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[Dal]

About the best looking family hatch that one!
Do your research if you go to view a red one

 

[red]

There's a white one I've been keeping an eye on.

 

[yippeekiay]

Outdone myself today. Woke up to a nice warm/sunny day, grabbed a coffee & did a few online things then went outside.

First job, strim & edge the front lawn along the house front & down the side of the driveway along with doing the same for my neighbour, then mowed both lawns. Took a couple of hours as I was very thorough for a change

mmmm.....UV rays not flaring me up as they do nowadays, maybe I put way more SPF50 on than I usually do

Ok - so grabbed the pressure washer which hasn't been used for longer than I can remember (hoping it would work) & started blasting my driveway (it did work!) as it was getting a bit grimy - sheesh, took another couple of hours just to get the grime off it. Then I decided I'd throw a ton of bleach on it as I wasn't completely happy. Oof, where I'd poured the bleach before brushing it in really showed damnit - big squiggly lines going down my drive hahaha.

Jetted a load of water over the whole drive & threw more bleach down & scrubbed vigourously with a yard brush to foam the whole place up. Waited a bit then blasted it off - meh, ok I guess. Although it kept foaming up for ages even when it looked rinsed so maybe the bleach impregnated itself in deep - I'm ok with that

Still not flaring up with the sun - am I cured????

Ok then, what can I do now while i'm in an unusually active mood - pulled the forlorn RX8 out of the garage - poor thing was covered in dust, cobwebs & much crap of unknown description - a good while later & now she looks as good as new (ish).

Parked her up & then did the Ka - my neighbours will be wondering wtf happened to me by now

A few hours later & I checked the drive - jesus, it stands out like a sore thumb now it's dried out!!! I hope the council highway management people pass by my way & they'll see how damn disgusting their paths are compared to my drive & the strip of path I cleaned off for them!!!

Been relaxing (my back) all evening as I was/am totally f#@ked!!!!

 

[red]

New car tomorrow, and it wasn't a Mazda.

Also, Paul are you feeling all right? Next you'll be driving your Rex

 

[yippeekiay]

I did drive it! - 20 foot backwards, then 20 foot forwards

 

[YOG]

I did drive it! - 20 foot backwards, then 20 foot forwards

Wasn't worth pumping the tyres up then?

 

[yippeekiay]

Tyres haven't lost any air as far as I'm aware - and to be honest it never crossed my mind to check.
Thinking about it, after 3+ years that's quite good isn't it - or is it? as it has been sat most of it's life on those same tyres with no additional air being put into them whatsoever so 3 years is nothing
Joking aside, I guess I should check the pressures next time I pull it out of the garage. Wish I had a 4 wheel rolling road so I could take it for a spin - damnit, joking again - or was I?

 

[CherryVimto]

Picking up something this afternoon that I have been trying to get my hands on or many months!

 

[yippeekiay]

Just ordered some new under crackers off Ebay - how random, on printing the order confirmation I noticed the ones I last bought were on the exact same day - spooky

 

[Neil]

New new?

What are you thinking then? Or are you going to go all @Neil and take months of prevaricating?

As luck would have it, I’m in the market for a new car… unfortunately it’s likely to be a crossover-y family bus (probably a Kuga or 3008). How times change…

 

[red]

If you're looking at a Kuga, why not the 5008, the 3008 must be more akin with the 'Puma'

 

[yippeekiay]

Ka had it's yearly trip for it's MOT. Decided against getting it done at the Council depot as usual due to upping their price to £50

Not having that, so I booked it in with a tyre place a few miles up the road so I could blast off the cobwebs & it was only £19.95 - bargain!!.

Guess I didn't blast it enough as the tester said he had to do the emission test 3 times to warm/clean up the cat - oops.
He said it was pretty obvious it doesn't get out much so knew it'd clean itself out once he give it a good old thrashing

Now at 3940 total mileage

I swear I'll get out more, nice to have some fresh air once in a while