Category Archives: Trains, Planes and Cars

Train, Bus or Car

My youngest daughter has to buy a bus pass each term to cover her travel to/from her college in Telford. This also provides unlimited travel throughout the area every day of the week. Sadly, she lost the pass last week. It costs £5 to get a replacement (about the same as a normal peak-time return) …

7 December 2009 – 22:14 | By kyber | Posted in Trains, Planes and Cars, blog | Tagged , , , , , , | View Comments

My car’s broken

My company car suffered an impact from some road debris. It has been taken away for repair and I have a hire-car from Hertz, a Golf, to live with until mine returns.

30 July 2009 – 11:21 | By kyber | Posted in Family Life, Trains, Planes and Cars, Work | Tagged | View Comments

Car for my eldest

Just drove a nearly new Golf home for my very lucky eldest daughter. She has tried many cars but has been learning in a Golf and it seemed a more practical and longer term proposition than some of the more popular first car choices (such as Fiat 500, Citroen C1) which would not have been …

31 December 2008 – 17:02 | By admin | Posted in Family Life, Trains, Planes and Cars | Tagged , | View Comments

Canal Christmas 2008

We took the unusual step this Christmas (2008) of hiring a narrow-boat for the week and navigating the canals of England whilst everyone else faced the normal stresses of the celebration period. We had a great time away from the hussle-and-bussle that normally goes with this period.

28 December 2008 – 11:00 | By admin | Posted in Holidays, Trains, Planes and Cars | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Roof box

We have a choice of three cars for the journey to Scotland. My preferred choice was to use my company car: the most comfortable for me, the most fuel efficient, and the one I would prefer to put mileage on. However, even though my company car is a modern Ford Mondeo estate, it is smaller …

8 August 2008 – 19:50 | By kyber | Posted in Holidays, Trains, Planes and Cars | Tagged , | View Comments

Just in time windscreen replacement

I had to wait until yesterday to get my windscreen replaced. Not great given I had first called it in to Autoglass two Saturdays before. They had turned up at my place of work on Thursday the previous week with the wrong glass (so much for call centre staff training) and found that the glass …

8 August 2008 – 09:46 | By kyber | Posted in Trains, Planes and Cars | Tagged | View Comments

So much for 24 hour car windscreen replacement

I got a stone chip on my window last Friday. Fortunately it was near the bottom of the screen located centrally between driver and passenger positions. By midday Saturday, a crack had developed from the original strike to a vertical length of around 4 inches. Still not obscuring my screen. I have a company car …

31 July 2008 – 11:08 | By kyber | Posted in Trains, Planes and Cars | Tagged | View Comments

To Blog or not to Blog

View from the Corner Seat

10 July 2008 – 13:15 | By admin | Posted in Trains, Planes and Cars | Tagged , | View Comments

I am not a car snob nor am I am environmentalist

At least, I don’t think I am a car snob. I decided earlier this year to go back to having a company car to save hassle. I chose a Ford Mondeo. This was after having two S-Class Mercedes and a Volvo XC90 as personal cars. I am a big guy and not many cars are …

4 July 2008 – 16:19 | By kyber | Posted in Trains, Planes and Cars | Tagged | View Comments

Car fuel efficiency

I have had my Mondeo company car for a little while now but have not been seeing substantially better fuel performance than I was getting with the Volvo XC90 which is a much heavier car with a larger engine. Typically I was coming in at around 35mpg. Various reviews suggested I should be getting at …

12 May 2008 – 20:35 | By kyber | Posted in Trains, Planes and Cars | Tagged | View Comments