BLUEMOMENT

Our street is getting worse, it's still hard packed snow but some twat has been sliding down it on planks. This coolness isn't helping.



The local (treated) roads look very similar to yesterday ie. they haven't been grited again and there is a thin film of snow/slush on but they are passable with care.

The express wizzing through Mirfield station this morning looked good and wintery with the snow cloud following it. I was going to post a picture but bucking fastard photobucket has taken it's bat home and stuck a 404 up me. Now sorted I think
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Yon laddie coming to apologise does raise his kudos in my estimation, we are constantly told the scroats don't give a chuff, but it seems not, well not al of them anyway.

Well done to the wee laddie, we all make mistakes but it takes a big person to admit and apologise.

BTW Claysie's luck has struck .. I've just broken ta front spring and blown out a tyre. Changing a tyre in -7 in snow and ice in a T shirt, in slippers, no socks and no phone is not the way forward! Then driving to the garage at 5mph and walking home in snow in aforesaid t-shirt and slippers does get you funny looks!

jim.r wrote:Well done to the wee laddie, we all make mistakes but it takes a big person to admit and apologise.

Well said Jim. It won't get the original car back, but it may well have been the wake up call that the young man needed. I hope he gets over it, and, together with Nick, finds a decent wee runner.

Nick wrote:Just to let everyone know - a frightened wee laddie just turned up at our door with a very fulsome apology - which I have accepted - and a promise to never drink again. He is going to look for a car for us and will make a contribution when he gets paid. Quite brave I thought.

Respect to the lad, that took bottle and was the decent thing to do.

Mind you, as a follower of the banganomics strategy of motor transport myself, I appreciate that finding another decent cheap car is going to be a PITA chore out of all proportion to the monetary worth of the original car.

Another crime: I was looking through the local papers for 1944 this xmas. As you do. I didn't find what I was looking for but I did happen upon the heart breaking story of two lads of 14 in court for stealing a tin of pineapple from an American Airbase. I think they were let off with a verbal b*ll*cking by an understanding magistrate. Imagine being so desperate for tinned pineapple that you steal it.

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Perhaps you should start locking up the next motor Nick and not leave the keys in it. I wish my parents would do the same with their house

One of the things I said to the wee man was that he had come to a place where people felt safe leaving the keys in their cars and spoilt it . . .

On Radio Scotland this morning I heard someone saying that 30% of all the people currently living in the countryside had moved there from cities in the last 5 years. I reckon you should need a license.

jim.r wrote:Well done to the wee laddie, we all make mistakes but it takes a big person to admit and apologise.

BTW Claysie's luck has struck .. I've just broken ta front spring and blown out a tyre. Changing a tyre in -7 in snow and ice in a T shirt, in slippers, no socks and no phone is not the way forward! Then driving to the garage at 5mph and walking home in snow in aforesaid t-shirt and slippers does get you funny looks!

Not been listening to the people on the telly?
By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

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Too much of the amber nectar. I seem to have somehow edited your post instead of quoting and replying

Nick wrote:........ a good solicitor who will take it on on a no win no fee basis,..........

nick, i`m glad that things appear to be on the way to resolution without recourse to litigation but i am afraid, imho, that there is a huge contradiction in the above quote.
i could indeed recommend a good lawyer.
you will be aware of the old adage - " you get what you pay for ".

Nick wrote:.
Too much of the amber nectar. I seem to have somehow edited your post instead of quoting and replying

I have a 'lightly used' keyboard breathalyser device if you need it.

puddock wrote:
I have a 'lightly used' keyboard breathalyser device if you need it.

Some of the less kind on here might say too lightly used . . . hang on to it, it might come in handy

Nick wrote:

puddock wrote:
I have a 'lightly used' keyboard breathalyser device if you need it.

Some of the less kind on here might say too lightly used . . . hang on to it, it might come in handy

It is surplus to my requirements now, hopefully. Last 6 months of last year were NOT good times. Hopefully this year will be better.

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Thawing here today. I have just bought a V-Reg Nissan Almera on Ebay from a Glasgow bus driver called Machej for £850 and am taking the train down to pick it up tomorrow. V-Reg 71,000 miles, air conditioning needs refilled, MOT till November.

The polis are not going to pay for the recovery and storage despite having said they would - in Oban three different officers said they would but the Strathclyde Polis office that deals with this particular type of misery and mayhem said no. Munros are being very good - they will dispose of the car for nothing, and they are only charging me £50 for the recovery. It's been an expensive start to the New Year, so if you could all go and spend a fortune on Amazon via the link at the top rhs of the page that would be good.

(Now watch out for the Crimson love child reproducing some of this information elsewhere - what a sad cyberstalking twat)

Nick wrote:Thawing here today. I have just bought a V-Reg Nissan Almera

Am I right in thinking the Almera has a cam chain rather than belt?

Am I right in thinking the Almera has a cam chain rather than belt?

Yes, you are correct Markie. It is a big plus when buying an old one with an incompletel service history.

Brilliant cars, the only problem I have come across is that the sump rusts through. The Almera's second hand value has been helpfully depressed by Clarkson describing it as the worst car in the world.

Almera - dull but worthy.
You should be able to leave that anywhere, and not get spotted.
There is a rumour that grey ones have no speed camera signature.