And so it begins again!

Apparently it's that time of year already:

(I once bought some sunglasses from them if you're wondering why I'm on their mailing list)

First job of the day done.

Replaced old broken waste out/water in fitting on folding camper.

To this modern replacement with "rubber" bungs  from Caravan Care.  £9.95 delivered, not bad. :

My only gripe is that the manufacturer didn't see fit to provide some means of retaining the covers, which would almost certainly make a bid for freedom during the first trip away so the brown wires are my own work.

Furry Interloper

Furry Interloper
Originally uploaded by snaprails

Deadpool 2012

This year's attempt to guess which famous people get to meet the tall, thin bloke with the scythe before 01/01/13.

1. Margaret Thatcher – former UK prime minister/tyrant/war criminal.
2. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh – Phil the Greek.
3. Ronnie Biggs – Great Train Robbery bit part player.
4. Patrick Moore – Monocled Astronomer & Great British Eccentric.
5. James Earl Carter, Jr. – former US president & peanut farmer.
6. Dame Vera Lynn – English singer, songwriter, and actress.
7. Fidel Castro – Cuban revolutionary leader and thorn in the side of the USA.
8. Georgios Kyriacos Panagiotou – aka George Michael, 80s pop star & sometime cottager.
9. Peter Sallis – English actor and last of the last
10. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela – former South African president.

Nissan Micra For Sale

Nissan Micra For Sale

I have been tasked with selling my mother's car as she has had to give up driving due to ill health.

Details:
Nissan Micra 'S' Automatic 3 door hatchback
'51 reg (01/09/2001)
998cc 
149G/KM
11243 miles (yes, that is eleven thousand and a bit, one previous owner was a disabled gent who hardly used the car, Mum bought it in September 2009 and has only used it for shopping and occasional trips Swindon to Reading)
MOT till 25th August 2012
Red with grey interior.

Car is in very good condition apart from a small scratch on the offside rear wheelarch where she caught it on the garage doorway.

We are looking for £1400 ono which seems to be the going rate for low mileage examples.

The car is located in Lyneham, Wiltshire and viewing is going to have to be by appointment as Mum is no longer capable of dealing with this sort of thing so one of the family will have to travel down there to meet any potential buyer.

Questions/interested parties please email me at snaprails@yahoo.co.uk 




Don Constance

Dead Pool 2011

My guesses for those not likely to last the distance in 2011


1. Thatcher
2. Ronnie Biggs
3. Patrick Moore
4. Jimmy Saville
5. Peter Sallis
6. Fidel Castro
7. Dame Vera Lynn
8. Robert Mugabe
9. Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (Liz Taylor)
10. James Earl Carter, Jr. (Jimmy Carter)

Jolicloud

I've been using this cloud-based operating system on my sluggish old Acer Aspire One A110L netbook for about a week now and so far it's pretty good. Much quicker than Ubuntu Netbook Remix which I was previously using which the AA1 struggled with - mostly because of the dog-slow SSD employed by the Acer rather than any underlying problem with UNR.  Jolicloud is Ubuntu based, with a UI provided using HTML5. And it's open source :-) More at www.jolicloud.com