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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Diagnosis correct, unfortunately.
So, I said I thought I was coming down with something. I did try and see my GP but there weren’t any emergency appointments left; so while at work I asked one of the doctors to have a quick peer down my throat. About 30 seconds later I was booking myself in, so that my…
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Potentially ‘coming down with something’
So all week (after my 77hour week before; just in case I’d not mentioned that) I’ve had a bit of a sore throat. It’s mainly gone away so long as I’ve drunk plenty in the morning, but it’s been there quite definitely for the last couple of days, needing plenty of fluids through the day…
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Juicy Tasty Defeat
So, having discussed a variety of options for getting the piston rings compressed it came down to ‘you need a ring compressor’. Since the ring compressor I’ve ordered from e-bay is the same as the one I bought it’ll be going back on e-bay as soon as it arrives. I’ve ordered the correct ring compressor…
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To the middle of nowhere and back again
So, the other reason for hiring the van was collecting 8 old clutch shoes, 5 13″ rims for the DAF, 2 exhausts, and a partridge in a pear….no, that’s not right, one DAF Workshop Manual (none of this faffy autodata nonsense). I finally got to meet ‘Matt’ who so far has lived entirely on my…
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Today is…
I dropped off Kathryn’s DAF (Vixy) at the garage this morning, which went fine. I’m praying that I’m right and that the clutch shoes are worn out… Anyhow. One of the cooler things about owning a classic, or one of the things I enjoy anyway, is getting packages through the post that have fallen through…
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Kathryn & I found this…
Kathryn and I found this stove: kicking around on the street near where I live. Sadly there was no-one in and it looks like they damaged it a little during it’s removal. But it’s almost certainly repairable, all there, and appears to have been left out for scrap. If anyone wants it, give me a…
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No, seriously, Argh.
After two years of sitting in the garage I brought the manual for the MZ home after my last trip. Today I’ve searched everywhere obvious, and quite a few non-obvious places and the fucking thing has just disappeared. Short of actually emptying the shed entirely, something I’m seriously contemplating doing, I have no concept of…
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Augh
Trying to make decisions is hard, especially when people go around making them harder. I arranged for a courier company to move the bike…2 weeks ago. I’ve not heard hide-nor-hair from them since. Which lead me to contemplate hiring a van and fetching it myself. Honestly? The cost is pretty much the same, but it’s…
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The fear & the irony
So, this week I’m very busy. Shower, 2 cars and a motorbike to fix. To reduce the amount of work I got the engineer who worked on the Viva to look at one of the DAFs. To say he looked scared is an understatement. He looked like I’d just shown him the devil, incarnate, in…
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Dear Universe
Please stop beating me with sticks, it’s getting very tiring and slightly disheartening. In the last 2 weeks: – Shower blocked in such a way as to be unblockable with a snake. – MZ – died. – Jejy – died. – Vixy – died (well, she’s still moving but I don’t want to damage her…