Oh yes, I have a blog...

That I don't update very often...

Well the latest erm... news is that my dear wife is replacing my practice room with a pool table, ashtray and bar.

Probably a wise choice, seen as how my musical activities have a zero pulse rate.

Now, All I have to do is find the rules of the game, and clean my glasses :)

Otherwise I will be yanking out the heart of the Triumph. It is to be replaced with a new heart, with pacemaker and a proper gearbox that doesn't whine like a three year old child at bed time when guests are over...
I shall attempt to update with photo's soon

Breakdown!

Seen as how we have marvellous weather, the cantankerous old clap-trap decided to die on me, exactly 484m from my house (luckily).

Lesson one: Do not put your trust in a 41 year old fuel pump to get you to work.

No I haven't died

I'm a really lazy sod aren't I?
Should really put a bit more effort into this blog...

I am currently replacing the dashboard of the skip. This is very slow progress, as I'm not replacing a like for like. I have to cut bits out of the hardboard and fascia panel to get all my old bits in. Still, I'm not moaning, a pleasant lad in Coventry has procured me a sound piece of Triumph that will allow me to have a glove box!

Also been busy with www.dizzygood.com there's an extract of a track on there.

If anybody reads this blog... LOL

Amazing!

I have now been married a year and a day.

My wife still doesn't want to divorce!

whodathunkit?

Happy...

The joys of relic ownership

The last couple of weeks have been rather interesting, due to fabulous spring weather and renewed vim and vigour in our social circles.
So after several barbecues, ignoring the computer completely, a trip to Ciney in a freinds nice old Porsche (that doesn't break down - this is important) and a few trips in my own tatty triumph, I finally am having little problems creep in.
Obviously, if your car is 41 years old and in dire need of restoration, it's not going to have modern Toyota-esque levels of reliability. Hell no!
So after spending a couple of hours with a friend sorting the carburettors, we noticed a timing problem wit the engine. after my treck to Ciney a couple of freinds (on who normally lives in Estonia!) popped by and sorted the distributor. So what happened next? Ah well, the electrical connections decided to go to pot. I thought I had sorted the problem with a replacement wire, so on a warm sunny evening went for a drive, to pay the lad who had sanded, repainted laquered and balanced my wheels. On the way back the car died...

Bugger.
Luckily this is a great way to meet people who have the same illness! A rather pleasant chap in Habay who has recently got rid of his Triumph Spitfire for a very nice AC Cobra replica helped me out (yes, I set off with no tools...), and I got home before the wife started worrying. :)

How do you make a car look 1000 times better than it is?

Let your wife take a photo.


Well, it was wonderful this weekend, so I hastily put the car back together and went to Insenborn. We are officially sunburned.

Love is in the air…

(Yes, yet another reference to a cheesy hit…)



Well, we are celebrating the slightly-removed-because-of-Geoffrey-Chaucer archaic right of fertility.
Obviously, the romantic overtones will be subdued on my part today, as the cat decided she’d howl at our door for food at 6 in the morning, I’ll have sat over eight hours in a boring office, an hour and a half on a train, will have a job interview this evening before rushing back home to take my lovely wife to the restaurant, to pay three-times-the-price-of-yesterday food. By the time we’re home I’ll probably be dead on my feet, so my wife’s pleas for baby making practice will fall on deaf ears until the weekend.

Such is life eh?

Other than the happy event of me being able to spend an hour with the woman I married, a friend has returned from his jaunt in the midlands with lots of bits of Triumph. I hope to pick them up this weekend. We’ve had sun all week, so by the time I get the car bolted together, we should have some monsoon weather…