Square Eyes

Yup, it's Sunday and I get off to quite an energetic start for a change.

First up is helping Phil with his car (the age old problem of the suspension) and despite our best efforts we still can't get it to stop making the rather unnerving clanking noise that rumbles from the anti roll bar every time you hit a corner or go over a bump. So I've made a decision to end the saga here and now, and next week I will be taking the car to the garage to get them to look at it. It's not that we don't know what the problem is, its more to do with the fact that we don't have the correct equipment to fix it - so the car needs to go to a place where they do have the right tools for the job, and hopefully therefore the problem can be fixed once and for all.

Next we clean my car. I wouldn't ordinarily bother doing it, it isn't that dirty after all, but there are two things that are bugging me (excuse the pun). 1) After signing up to babybmw.net (a forum for BMW 1 series owners) I found out that bird shit is really bad news in the land of german paint jobs, so I need to get the crap off my car. 2) the front grill has taken a right pounding over the summer by various and copious amounts of insects who have had the misfortune of seeing eye to eye with the beemers very distinctive and almost insect grater like grill.

It takes a while, and after doing the Alloys as well with my new alloy brush (which despite being very good at what it's suppose to do has the unfortunate side affect of making me look like I've been trampled on by a small army of boot wearing ants who have just marched through the dulex black paint department) all that's left to do is to leave it dry.

We then have some lunch (cheese omelets) and watch Ladder 49, which is excruciatingly boring, but ultimately very very sad. Phil gets stuck into some more Sudoko puzzles whilst I get a fill of Star Trek, and then its time for tea. We also watch The Ring 2, or I should say partially watch it... it's a bit boring.

On the up side I think I've got a few triops hatched, well its either that or there are some very odd particles of dust in the water which swim every which way but downwards.

Posted by Abi on the September 18, 2005 9:21 PM