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.
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]
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.
It's 22:10 here.
Well had my doctor appointment, well nurse appointment today, my blood pressure is down to 128/80, she checked it twice.
So I may not need to go up in blood pressure medication, apparently protein leaking from my kidneys isn't a great thing, urgh.
She took some bloods. So need to wait on them to come back.
Saw my mates and the kids briefly today, I love the four of them so much, much more than family.
Handed them their wines and money for the kids.
All set for tomorrow's cooking, so going to get my head down for a while, recharge and then come back and see what I've missed.
And I don't have to wear that christmas shirt anymore, hence me not looking too happy or comfortable. Lol.
((the photo was taken to show a friend the shirt, taken by my step-father so it's low resolution, don't know what he did))
Beef stew. Beef, potatoes, carrots, onion, butternut squash, sweet potato, kale, cabbage, parsley, beef stock and chicken stock.
And a warm roll.
I got a letter the other day from the NHS about my Covid vaccine.
I hadn't had time or remembered to go online to look. But my nurse (Alison) phoned just now to say I can have the Pfizer vaccine on Wednesday morning at a clinic in the neighbouring ward, or have the Astro Zeneca vaccine on Friday at my doctors surgery in another neighbouring ward.
We also had a bit of a crack and a laugh on the call.
I've gone for the Astro Zeneca one as it's at my surgery, administered by nurses I know and like, who know me.
@spacekraken
Yep, Sandy is still about. She's loaded with rubbish right now to go to the waste management centre later today.
Estate cars, doing estate car things.
Granted that's a Lada car for your money, I Niva like it nor hate it, but I'm not Russian into an opinion. But if I was Putin a corner for an answer, I could see myself Kremlin before people to answer, no, not for me.
A variety of cars cleaned in around 2014 to 2017.
BMWs
Citroens
Fords
(funny thing. my mate had the Focus Mk2 for eight years up to this point and it had never been cleaned more than the very rare vacuum or through a car wash)
Peugeots
Renault Twingo
Vauxhalls
The silver Peugeot belonged to a colleague. She asked me if I wanted to clean it as so many scuffs and scratches had been added while her daughter learned to drive.
I went round and was there for eight and a half hours.
She aid she loved how it came out.
But never got asked back. I thought I let her down. So some months later I asked why she never asked me back to redo it.
Her reply, 'well you took so long last time'.
I said, I washed it, de-contaminated it, hand polished the whole car removing 90-95% of all the scratches and scuffs in the process. I pointed out she wasn't using or needing the car and was cleaning her house while I did it.
It irked me quite a bit that.
We love each other dearly and have worked with each other for some 17 years now but that still hurt a little.
@cé-hé-sin I always thought they made sense up there.
Then on the next gen they moved them down to the traditional scuttle location. Meh.
@texturedsoyprotein
The dash cluster looked quirky with the speedo on the right, the tacho in the centre and the fuel gauge, etc... on the left.
@looseonexit said in Oh hey look a SEAT Leon in the US of A:
COVID has thrown me off my baked goods game. Have fancy cookies replaced fancy cupcakes? I’m such an old I remember fancy donuts... They do look good though!
I think cup-cakes are falling out of fashion because everybody is going them now. I know or at least four colleagues that make and sell cup-cakes.
During various lockdowns, we've had so many runs on cup-cakes ingredients many supermarkets had to restrict items per customer.
At one point it was cup-cakes ingredients, toilet rolls and hand sanitiser. Lol.
@texturedsoyprotein
I always got those Mk2 Leons mixed up with the Ibizas.
I don't know why, put them next to each other they don't look all that similar. Doh.
The word 'artisanal' always makes me chuckle, art-is-anal. Lol.
@krustywantout said in New Citroen C4 adverts.:
@svend I'd buy a new one only if they throw in an old one.
I don't think Citroen do BOGOFs (But One, Get One Free) on their cars.
@forsweden said in New Citroen C4 adverts.:
@svend where do I deposit my francs
You need to change them for Euros first I believe, then they'll be happy to take them off you.
@nauraushaun said in New Citroen C4 adverts.:
Eh. I feel like the old car shows stuff that only Citroens can do, the new car shows samey SUV stuff that every car these days has. Woah, a touch screen!?
Literally everything has a touch screen.
Other than the front, the body could be almost any car too.
@taylor-martin said in New Citroen C4 adverts.:
@svend They really like showing that bottle of liquid dirt... I guess it's tea, but it looks like really dark piss to me...
Perhaps that's just me.
Or diarrhea, just saying.
In the new Citroen C4 adverts there are some lovely classic Citroens in the backgrounds.
@trivet
Hey. If I had to live it, you have to have the mental image.
I lived in the Netherlands and worked in a factory.
In the factory the mens toilets had three regular toilet and two holes in the floor (different cubicles) and at home there was a Dutch toilet on the ground floor (your first floor) and a regular toilet on the first floor (your second floor). Even thought the ground floor one was near the living room, I always went upstairs to use the regular one.
@trivet
Is your's one of those weird eastern ones that has no seat, 'just a hole in the floor, with places to put your feet', those are weird. Weirder than those German/Dutch ones that have the shelf. Ew.
Dutch, the top ones on the book.
Called, 'view your poo' toilets.
You soon learn to always put the lid down and stand to one side when you flush. Yuck.
@krustywantout said in How to Enjoy a Chandelier on the Can:
@svend That's why we have cars and motorcycles.
Ye', but you get in the car you get, 'where are you going?', 'if your going out, can you get ............ from the store?', 'why are you sitting in the car?', 'hang on a second, I'll just get my keys and come with you, where are we going?', 'if your going to the store, can you take the kids so I can get a couple of minutes peace?*', etc...
*and no you do NOT reply, 'but I'm going out to get some peace'. Because wo betide the wrath of, 'well some of us would like some time and some peace ourselves, someone has been ................................. all day, then ........................ after that, etc...'. Partners always have a one-upmanship up their sleeve when it comes to matters like this.
@krustywantout
It used to be, 'man's home is his castle', then it became, 'a man's throne is his castle'.
Now a shitter with no door and a wall missing. Can a guy not have a single place to sit and think in quiet away from the family?
We all need a quiet place.