what, it was a woman of a certain age on the counter too.  I'm halfway between their two shops, distance-wise so I'm quite literally ideally placed for location and neither are particularly far away from current home.  There's been a couple of funeral director vacancies come up too, as usual the hours are the problem since they do tend to be a bit all over, which would be fine if the pay was a bit higher so I could afford to just have that as a job so I didn't need to worry about juggling current job and the weird hours.  Funeral work doesn't particularly bother me, it's a career path I've tried to get into before, but the hours and the need to have a very reliable car to get you where you need to be at short notice has always been the difficult bit.
Happily, not in a mega rush here so I can be a little bit picky.  Hopefully something part time will pop up that will work well alongside my current job and give me some work variety and wage security which is what I want most.  I'm literally looking for the sort of job that doesn't expect me to work towards climbing the corporate ladder, or Being Part Of A Team, or whatever.  Just a job that pays a wage and expects nothing more than my regular attendance and sunny disposition.
 

Pretty happy with that. Still damp so look patchy in photos but they’re clean and smell great. Chuffed as I thought I was going to have to get another set from the scrappy!

Whilst in principle I agree with you, I can't help thinking that she'd look better with my cock in her mouth.

Your daughter don't half look like she's got the measure of you & your stupid idea of fun!

Identity change?

Just been taken out for a spin in this. 

Fucking gorgeous interior. 

Mate has paid £2.5k for it which seems fair.
The electrics survived the drive to the pub. 

I've posted this picture before, but here it is again in response to the big car little car thing...

I've posted this picture before, but here it is again in response to the big car little car thing...

I've posted this picture before, but here it is again in response to the big car little car thing...

Your daughter don't half look like she's got the measure of you & your stupid idea of fun!

Trying to get hold of a useful person at virgin media is nigh on impossible. Useless twats.

Your daughter don't half look like she's got the measure of you & your stupid idea of fun!

une mal au testiculôdés?

Your daughter don't half look like she's got the measure of you & your stupid idea of fun!

You're not wrong, but she has enjoyed a trip on the train.
Collection has been achieved - it's a cheap old bus but there is plenty of work to be done so , it needed to be really.

Your daughter don't half look like she's got the measure of you & your stupid idea of fun!

Breakfast rectified, quite tasty but I think we paid more for the nice decor than the quality of the food.

Five quid for one over done sausage and a fried egg in a bap - hmmmmm.
Oh yes, today's collection is a team effort which is just as well as we have dumped a car in Horncastle after a brief bus chase...

The go case is packed, the PC is one, and true to @barefoot form, as we had only a coffee for breakfast, we've had to chase the bus for 10 miles as it came by early.

 
 

Exactly .
We don't need our nappies changed over things like this.
I deleted my own fleet threads because there was little to no interest and it was just taking up bandwidth. But I'd never touch any thread that I created and I can see people care about. Even the LCBL Audi thread as my ownership is just a part of its appreciable history on the forum.
Anyone who isn't grown-up enough to act in this way or is just attention seeking quickly gets flushed out and either ignored or they move on.

Nah.
You're just going over to mumsnet and making stuff up based on a cocktail of their latest topics.
There's no way one person's life is so full of drama and sheer fucking stupidity.

Thanks - I believe that the more you use old vehicles the more reliable they become. That said, I do travel with a comprehensive tool kit and spares!!  

Latvia - excellent, 25/10 would waft oily fumes through again. Still a lack of quality chod out and about though.  Riga bought this excellent quality bridge - major route, a lot of spalled concrete. Vaguely terrifying. 
 
Also saw some excellent photos of old street scenes and manufacturing from the Soviet era in the National museum. All unfamiliar to me! 
 
Campsite had these two lorry based adventure wagons - German registered and having had a quick peek at their Instagrams used mostly for pottering around rather than their intended use! 

The unpaved roads did a a certain amount of dust

On to Tallinn, which was visibly richer. Old chod became slightly more common, mostly Volvo flavoured. 

Some how this chap seems to have turned upside down:

as the cars got older, so did the buildings 

Quick ferry over to Helsinki then up to Oulu in Finland. At one point I slammed to door and the large collection of wob I had been keeping as a rough version of a front wheel arch decided enough was enough and popped a bit off:

Obviously I have it a poke

and the fixed* it using top skillz

A medium term repair! 
Pottering around in Finland was a lot more old shite - they have the concept of the ‘weekend car’ which  genuinely sees a lot more random stuff out and about. Lacking photos of most of it! Lots of just old cars in daily use as well

around halfway through my fridge battery stopped charging as this

had become totally insensitive and unfeeling. Inside was complicated 

so I binned it in favour of a standard relay triggered off the charge light. Cold drinks and a less like warm sausage was achieved again.
Random meuseum if life type place had a cracking tractor, still fully working 

and this chap has a sense of humour that appealed on his lifted truck

 
always amazed how much more stuff you can buy in the shops - set of wheels and tyres in what’s basically Wilko anyone

coming back down Finland we used the car train - was weird seeing the van getting shunted round the station 

would do it again, but we didn’t book cabins so sleep was not had .
Back in Helsinki we saw these two beauties

I’m not sure which has a greater 0-60 speed though…..
From there it was a long ferry back to Germany, across to Amsterdam . So a modern art gallery  as kids wanted to go. Save your junk, as this pile is valued at quarter of a million 

I may possibly be a philistine, but for the most part I just don’t get why it’s art.
From there it was a short hop back to Rotterdam, ferry, MacDonalds breakfast and home for lunch.
About 4500 miles all in, 750ml each of oil and water used, 25mpg achieved due to the long, empty and relatively slow speed roads across the Baltics and Nordics  
Knocking cv joint has cured itself for now, so other than a good was and sorting the front wheel arch there isn’t a great deal to do until the next trip! 
 

Today we made it to Latvia:

 
The A roads are big and empty, but turn off them and it’s lots of this:

Not sure it’s the best terrain for a dicky CV joint, but it seems to be holding up okay! 
to get this far we have spent a lot of time doing this

did enjoy watching the stevedores just pushing a trailer unit that was too small into a gap until all the other trailers shuffled across. The noise was amazing, and I’m pretty sure all those trailers are now rogered, but they got an extra couple on so seemed to think they were winning! 
Chod spotting is dire - it’s almost all Audis, with a smattering of other Germanic motors, nothing is that old that I’ve seen, which has been a bit disappointing  
However along the way we have stayed at a Franciscan Monastery (now with rooms on air b&b) 

Lithuania offered me the the hill of crosses which was a bit weird, and coming from north wales not a hill 

but this palace in Latvia was cracking 

it couldn’t have been more like a National Trust place - even the cafe was strangely familiar!! 
800 miles so far, no oil lost (staggering) or water. Lots of petrol used - 22 em pee gees.
Also rolled over 150000 miles, but didn’t feel it was worth a picture as the odometer has only worked on and off for ages, so think it might be a smidge* over that already. 
Tomorrow Riga, then on to Estonia.