Sad news. I always liked him. RIP.

You can buy individual sockets at Halfords and their Advanced stuff is excellent with a lifetime warranty.

Mapp gas.

I love the peace and quiet of Buttermere. I wish I could attach a video. Just after this an F35 went blasting over. I saw about six of them as I came down the side of the lake from Fleetwith Pike. I stuck it on Youtube.

Diesel is marginally cheaper. But not enough to be worth while driving down to Keady, which is just across the border. It used to be a lot cheaper and I'd always fill up when I went down to see my ma.

Scottish and Cumbrian people. What's the average diesel price like in your neck of the woods? I'll be getting on the boat to go to the Lakes on Satdy morning and don't know whether to fill up over here or over there.

Gone up nearly twenty quid since I bought mine a few years ago. But it's a good piece of kit.

Loch Lomond, I'm guessing.

Spent all day clearing out the garage. Three runs to the tip. I can actually find stuff now. And I realised I have parts for cars I haven;t owned for ten years.

I can't remember what version of windoze is on my old diag laptop. Off to 1337 for a copy of win7 pro then...

You'll pay through the nose at B+Q. Builders merchants are way cheaper for sheet stuff.

I'm taking a week off in June to go hiking and camping in the Lakes. Just wondering if my knees are up to the Scarth Gap. Last time I did it they were forty years younger.

Youtube for the bloody win! I'm doing the front wheel bearing on the Jag. Steel bearing into ally knuckle. So of course the bloody thing is welded solid with galvanic corrosion. Saw a couple of boys on YT knock a couple of wheel studs out, stick a 10mm bolt through with a nut on the back and use...

Truenuff. There;s a six month wait for MOT appointments in NI right now. The PSNI have been told not to pull people for no mot or tax.

Jaaaag passed the MoT with no advisories. Been driving it illegally for the last six months.

I was today years old when I found out that John Cooper Clarke's Evidently Chickentown was used in an episode of The Sopranos.

I just watched Close Encounters for probably the first time in decades. Spielberg knew how to make a flick.

I just finished my ham radio license exam. I iz now allowed to annoy people all over the world.

When I was doing the lower arms on the Alfa I took one look at them and got the angle grinder out.