I've got it just how I want it now and have started using it on a regular basis.
Access is a bit restricted but that just adds to the exclusivity:
All the wood you see in the walls came from broken pallets I got from work. I just had to buy the screws. Bloody hundreds of them:
Mrs Bucko bought me this from a car boot sale:
And here's my collection of 12" vinyl from my youth, plus a Sega Dreamcast I got on Freecycle:
Do you remember Crossbows and Catapults? I have one of them up there along with a Spectrum +2 with loads of games:
And this is my pride and joy. I thought it would be quiet enough playing the drums in the attic but I was wrong. You can hear them down the street apparently:
Do any other bloggers out there have a personal retreat? I bet Richard and The Wasp do.
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I got my relaxing day today. I read a few blogs in bed this morning and didn't rise until 11am. Most of the afternoon was spent chopping wood and then working on the car. Two hours drumming practice early this evening then here I am, blogging with a few bottles of Wychwood.
I bought a car off ebay a couple of weeks ago. H reg Renault Laguna with twelve months MOT and four months tax for 265 quid. Absolute bargain!
Take a look at this:
Yeah I know it's not my kind of car but it's only a stop gap.
Overall it's in very good nick for it's age (H reg) with only 88k on the clock. It does have one problem though. When you start it and run it until it gets warm, the automatic gearbox kicks into safe mode. You have to pull over, stop and restart the engine and then carry on. Usually it doesn't happen again for the rest of the journey. I thought I had tracked it down to a faulty air flow sensor but that didn't solve the problem.
I took the front wheels off today to check out the brakes and discovered that someone has cut the wires off the brake pad sensors. I don't know if that is the problem or if another owner has done this in a failed attempt to solve the same problem I am having.
I managed to re-connect one of them today but the other will have to wait for another time.
Has anyone else experienced and similar problems or does anyone have any idea what the fault may be?
On a lighter note, here's a totally un politically correct film I spotted:
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Kung Foo Flid? Unarmed but dangerous? I've seen it all now.
8 Comments:
I suspect the resonance you get playing the drums inside what is essentially a large sounding box is fairly impressive and I'm not surprised the neighbours can hear - have you thought of taking up the bagpipes?
That way, when they complain, you can offer to return to the drums as a compromise.
We all have an unspoken non complaining pact :-)
I do have a workshop though filled with lathes and other 'essential' items where I am occasionally to be found tweaking one of my pulse jet engines, much to the annoyance of the neighbours.
I will try and get some pictures amongst the unholy mess in there this week :)
fwiw, you can get £150/ton for car scrap nowadays. that's including the car not being 100% metal. a mate has been scrapping some old wrecks and getting around this figure for each.
what that means in your car has only cost you around 100 quid over its RAW scrap value.
good luck.
Manfromthefuture - Yep, It's a lot of car for the money. It's worth it just for the MOT.
If the autobox is going into safe mode, that strikes me that the internal temp of the box is probably getting high - perhaps the filter is a bit blocked.
hidey hole;O))
BRICKBAT
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