Chrystal’s AA membership card arrived in the post today. I figured that the cost of adding her onto our membership was a small price to pay for some peace of mind when she is off in her little and ancient car.  The irony is that the card arrived today, a day after the car broke […]
Entries Tagged as 'Cars'
Those little moments you live for
October 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Those little moments you live for · Life
Last wednesday Chrystal passed her driving test. By Friday she had found a little cheap runabout that she liked the look of so we went off to look at it.  During the drive there Jayne was driving and I was riding shotgun. Chrystal was in the back where we couldn’t see her. I happened to […]
Further on down the road
October 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Further on down the road · Life
What a day! Chrystal passed her driving test, at the first attempt. Well… first attempt at the practical anyway: the theory took two bites. The first one was close though – I encouraged the girl by telling her that the result was not a fail but that she nearly-passed.
Chrome
July 27th, 2009 · Comments Off on Chrome · Life
We went down to Worthing today.  The main reason was to get some shoes for Chrystal (there is a Brantano shop there with a decent choice of large sizes) but really it was an excuse to go to the seaside too, and get a Sunday roast at the Warwick. After lunch we walked round the […]
un-Seat-ed
May 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
On Friday afternoon I got the phone call I had been half-expecting: the insurance company called to say that my car is not worth repairing. A shame really. With the very few miles I actually need to drive it is hardly worth having a car, but I got used to having this.
Immobile
May 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life
I finally got round to calling the insurance company after last week’s prang. I had been waiting to hear from the lady who went in to the back of me, but she hasn’t been in touch, so I decided not to wait any longer.
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Ouch
April 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
My tiny car is now a tiny bit smaller.  I set out today to get signatures on my nomination papers for the forthcoming local elections and got rear-ended at some traffic lights. I have had someone roll into the back of me in traffic queues before, with such slight a impact that there was not […]
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Italian Plastic
November 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Italian Plastic · Life
Damn Top Gear and damn Jeremy Clarkson! Until last week I had decided that, in the unlikely event of me winning the lottery, I would rather fancy having as a day-to-day runabout one of those new Fiat 500s. Although it would be hard to resist an Aston Martin, Merc or Jag in the garage I […]
Car Trouble
November 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
What great timing! Buy a new camera on Friday and then on Sunday 500 photogenic veteran cars pass within a few hundred metres of home. Some years I forget that the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run is happening: this year I made sure to catch it.
Car Jamming
October 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Car Jamming · Life, Technology
Believe it or, if you must, believe it not but one of the most popular posts I have ever written in the four years or so I have been doing this is this one about hip punishments back in April 2006. It did not attract many comments but overthe years there is hardly a month […]
