Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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One pissed off banana
So, someone, I’m fairly certain, said that you could swap cylinder heads on a DAF 44 with the engine in situ. There’s not a great deal of space in there, but it appeared like, certainly on the R hand cylinder head it was feasible. I spent the entire day stripping apart the car – documented…
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Kicking my heels
So, today I’m hoping to whip the head off Jejy and replace it with a new one (sent by the ever lovely Rich) – unfortunately he needed to send it urgently and discovered, somewhat sadly, that the exhaust was stuck. Apparently he’s lopped it off so it’ll fit in the box. So I need to…
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It’s hot and I’ve been to the store, many times.
So I decided this morning, given that I had a couple of hours to kill before my appointment at the bank (debt reduction continued) – that I’d ‘pop’ to B&Q, get a tap for the garden, and fit it. Yeah. So I went to b&q and I got the tap. Without a car the proper…
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Dear Government
The scrappage scheme in the UK has removed another polluting car from the roads… *sighs* That minor is f*cking beautiful. Perhaps the underside looks like crap, but I suspect not. I think that after more than 40 years on the road producing around 38mpg – the same as a modern car – with little to…
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Potential 1930s diorama
So, the summer’s quite definately here. It is somewhat ‘hot’. We’ve lost the duvet (just an empty duvet cover on the bed now), a fan runs at night trying to keep us cool, and in the lounge we have the potential for a 1930s diorama. The fan in the lounge is finicky (to put it…
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People are lovely, at least, the ones I know.
So, this was going to be a whiny depressed post. A fed up rant at all things DAF shaped, at myself for my desire to run classic cars as daily drivers, at the world for frustrating me every time I think I’m wining. That kind of tedious thing. Why is this? Well, because this weekend…
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Now this is unfair…
It’s been really hot and dry all week. I’ve been lying here being appropriately sick. Today the plan was to put the engine together and clean up and spray some bits of the car that are somewhat rusty, and wire brush/sand down/fill the bonnet and spray the passenger door for the other DAF. I get…
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I must be better
While my throat gets quite sore if I don’t drink regularly (and, relatively speaking, a lot) it feels (and looks) a hell of a lot better. Although I forgot my antibiotics at lunch time – I’ve just spent about 20 minutes staring and going ‘did I take 2 doses the first day, or one’? Having…
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Guilt Removal Process
Unless I’m lying in bed feeling like I’m dying I feel guilty about taking time off – more and more the better I feel the more I feel like I should be at work. Today I was feeling positively guilt ridden – especially since I was feeling well enough to take back the rental Car…
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Brief updates from the sick-bed^W sofa
Heh. I’m good at the whining, no? *cough cough* ;) Seriously, a few thoughts that have occurred today: + I really should update the website, I’ve not been 26 for a while… + It doesn’t even link to my flickr page – the photo gallery has been unchanged since about 2k6 too.. + I need…