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Tunnel Vision

kyber — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:27:30 +0000

Had a great day yesterday, enjoying a long tour through tunnels and locks on canals around Dudley with the Dudley Canal Trust, followed by a meal at Mad O’Rourke’s famous pie factory (pub). and then a drink at The Crooked House. This was a surprise treat from my brother for my recent birthday. My [...]

Dangerous tyres

kyber — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:05:47 +0000

My company car had a service last Friday and when the car was returned I was told in no uncertain terms that three of the tyres were illegal and the fourth was not far off. I was given the number of the mobile service and given the message from the leasing company to use that [...]

Train, Bus or Car

kyber — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:14:11 +0000

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) [...]

My car’s broken

kyber — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:21:34 +0000

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.

Car for my eldest

kyber — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:02:52 +0000

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 [...]

Canal Christmas 2008

kyber — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:00:38 +0000

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.

Roof box

kyber — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:50:21 +0000

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 [...]

Just in time windscreen replacement

kyber — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:46:07 +0000

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 [...]

So much for 24 hour car windscreen replacement

kyber — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:08:46 +0000

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 [...]

To Blog or not to Blog

kyber — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:15:09 +0000

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