It was just the first name that came to mind
& it just stuck I was never a lover of the Sei Sporting rims nor the Abarth rims, I've seen the odd Sei here & there over the years with Cinq sporting rims, it did look good
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& it just stuck I was never a lover of the Sei Sporting rims nor the Abarth rims, I've seen the odd Sei here & there over the years with Cinq sporting rims, it did look good
That does sound like a terrific colour combination
It does look good. I don't think the wheel colour is original, probably refurbished by the selling garage she bought it from as they look unmarked and the car is a 14 plate.
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
Pink or lime green
Neither imagine how lairy that would look
imagine how lairy that would look 
Got an email reminder to book an appointment with Specsavers. Left it a while, but yesterday, did the visit, had the air blown into the eyes (horrid), read the charts, etc.
Today, another email, declaring, "We haven't seen you yet." Their own slogan, "should have gone to Specsavers" sprung to mind.
Today, another email, declaring, "We haven't seen you yet." Their own slogan, "should have gone to Specsavers" sprung to mind.
Yes, that air jet does make you blink. Mind you nothing compared to the self administered anticoagulant injection I've been jabbing into my tummy every night for the last month - reduces the risk of developing a dvt - last one tonight, yippee! Could be worse though I could be a diabetic and having to do it more or less forever! On the positive side yesterday's physio went very well with the practitioner saying my hip and recovery is one of the best he's ever seen. Next hurdle will be the consultant's appointment in a couple of weeks and if all goes well I may then be allowed back behind the wheel. Managed to rake up all the leaves in the front garden without any problems.
Ouch, yes, the anticoagulant injection. Had that for a few days following my by-pass surgery, hurt much more than my chest ever did. Glad when that was over. No idea what is in it, but it tended to sting afterwards, which led me to question why administerred just before sleep time. My guess is that it has mild battery acid in it.
The insulin needles are 4mm long. I have to administer one every evening to my partner, and two each morning at weekends. I don't feel a thing. (A district nurse does the morning ones weekdays)
The new to me Cinquecento Sporting rims turned up this morning so I gave them a quick clean to get all the cobwebs off & I'm very happy with them but I've decided to get them refurbished as one of them needs a very minor repair which is a bit out of my knowledge so I took them down to a local place just down the road from me that does alloy wheel refurbs as they have really good reviews & also have a Seicento parked on their roof so no more needs to be said 
, the bloke working there had a look at them, asked which colour I wanted them & said we can do them for you in Gunmetal so I asked how much & he said around £200 to do the whole set which I thought was really fair & reasonable so have left the rims with them & I should have them back some point next week freshly refurbed in Gunmetal grey.
, the bloke working there had a look at them, asked which colour I wanted them & said we can do them for you in Gunmetal so I asked how much & he said around £200 to do the whole set which I thought was really fair & reasonable so have left the rims with them & I should have them back some point next week freshly refurbed in Gunmetal grey.
Mine is Fragmin, which is a solution of Dalteparin sodium - Sodium is a salt? so probably why it stings so much? Also water and sodium hydroxide or hydrochloric acid - no wonder it bloody stings! Anyway, tonight is the last one thank goodness. The stinging is not pleasant but only lasts for maybe 10 minutes, maybe less? However I find the worst bit is sitting on the side of my bed with a goodly handful of belly flesh pinched between the thumb and forefinger of my hand and then, deliberately, sticking the needle in with the other hand - it just doesn't seem right. What puzzles me is, I've now been doing the same thing, every night, for a month. alternately either side of my belly button where the fat fleshy bits are (I was shown by the nurse at the hospital how to do it, one night on the left side then next night on the right and so on. Strange thing is that sometimes the needle goes in with almost no resistance and very little pain whereas another night it takes much more effort to push it through my skin and hurts quite a bit. The "sting" is pretty much the same every time and starts maybe a minute or so after you've squirted the stuff in.
