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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
Only a week late, but better late than never! Work, journeys, meetings; a busy week. And now I have the weekend to catch up.
As I mentioned in my post last week, Leela had cunning plans for my birthday, which were top secret. I had to test my car, so as I drove and she directed it turned out that we were going to Bath! Hurrah!
We had lunch up in the Slug and Lettuce - it's moved to where RSVP used to be, evoking memories of pub crawls and t-shirts and Kate. But it's all shiny and decorated ...
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Today's my birthday! Leela and I are taking the day off, and she has cunning plans, the details of which are top secret. More later!
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The car's with the garage again today - but only just, it stalled 5 times on the one minute drive to them up the road. Three times without moving, waiting for the lights to change. Jokes.
It's been there since 8am this morning, and I'm still waiting to hear how it's going. Unfortunately in this case, I doubt that no news will be good news, at least where my wallet is concerned.
Stop the press! Literally just as I was about to post the entry, my phone rang. Off to pick up the car now - wish me ...
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Hot on the heels of that petition against road pricing, there is now a petition for it. Yes, that's right, there's a petition for road pricing, and it even has signatures. But they won't be getting mine, and I won't be linking to it either.
I probably stand to gain from a road pricing scheme, as most of my miles are off-peak, on little quiet roads and empty motorways, but I'm still against it. It's the big brother principle of being tracked, and not knowing how much your journey is going to cost. Or ...
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So, I just gave my car a little test drive over to Sainsburys (10-15 minutes), and it stalled 5 times. Twice without even moving the length of the car. Looks like I'll be booking it into the garage again then...
And before anyone accuses me of my driving style, this is sitting in traffic in neutral, with handbrake on, clutch fully depressed (like me) and my foot off the accelerator.
Am now very tempted to just drive it to the scrap yard and pay them to 'fix' it... ;)
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