Evening All
Just ate a very large chicken pie with fresh veg, followed by the worlds largest piece of victoria sponge cake.

Am now pleasantly full, and smug - having been off since Friday and have avoided some stressful work situations (driving trains in snow is NOT fun when you inevitably break down). Hopefully it will have all melted by Wednesday afternoon when I'm back.
( HSDriver was probably still at work on, Mon 21 Dec 2009, 20:11, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Evening webscoop
I too have been off since Friday, but as I mentioned above, my plans have been b0rked by a combination of Train-Fail and Tunnel-Fail.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 21 Dec 2009, 20:17, Reply)

Smug
However I shouldn't look too smug - my car died today, and I was forced to spend 4 hours waiting for a very nice RAC man to turn up and tow me home.

Going to cost many £££ to fix probably too, Bloody stupid ice/snow... bah!
( HSDriver was probably still at work on, Mon 21 Dec 2009, 20:21, Reply)

what's up with it? the cylinder head in the toyota blew 2 years ago, just t'otherside of bruxelles.
there's something about this time of year and vehickluls.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 21 Dec 2009, 20:25, Reply)

Engine
Exhust Manifold went and for some reason the coolant fluid has developed a liking for pissing out all over the engineblock. Hopefully nothing a visit to a breakers yard and/or ebay to source replacement parts won't fix. Just a pain and added expense not needed this time of year.
( HSDriver was probably still at work on, Mon 21 Dec 2009, 20:29, Reply)

i had a volvo 340 (my favourite ever car what i have owned) which had a cracked exhaust manifold when i got it.
JP welded it up for me 3 times.
in-situ! saved me a bit of cash over the 3 yrs i had it.
only paid £50 for the car. got more for it when i scrapped it.
what you driving?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 21 Dec 2009, 21:13, Reply)

Renault Megane Scenic - I've been told by 3 people today that anything French is designed to fall apart after 100,000 miles. Mine's done 100,355. Eek!
( HSDriver was probably still at work on, Mon 21 Dec 2009, 21:49, Reply)

i never have and never would own a renault.
i had a 2cv as my 2nd car after a chevette.
i still would never have a renault.
ever.
not even a 5gt turbo.
they are designed to fall apart.
it's not even like the lancia thing with the low quality steel, it's like they wanted to exemplify "designed-in obselescence" or summink.

but i would have a fuego...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 21 Dec 2009, 23:40, Reply)

Smug
I don't even own a car.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 21 Dec 2009, 20:25, Reply)