I cleaned a couple of cars today, AND DIDN'T TAKE PICTURES,
then cooked a couple of half pound cheeseburgers and drinking a large Irish whiskey, AND DIDN'T TAKE PICTURES,
I'm now eating a sour watermelon ice lolly and Cadbury choc-top ice cream cone, AND DIDN'T TAKE PICTURES.

Though I've still bored you by posting it. Lol.

Have a picture a guy took from the coast of Falmouth, Cornwall, England.
Apparently it's called a superior mirage, an optical illusion called by a temperature inversion causing the vessel to appear to be hovering.

I know if I'm saw it, I'd take a picture and not show anyone, in fear of being sectioned under the Mental Health Act for talking about hovering oil tankers.

At work people tell me everything, be it customers or staff.

Just had a customer, within three minutes she told me about her health, she's having a cataract operation in a few days, she lives alone and has no family up here, she has a daughter 'nine hours away' in Hampshire and once she's had the operation she's putting her house up for sale and moving to West Sussex, 'an hour away' from her daughter.
She's been living up here in Cumbria for the last 33 years and 'seen a lot of changes', etc...

So I did my good deed and bought her a bouquet of flowers and wished her well for the operation.

Things have been hard for trades in 2020.
Neighbour is giving up plumbing work for a while and going to be doing some parcel delivery as Covid restrictions have made it little more difficult for tradesmen.
It was a little grimy on the outside, usual winter road stuff, inside was muddy, dusty, etc...
I've tried keeping the details out the pics.
Interior.

Exterior.

Exterior after a snow foaming in degreaser, snow foamed and washed, rinsed, rewash, rinsed, allowed to dry while I did the interior, later went over the van with Adam's Guard and Gloss to give it a shine.

Interior door cards and shuts.



I didn't get a before picture of these door shuts but they were awful, dust, tar, plaster, iron fallout, etc...

Floor scrubbed, treated with a rubber liner restorer and then cleaned again with an antibacterial cleaner.

The pictures are a little sporadic and mixed but I like how it came up. Had it for about two and a half hours. ![van 100121 137227368_10214919228174205_8314301798821926644_n.jpg]

Have a dinner pic from this evening. Roasted chicken breasts, Yorkshire pudding, mashed potatoes, new potatoes, carrots, green beans, sweetcorn and peas with chicken gravy.

I like to get what I call 'car warming gifts' for some people when they get a new car, well you buy a gift when someone buys a new house, why not car.
She's a nice lass and loves her car. It's not just her leisure car but also her work horse.
She was looking at a 2019 Audi A4

but didn't like the look of it, thought it was too drug dealery, for the same money as a two year old A4 she could get a brand new Skoda Octavia 1.6Tdi

She's got rubber mats and stuff, so I bought her a rubber tunnel mat.


Like below, but for the Mk4 Octy, the sides come further forward.

I've also got her some Gtechniq I2 Tri-clean and a couple of microfibres for the interior to help her keep it clean and bio safe.

I say I'll wish you all goodnight but I may not be sleeping much and end up browsing OPPO again.
June I was told I was pre-diabetic, August, after losing a lot of weight and changing my diet and changing job within the store and taking a 25% pay cut due to reduced hour availability, etc... I was given the all clear but tomorrow I have to go back in for my three month check up and have a load of bloods taken again.
I hope it comes back as okay, I've changed so much of my life around to then go into December as diabetic. I think that would really top me off and just say, 'screw you world!'.

Okay. This car belongs to a DPD delivery driver who is also the son of a colleague. This car is 'molten orange', but to me it just looks so red.
But hey, so does Fiats pink 500.

Apparently he only uses it once a week as he's always working and driving his delivery van.
The car was pretty bad in turns of not outright dirtiness but accumulated stuff from cigarette ash everywhere, dog hairs and dirty dog feet marks in the rear, cheap car fabric mats that hold the dirt like a sponge, tar everywhere (granted it was fine rather than heavy), rear passenger wheel was so heavy with brake dust it took over an hour just to do that one wheel, hitting it with not dust spray fallout remover but CarPro's Iron-X Paste (five times) and some still remained, the other three wheels took no time at all really. The red sections of the seats were almost black in parts. I gave them a good scrub but any more aggressive and the fibres would of been damaged so I'm have give it another go sometime to be happy with it.

Much better but not 100% and I'm not 100% happy with it.

Roast beef, chantanay carrots boiled in orange juice then roasted, new potatoes, boiled, dusted in salt and then roasted, honey roast parsnips, mashed potato, creamed cabbage and thick gravy.

@pip-bip
He'll be greatly missed.
He was like many peoples uncle, sometimes inappropriate but also a funny and intelligent man.
My thoughts are with Her Majesty and family at this sad time.

@nickhasanexocet
@pip-bip Try not to upset the Audi A4 diesel owner ( @Jb-boin ). Lol

@italianjobr53
Shares the headlights with the Morgan Aero 8.

Interestingly, did you know the headlights while looking cross eyed and in fact left on the right and the right on the left.
So if your cross eyed but on the opposite sides, does that make it normal eyed!?

@st80mnd
Looking at the batteries, at least the driver has AA roadside assistance.

They just need AA Battery Assist.

I hear their service is out of this world.

@pip-bip
Lol. I looked at it and thought, 'hmmm, that's a Zagato, got to be'.
Looking at the rest of it, it looks great.

But the front is trying to hard.

@pip-bip
I'm not a lover.
Looks like it's trying too hard, at what I don't know.
What is it and when was it from?

@farscythe said in stopped by my favorite now-open-to-the-public cider house:
white lightning being the cheapest way to get fubar for a broke bored kid

God yes, Diamond White and White Lightning cider. I remember drinking that when I was 14 years old, it was like £1.30 for a 2 litre bottle.
That and lemon flavour Hooch, Smirnoff Ice, stores own brand vodka, etc...
Happy days.
For me, cider needs to be apples and perry to be pears. lol.

@daisy
I knew a lass with a Smart Roadster, she had a thing for David Coultard and had the bonnet wrapped in images of his face. She loved it, but she wasn't a small girl, so it was painful (and slightly funny) watching her get into it.

@nauraushaun
Those things are like he's teeth, you just don't see them.

@carsoffortlangley
Ye', I'm a sucker for a little branding stuff. So tempted for these.



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@bloody-the-resident-shitposting-saffer
Now you need a G-Case.
https://g-case.myshopify.com/

and then there Land Rover stickers (they do others like Porsche, BMW, Martini, etc...

or just general stickers.