MOTO-SCAT

51 weeks later.......

All* that needed doing this year was the shock absorber lower bushes and emissions (CO fail) so today I got another visit (and a guitar I bought on ebay so long ago no-one can exactly remember when in the last year it was....)

Bushes - easy! Some heat, some burning of old rubber, some losing of washers but straightforward and easy to do. Is now Polybushed for extra club credit.

Emissions - really, really needs a cat but managed to get it to scrape a pass.

On the road (again)

Next year? I'm guessing 2 front wings and a cat.

That front wing is definitely* in as good a condition as it was last year. 100%

Wow! I had to rescue this from literally half way down the front page....


Planning a visit soon? Just wanted to remind you that you need a cat. I'm sure my wife won't miss one of our five.

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Ooh, here we go...

Meow by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

thinkpad, ip phone, spam filter web interface, SLAs, second monitor, bits of exhaust. Could be my desk. No unopened bottles of colleague's homebrew you're too scared to try?

Nice autotrader mug.

*likes*

No colleagues I'd trust to make me a brew, let alone ferment anything. I have a collection of autotrader mugs. Because they don't say TONY on in giant black marker everyone assumes they're free to use and they use them. Bastards. Thing is they're wasted at home cos I don't drink Coffee unless it's free.

Doing it rong! The cat goes on the keyboard.....


Guess I'll be seeing you soon then..

51 weeks later...



An unseasonably (this year) pleasant day meant an early start so I could benefit from extra sitting in a queue to get to Leeds.

Upon departing ms_tone's city centre luxury* apartment, I put the roof down so I could wave at her. Obviously, it being 7am it was just cold enough to create a mild Marty Feldman effect while whizzing past Don Valley House, and I froze all the way north because I didn't want to stop to put the roof back up again.
DSC_3578 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

After the Leeds queue was navigated, I celebrated by parking next to a bin and getting a consumerist coffee, which helped make it just warm enough to convince me to leave the roof down. (It was still freezing onece I got back up to pace but it was too late by then)
DSC_3580 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

When I reached Chez Mandeus I could see he'd been practicing hard:
DSC_3599 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

We wasted no time at all playing car tetris, nattering about modern VWs or laughing about that time I pulled the wing off my car trying lift it up so the jack would fit under it.

In relatively short order a new cat was put on. A record-breaking 4 out of 6 bolts came undone without breaking. I helped by holding a thing, and at one point not standing in the wrong place.
DSC_3607 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

Shiny thing made it better.

Then I drove home via a detour cos I definitely knew where I was going and totally didn't end up at that farm Islay used to ride horses on, rather than the shortcut to the A1 I'd remembered in my head.

DSC_3616 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

Fun road though.

Pleasant day, with good company. Would recommend approximately every 12 months or so. FIVE STARS.

That looks like a fun AND productive day out.

I'd probably enjoy a trip up to have Ozzy fettle my nether regions but it'd take a whole day just to go one direction.