When injected, the body reacts, creating some scar tissue, which is less flexible. With diabetics, they are warned to move the injection point around over quite large areas to avoid lumps forming, as they take months to disappear again. With my partner, we are always feeling when pinching for any sign of stiffening. From one day to the next, I can see the marks, so can avoid using the same area twice in a few days. Doing it yourself, viewing your belly needs some form of contortion, which I was never capable of, and as we get older, those abilities reduce anyway. Of course, having a partner to stab you can help, and may be enjoyable, for them. If you inadvertently inject in the same place as recently, or very close, it may feel stiffer. The drug will take longer to absorb.
Now you know this, too late, hopefully never needed again.
Simple things...
Monday drove to the office in a car without a heater...today had the luxury of both a working heater and heated seats for my pre-dawn commute.
C3 is booked in next week...but until then no way I'm doing the 30 mile round trip to the office sans heater in November in the dark..and luckily some mad man bought a spare car last month so I don't have to.
Monday drove to the office in a car without a heater...today had the luxury of both a working heater and heated seats for my pre-dawn commute.
C3 is booked in next week...but until then no way I'm doing the 30 mile round trip to the office sans heater in November in the dark..and luckily some mad man bought a spare car last month so I don't have to.
We did take a caravan/trailer on one trip , but usually there were not long distances and camping so Peugeots Family 504/505 7/8 seat estates looked a bit like this with 2 adults, 5 children and the German Shepherd plus camping gear on bottom right of photos.Finally stopped raining so we were able to get all the stickers from the road trip onto the back of the trailer.
Frightening what a few years does to your looks.
We were talking on another post about Citroens and I see in the corner of bottom right photos is the bright yellow Citroen Visa 650cc air cooled. I bought it from a car salesman for around £40 many years ago with duff brakes, he didn't want me to road test for safety reasons , but I insisted if I was buying I was trying.
It was a bargain, the pedal near the floor and the warning light were as I suspected on road testing , brake pad indicator low so new pads and the travel I found to at back brake drums where all new brake shoes and adjusters had been fitted , but the left hand adjuster was on the right and vice a versa, so every operation of the brakes undid the adjusters
Swapping adjusters quickly solved that along with the new pads.By the way the photo above shows the average snowfall in Torbay
Ahh, the old family camping trips. Ours weren't much different. Four kids, camping gear, and Ploot da Galoot, a German Shepherd/St.Bernard mix that drooled, crammed into a 1959 Rambler wagon, then followed by a 1967 AMC Ambassador wagon. Things became a bit less cramped when we got pop up in 1969. That went with us to Montana and Ontario. It was on the Montana trip that the parking brake on the Ambassador wouldn't fully release and smoked the brake shoes.
Fun times.
Fun times.
One of my old customers coming back from Spain in their Cherokee Sun Voyager Motor home towing a Renault saloon car on a A frame behind, his step father didn't release the hand brake on the Renault and belting along a Spanish motorway in the dark saw sparks flying down the road , on inspection the Renault rear wheels had fallen off along with the drums and hubs and it was being dragged along on the brake back plates
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
OMG THOSE ARE HATEFUL!!! Well done for percy veering.
So tonight, Nov 8th, around 5:30pm, a firework went off. A whoosh, and a bang, with a flash. A few minutes later, another one. This one however wa different, it went whoosh, followed by a scream, some shouting, a door slamming, and then a very big bang, followed by several simultaneous whooshes and a few minor pops. Then quiet.
Perhaps the rule, 'keep the box away from the one being lit' seems to have been missed. No ambulances arrived, so looks like just a fright, no injuries.
Perhaps the rule, 'keep the box away from the one being lit' seems to have been missed. No ambulances arrived, so looks like just a fright, no injuries.
Or they are all dead?
It's a thought, but there were lots of noises, but the door slam was before the big bang, with no sounds of breaking glass.Or they are all dead?
I'll keep an eye out for flies in the coming weeks.
