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London to a tiny Village dolt like me is a scary place, Kerbs the size of houses, people walk 5 times faster than me, talk 5 times faster than me, and everything seems to be in fast forward

Awesome place, but I like my little slow sad life

You are a Borrower AICMFP.

 

I like London. My idea of a day out is parking at Stanmore or somewhere and having a day ticket thing on the underground. We've started visiting Monopoly board locations just to give a bit of direction to it, OKR is a proper trek from the centre but there's a nice park and a lake to eat your sarnies.

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Saw a large guy in a Nissan Juke today, in Asda car park, reversing out of a disabled space (so right next to the door) blasting "Do Nothing - The Specials" at full volume with the window open. He looked like a tit but I respect his choice of song to blast.

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Someone in my street bought a Great Wall!

 

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aaaaaaaand it's broken. :D

These things are often featured on " builders from hell"

 

Dominic little wood in the blue shirt pretending he hasn't sugared the tank

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I currently have 4 mot'd/taxed/insured vehicles with fuel in them

 

This is my highest level in ages, I think I can get another two or three legal/useable before summer is over

 

My mojo might be returning slowly

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I know what you mean Michael, I'm running out of space at my house for usable cars and have another couple that should be back on the road shortly ... I might actually try to sell a couple.

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I'm constantly impressed with the fleet management skills on here.  How do you lot find the time and motivation to do it?  I have 2 relatively low-maintenance cars and find them quite enough to try and stay on top of.  As it is, the 940 is overdue a service and a load of little fiddly bits and by times that's done the 220 will be due its MOT.  I didn't even get time to sort out some cosmetic bodywork issues on the Rover this summer, in fact apart from keeping the fluids topped up it's not seen any attention at all since I re-acquired it in May. 

 

Not complaining of course, I'd rather drive them then fiddle with them and I could make more time if I didn't keep going off and doing other things every evening and weekend but there's always the nagging worry that the jobs are mounting up!

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Since a few hours, I am someones old man.  :shock:

 

My little son was born today at 7.48 pm but I think it needs to settle a bit until my mind knows exactly what happened.  :mrgreen:

 

Good: I´m happy. A lot!  :mrgreen:

Bad: I can´t sleep!  :?

 

But I´m  8) anyways, so...

 

Feels like I´m drunk. Just without alcohol. 

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Congratulations! It gets worse from this point onwards...

 

And remember, you hold a blank tape, ready to record. Teach it well!

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Since a few hours, I am someones old man.  :shock:

 

My little son was born today at 7.48 pm but I think it needs to settle a bit until my mind knows exactly what happened.  :mrgreen:

 

Good: I´m happy. A lot!  :mrgreen:

Bad: I can´t sleep!  :?

 

But I´m  8) anyways, so...

 

Feels like I´m drunk. Just without alcohol. 

Lukas, congratulations and have a virtual cigar.

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Congratulations Lukas - cherish every moment with your special little person. They grow up so quickly!

 

Something that made me grin earlier - browsing through eBay and found a little Fiesta Zetec-S for sale (Mk5 shape), always had a soft spot for these little cars.

 

Looked at the reg and it rang a bell with me.

 

Turns out it's the very same car that Steve Berry roadtested in an episode of Top Gear back in 2001! Now trying to convince SWMBO this Fiesta would be best being on my driveway so I can earn some Pub Trivia points and bask in the glory of owning a press vehicle at last.

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Good work Lukas.

 

In temperature news, it's bloody hot here. I wanted to see how hot it was on the balcony so I put the only thermometer I could find out there for a couple of minutes. Big mistake.

 

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That'll be Lady_Bucket's kitchen clock melted then.

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Still, it gave me chance to put a more pleasant face on it.

Not my choice though, I would have had a mustard coloured rusty Lada instead of Matisse.

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Congratulations, Lukas, and I particularly like the method of announcement ("I am someone's old man")!

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Congratulations to all of the new Dad's on this very forum. See, owning old tat increases your virility by eleventy million percent - yay Autoshite.

 

Bloody hell B, where are you at the moment? Hell?

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3 quid an hour payrise coming from October 1st apparantly with a minimum 45hr paid week. I may buy a Volvo to celebrate.

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Congratulations Lukas, the first 21 years are the worst ;)

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Just watched Pointless. One bloke wanted to spend his £500 share on a new car "because my old one is *stifles laughter* fifteen years old!" Bloody amateur.

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On the wy home from the dentist this evening I spotted a C15 Romahome parked up on a driveway in North London. Looked ace.

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Out of shot whilst cycling across the carpark, the acrobatic girl on the bike starts swearing at a car driver who was way too close, she pursues him down the road whilst filming it all, he gets out, chases her and falls arse over tit and it all gets put on YouTube. Ah, errr, ummm. 

 

She is seriously skilled. Have never seen anything like that in my life. Brilliant :)

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Someone in my street bought a Great Wall!

 

aaaaaaaand it's broken. :D

 

There are quite a few of them around here, a local dealer sells them, I've yet to see one broken down surprisingly. I think they are competent enough if not up to Hilux standards.

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It is amazing,  I'm very impressed.

 

Meanwhile BBC4 has been hunting through the archives and found this gem from 1972.  It's about architecture but is worth watching for the 70's street scenes alone.  I wish we still had presenters like this.

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Small grin, today after fitting a new battery to my Sterling I was messing about with a radio when I noticed an equally R-reg'd Sterling pull up beside me. It's one I've seen and photo'd before when I was a regular in Cradley Heath/Blackheath. Myself and the owner got speaking about 800s and he seemingly also got his Sterling for free.

 

His car was a 2.0 manual in Nightfire Red but with the exact same interior colour scheme as mine (albeit cleaner) nice car and great to speak to someone who has enthusiasm for these otherwise forgotten motors!

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