Pushing cars in the cold

What an experience. Geoff's car was stuck at the garage 6 miles away. I towed it home today. It was a bit scary. My poor little car, I'm so proud of it.

My little 1993 Polo has a fuel leak, an oil leak, a loose exhaust (new) and over 130,000 miles on the clock. It cost me £380 and I've managed to get it through 2 MOTs!

Today I managed to tow Geoff's car , a 1998 Skoda Felicia diesel. The poor Skoda has a broken injector pump and either won't start or starts but won't go anywhere!

Towing it was fun and then we had to try and get it into the garage by pushing it. After emptying the garage and spending an hour pushing (and shunting with my car) we realised it just would not go (Like Lee Evans's hair styling sketch). The back alley is so narrow it just wasn't possible to manouevre it up the little ramp and round the corner...

This was all made the more enjoyable by the temperature being 2 degrees.

I'm going to bed.

Just getting started then

I've been threatening to do this for ages!

I've been waiting until I had time to make my own site but that's not looking likely - it's a case of "the cobbler's children" so far, I've been busy working on other people's websites and not had time to make my own.

So I thought, hey, I'll just start blethering and then decide what I want to do.

So this is going to be a mixture of things - life stuff and work stuff, boring stuff and interesting stuff. I'm going to use it for a few things - to communicate with friends and family who are in different countries, to work through thoughts and ideas, to make me stay in the habit of writing... and whatever else there may be.

There will probably be some ranting....