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Chafing Dish,
It is 5 in the morning and I am up. Thank you for posting this iguana here. I know that it has a lot to complain about and I have minor problems.
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« Reply #2026 on: 09:49:58, 12-06-2007 » |
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Give ye something to rant about... iguana with implanted electrodes! Whassa world coming to?!
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« Reply #2027 on: 18:30:41, 12-06-2007 » |
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I was too hot for the blanket and my duvet last night!
It's just not been terribly warm up here, I'm not a freak and I'm certainly not a lizard (unlike the lady who shares my office who is).
Do I have anything to grumble about today? It's raining, so that now I have time to mow the lawn, I can't.
I'm one of four people organising a 'New Music Marathon' next week and I'm not convinced that we've managed to acheive anything.
I have to tidy my house tonight.
I can't go to Richard's concert on Saturday.
I have £15 to spend on either a CD or some scores and I can't decide what to buy.
I have to work till the end of the week, perform in a concert over the weekend and then prepare this marathon (including two new electroacoustic pieces that I haven't quite written yet), otherwise I'd be off to Birmingham like a flash.
Hmmm. Life's pretty good.
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« Reply #2028 on: 22:39:05, 12-06-2007 » |
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Ok, leave out the 'use the bus, get on your bike'-style responses. MY CAR IS DEAD! It's been gasping, wheezing, gasket-blowing, coolant-leaking, and generally exhibiting the symptoms of cracking up for several weeks now. I was today informed that the latest damage would cost around £900 to repair. No way. My trusted garage guy said he'd take it off my hands for £25! The good news is that he's got a new one (same model) coming in later next week, which he can let me have cheap-ish (but not that cheap-ish). Aaaaargh, as S'wave might have it. I loved that old Megane. Renaults or Fords?   |
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« Reply #2029 on: 22:45:56, 12-06-2007 » |
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Nasty business, Martle. As it happens I bought a car last week, and I'm planning to give the old one away, but since there probably isn't that much life left in it, plus it has left-hand drive, plus it's in Berlin, you probably wouldn't want it.
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« Reply #2030 on: 22:57:28, 12-06-2007 » |
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« Reply #2031 on: 23:03:10, 12-06-2007 » |
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Richard, no. Well don't say I didn't offer. |
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« Reply #2032 on: 23:07:43, 12-06-2007 » |
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Richard, no. Well don't say I didn't offer. I don't, I wouldn't! I have a cousin in Nevada who'd take it off your hands for the cost of haulage plus a fist full of sparkplugs. Hmm? But it has to be pink. Is it pink? |
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« Reply #2033 on: 23:10:25, 12-06-2007 » |
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Richard, no. Well don't say I didn't offer. I don't, I wouldn't! I have a cousin in Nevada who'd take it off your hands for the cost of haulage plus a fist full of sparkplugs. Hmm? But it has to be pink. Is it pink? er... yes! Well no, not really. |
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« Reply #2034 on: 23:27:22, 12-06-2007 » |
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My trusted garage guy said he'd take it off my hands for £25! The good news is that he's got a new one (same model) coming in later next week, which he can let me have cheap-ish (but not that cheap-ish). Aaaaargh, as S'wave might have it. I loved that old Megane. Renaults or Fords? or as they say here: Fix Or Repair Daily We have a couple of likely clunkers sitting in the front yard. But I don't think they'd travel well across the Atlantic. |
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« Reply #2035 on: 23:50:37, 12-06-2007 » |
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I went up to Notts. yesterday to collect my father's old (52 Reg.) Fiat Punto. Ran fine 'till about 3 miles from home. Suddenly the noise from the engine got MUCH louder. The middle section of the exhaust pipe had parted company with the front part. Took it in today. £70.50 got the front and mid section replaced and joined to the rear box section by a clamped sleeve. When fired up, two small holes in the silencer box were revealed. Goes back next week for that to be replaced. Still, they have cancelled the charge for the clamped sleeve.  |
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« Reply #2036 on: 12:55:49, 13-06-2007 » |
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Bryn,
Ah, the rusty Fiat syndrome! I know it well - my first car was a Panda (I think it was made in 1984) and it was knicknamed "Polly the very rusty Fiat" by my Canadian cousins (Polly because it was so full of filler). It rusted so badly that when i was driving on a dual carriageway one day on the way back from work, the subframe part of the bonnet parted company from the skin part and that flew up and obscured my vision. Very scary indeed but I managed to pull over safely. The RAC man drilled holes in it and tied it down again with wire and later on I bought a replacement!
(Sorry, this isn't really a grump, it's more of a memory of one!)
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« Reply #2037 on: 19:17:56, 13-06-2007 » |
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The whole world is on my train, which only has 3 carriages tonight.
So, which carriage are you all in?
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« Reply #2038 on: 19:20:14, 13-06-2007 » |
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I am in the middle carrige because I can not make up my mind where it is better to be.
In case of the crash it is better be in the last (I am not sure about that).
But some times it is better to be in front, closer to the engine.
I am in the middle because I can not decide.
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« Reply #2039 on: 19:29:44, 13-06-2007 » |
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Ah - I'm not so that explains why I can't hear anyone typing in a Russian accent.
Are you enjoying Hayes and Harlington?
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