I just found this on Google Streetview...

(fyi, it's me stood at the end of my drive "greeting" the google van... )

Corrected.

Ahahaha, nice edit Matt.

Hmmmm....getting light outside.

A friend of mine has just started shooting, he has a 9mm in his office cupboard! I hope he gets a gun locker, before the Ordnungsamt come round and do a spot check! I know somebody else with a live AK-47 in his attic...


I was playing with one yesterday as well... Looking at a new laptop, but the refresh didn't bring anything for me. Looking at a Sony Vaio at the moment as my next machine. A shame, I really want a MBP with OS X, but OS X isn't worth the 130% price increase over the Sony, for a lesser specification.

Guess who is the on call engineer for the Preston office this weekend, (with the possibility of having to drive to Preston from Lichfield if anything goes t1ts up) <-- Thinking about the money!

As I had to work through the night to meet a Friday morning deadline I thought I'd just have a quick nap until lunchtime and then get back to work. This is one of the (few) benefits of working from home. Overslept until 4:30 ( ) and upon checking email discover a few emails asking for urgent amendments that had been sent over the past couple of hours. I've just had one of the most frantic 60 mins of my so-called career....I think I'll go back to bed.

Picked up the IROC from having a service, some new tyres on the back, the steering sorted and having the catalytic convertor removed.
She was a bit pokey before, but now the exhaust's crackling at 3500rpm. Sounds ungodly. And she picks up bit better now as well.
This winter's going to be fun in the wet.

It's popping and farting because it's more or less straight through now. I'd be doing away with an exhaust system altogether and running straight headers out through the front fender things.

The car has just been in for it's 100,000 mile service today.
Where do all the miles go?

That would be awesome, and were she a drag car I'd think about it, but it's not a recipe for
a.) happy neighbours.
b.) happy police people.
c.) long service intervals.

She'd also need chopping about quite a bit, but you could probably talk me into a set of lake pipes...

I would almost go so far as saying stick some old tyres on the back and get your hand in on a skidpan. I'm still learning to control the Landy in a slide, and that's a gutless 2.25l engine with huge huge tyres. I don't envy you in winter. :-/


God knows. I've had my car for just over two years (Or is it three?) and I'm a student, so I should be doing relatively low milage. That said, I got it on 79.5k and she's now on 104.5k :-/

Apparently my MOT is due in August, and I'm expecting the catalytic converter to fail dismally.. It's rattling like hell and there's an interesting feathery sound every time I give it a hoof-full of throttle. Think it's coming apart from the inside, which is a bitch since I've already had the mid and rear boxes changed.

Cats. Who needs them?

If it's an old car why not replace it with one from a scrap yard? Not a perfect solution by any means but no doubt a lot cheaper, and as it's all under body shouldnt be too hard to fix

What vintage is your car? You may be able to get away with a de-cat if it's registered pre-92, IRC.